The Independent should do a piece where their reporter trawls the secondhand record shops of London's infamous Berwick Street trying to see if she can get £30 for the 12 nominees from 10 years ago.
― NickB, Monday, 28 July 2008 13:44 (fifteen years ago) link
It's good they're marking this momentous occasion, I was considering petitioning my local MP to mark it with a parade or street party, or maybe going right to Gordon Brown to request an extra public holiday.
― Matt DC, Monday, 28 July 2008 13:44 (fifteen years ago) link
God knows I've already festooned my stereo with bunting.
― NickB, Monday, 28 July 2008 13:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Well that was all very entertaining & sporadically interesting NOT LIKE THE MERCURY MUSIC PRIZE.
I wish Dorian L would post here more.
Except I have never listened to Diamond Head (voluntarily anyway)
-- Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 20:09 (6 days ago) Bookmark Link
Your loss. "Am I Evil" is a cracking track, "Canterbury" a v v under-rated & inventive album. They were a great live band too.
― Pashmina, Monday, 28 July 2008 13:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Dorian L playing Cuthbert Cringeworthy to the LBZC's Bash Steet Kids = a good look, imo
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Monday, 28 July 2008 14:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Haha I've only just seen that last Martian post... astonishing. Nothing says Motorhead quite like 'lickety-split'.
― Matt DC, Monday, 28 July 2008 14:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Sorry, all I'm getting from that is "blb blb playing lb blb lblb lblbll blb to LBZC's blb blbllbb blblb = a good look imo" (xpost)
― Pashmina, Monday, 28 July 2008 14:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Is that a bit of cricket commentary?
― aldo, Monday, 28 July 2008 14:09 (fifteen years ago) link
No it's more like GET ONE NEW SCHTICK ASAP PLZ PLZ
― Pashmina, Monday, 28 July 2008 14:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Point 'em out, point 'em out
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Monday, 28 July 2008 14:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I shouted at LJ on Saturday night for using the phrase 'LBZC' in real world conversation.
― Matt DC, Monday, 28 July 2008 14:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyway back to the matter at hand:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Lemmy-01.jpg
Come on, post-haste! Lickety-spit! Chop-chop!
― Matt DC, Monday, 28 July 2008 14:14 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z91/Killyourself08/khaledwtocleanitunespw4.jpg
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Monday, 28 July 2008 14:14 (fifteen years ago) link
xp
"lubzuc"
― blueski, Monday, 28 July 2008 14:16 (fifteen years ago) link
It's only just occurred to me who DJ Kaled reminds me of.
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c398/dolphsavage/walter.jpg
― Matt DC, Monday, 28 July 2008 14:18 (fifteen years ago) link
WEEEEEEE BOWWWWLLLLINNNNNNNNNN TWOOOOOOOOOO THOOOOOUSSANNNNNND ANNNNN EEEEEEEAAAAAATTTTTT ELLLLL BEEEEEEEEEE ZEEEEE CEEEE, THE RUNNNERRRSSSSS WE DO THIS FOR THE MESSSAGE BOAAAAARRRRRRRDDDDDSSSS
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Monday, 28 July 2008 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Not as easy as it looks, is it?
In next week's Independent, Swashy Trainee combs London's INFAMOUS Berwick Street in an attempt to buy ANY of the tunes INFAMOUS "rap" DJ Tim Westwood is currently playing on his INFAMOUS Radio 1 show for less than £30 EACH.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 28 July 2008 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link
the first real-life LZBC meet-up should probably occur at the Bring It On re-release launch party
― Just got offed, Monday, 28 July 2008 15:16 (fifteen years ago) link
we gotta make sure matt dc doesn't turn up and pull some IRL moderation shit on us like he did the other night
― Just got offed, Monday, 28 July 2008 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Did he really? How distasteful.
In next week's Independent, Eazy Libra attempts to persuade INFAMOUS internet music message board contributor Geir Hongro to like any of the 12 shortlisted albums.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 28 July 2008 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.bomberhistory.co.uk/Viaduct/Resources/Photo59_500.jpg
Serves you right you saddo!
― Pashmina, Monday, 28 July 2008 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah i was told to stop saying "LBZC" and then the lex blanked me, it was gr8 :D hey pash it's not rl beef we're in the business of jestin'
oops i just typed "LZBC" fukkin' w/ the program '08
― Just got offed, Monday, 28 July 2008 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KYm-xO6YL._SS500_.jpg
― NickB, Monday, 28 July 2008 15:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Top version of that tune on 'Not one wink 'til Hammersmith'
― NickB, Monday, 28 July 2008 15:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Jagz watch out, Lex will call for moderation and stricken records for bringing the outside into this thread.
― Raw Patrick, Monday, 28 July 2008 22:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Must. Stop. Picking. Scab.
This thread won't have ticked off all the ILX i-spies till it's locked.
― Raw Patrick, Monday, 28 July 2008 22:47 (fifteen years ago) link
What you do mean by "i-spies," Patrick?
