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69.08213% - Extreme Music Nerd. pHear me.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

if you clicked on this thread, you lose.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha you write about music for a living - 100% music nerd

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

what if you write about real estate, are you a real estate nerd?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

God, it's too long for me to keep my attention on it, but the way it was going, I'm thinking yes, I qualify. But couldn't we have guessed that from the fact that I'm here at all?

― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I got something like 39%. Yes, we're all nerds, but at this level it's the little things, like going through a venue's trash after the show in the hopes of finding a setlist, that make all the difference.

― dleone (dleone), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

85.99034% - Hardcore Music Nerd

Not proud.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

78.26087% - Hardcore Music Nerd

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the only thing holding me back was my not writing about music.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, dom's right...a lot of these questions just read like another language to me...do people really collect set lists and ticket stubs after the age of 16?

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes. I still collect ticket stubs, I like them as a reminder of shows I've enjoyed. Even moreso now that I don't go to many shows any more. They're more special now.

― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

*cough*

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

x-post

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

anyway...

if you clicked on this thread, you lose.

if you even saw this thread title, you are on ILM and you lose.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

45.16908% - Super Music Nerd

Lose what, exactly?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

i guess i've just never really been a great "collector" of anything.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

34.54106% - Total Music Nerd

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

54.89743 - Super Music Nerd

I want to be MORE of a music nerd!

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I got 60.something% but went back to change some answers on reflection deciding that I wasn't embarassed to admit anything in the "things you hate to admit you like" bit and wondering if this made me more or less nerdy. Except I hit the reset instead of rank button and lost them all. And I really can't be arsed going through it all again.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

haha I do have a Devo hat!

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I have worn a flower pot on my head, does that count?

When I think about it most of the set-lists I've accumulated are from shows where a band I was in performed though.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

35.50725% - Major Music Nerd

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I took it yesterday and got a 72.9-something-somthing%, which makes me an extreme music nerd...but I already knew that. I was shooting for "hardcore," though.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

47.something. I kind of resented the "ashamed to admit you like it" question. Damnit, I do like Yoko Ono and I'm not a bit ashamed to admit it. So how do I answer the question?

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

57.48792% - Mega Music Nerd

not as bad as I thought.

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

(x-post)

Yeah, there's lots of those. Like, I'd have scored higher if I'd clicked on the things I knew I was supposed to click on, but to do that, I'd be admitting to being a little stupid. They should give you a *higher* score for not wondering what a "Duran" is, not lower. Because as we all know, nobody need ever give a fuck what a "Duran" is.

I got 70%, BTW. Extreme.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

36.7% must try harder, see me after class

― zappi (joni), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"Do you ever wonder where bands get their names from?"

"Don't waste my time, I'm trying to listen to music here."

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"I want To stop music censorship"
What music censorship?
Last time I checked freaking Anal Cunt albums were still widely available.

Not done filling it out yet, but I suppose I won't get a high score, as crap like memorabilia and meeting musicians has no interest to me.
We'll see, i suppose..

Ahh, xpost got this unposted, so here's my result as well:
38.4058% - Major Music Nerd

Hooray.

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 16:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Man oh Man....

"73.18841% - Extreme Music Nerd"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I scored just a hair over 57%. What this test failed to take into account:

1) I am proud of my ability to connect myself with various music stars through degrees of separation (my brother knows Freddy Fresh, who in turn has recorded with Fatboy Slim, BDP, Grandmaster Flash, et al)
2) I have directly angered rock stars through negative reviews
2.5) In one case, it was a negative review of the band that opened for him
3) I not only collect ticket stubs, but tape them to my refigerator
3.5) This includes an autographed Mike Watt stub
3.75) ...from a show where I gave him $5 for a sticker I later learned was free
3.9) I actually tell people about the time I gave Mike Watt $5 for nothing as though it were something to brag about

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

3.5) This includes an autographed Mike Watt stub
3.75) ...from a show where I gave him $5 for a sticker I later learned was free
3.9) I actually tell people about the time I gave Mike Watt $5 for nothing as though it were something to brag about

That's the funniest shit I've read all week. Thanks Nate.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

70.5314% - Extreme Music Nerd

I think that's pretty low

― chris besinger (chris besinger), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)

74.63768% - Extreme Music Nerd

― Chris 'Knuckle Deep' V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

30.91787% - Total Music Nerd

― pete s, Wednesday, 17 December 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

49.51691% - Super Music Nerd.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 17:03 (twenty-two years ago)

47.10145% - Super Music Nerd

Higher than i thought i'd score -- but yeah, i think it's prerequisite for anybody on ILM to be a bit helpless.

― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

36.7 something %. That was taking into account things like ticket stub and setlist collecting, which I did when I was younger but sure as fuck don't now. Much of the Americanisms are fairly alien to me.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

68.35749% - Extreme Music Nerd

― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

(i'm not proud of this)

― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Not proud because your score is too high or too low?

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

18.84058% - Casual Music Nerd

Is this one of those Spark type things where your nerdiness is proportional to how long you spent scrolling through a bunch of duplicate questions n'shit?

― Ferrrrrrg (Ferg), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Not proud because your score is too high or too low?

too high.

― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

44.92754% - Major Music Nerd

"I hate to admit it, but I secretly like..." Nothing. I don't secretly like ANYTHING.

Anyway, some of the things I've done with MP3s mark me as a music nerd far FAR more than if I had a 1,000 more CDs than I do now.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

And am I a "record collector" anyway? Yeah, I buy records, but it's not as if I try keeping them in tip-top shape for their resale value.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

wow, that was too fucking long, i had to stop halfway through -- i already knew i'm a "music nerd" anyway...

― yetimike (McGonigal), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

52.89855% - Super Music Nerd

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

56.52174% - Mega Music Nerd.

Hail aldo_cowpat, the current King of Nerds.

― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

60.14493% - Mega Music Nerd

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 19:20 (twenty-two years ago)

59.17874%-Mega

I had all the same questions as Michael. What kind of music nerd "secretly" likes anything? Especially Abba and Keith Richard. I thought it was a trick category so I didn't check any of them. Although I like all of them except Limp Bizkit and Creed.

― Arthur (Arthur), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

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I think I got just above 70 per cent, making me an Extreme Music Nerd, but I had trouble with some of the questions.
For example, I thought Herman Melville was Moby's great-great uncle, not his grandfather. So I couldn't, in good conscience, indicate that I knew that, which skewed my results. I could have been .074 per cent more of a music geek.

― Christian Rawk (Christian Rawk), Thursday, 18 December 2003 00:08 (twenty-two years ago)

58.9372% - Mega Music Nerd

what a fucking stupid quiz. what Daddino said about guilty pleasures.

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 18 December 2003 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

And wouldn't better artist-specific questions be things like, "I can name the four bands on No New York" and "I know what country Les Rallizes Denudes were from"? (I guess those questions privilege a certain kind of music nerd - but they seem more relevant than how many episodes of "I Love the '70s" you've watched.)

― Sam J. (samjeff), Thursday, 18 December 2003 02:06 (twenty-two years ago)

plus they keep asking the same questions over and over

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 18 December 2003 02:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I know...

That Thomas Dolby invented "Dolby Surround Sound"

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I actually thought that he didn't, and that they tried to get him to stop using 'Dolby' as his surname? Oh dear, I am a total nerd for knowing that - if it's true of course.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 18 December 2003 02:19 (twenty-two years ago)

53.86473% - Super Music Nerd

― disco stu (disco stu), Thursday, 18 December 2003 02:19 (twenty-two years ago)

How about winnowing it down to just one question: "I own records (that I've bought for myself) and have never listened to."

― Sam J. (samjeff), Thursday, 18 December 2003 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)

indeed sam..

― disco stu (disco stu), Thursday, 18 December 2003 02:21 (twenty-two years ago)

haha I do have a Devo hat!

dude if you were really a music nerd you would've left that question unchecked: it's an energy dome!!

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 18 December 2003 02:36 (twenty-two years ago)

i was gonna say!

― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 18 December 2003 02:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Matos, I'm a bigger music nerd than you! I feel so powerful!

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Thursday, 18 December 2003 02:44 (twenty-two years ago)

He didn't, Music Mole. Dolby's a nickname he got from his classmates. His real name's Thomas Morgan Robertson. And Herman Melville's a great uncle of Moby's, not his grandfather. It is a bad sign to be correcting a music nerd test.

