FYI: Truth Attack - All Genres Of Music That Have Ever Existed Contain Awesome Music In Them, And If You Write Off A Whole Genre Of Music You Are Being Closeminded And Dumb

I'm still not hearing much compelling evidence for new age (and none for acid jazz). My library has some CDs from this David Hykes fella. Which should I go for: Harmonic Meetings (hmmm), Hearing Solar Winds (um...), (shuffles feet) Earth to the Unknown Power, or (voice lowers, face reddens, should be written in 8 point font but don't know how) Windhorse Riders?

And more for the fwiw category:

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Popol Vuh dude.

hearing solar winds

blast this into yr front yard on halloween and fire up a strobe light in your living room, I guarantee you get 0 trick or treaters

i was gonna read this thread but then

lol @ at this being a 2008 (not 2001) thread <3 <3 <3

― Jordan, Monday, October 20, 2008 12:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

and i was like oh yeah

o_O at ethan being so patient w/Geir, tho. dude, you guys have hashed this shit out for fucking years at this point

lol, what a worthless thread.

yeah, give us hell!

"Hearing Solar Winds"

such an amazing album. the harmonic choir are no joke. the stuff is powerful. especially the earlier records.

listen to "rainbow voice" on his myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/65805799

this is a good new age thread, but it needs more stuff on it:

"New Age Music", search and destroy.

Vollenweider is awesome!

at my college radio station somebody had taken one of those old PSA tape cartridges and made an endless loop of 60 seconds from hearing solar winds. whenever a dj didn't show up for their next shift the departing dj would throw that on and blanket south jersey in hours of the harmonic choir...

I think John Fahey was considered a New Age pioneer at one point. Don't know how much he's considered to be part of the current canon. (oh, I see that being mentioned in the other thread.)

Dunno how many threads of "everybody talks at Geir" I'll have to read through before I know that it's going to be an enormous waste of time from the first post. But I think there's something about apparently very complete and coherent worldviews that are nevertheless completely baffling that appeals to me.

http://www.september11news.com/LeadersBinLaden1998.jpg

Wait, Jonathan Ross?! And you think Geir is insane?

Really, Gordon Burn or David Peace ought to write a book about Geir.

I love how ILX is full of people stating opinion as fact, hundreds of times a day, thousands of times every year, and as soon as Geir does it everyone gets all 'THIS IS JUST YOUR OPINION!' level of tossy.

Geir is an incredibly irritating person to argue with but to intimate that he's a potential mass murderer, racist or Austrian cellar dude because he says the same thing about Paul McCartney again and again is kind of off. Especially coming from people who are all 'when I listen to Fleet Foxes on Radio Two I know how Michael Ryan felt'.

Seriously, is there any evidence anywhere on ILM of Geir making a useful or valid point about anything? He constantly disrupts and ruins potentially interesting threads on ILM and not even from a declared anti-commonsensical point of view.

I would suggest dealing with Geir is a far better use of moderators' time than pointlessly changing thread titles or yellow carding LJ because of "daddy daddy thith man inthulted me" whingers.

people, geir is so easy to ignore, precisely cuz he never actually interacts with anyone specifically. i never understand why people get so het up by him.

Why not have an ILM killfile? Mods, can this be done?

Lex OTM, Geir is only a problem because people can't help themselves.

ADMIN: Killfiles?

Sorry, I mean KILLFILE 2.0

the killfile is completely incomprehensible

He constantly disrupts and ruins potentially interesting threads on ILM

This is hilarious coming from the guy who got banned from the Popular comments box for turning every thread into a huge fight.

i mean wtf is a "script" in this context?

I would have thought that Matt would have had far better things to do with his life than stalk me around the internet.

Still I'm quite flattered that he obviously spends 95% of his time thinking of me - it just goes to show how important I am.

Perhaps Matt might like to install the KILLFILE option where my posts are concerned.

Why KILLFILE time when you can oh, please yourselves....

Nah I never killfile anything - as a mod it helps to pay attention to what abusive trolls are up to.

You're giving a pretty good impression of an abusive troll at the moment, Matt. You seem to have done nothing but troll abusively over the last month or so. Maybe you should sort yourself out first, otherwise you're coming across as Graham 2 at the moment, just saying like.

(but then I guess mods still have free passes to treat posters like cunts as and when it suits them)

Oh for god's sake calm down Marcello. I don't actually have a serious problem with you and I think you know that. Fair enough, I've had more than the usual number of pops at you over the last few weeks but that's mostly because of the way you've been behaving - the Elbow thread being a case in point. Pointing and taking the piss is infinitely preferable to getting into a long and tedious flamewar or, indeed, actually getting into nasty and personal vendetta territory.

I'm happy to back off for a bit if you agree to tone down the grandstanding and unwarranted abuse. If nothing else both sides are boring for everyone reading.

No they're not. These are the best bits.

Great thread

yeah, fair enough, Matt, agreed (xxp).

People argue with Geir because as much as they say that it's boring, they actually don't think that it is.

Truth bomb.

ILM would be much better if people treated Geir as the DJ Martian-esque national treasure he actually is rather than trying to argue with him or convince him that he is wrong.

I think I argue with him for the vague, vain hope that one day he'll just go "fuck me, I was denying myself pleasure from all this amazing music; what an idiot I was".

so not gonna happen

lol norwegian national treasure

ILM would be much better if people treated Geir as the DJ Martian-esque national treasure he actually is rather than trying to argue with him or convince him that he is wrong.

for this he would have to be funny tho

nick it's not as if you listen to much of the music that geir is most vocally against!

12 tone?

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Arnold Schoenberg, the inventor of Twelve-tone techniqueTwelve-tone technique (also dodecaphony, especially in British usage, twelve-note composition) is a method of musical composition devised by Arnold Schoenberg. The technique is a means of ensuring that all 12 notes of the chromatic scale are sounded as often as one another in a piece of music while preventing the emphasis of any.[1] All 12 notes are thus given more or less equal importance, and the music avoids being in a key. The technique was tremendously influential on composers in the mid-twentieth century.

Apart from jazz and soul and funk and techno and postrock, you mean, Lex? Just because I like The Beatles doesn't mean I only like hyper melodic McCartney-esque guitar pop.

12 Tone, does he mean the extended mix of "Ghost Town"?

no i mea hip-hop and r&b. i don't recall geir ever specifically dissing postrock or techno, though i dare say he would if you asked

Geir's not really anti-hip hop though.

I mean, dude put together is "20 favourite rap albums" list once, I doubt he'd do the same for, y'know, punk or whatever

He was bitching about latter day Talk Talk the other day. Hip hop and rnb are far from the only things he disses.