I personally haven't assumed that other posters here are American. After all, didn't ILM largely start as a community for fans of a Scottish twee-pop band?― Melomane, Sunday, May 31, 2020 2:15 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― Melomane, Sunday, May 31, 2020 2:15 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
The shame will always be with us :(
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Monday, 1 June 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
I just checked the wikipedia page to see if the B&S thing is mentioned; it's not but I did see this lmao: "The 200,000th thread occurred on February 1st, 2020 to very little fanfare and much disappointment"
― dip to dup (rob), Monday, 1 June 2020 16:19 (three years ago) link
ilx: very little fanfare, much disappointment
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 1 June 2020 16:20 (three years ago) link
lol otm
― dip to dup (rob), Monday, 1 June 2020 16:21 (three years ago) link
Get me away from here, I'm drowning in braggadocio.
― pomenitul, Monday, 1 June 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link
Braggadocio in the snow, where will you goTo find something you could troll?Cause the word out on the street is you are FP'ing
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 1 June 2020 16:23 (three years ago) link
Beautiful, brings a twear to my eye.
― pomenitul, Monday, 1 June 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link
was ilx actually a belle and sebastian fan forum first? that would be awesome
― treeship., Monday, 1 June 2020 16:28 (three years ago) link
no idea about this connection to B&S. Google brought me to a book about fan cultures.
https://imgur.com/a/MVojVy5.jpg
― maffew12, Monday, 1 June 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
I Love Tigermilk
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Monday, 1 June 2020 16:31 (three years ago) link
i try again https://i.imgur.com/lfOWm5J.jpg
― maffew12, Monday, 1 June 2020 16:34 (three years ago) link
Melomane, music fan on the end pewYou'd hip hop, but the tropes just won't let youLe FP de la Braggadocio
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 1 June 2020 16:34 (three years ago) link
(quiet)
brutal
― jmm, Monday, 1 June 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
I prefer "sleepy"
― thomasintrouble, Monday, 1 June 2020 16:38 (three years ago) link
ILM = Joe Biden?
― pomenitul, Monday, 1 June 2020 16:38 (three years ago) link
When people on ilx get backed into a corner via backlash they weren't expecting they either lose their cool and end up digging a deeper hole or they try too hard to appear thoughtful and save face with overwritten clarifications and... end up digging a deeper hole.
― Evan, Monday, 1 June 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link
well i guess we found a sinister user amirite?
― maffew12, Monday, 1 June 2020 16:40 (three years ago) link
It's funny because I was on S*n*st*r (not embarrassed by this fact, just mortified by the content of my posts on there / the person I was aged 19) and then only joined ILX around um 2014 I think? And yeah, there were a couple of people on there like that.
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 1 June 2020 16:50 (three years ago) link
it's good that ILE branched out to loving more than just things from the mid-2000s
― Number None, Monday, 1 June 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link
Gotta stay with the times.
― jmm, Monday, 1 June 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link
I thought the first ILM posters came from a Usenet group, and the Sinister folks arrived a year or so later.
― jaymc, Monday, 1 June 2020 17:12 (three years ago) link
There was also Freaky Trigger, obviously, since Tom E. started ILM. But I'm sure about the relationship between FT and alt.music.alternative.
― jaymc, Monday, 1 June 2020 17:16 (three years ago) link
some say the first settlers arrived from Gopher
― maffew12, Monday, 1 June 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link
What's the history behind this board?
"I Love Music" created as a discussion board for online pop fanzine Freaky Trigger."I Love Everything" created when lots of personal/non-music content was coming up on "I Love Music".
"ilxor.com" created when the server hosting those two boards began to get erratic and we decided we needed our own one.
