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This is the thread where you post thread ideas that you were going to do but then abandoned because they were stupid.

(Hint: If a thread is stupid - you don't have to actually post it - you can just mention it here.)

dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 31 March 2003 16:33 (10 years ago) Permalink

*Artists/Songs - PAFOSTANYFBTOTBMOAT
(pick a few obscure songs that aren't necessarily your favorites but think ought to be mentioned on a thread.)

*Tom Paxton POX

*What's your favorite song right now?

dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 31 March 2003 16:34 (10 years ago) Permalink

"Auto-summarize ILM posters' entire careers/worldviews"
"Best songs for french-kissing to"
"Pizzicato Five: Only Pick 47"
"Thom Yorke: Hot or Not?"
"Who Else Up in This Bizzy Loves Thin Lizzy?"
"So, this fella Prince, is he any good at all? Should I check out some of his stuff, or was he completely irrelevant and therefore a waste of my time?"

Neudonym, Monday, 31 March 2003 16:39 (10 years ago) Permalink

Putting Lester Bangs in his place.

christoff (christoff), Monday, 31 March 2003 16:56 (10 years ago) Permalink

Abandoned Thread Ideas

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 31 March 2003 16:59 (10 years ago) Permalink

"ABANDONED THREAD IDEAS"

, Monday, 31 March 2003 16:59 (10 years ago) Permalink

"How can we talk about music at a time like this....?"

maria b (maria b), Monday, 31 March 2003 17:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

POX: POXs

nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 31 March 2003 17:02 (10 years ago) Permalink

Megatron What's On Your Walkman?

jel -- (jel), Monday, 31 March 2003 17:05 (10 years ago) Permalink

(megatron's walkman being soundwave, of course)

jel -- (jel), Monday, 31 March 2003 17:05 (10 years ago) Permalink

X-Ray Specs: PO100

Rockist Scientist, Monday, 31 March 2003 17:12 (10 years ago) Permalink

I was going to post a threa about how some "gothy" bands wear blackface in their videos, ie Nick Cave & the Cure...but where does one go from there? I don't think it would generate any discussion.

Fivvy (Fivvy), Monday, 31 March 2003 17:58 (10 years ago) Permalink

"Auto-summarize ILM posters' entire careers/worldviews"

this is potentially a good idea

also,i hate thin lizzy

robin (robin), Monday, 31 March 2003 18:01 (10 years ago) Permalink

The Logistics of Watching Pornography
What Does Donald Rumsfeld Want?
S&D: The Normal

Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 31 March 2003 18:03 (10 years ago) Permalink

if you released an album what would you call it and what would you put on the cover ?

kevin brady (groeuvre), Monday, 31 March 2003 18:11 (10 years ago) Permalink

"Songs that sound cooler when played in reverse"

Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 31 March 2003 18:11 (10 years ago) Permalink

Is rock the paradigm form of popular music?

Cozen (Cozen), Monday, 31 March 2003 18:13 (10 years ago) Permalink

"Auto-summarize ILM posters' entire careers/worldviews"

Okay, I'll start:

Robin: "i hate thin lizzy"
Neudonym: "i love thin lizzy"

Neudonym, Monday, 31 March 2003 18:17 (10 years ago) Permalink

dave225 - "Mr Blue"

dave q, Monday, 31 March 2003 18:42 (10 years ago) Permalink

huh?

dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 31 March 2003 18:42 (10 years ago) Permalink

OPO: Songs from the Grease soundtrack

Aaron A., Monday, 31 March 2003 19:03 (10 years ago) Permalink

Cooper Temple Clause: C/D

William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 31 March 2003 21:15 (10 years ago) Permalink

hah, amateurist i was talking about starting a normal POX thread with someone the other day

jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 31 March 2003 21:41 (10 years ago) Permalink

"someone"

Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 31 March 2003 21:43 (10 years ago) Permalink

taking sides:

vs.

jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 31 March 2003 21:44 (10 years ago) Permalink

vs.

vs.

Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 31 March 2003 21:50 (10 years ago) Permalink

(TS: Cornel West v. Mase v. Pokey)

Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 31 March 2003 21:50 (10 years ago) Permalink

bootleg!

jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 31 March 2003 21:51 (10 years ago) Permalink

um

jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 31 March 2003 21:51 (10 years ago) Permalink

*Gimme, Gimme, Gimme A, or Two, After Midnite (NO, Momous, sorry, not you this time!)
this was meant as a plea for recommendation: which two A-klass Momus records would Ilmers suggest as the best double-entry into Momusland... but after searching the archived threads, i didn't post it
(the two records i did order, tho, i'm yet to receive)

t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 31 March 2003 21:54 (10 years ago) Permalink

The Trustafarian playing bongos outside my office window. Dud or DUD?