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 08:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I meant it won't have completed everything in the I-Spy Book of ILM Threads but I wrote it in a completely stupid manner cuz I'd been drinking.
― Raw Patrick, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 08:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Carlin incomprehension - 30 points
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 11:07 (fifteen years ago) link
What's this thread lacking from the I-Spy Book of ILM Threads then?
Pipecock 200 post clusterfuck about minor differences between etiquette in America and the UK Steely Dan
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 11:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Chaki's drunken rant
― aldo, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 11:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Parody thread
Pato zing about Dom and scarves/chubby girls
― aldo, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 11:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Hongrominification
― NickB, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 11:14 (fifteen years ago) link
shut-in i-spy rubes
― blueski, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 11:14 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.rudde.se/spies%20like%20us.jpg
― NickB, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 11:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Alison Houston
― Dingbod Kesterson, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 11:15 (fifteen years ago) link
news just in :
DROWNED IN SOUND ANOUNCE THEIR ALTERNATIVE TO THE MERCURY PRIZE.
Widely regarded as Europe's most influential new music site with over 350,000 unique users a month, DrownedinSound.com (DiS) has long enjoyed a reputation for championing the best in new music.
And after one of those brilliant 'why didn't we think of this sooner?' moments, it has decided to go head to head with the Nationwide Mercury Prize and run its own reader-voted Pluto Prize. Why? Because DiS feels that there are some glaring omissions on the Mercury list this year, and wants these albums to be recognised as some of the best British releases of the last 12 months.
DiS has selected 12 albums from UK acts it feels are Really Quite Special; all have been celebrated by DiS writers and readers alike. All the nominations were released in the same time frame used by the Mercury Prize and the only bands excluded from inclusion are those already up for this year's Mercury (so Radiohead and British Sea Power miss the Pluto cut).
Registered DiS users are invited to vote for one of the below-listed albums. Voting closes on September 8 with the winner of the inaugural Pluto Prize announced on September 9, the same day as the Mercury winner.
PLUTO PRIZE NOMINATIONS:
The Bug - London Zoo (Ninja Tune) Foals - Antidotes (Transgressive) Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing (ATP) Future of the Left - Curses (Too Pure) PJ Harvey - White Chalk (Island) Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up 'Til It Was Light (Best Before) M.I.A - Kala (XL) Mystery Jets - Twenty One (sixsevennine) Portishead - Third (Island) These New Puritans - Beat Pyramid (Angular) Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto (Domino) Robert Wyatt - Comicopera (Domino)
http://www.drownedinsound.com/pluto
― mark e, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 15:32 (fifteen years ago) link
How will Dom react to the omission of HMHB?
― William Bloody Swygart, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 15:36 (fifteen years ago) link
we await the zing.
― mark e, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 15:38 (fifteen years ago) link
oh, and just when and why did 679 recordings become sixsevennine ? was that a clever clever accounting/debt avoidance issue, or just a simple open case of rebranding ?
― mark e, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 15:39 (fifteen years ago) link
679 never recovered from not signing the Kersal Massive
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 15:41 (fifteen years ago) link
-- mark e, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 16:39
It actually didn't: DiS got it wrong. Earlier this year it became sixsevenine, guaranteed to fuck up any potential googlers (probably).
Foals excepted, this is quite a fun list.
― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 16:21 (fifteen years ago) link
It changed to sixsevenine when it was bought out by a major.
― Raw Patrick, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 16:26 (fifteen years ago) link
i thought it was always a Sony (?) imprint?
― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 16:29 (fifteen years ago) link
"Warner Music has acquired 679 Recordings, home to British urban acts The Streets and Kano plus alt-rock band Mystery Jets, for an undisclosed sum.
The label becomes a wholly-owned division of Atlantic Records U.K.; founder Nick Worthington remains as managing director, reporting to Warner Music Europe president John Reid and Atlantic Records U.K. president Max Lousada. The label's staff will re-locate to Atlantic's offices in Kensington, London.
The label is also changing its name to Sixsevenine, dropping the 'Recordings' tag in recognition of an increasing focus on activities beyond recorded music.
Warner Music U.K. previously had a stake in the label, which was launched in 2001. Other acts which have released material on 679 include the Futureheads, King Creosote, Death From Above 1979 and Plan B. The label has been an early proponent of forming new business models with artists, recently forging partnerships with Cut Off Your Hands and The Rifles across an expanded range of rights and revenue streams."
― Raw Patrick, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 16:52 (fifteen years ago) link
It really is quite frustrating that the only publication that would big up Youthmovies (DiS) are actually the folx who released their record, and so don't, out of a sense of fair play (they didn't even review it).
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 29 July 2008 17:08 (fifteen years ago) link
For me it's between The Bug, PJ, PHead, M.I.A. and Wyatt. Fuck Buttons are interesting but I'm not fully convinced yet.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 09:46 (fifteen years ago) link