― Tom (Groke), Friday, February 14, 2003 3:12 AM (seventeen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
It also goes back all the way to alt.music.alternative, too.― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, February 14, 2003 6:10 AM (seventeen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
That's pre-history of a certain group of you, no? Plenty of us have been here since the start of ILX and having read Freaky Trigger for a while, without ever having had anything to do with a.m.a
― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, February 14, 2003 7:04 AM (seventeen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Yeah, to be fair if we're including a.m.a. in the history we should include S!n!ster too― Tom (Groke), Friday, February 14, 2003 7:09 AM (seventeen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― jaymc, Monday, 1 June 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link
ah neat. And nary a mention of Belle nor Sebastian
― maffew12, Monday, 1 June 2020 17:21 (three years ago) link
That part of the borad's history has been hushed up by Big ILX.
― pomenitul, Monday, 1 June 2020 17:24 (three years ago) link
it's mentioned in that final Tom E post...?
― dip to dup (rob), Monday, 1 June 2020 17:25 (three years ago) link
my bad, "S*n*st*r" mentioned. I thought Camaraderie above was doing some odd Google-proofing. I guess it had some stylized title.
― maffew12, Monday, 1 June 2020 17:25 (three years ago) link
yeah tbf I don't actually know anything about it! way before my time here
― dip to dup (rob), Monday, 1 June 2020 17:26 (three years ago) link
lol I've only just realized that Sinister was a B&S board. Shows how much I know about them.
― pomenitul, Monday, 1 June 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link
the answer to op has been staring us in the face this entire time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ut7GhxcgSY
― maffew12, Monday, 1 June 2020 17:31 (three years ago) link
was poptimism a twee conspiracy
― no (Left), Monday, 1 June 2020 17:53 (three years ago) link
Wasn't there a whole B&S subboard at some point in the early years?
― peace, man, Monday, 1 June 2020 17:53 (three years ago) link
It's all coming together now.
― pomenitul, Monday, 1 June 2020 17:54 (three years ago) link
the actual portmanteau is "conspiratwee"
― (so serious) (DJP), Monday, 1 June 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link
hehe
― maffew12, Monday, 1 June 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
Can't see the wood for the twees.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Monday, 1 June 2020 17:58 (three years ago) link
Ah, sit down and learn of the Before Times. In yonder days, when I first went 'whuh' at a newsgroup in 1993...
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 1 June 2020 18:00 (three years ago) link
ha, I was on Usenet in 1989
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 1 June 2020 21:41 (three years ago) link
gentlemen, braggadocio
― maffew12, Monday, 1 June 2020 21:45 (three years ago) link
On alt.rocknroll.metal.metallica you can see a 16 year old me preaching Christian faith to metalheads who really didn't want it while simultaneously saying "FUCK YOU" to people who didn't like Load
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Monday, 1 June 2020 21:48 (three years ago) link
Did you manage to convert anyone to either of the two?
― pomenitul, Monday, 1 June 2020 21:49 (three years ago) link
Yes, 1 person. I convinced myself both views were wrong
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Monday, 1 June 2020 21:51 (three years ago) link
lol holy shit. There's a new "internet legacy" thread and we'd like to hear more
― maffew12, Monday, 1 June 2020 21:57 (three years ago) link
okay, now i'm glad this wasn't locked.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 1 June 2020 23:43 (three years ago) link
nice we could turn this into "where are we anyways?"
― maffew12, Monday, 1 June 2020 23:57 (three years ago) link
did anyone recommend 311
― brimstead, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 00:08 (three years ago) link
The only thing I remember from alt.music.alternative is "Bzangy Groink", though I don't recall what it signifies- Jyoti Mishra's Club night?
Anyhow, wasn't all this the subject of a Tanya Headon IHM column years and years ago?
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 04:49 (three years ago) link
Ah, yes. Here it is:http://freakytrigger.co.uk/hate/2003/06/dj-format-the-hit-song/
Could DJ Format be just what OP is after? (I've never heard this track.)
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 04:55 (three years ago) link
ha, missed that. Did this guy ever say where he is supposedly from?
― maffew12, Monday, June 1, 2020 bookmarkflaglink
Braggadocia
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Monday, June 1, 2020 bookmarkflaglink
lol
― Spottie, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link