David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Monday, 31 March 2003 22:28 (10 years ago) Permalink

"Why do Europeans like dance music so fuckin much?"

David Allen, Tuesday, 1 April 2003 00:09 (10 years ago) Permalink

7 years pass...

just now I started a poll called

Alternative All-time Canon Poll For People Who Don't Care About All That Weak Stuff

and it was gonna have Above the Law and Madlib on it but then I got stuck on what else to put in

gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 05:55 (2 years ago) Permalink

I would do my level best to vote dissection up a few brackets but maybe that is not what you are looking for

Poutine kissed boy "like a kitten" (jjjusten), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 05:58 (2 years ago) Permalink

a bracketed tournament for cleaning products

sarahel, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 06:19 (2 years ago) Permalink

soft scrub always and forever. would kinda love this poll, am cleaning two houses right now

156, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 06:27 (2 years ago) Permalink

lol ilm, lol sna

156, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 06:27 (2 years ago) Permalink

  • explain the hate for the words and/or musical style 'downtempo/chill'
  • POLL - favorite version of the jazz standard 'I remember you' (1941, Schertzinger/Mercer)
(Chet Baker, George Michael, Frank Ifield, Slim Whitman, Doris Day, Björk, Nat King Cole, Dinah Washington, The Beatles, Lita Roza, Lainie Kazan, Diana Krall, Sarah Vaughan, MicroKorg vocoder version, 8-bit version, Ella Fitzgerald, Bette Midler, James Caan, etc.

meisenfek, Tuesday, 27 July 2010 10:57 (2 years ago) Permalink

TS: Mandy Moore vs. Ryan Adams

Oh wait... real thread, sorry.

ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 20:39 (2 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

So I was gonna start a thread that was titled something like

"Post here every time you think about contributing to a politically themed thread but censor yourself for fear of attracting suggest bans for unpopular opinions"

but then I realised that meta on that level would be in itself a total fucking suggest ban magnet.

I hate feeling like this. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. It seriously makes me feel like I don't have a right to an opinion around here any more.

(And anyone who SB's me for this post, seriously, can fucking bite me.)

Wheal Dream, Saturday, 13 November 2010 19:06 (2 years ago) Permalink

Threads You Have Bookmarked That Show "has new answers" for Over a Month Before You Check Them Again

sarahel, Saturday, 13 November 2010 21:19 (2 years ago) Permalink

Post here every time you think about contributing to a politically themed thread but censor yourself for fear of attracting suggest bans for unpopular opinions

i hope/assume people wouldn't suggest-ban you for this. you should contribute!

Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 13 November 2010 21:36 (2 years ago) Permalink

why do you want to "ban everyone [...] seriously talking about soulseek"

meisenfek, Saturday, 13 November 2010 21:57 (2 years ago) Permalink

<3 threads full of socks

buzza, Saturday, 13 November 2010 21:59 (2 years ago) Permalink

Was gonna do a poll about which painful method of death wd be best for Max Hastings.

Haile Shirleebassee (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 14 November 2010 09:24 (2 years ago) Permalink

Might swap it for a "how many times wd you like to shoot Ian Duncan Smith in the face?" thread

Haile Shirleebassee (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 14 November 2010 09:24 (2 years ago) Permalink

Actually wd probably enjoy shooting him in the balls instead

Haile Shirleebassee (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 14 November 2010 09:31 (2 years ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

Little Songs You Sing to Yourself: Confess Them Here

five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 20:09 (2 years ago) Permalink

80s pop songs about surveillance

in my world of suggest bans (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 20:12 (2 years ago) Permalink

Your 10 favourite Warren Christopher anecdotes.

clemenza, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 20:27 (2 years ago) Permalink

Poll: Best Sun Ra Album

Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 20:44 (2 years ago) Permalink

I would vote in that

in my world of suggest bans (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 20:49 (2 years ago) Permalink

Thread I SHOULDN'T have started: Live/Die: Mike Love

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 20:52 (2 years ago) Permalink

I would vote in that

The problem was, I didn't have a spare day-and-a-half to copy and paste the titles of all his albums.