― otto, Thursday, 18 December 2003 02:46 (twenty-two years ago)

haha otto you roXoR

also how does it make you a music nerd to know who "the boss" or "the king of pop" refers to? i mean, that's more like a "sentient human being" test than a music nerd test

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 18 December 2003 02:53 (twenty-two years ago)

dude if you were really a music nerd you would've left that question unchecked: it's an energy dome!!

I have an energy dome, a yellow suit and a New Traditionalist Pomp.

Someone please kill me.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 18 December 2003 02:56 (twenty-two years ago)

49.03382% - Super Music Nerd

That's all? A lifetime for 49%? Feh!

― Sasha Frere-Jones (Sasha Frere-Jones), Thursday, 18 December 2003 03:13 (twenty-two years ago)

what are you talking about alex that's awesome!! dude one of my friends had his energy dome AUTOGRAPHED!

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 18 December 2003 03:13 (twenty-two years ago)

but you're 'super', sasha! cuz you are! aw!

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 18 December 2003 03:15 (twenty-two years ago)

* by mark mothersbaugh i might add

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 18 December 2003 03:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm only a Major Music Nerd.

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 18 December 2003 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)

But you're still young. Wait a few years and you'll have as big a problem as the rest of us.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 18 December 2003 03:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Just a year ago I'd be an Insult . I wouldn't have even known who Jello Baifra is.

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 18 December 2003 03:54 (twenty-two years ago)

50.96618% - Super Music Nerd

In the house!

― hector (hector), Thursday, 18 December 2003 04:16 (twenty-two years ago)

47.58454% - Super Music Nerd

I bet I could have got more a few years ago.

Too. Much, Energy. Used. Doing. Other. Things.

Need. To. Cut. Back. On. Them.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 18 December 2003 04:29 (twenty-two years ago)

33.33333% - Total Music Nerd

Mostly cause I don't collect stupid shit.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 18 December 2003 05:03 (twenty-two years ago)

"58.45411% - Mega Music Nerd"

eh, seems like you got a lot of points for tv watching. and the trivia was not nerdy enough. there's nothing worse than a quiz that has wrong questions+answers on it. my other big pet peeve is a test with an obvious game quality, ie "the more checkboxes you click, the higher the score." there should be checkboxes that deduct when you click them, etc. if we have to go throught the effort of filling such a long quiz out, why can't you go through the effort of designing a more effective quiz?

(it's obvious i'm more than just a music nerd i suppose. quiz nerd?)
m.

― msp, Thursday, 18 December 2003 05:03 (twenty-two years ago)

75.84541% - Hardcore Music Nerd

I think because I used to watch a ton of TV and I "secretly like" 95% of the things on that part of the list. I don't even consider myself that much of a music nerd.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 18 December 2003 05:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't do polls but here's something I noticed about music nerddom - true music nerddom can make music become as much a life obstacle as a life necessity. I sacrifice a lot of conversations when my earphones are on, I rudely drift off and involutarily hum a tune during conversations*, and experience an in-car agoraphobia. I'm off to run an errand but I get so comfortable in my little bass coccoon that I make the route twice as circuitous, and when I'm near home, I'll circle the block a few times until my song ends, which opens up another stupid can of worms where you're thinking, "am I avoiding my own house? Isn't that a sign of depression?"

*- do any guys out there involuntarily MOAN when talking to girls? "EeeuugGGHHHH" "Pardon?" "Sorry, just tired."

― DarrensCoq (DarrenK), Thursday, 18 December 2003 05:50 (twenty-two years ago)

rah Kate! though I'm willing to bet I'd get a higher score if I'd bothered answering the "guilty pleasures" category instead of ignoring it on principle.

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 18 December 2003 05:54 (twenty-two years ago)

*- do any guys out there involuntarily MOAN when talking to girls? "EeeuugGGHHHH" "Pardon?" "Sorry, just tired."

the wife tends to be a little oversensitive to my sighing. i mean, sometimes i just gotta freakin breathe, ya know? sighing just sort of happens. doesn't mean i'm pissed automagically or something.

i know musician nerddom often leads to dudes playin solos on the edge of their beds while their girls sit next to them thinking, "god, when is he gonna be done? i'm horny for crying out loud!"

i think any nerddom can lead to social suffering... in fact, who can attest to being afflicted with hobbit nerds lately? i sure can. work is overflowing with them from angles i never would've imagined. "he's quoting frodo? i didn't know he could read. why is he giving me a hard time for not seeing the movie on opening night?"

