rolling enlightening music discussion thread

^this

lol crit king

Rockstars, pontificate if you must, but ILX is always at the ready to cut you down to size:
Bono and Jack White wonder: Just how immortal is rock music?

guitar solo thread ftw

Guitar bands who don't really do guitar solos, and the how and why of not doing guitar solos [Started by Scik Mouthy in February 2008, last updated 2 minutes ago by cee-u-en-tee (some dude)

i might actually have to open this thread if ship's bringing this d/n back for an encore

don't open it. not worth it.

oh, nothing in that thread

i think we should start a music clusterfuck board, and whenever a music thread turns into a navel-gazing fest we can quietly move the threads to this board.

lol i 2nd this

i just want those threads summarized with funny pictures.

http://photos-c.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v76/201/88/674787343/n674787343_106766_5513.jpg
http://grorg.org/blorg/uploads/mia.jpg
http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2008/04/skeleton-computer.jpg

yay!!!!!

When did Doom Metal/Black Metal and the like become "hip" and why?

haha, the worst.

it's not too bad really, some good posts from messrs daniel and seward but damn i'm tired of h-word debates

the original blog link o_OOOO

xp - sorry this is my first one of those - and i'm quickly seeing why you're tired of them.

you're fine, sarahel!

should that thread be derailed into a discussion about Aliens or some other cinematic metaphor? Hipsters as pod people - they are like us, but they are not like us.

ooh proceed with that one, i like it.

We're all pod people now imo

xp - done.

sarahel tbh i thought for sure you were trolling when you were the first person in thread to mention hipsters and i powerlold

The most plausible scenario to me is one or more members of the group of people who organized AWK as a merchandising interest
split not too amicably, forcing Andrew to assume the role full-time, but because these ex-AWKers held some part of the domestic album release rights, AWK group
could not release close calls etc... for a while.

It might very well be that this was planned all along, but it doesn't make much sense to delay an album release to conjure up the mystique of legal trouble.
If there is any consistency in how AWK operates, it is in taking full advantage of any synergistic opportunities that comes his way.

There is a kind of evil in this "embrace everything" attitude. You might not think it's possible to cheapen a song like "It's time to party" by having it appear in an expedia commercial, but both the music and its fans are degraded just a little bit by that.

― Philip Nunez, Sunday, January 3, 2010 7:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hot damn

Heads up, but Vampire Weekend thread is about to (again) go into enlightening music discussion territory.

oh believe me it's been there a while :P

last updated 2 minutes ago by kshighway (ksh) on I Love Music] 149 new answers

this looks like a bad sign, i think?

definitely

was just quoting Wikipedia tho, crisis averted

i liked how you immediately backed up jhoshea's post with that, that was helpful : )

lol mordy

the annual piss and jab is going on again : D

Am I imagining things or has 'u s steel' been called out as a Nude Spock alias in the past?

it is assuredly not NS

we do need someone ready to call out potential nude spocks now that gabbneb left

is the Joanna Newsom thread enlightening?

i dunno, you have to appreciate that it is successful in delivering its own kind of enlightenment which may be different from your "preconceptions" of "enlightenment"

or you have to be that special sort of person who really appreciates a kshighway post

or twelve

buncha people posting v much in character

its one of those threads where you get the feeling that almost nobody is really that gung-ho bout their "opinions" but in the absence of a high q. clusterfuck

three or four of us sincerely like her music tho

Joanna Newsom is the Florence Foster Jenkins of her generation.

Yo P&J, I'm really happy for you, Imma let you finish, but ILX had the greatest 2009 poll of all time! All time! (2009 ILX Trax Poll Results: TOP TEN TODAY) [Started by musically in January 2010, last updated 1 minute ago by cozen on I Love Music] 1790 new answers

Is there anything enlightening here?

there's a poll

lol yeah welcome to ilx

i still don't believe that it's impossible to have enlightening music discussion on a poll thread.

don't open it

i believe you.