(see also: POLL track logics: best Anthony Braxton album)

Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 20:56 (2 years ago) Permalink

Rolling Past Expiry Polka Thread 2011
OPO: Polls started by Herman Neuname
Thread to marvel at the unbelievably thick skin of jon/via/chi

Thraft of Cleveland (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 20:57 (2 years ago) Permalink

The problem was, I didn't have a spare day-and-a-half to copy and paste the titles of all his albums.

lol yeah I think you would have to have several separate polls, divided into eras, and then poll the winners of those polls. cuz he has what like 250+ albums

in my world of suggest bans (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 20:59 (2 years ago) Permalink

Post pics of musicians that look like Garfield's owner Jon

(got stuck after Bruce Hornsby)

MaresNest, Thursday, 17 March 2011 10:18 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

I Love Music: New Poll

Create a New Poll

Note that formatting will only work within the question text.

I Love Music Poll Title:

what score will pfork give to panda bear's tomboy album?

I Love Music Poll Closing Date (YYYY-MM-DD):

2011-04-10

I Love Music Poll Text:

come on... this isn't getting below an 8.0, is it? i was tempted to put the cut-off at 8.5, but gonna allow room for anyone thinking it's just sub-par enough for pfork to slightly snub it, given expectations.

so, which score will the animal 'Panda Bear' collect next week?

I Love Music Poll Options: Enter all options, delimited by new lines

8.0
8.1
8.2
8.3
8.4
8.5
8.6
8.7
8.8
8.9
9.0
9.1
9.2
9.3
9.4
9.5
9.6
9.7
9.8
9.9
10.0

hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Monday, 4 April 2011 22:38 (2 years ago) Permalink

this thread could be good 2 u!

I'm totally kidding. Congrats strangers. (Matt P), Monday, 4 April 2011 22:41 (2 years ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

james brown monday?

runaway (Matt P), Monday, 12 September 2011 18:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

songs that share a name with another song because they reference that other song in the lyrics

only one i can immediately think of is jimmy eat world "authority song"

witchho (zachlyon), Monday, 12 September 2011 18:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

songs that share a name with another song because they reference that other song in the lyrics

only one i can immediately think of is jimmy eat world "authority song"

Does "That's How You Sing Amazing Grace" count?

Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 01:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

has to be the same exact title

witchho (zachlyon), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 01:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

11 months pass...

Tupac to Handle, Tupoll to Hold: the Tupac Poll

look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 22:45 (9 months ago) Permalink

Also, a TMI thread called something like "Stuff you have seen in porn that has actually made you lol"

look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 01:55 (9 months ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

I have this idea for a thread about People Who Left Wall Street To Do Other Things (start a juice business, do organic farming, open a food cart, creat iPhone apps, become a mountain biking coach, etc.) because it seems like every other small business in new york has that in its story line. Too lazy to actually track down examples but maybe at some point.

--808 542137 (Hurting 2), Thursday, 4 April 2013 13:58 (2 months ago) Permalink

bands that have other band names in their name....

not sure there's any past KMFDM, the Tape Beatles and Eagles of Death Metal....

m0stlyClean, Thursday, 4 April 2013 16:19 (2 months ago) Permalink

i'm sure you could find a lot of examples of multi-word band names that contain one-word band names within them, but most wouldn't be deliberate

--808 542137 (Hurting 2), Thursday, 4 April 2013 16:21 (2 months ago) Permalink

oh yeah, good point. bush - bush tetras etc.....

m0stlyClean, Thursday, 4 April 2013 16:28 (2 months ago) Permalink

courtney love (the band)

fact checking cuz, Thursday, 4 April 2013 21:48 (2 months ago) Permalink

the noun poll

person
place
thing
idea

Woody Ellen (Matt P), Thursday, 4 April 2013 21:58 (2 months ago) Permalink

7-11 in song

infirm neophytic child (zachlyon), Thursday, 4 April 2013 22:03 (2 months ago) Permalink

one more for m0stlyClean: hank williams jr.

(apologies for trying to turn an abandoned idea into an actual idea!)

fact checking cuz, Thursday, 4 April 2013 22:06 (2 months ago) Permalink

Every huge artist has their 'Brighten the Corners'

pssstttt, Hey you (dog latin), Friday, 5 April 2013 07:03 (2 months ago) Permalink

Kmfdm, for Christ sake

how's life, Friday, 5 April 2013 10:38 (2 months ago) Permalink

POLL: Ace Ventura :Pet Detective vs Paul Blart: Mall Cop vs Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo

"LOL is other people" - Jean-Paul Snarktre (wins), Thursday, 18 April 2013 20:57 (2 months ago) Permalink


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