My name is Dave, I am 21 and a sophomore at Princeton U. in New Jersey. I am Canadian, and my parents live in Toronto (although my family and I are originally from Newfoundland). I've been a sax player for about eleven years now, and also play bits of piano, drums, bass and guitar. When I was a kid, I sang in a lot of classical choirs until my voice broke, and listened to my parents' Beatles records as well as Roxette, C + C Music Factory and MC Hammer. After a big Nirvana phase, I now listen to Aphex Twin, Peter Brotzmann, P.I.L., Big Black/Rapeman/Shellac, John Zorn, Radiohead, Pussy Galore and Lester Young. I am the Program Director for WPRB, a station in New Jersey. If you'd like to listen, there's a RealAudio link at http://wwww.wprb.com and if you like any of the stuff on this list, you'd probably dig us. Nice to meet you, by the way.
― Dave M., Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― suzy, Sunday, 17 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Joe, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― jennygb, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Ha! I thought you were Joe McGlinchey! Welcome aboard.
― Nicole, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
some old nonsense is at http://fiddlesticks.com
― George Wright, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Add, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
My first rock idols were Mama Cass and Janis Joplin. I had all the usual adoption/houseboy fantasies one has at that age. Then they went and died on me. So I replaced them with Bowie and Patti Smith. My pop development: went from Have a Nice Day Top 40/bubblegum stuff to glam to punk to...oh, you know, all kindsa stuff. Current faves: Stereo Total, Super Furry Animals, Clinic, Makeup, White Stripes, Turbonegro. All Time Faves: Kinks, 60s pop Stones, Bowie, George Jones, Love, Ike & Tina, Giorgio Moroder, Roxy, Kraftwerk, Sparks, T. Rex, Birthday Party, Pixies, Marc Almond, French Pop, Sylvester.
Don't post much, but I love reading you all! I wish to broaden my listening tastes and I'm very happy to have discovered this board. I used to work at a gay disco in the late 80s/early 90s but haven't been exposed to much dance music, intelligent or otherwise, since then. So I wanna catch up. It's a drag I came upon ILM (through the Momus website, in case you're interested) just as the Napster filters really kicked in. I want to hear all these records you're recommending!
Currently the things I hate include: Dave Navarro, most queercore, aging LA punkers who won't shut up about their golden era (e.g. Exene "Hey kid's, culture's over, what a drag, let's open up a punk rock museum and knickknack shop and start a band with Rancid" Cervenka), Betty Page 'dos, Laker flags, most sports, that cliched LA vs. NY rivalry... um, um, um, guess I don't really hate that much these days.
Shit, this is longer than I intended. My name is Arthur, I was born on Bloomsday, my father's name is James, my mother's name is Joyce. Bye...
― Arthur, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 28 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I live in a village in picturesque North Yorkshire, nice but it can be boring as fuck sometimes. Needless to say don't get many top bands playing locally.
I got into music as a 14 year old, my first record was Angel Eyes by Roxy Music from Woolies in Berwick on Tweed. Since then I've never looked back. I went through a phase as a heavy metal freak for a couple of years then heard Love Action by the Human League and then opened my ears to pretty much anything, no preconditions or rules. It's lead me up a few blind alleys but i'm probably more enthused now then I ever have been.
Currently grooving to Bonnie Prince Billy, Curtis Mayfield, AC/DC, Johnny Cash, Auteurs, Jackie Leven, Radiohead and Basement Jaxx and Sir John Peel.
― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I'm not particularly interested in digging through musical history, even if it sounds exactly the same I'd rather have new stuff, sorry. I just bought the Destiny's Child LP and it rocks, and I have an unhealthy obsession with pop videos and adverts, and TV generally.
What else? I could show off about my obscenely expensive inch-thick widescreen titanium supercomputer, but I won't. Damn.
