rolling enlightening music discussion thread

^^^ yeah, jeez, feel kind of guilty now all these heavy content dudes are bringing the critique

heh

lfam still around?

1st-year lj was such a treat

that was jaymc-level swiftness of location there, shocked myself kinda

ha

I sense something wonderful is about to happen

Best modern music to convince a 50-yr old humanities professor that music does not currently suck

(xpost to sockpuppet watch thread)

I learnt my lesson tho! I won't engage on the topic directly in that thread.

clubbz

Re MIA in general, I'm with deej. I don't like any of her music (I called her first record "Tom Tom Club with a tan" and I stand by that) and I think the hype and general lovefest atmosphere around her every half-assed, fumbling gesture is somewhere between annoying and infuriating.

― Born In A Test Tube, Raised In A Cage (unperson), Monday, May 3, 2010 1:28 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark

ha, I knew why this thread was bumped

"Tom Tom Club with a tan"

SMH

what the fuck

silvio berlusconi up in this bitch

that fuckin guy

clubbz

― plax (ico), Sunday, April 25, 2010 9:08 AM

haha the listening club shit? yeah i don't get it

complicated notion, no doubt

u mad?

lol, furious

xplain me their popularity cuz they just seem like avg ilm genre thread w/ some annoying arbitrary rules applied (cribbed from oprah lol). also xplain herman g. neuname

*seeks enlightenment*

ilm genre thread + all participants listening to the same records, new and old, during the same time period

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/bestsellers-2007/28-1.jpg

lol

ppl need a sense of purpose

http://www.steerforth.com/catalog/covers_450/9781934389218.jpg

I do not understand people who don't listen to music from the 80s.

As far as I'm concerned, music was INVENTED in the 80s (or mor specifially, with Joy Division). Anything before that is just proto-music.

― Stupid (Stupid), Thursday, December 11, 2003 12:22 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark

listening clubs are actually one of the more reasonable uses of ilm imo

also xplain herman g. neuname

think he likes polls

yeah peeps on ilm actually having to stick to a couple of albums to focus on and talk about instead of pulling the obscurantist card and flopping their soundscan database egos on the table what a fuckin tragedy

lol :B i h8 music

yeah u know that in book clubs nobody actually reads the books tho rite?

only one i went to (lol the alchemist) was just ppl speculating as to who was boning whom

that's what's going on in these threads too

short conversation

Newsom-thread making an enlightening come-back

Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (RIP blogs)

Not ILX, but one of the comments on this article is like Cameron Carr come to life:

http://www.overthinkingit.com/2010/05/18/dio-metal-sign-throwing-horns/#comment-18610

http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/990f306703d6bd760982f82aed474750?s=70&d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D70&r=GTom Houseman on Tue, 18th May 2010 1:32 pm

Heavy metal has become consumed by our corporate, capitalist culture (holy crap that’s a lot of alliteration). It is a safe way to rebel while not actually doing anything to change things. Instead of protesting heinous acts or boycotting evil corporations, or trying to make the world a better place in any way, you go to Virgin Megastore or iTunes to buy a Metallica CD that was produced by a big company. Then you go to a concert sponsored by Coca-Cola and McDonalds, never thinking about the horrific things these companies do to their workers so that they can make a profit off a 99 cent cheeseburger. But it’s okay, because you’re making devil horns with your hands, so you’re a badass.

bitter truths

relax. music is cool.

he's right tho. often have i had the urge to wage revolution on my capitalist masters but instead found the solace and peace in Poison. Were it not for their honied ballads I surely would've rebelled.

Warrant is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

unlike say, Sufjan

Warrant is like poppy seeds.

poppy seeds baked in cherry pie

I can't shake the impression that

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2304/2269404604_3d8da0fd68.jpg

is to shallow trendy emo kids, as

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/wavves.jpeg

is to shallow trendy hipsters.

Just my impression- I hope nobody who enjoys it here takes offense to that.

― Evan, Thursday, July 1, 2010 10:38 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

who's the emo kid group?

― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, July 1, 2010 10:39 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Not sure, the image was posted on another thread, but they seem to represent pretty much every one I've seen.

― Evan, Thursday, July 1, 2010 10:41 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wtf lol

I feel like the only possible response to that is "This article does not make any valid points or is even based on logical thinking. I'm sorry but I can't believe this is the Washington Post."

if you've exclusively lived live in indie rock clubs and Warp Tour venues, and have someone else drive you from one to the other so that you can close your eyes while you're in transit, then that statement could make total sense

take two:

if you've exclusively lived in indie rock clubs and Warp Tour venues, and you've exclusively had someone else drive you from one to the other so that you can close your eyes while you're in transit, then that statement could make total sense

I saw that on the wavves thread. I'm not sure what he means, because he says one picture of young people is analogous to another picture of young people, but doesn't say anything about music except that he associates the top picture with kids who listen to emo music and the bottom picture with kids who listen to ??skate punk?? ??indie??. If you lived in an indie club, you'd probably see a lot more variety among the clientele than that picture indicates, so it isn't too accurate by ksh's estimate or Evan's, but what was I trying to say again? I need breakfast. I think I was just saying that the exchange doesn't seem wtf-worthy on a subboard.

yeah, that was more confusing than enlightening, and not confusing enough to be wtf-worthy

guys on rolling metal were seriously discussing how to facilitate a particular poll and whether or not the poll should be made for like 30 posts