pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

"hi hats are an extra .10"

exactly! i guess that's sort of the radiohead model for those remixes stems, no? i wonder how many of the contest remixers scrimped and didn't buy, say, the bass.

Isn't it good? Scandanavian wood

What's odd is that the music review references to Ikea always make the furniture sound more glossy and professional and, well, sturdy than it actually is.

Like, the real IKEA pop would be Robyn - not because she's from Scandanavia, but because there's that same sense of rickety el cheapo construction aspiring to ape the high-tech and high-cost fashions of the day.

This is just what happens when the generation who watched Fight Club too many times during adolescence grows up and becomes music writers.

(I know because I am part of that generation)

You gotta love a business model that sells you the table separately from the legs. Genius.

That's great because you can choose what color legs to go with what color table!

paint would be cheaper. and more versatile!

What these writers really mean to say is "This music reminds me of IKEA because they play stuff like it at IKEA."

mostly they play stuff like it at urban outfitters but nobody wants to admit they shop there once they get their first job

also THE CONTAINER STORE people
fills more inches and is less done

do they play stuff like this at IKEA? the ones i've been to are playing kinda normal supermarket/mall sort of music. i think.

Actually I haven't been to IKEA in years so I don't know.

Pretty sure the first time I'd ever heard of IKEA was via the Pavement song "Date w/IKEA."

jaymc always with the really random cultural blind spots!

What these writers really mean to say is "This music reminds me of IKEA because they play stuff like it at IKEA."

-- Hurting 2, Friday, June 20, 2008 12:53 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

they play soft rock/pop radio at ikea

not the alt/indie peter bjorn & john style soft rock but like air supply and shit

It was 1997! They hadn't yet penetrated the Midwest.

I'm with jaymc, that too was my first exposure to IKEA.

Yeah, it looks like the Schaumburg store opened in fall 1998.

ironically, the first time i heard of pavement was at an ikea.

You should've borrowed my Walkman on the National Honor Society field trip to Navy Pier.

i hate on ikea cause its a horrible place to be inside

Sometime around 1999 I think I nearly had a relationship end entirely because of the stress of a day at IKEA. You can walk in at 10am and find yourself at 5pm, still there, wanting to murder everyone around you, you and your companion both convinced that the other is the most irritating soft-headed pain in the ass ever to have walked the earth. There should be some sort of Survivor-style reality show set in an IKEA.

(I think the only reason the girlfriend and I didn't wind up killing one another that day was that I managed to carry a 7-foot circular rug through crowds and down three flights, which gave me immunity.)

i wasn't in NHS! just NJHS. (and i was lying. i'd heard of pavement in Spin)

http://www.telefonica.net/web2/marcshaiman/cds/scenes.jpg

xp For some reason I think I knew that. (The first part, I mean.)

The best part is that if you go in the morning and do all your slow strolling and looking around and considering options, by 2:30 or so you'll be tired and snippy and running around trying to gather things up and get the hell out of them -- except then there'll be an afternoon crowd of couples strolling happily around considering options, and you will probably want to punch them all in the face and tell them that love is an illusion and they'd better get the hell out of your way because this is the real world and you are putting your foot down, getting the original lamp, taking it home, and strangling yourself with the cord. It's like an instant aging process between the morning and afternoon crowds: "Remember back at 11 when we were like that, so happy and full of dreams? These poor bastards have no idea what will happen to them in two hours."

it's been very freeing to purge myself of all my ikea crap, though i've found it very difficult to find a new dining table on craigslist because it's all ikea bullshit.

say what you want about ikea but if you have a shitlaod of books like i do their cheep bookcases are a fuckin godsend

Not to mention that by late afternoon you're liable to start buying a bunch of random cheap crap from the housewares section that will uselessly clutter up your apartment.

(xpost)

actually wait, the only thing i haven't purged is the EXPEDIT, which was a bitch to put together but it was totally worth it and it looks pretty good, too. it fits records perfectly.

yeah, I was thinking about getting some EXPEDIT for our new place when we move

I found myself the other day missing my JERKER (OOP)

I prefer to get my houseware clutter from Crate & Barrel and World Market

Obviously most of the people on this list are too young to have had to remodel their tenants' kitchen without going broke. Ikea is essentially irreplaceable for that.

I don't object to the cheap, normal furniture, I object to the drill-camp stores.

I also commend them on the obviousness/honesty of that whole ad campaign where they were like "hey, IKEA shoppers, you're older and got promotions and want nicer stuff, so we've started making it in order to keep you from shopping anyplace else."

say what you want about ikea but if you have a shitlaod of books like i do their cheep bookcases are a fuckin godsend

-- s1ocki, Friday, June 20, 2008 3:17 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

just a lonely guy thinking baout a shitlaod of books

BRAGGIN 2008

say what you want about ikea but if you have a shitlaod of books records/CDs like i do everyong on ILM does their cheep bookcases are a fuckin godsend

if you have a shitload of CDs and DVDs you really need to grow up and get some of those pleatherized case logics

records obviously another story but seriously those "limited edition digipaks" are just silly

That all said I am a big MARKOR fan

i want a pleatherized case logic for my books so i can rip out the pages and be done with them

also THE CONTAINER STORE people
fills more inches and is less done

-- El Tomboto, Friday, June 20, 2008 5:01 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

OTM

plus shit is even cheaper

all my records are in container store boxes now

i want a pleatherized case logic for my books so i can rip out the pages and be done with them

http://www.aarongershfieldsydney.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/kindle.jpg

Pretty sure the first time I'd ever heard of IKEA was via the Pavement song "Date w/IKEA."

Same here, and I thought it was about a girl!

Quirky Swedish indie girlfriend

someone's been reading ILM:

Back when Sweden took up less of the average indie fan's headphone space-- remember two years ago?-- it was annoyingly common for critics to compare Swedish pop to the Scandinavian country's most famous non-musical exports: IKEA, H&M, Saab. The Swedes aren't much on inspiration, these metaphors (tritely) suggested, but boy are they good at turning others' ideas into safe, efficient, everyday-luxury items.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/51447-love-is-all-wishing-well-5-ep

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/144530-various-artists-the-complete-motown-singles-vol-10-1970

it's instructive to realize that what we figuratively consider "the sixties" is roughly the period from 1965 to 1973, when the United States was embroiled in the Vietnam War and undergoing the paroxysmal changes that made it into a true democracy for the first time in its history.

I stopped reading after that.

someone's been reading ILM

Haha, I like how he posted like two posts above that, too.