― Graham, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Josh, Wednesday, 4 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
i started my first ever thread on ILM yesterday, but i've been reading and very occasionally posting for a long time. i live in dublin and like this thing we call pop music. i also like folk and trad and a good few other things besides. at the moment i can't get enough of belle and sebastian. i write for a zine called frank's apa that wor tom used to write for. i've just had an interview for a senior position in my workplace. ever notice how you're never quite sure afterwards whether you did well or badly in an interview?
― rener, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I'm 37 years old and live in New York City with my wife and kids. I'm a graphic designer and musician. I look forward to learning lots from you all.
― Mr. Mark Lerner, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― the pinefox, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Liliya, Saturday, 7 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Favourite artists: Velvet Underground, Yo La Tengo, Giant Sand, Gun Club, Sonic Youth, Joy Dividion, Swell, Red House Painters, Joni Mitchell (from another life in the 80s), the Smiths, the Cure, Laurie Anderson, Keith Jarrett and Nick Drake (from my first life in the late 70s/early 80s), Cocteau Twins, Cowboy Junkies etc.
― alex in mainhattan, Saturday, 7 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Michaelangelo Matos, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nick Southall, Sunday, 15 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 18 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
This place is getting messier and messier. Could someone, I think of you Josh e.g., please install a search like Atomz on this site? It should be possible. I have even succeeded in doing it for my small little blog.
― alex in mainhattan, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Josh, Thursday, 19 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Music I love or have loved: Velvet Underground, In Flames, Goo Goo Dolls, Momus, Belle & Sebastian, Nine Inch Nails, some Radiohead, some Bach, some Beethoven, Vince Guaraldi, George Winston
Music I like: Vintersorg, Thyrfing, Therion, David Bowie, Neutral Milk Hotel, some Radiohead, Pedro the Lion, Nirvana, Bush, Iron Maiden, Sex Pistols, the Clash, U2, Dead Kennedys, Iggy Pop, Apocalyptica, Madonna, Fiona Apple, Filter, Olivia Tremor Control, Hum, Neil Young, Matthew Sweet, Pink Floyd, the Who
Music I really can't stand: Beach Boys, Britney Spears, rap in general, blues in which every line must be repeated several times, Creed
Authors I love: Neil Gaiman, Madeleine L'Engle, C.S. Lewis, Ayn Rand, Phillip Dick
― Candelifera, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
The first music I listened to that wasn't baroque classical, when I was nine: The Beatles. The first music I listened to that made me realize what music was capable of, cartoon-epiphany style, when I was fourteen: Brian Eno (it was Another Green World). "Older" music I really like: Millennium. (Apparently, these guys have been a recent topic of discussion, and nobody said 'dud,' which is great.) "Older" music I've recently been interested in: Pharoah Sanders. "Newer" music I really like: Spiritualized. "Newer" music I've recently been interested in: Icebreaker [International]. Little-known band I like who I'd like to plug (I don't know them personally): Optigonally Yours. Music to which I've most recently introduced someone: Eric Dolphy. Music I enjoy to which I've been most recently introduced: Prefuse 73. Music of which I am in perpetual awe: Laurie Anderson. Music I think is staggeringly important: Boards of Canada. Music I love of which people are frequently skeptical: Merzbow. Music I formerly maniacally loved to which I have recently been re-awakened: King Crimson. Music I've most recently acquired: Herbie Hancock's Fat Albert Rotunda. Music I enjoy that you'd probably find incongruous with how I seem thus far: NON/Boyd Rice. Music I like that most often gets me into trouble with people who "like music": Marilyn Manson. Music I hate: I think that idea is sort of ridiculous. Most recent concert: Add N to (X) at the Grog Shop, in Cleveland, on 18 July. Currently listening to: Plone's "Plock" single.
I'm always reachable at the given email address, and always enjoy discussion of any kind. That's why I'm here, isn't it?
― matthew m, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Dr Seuss, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
I'm 33, male, live in San Francisco, Ca., and am a graphic designer.
