rolling enlightening music discussion thread

"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

variant of spreadsheet criticism

man i just really really hate polls at this point. (not counting goofy polls to start some fun discussion)

and by goofy polls i of course exclusively mean polls related to the beloved disney character

seriously, every time i've asked people what they like so much about michael jackson i'm never swayed by the reasoning. they usually say something to the effect of "he's a good dancer". well for starters that has nothing to do with his music and secondly i really have no interest in men who dance well.

― charlie h, Friday, 24 September 2010 01:51 (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://assets.storenvy.com/product_photos/80542/indiana_medium.png

ugh

hahaha

(2) One day in 1987, two 12-year-old girls in the aisle at Cala Supermarket on Mission Street were chanting "I met a guy, his name was Tussy/Took him to my house and he ate my pussy." This was a takeoff on Too $hort's "Freaky Tales" (or perhaps this chant and "Freaky Tales" have a common ancestor). Same questions: Are the girls being objective when they sing "Took him to my house and he ate my pussy"? Are they being subjective? Are they describing "Freaky Tales" on its own terms? Are they creating a unified reading of the work?

― Frank Kogan, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (9 years ago)

this has been an official ayovember bump btw