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― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 31 December 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

:( it was the thing that brought me here.
And i still keep on stumbling on its archive, and finding things i've never read before.

― jellybean (jellybean), Saturday, 31 December 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

Thank you, Tom!

Thank you, everyone else!

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Saturday, 31 December 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

Thanks and good luck, Tom!

― Mitya (mitya), Saturday, 31 December 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

Dang, I admit I wouldn't have thought to look if there wasn't this thread. And I'm high up in the thanks list too!

Kudos to Tom for many reasons, NYLPM is but one of them.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 31 December 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

― kit brash (kit brash), Sunday, 1 January 2006 01:37 (twenty years ago)

99.9% OF YOUSE ARE NOT FIT TO SHINE EWING'S SHOES

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 1 January 2006 01:56 (twenty years ago)

that's an awfully conservative number, michael.

― is this an institution of learning or a teenage brothel? (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 1 January 2006 02:00 (twenty years ago)

Well, 2006 has been a very depressing year so far (and cd:uk is being cancelled too, bastard ITV). But! Thanks to Tom and all the others for the last five years of NYPLM!

― carson dial (carson dial), Sunday, 1 January 2006 02:04 (twenty years ago)

(x-post) Mmm.

Without trying to create more of a mess than the debate has already caused -- the two events are not related by anything other than the closeness of time -- that NYLPM ends while the whole Urge/MTV thing is about to start up is still somehow weirdly symbolic.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 1 January 2006 02:05 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for the thanks.

No symbolism intended Ned!

― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 1 January 2006 02:11 (twenty years ago)

best of luck, tom. thanks for changing my life. (i do mean it.)

― sean gramophone (Sean M), Sunday, 1 January 2006 03:04 (twenty years ago)

This blog changed my life too!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 1 January 2006 03:05 (twenty years ago)

that NYLPM ends while the whole Urge/MTV thing is about to start up is still somehow weirdly symbolic.

Well, I'm not sure where you're headed with that idea, but I do know that the pop blog that I'm doing for them is massively indebted to what Tom was doing with NYLPM, and I'm eternally grateful for the positive influence that Tom has had on my life, directly and indirectly.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Sunday, 1 January 2006 06:38 (twenty years ago)

Amo amas amat amamis amatis amant
We are all romans unconscious collective
We are all romans we live to regret it
We are all romans and we know all
About straight roads
Every straight road leads home,
Home to rome
2 + 2 = 4
4 + 4 = 8
We organise via property as power
Slavehood and freedom imperial purple
Pax romana!
Suckled by a she wolf,
We turn against our brother
Bella bella bella bellorum bellis bellis
Veni vidi vici i came i saw i conquered
We are all romans unconscious collective
We are all romans we live to regret it
We are all romans and we know all
About straight roads
Every straight road leads home,
Home to rome
2 + 2 = 4
4 + 4 = 8
We organise via property as power
Slavehood and freedom imperial purple
Pax romana!
Suckled by a she wolf,
We turn against our brother
Bella bella bella bellorum bellis bellis
Veni vidi vici i came i saw i conquered
We are all romans

UNDERSTAND THIS SHIT MOTHERFUCKERS

― Noodle Vague (noodle vague), Sunday, 1 January 2006 06:42 (twenty years ago)

Bless you, Tom.

― David R. (popshots75`), Sunday, 1 January 2006 07:39 (twenty years ago)

NYLPM = classic

― snowballing (snowballing), Sunday, 1 January 2006 09:29 (twenty years ago)

― j blount (papa la bas), Sunday, 1 January 2006 09:45 (twenty years ago)

tom is the reason i get paid, i owe him a tithing

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 1 January 2006 09:46 (twenty years ago)

oh man! i just checked this for the first time in a while yesterday, and enjoyed reading everything on it, and felt very happy that it was still going, and thought about how Tom's writing really changed my feelings about music and music writing enormously. I contributed once, I think, perhaps twice. I still have a bunch of half-written posts sitting on my harddrive, that I still thought I might finish one day, I guess.

Thanks Tom, and everyone else.
RIP, NYLPM.

― mitch/jermaine (jnoble), Sunday, 1 January 2006 12:23 (twenty years ago)

Whoa, didn't see that coming!

NYLPM = the classicest iof classics.

Looking forward to more Popular, tho!

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 1 January 2006 12:57 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Tom, its been an education..

― jk_ (jk@gabba), Sunday, 1 January 2006 13:44 (twenty years ago)

This came as a shock to me when I heard. I feel totally honoured to have been a tiny part of it.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 1 January 2006 16:24 (twenty years ago)

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/uploaded_images/LibraryProject_screenshot-745613.JPG

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 1 January 2006 16:38 (twenty years ago)

ILM should be shut down now as well.

― Lars and Jagger (Ex Leon), Sunday, 1 January 2006 17:02 (twenty years ago)

If by "now" you mean "18 months ago."

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 1 January 2006 17:30 (twenty years ago)

thank you so much, tom.

― maura (maura), Sunday, 1 January 2006 17:33 (twenty years ago)

If by "now" you mean "18 months ago."

Yes.

― Lars and Jagger (Ex Leon), Sunday, 1 January 2006 18:08 (twenty years ago)

TOM SPEWING YOU TOOK THE EASY WAY OUT

Maybe if you took out the loser writers (ha ha, look at that list of writers), you might have owned the internet hipster nerd world by now but NO-NO-NO-NO-NO.

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Sunday, 1 January 2006 18:10 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha. NYLPM ended with The Killers at No. 1. INDIEIST!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 1 January 2006 18:12 (twenty years ago)

OH SNAP

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!! (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Sunday, 1 January 2006 18:12 (twenty years ago)

:-(((((((

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Sunday, 1 January 2006 18:15 (twenty years ago)

i loved NYLPM like a fat kid loves cake, but this post (particularly the last paragraph) sticks out in the mind as my favorite moment. christ has it really been five and a half years?

thanks for everything tom!

― yuengling participle (rotten03), Sunday, 1 January 2006 18:50 (twenty years ago)

Reading NYLPM and ILM in their heyday changed irrevocably the way i listed to music, for much the better. For that, thank you Tom et al. As you say, you've every reason to be proud of NYLPM - RIP.

― Laney (Laneyje), Sunday, 1 January 2006 19:24 (twenty years ago)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00008AJL9.03.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 2 January 2006 04:16 (twenty years ago)

you've got to be kidding me. thanks, tom! you've earned your place in history, i think.

― geoff (gcannon), Monday, 2 January 2006 05:01 (twenty years ago)

damn...sleep well, NYLPM.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 2 January 2006 05:12 (twenty years ago)

One day up-and-coming music writers will be annoyed about people like us reminiscing about "the glorious heyday of NYPLM" in the same way that people like us are annoyed about people reminiscing about "the glorious heyday of Cream/Melody Maker/the NME." Which I mean in a good way, really.

― Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 2 January 2006 05:28 (twenty years ago)

i enjoyed reading NYLPM very often, and it's been an inspiration even more often. thanks for everything and farewell.

― joan vich (joan vich), Monday, 2 January 2006 17:22 (twenty years ago)

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