I don't look much like a young Anthony Perkins, but have been told I do more than once.
I have broad musical tastes, and don't want to blather on about all my faves, but I don't care for dance, techno, and rap. I try to listen primarily to vinyl LPs, and own about 1700.
― Sean, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nick Southall, Wednesday, 25 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
also there are picutres of some constructivist buildings in moscow, russian graffitti, aforementioned students, other shit there.
i help run a night in sheffield that is called non.sense and is pretty turd. we dont really play any indie , or pop.
― ambrose, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Im a 23 year old finishing off a computer science/physics double major from the east coast of Canada. Currently working in Toronto as a programmer which is a nice break from my past incarnations as a midnight shift gas attendant.
Past 5 years I've held down a college radio show and a few years of editting the entertainment section of the student paper till I grew tired of filling at 2am in for contributers who didnt make their contributions so I switched to the radio station staff.
I spend too much time listening to indie music, I have a fear of silence and an extremenly short attention span if Im not wearing headphones. I am currently suffering through this recent trend towards roots/bluegrass in college music cause I tolerated enough celtic music in my life through over exposure due to a close proximity to Cape Breton. Bands I like include Eric's Trip, Sloan, Spiritualized, MBV, BJM, most of the whole postrawk thing and what little I've heard from Puffy In Japan. I dont hate pop music I just have a hard time stomaching commercial radio.
I tend to ramble.
― zac, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Aw, yeah.
― David Raposa, Monday, 30 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ally, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Cryosmurf, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― A.Honda, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
21, Montreal, Vietnamese, computer engineer 3rd year, Velvet Underground, Pavement, Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, procrastination, highway sightseeing, old decrepit buildings, painting landscapes, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, misanthropy, 69 Love Songs, Old Port, Kids in the Hall, bored, bowling bag, immaculate freshly cut grass, mountain, Soft Bulletin, drugs, Japanese wrestling, Emergency & I, biking, $1 plastic guns, David Bowie, T-Rex, Trainspotting (the book), cubicle fever, Brian Eno, water fountains, Nirvana and the grunge era, white velcro shoes, night driving, waterfronts, High Fidelity (the book), the Beatles, Calvin & Hobbes, you.
― alex in montreal, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Greg, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
You: SWF, 5'6" 140-180 Lbs, Green Eyes, Dark Hair, Sense of humor a must.
Oh-wait-I'm on ILM.
― turner, Saturday, 4 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Josh, Saturday, 4 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
What I do with my time: There was a period of several months in the mid-'90s when I would get a word in my mind and just have to fit it into that awful Joyce Kilmer "tree" poem ("I think that I shall never see/A poem lovely as a tree" - except that, being a doubter more than a thinker, I misremembered it as "I doubt that I shall ever see/A poem lovely as a tree"). So one day my friend Elizabeth and I go to the tidal pool down on Half Moon Bay, and the phrase that embeds itself in my mind is "sea anemone." For three days I can think of nothing but how to fit "sea anemone" into the Joyce Kilmer format. Finally I come up with this:
I doubt that RuPaul, tall and feminy Has lips as gay as sea anemone.
The accents don't quite scan on "RuPaul," but it was the best I could do.
― Frank Kogan, Saturday, 4 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Jess, 23, live outside Philadelphia, currently unemployed and aimless (a catch, ain't I?), amateur writer but professional procrastinator, NOT a musician (I just can't bear to add more mediocre crap to the mountain) but I AM a critic (why else would I be posting here if I didn't think my opinion was god-like and unimpeachible), I likes...well, I likes what I likes, and there ain't a single genre I can think of (outside new age) that I don't likes somethin' from...but I've been an inveterate hiphop junkie since I was a wee lad and currently a recovering indie rock kid (who's finally almost worked through the alt-rock crock handed to me by the mass media *and* fanzine cartels while growing up in the 90s.)
― Jess, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Lindsey B, Saturday, 11 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Elspeth McKee, Saturday, 18 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link