― msp, Thursday, 18 December 2003 06:15 (twenty-two years ago)

40.82126% - Major Music Nerd

― minna (minna), Thursday, 18 December 2003 08:47 (twenty-two years ago)

45 percent - I WILL DO BETTER NEXT TIME! ;)

― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 18 December 2003 08:48 (twenty-two years ago)

49.03382% - Super Music Nerd. not surprising, really. i'm too lazy to do half that stuff and i don't watch US music shows.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 18 December 2003 09:39 (twenty-two years ago)

63.52657% - Mega Music Nerd

My score was held down by the fact that I got almost no points in the "I wear (or I have worn)" category.

― John Fredland (jfredland), Thursday, 18 December 2003 09:50 (twenty-two years ago)

52.89855% - Super Music Nerd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was expecting 102.23423423% myself!!!!!! Talk about disappointment!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Thursday, 18 December 2003 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)

53.38164% - Super Music Nerd.

Hmmmm... I think I might be a little young

― Jole, Thursday, 18 December 2003 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

37.68116% - Major Music Nerd

― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 18 December 2003 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

seven years pass...

Over the weekend, I stayed at a campsite in Wisconsin. On Sunday morning, someone was walking around the campsite at like 8am playing the bagpipe. It was far away, and I could barely hear it, so it wasn't obnoxious or anything. Instead, it was really ~spooky~ and beautiful and I remembered how much I like the droney sound of the bagpipe. So today, with a little free time this morning, I wondered whether or not there is such a thing as experimental bagpipe music. You know, I like the sound of the instrument, but I want it to be less distracting/trad sounding.

I googled "avante garde bagpipe music" and the first result is http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandjazzmusic/3668768/A-haven-for-lovers-of-avant-garde-bagpipe-music.html

I think this means that I passed the test, but who knows. It was kind of disappointing because I can't say that I really found what I was looking for :-/

― Garyln (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 13:47 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPiO_G-DEHs

― emil.y, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 13:51 (fourteen years ago)

I knew someone would come through for me! This is awesome. So massive! emil.y you are my people.

― Garyln (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 13:55 (fourteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NthjtTm32Uw

― scott seward, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 13:56 (fourteen years ago)

yow wow that is so good too! so hypnotizing, totally spiritual! scott seward, i knew i could count on you.

― Garyln (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 14:04 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah, I was in HMV OxfordStreet lunchtime, and they were playing something vaguely hiphoppy bagpipey as well...

― Mark G, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 14:10 (fourteen years ago)

i have added both of these songs to my personal library. if i ever have to explain why i love ilx, i will cite this thread.

― Garyln (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 14:13 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah, that Rufus Harley is great. Excellent find.

― emil.y, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 14:16 (fourteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshi_Wada

― http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WhiteAmericanFolks.jpg (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 14:17 (fourteen years ago)

Look, it's A Love Supreme!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmaicurzPb0&playnext=1&list=PL35CA804C46DAB347

― Garyln (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 14:20 (fourteen years ago)

There's also this: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Inside+Ov+A+Coffin%2C+The?anv=Inside+Ov+A+Rough+Trade+Shop%2C+The&filter_anv=1

But I doubt it'll be available for online listening.

― emil.y, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 14:20 (fourteen years ago)

Ok, Yoshi Wada is exactly what I was looking for -- thanking u !!

Is there a lot of this stuff and I just didn't know about it? It's such an awesome instrument.

― Garyln (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 14:23 (fourteen years ago)

This is traditional, but different than the usual.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTOExHghKtE

Oh, I was thinking Yoshi Wada, but I thought he only did stuff that sounds like bagpipe, and so, didn't count.

― Daddy Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (_Rudipherous_), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 14:32 (fourteen years ago)

I have moved this excellent discussion to a sadly ignored bagpipe thread
Bagpipe Music

― Garyln (La Lechera), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 14:38 (fourteen years ago)

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