the slow death of ILX's self-esteem
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
you guys are gonna feel like real idiots when PURO INSTINCT blows up
― suidavyvan eht nioj (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
i ran into an old friend who tried to convince me the "tastemaker" thing mattered and he referenced a few bands i wrote up early on in their careers and when i went to look the posts up, I found google had pulled a LOT of my old postschillingeffects.org
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
little did we know we'd all become successful types ourselvesi credit ned
?! (I mean, I thank you, but Tom Ewing, surely.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
lol, i was just testing my candyman powersand yes, Tom.
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
i've said this before but Matt's a nice guy and it's a shame he got hassled off the board.
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
the slow death of the dictionary
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
I agree, personally. was he ever really on here tho...? I don't remember seeing him post much. He had some REALLY bad blood left over from the Fake Matador board, most of which I thought was silly.
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
xxpost
For real. He's the one who clued me in to ILX. Which I'm sure he'd apologize for profusely if he hadn't been chased off.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
matt definitely posted frequently on ilx in the first half of the 2000s
― some dude, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
And, yeah, he used to post here quite a bit, but it's been a long while.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
he and Dom had problems
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
He was on here a lot for years but he was not well suited for the snipey hardman zing swing ilx took.
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
did he actually go to war w/ anyone? i feel like a lot of the noize dude nastiness toward him seemed to be pretty one-sided and kinda coincided w/ him posting less. i might've missed or misremembered something though.
― some dude, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
it felt like what you outlined there. Though maybe he just got too busy? I always hope that's what happens to people who stop posting.
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think this is in any way unique to Matthew......
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
Essentially, they let regular civilians mp3 bloggers do what only MP3 bloggers print publications used to do: Identify music worthwhile of publication to the global consciousness and then publish it. Everybody can be an “MP3 blogger” music jounalist of sorts, by merely logging in to Spotify with Facebook signing up for blogspot.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
I can only hope to someday forget Urge, MTV/Microsoft's failed attempt to use music bloggers to save the .wma file
― da croupier, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
"snipey hardman zing swing" <-- these are very fun words to say together like that.
― s.clover, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
still lol-ing about "regular civilians." i mean, i know this is what the mp3 bloggers look like when they get together, but come onhttp://themoraltimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/olympians.jpg
― tylerw, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
1998 - 2012 these are the years during which I was not interested in mp3 blogs at all
― Scott, bass player for Tenth Avenue North (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
nir >>>>>>>> any mp3 blogger ever
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
i tried to get a job at urge and was rejected!
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
re: urge i remember getting something in the email from some random person who was like "oh hey i've really enjoyed your posts on ILM and i would like you to offer you work writing dance reviews for MTV" and it took me about five minutes to figure out it was a scam
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
that was no scam that was URGE
― tylerw, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
its a shame you will start caring next year after they are all over
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
I remember Drowned in Sound when it was a review site on which they let their 16 year old writers post whatever without any kind of editorial oversight, and then after the reviews had been up for a while Sean would delete the ones that he didn't agree with. Also they had a record label that released the first ever Kaiser Chiefs single.
― if, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.chapmanrecording.com/images/Urge2.jpeg
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
urge came and went so fast that i didn't even know what it was until it was too late :(
― tylerw, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
i probably just burned a bridge w/ someone who still reads/posts to ilx
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
Also they had a record label that released the first ever Kaiser Chiefs single.
tastemakers doesn't come into it then
― like Joe Pasquale and Gandhi (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
i discovered ilx through an mp3 blog blogroll
― flopson, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
I discovered ILX by Googling the words 'take no shit'.
― 'scuse me, while I Rim the Sky... (snoball), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
i discovered ILX whilst trying to find the northwest passage
― like Joe Pasquale and Gandhi (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
i still call you all ilxians in my mind
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
i discovered ilx after emailing my favorite music writer (at the time) he wrote me back and said "oh hey if you like my writing you will love ILX" and then he quit ilx like weeks after i started posting
:-(
one thing i remember about mp3 blogs is everyone bitching and moaning about TOO MANY MP3s and TOO MUCH MUSIC and oh my god it's cheapening and sullying my experience of music w/ overload of choice etc etc etc
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
it's true i think Gold Chains lost a lot of his mystique
― like Joe Pasquale and Gandhi (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
Matthew started the LCD Soundsystem "Yeah" thread, which remains one of my favorite threads ever on ILM. All these people hearing the track for the first time at the same time. I remember that day so clearly.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
IT CAME FROM SAN FRANCISCO
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
gold chains?
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
awful blog-friendly joek "rapper"
― like Joe Pasquale and Gandhi (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
i know who he is
you were just using him as a stand-in for all the shitty mp3blog-hyped music out there?
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
yes
― like Joe Pasquale and Gandhi (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
ah point taken - i probably would have used something like bis as a strawman, not enough pixie haircut on mr chains
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
think i discovered ilx because of mr. wolk.
― Hierophantiasis (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
remember liking fluokids about 6 years ago. haven't followed an mp3 blog in forever.
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, May 8, 2012 1:36 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol this is hilarious to me cause he went all hardman on me for panning animal collective on the singles jukebox and did so on his own blog where i only saw it cause someone linked to it. so basically, lol fuck that dude.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
Our indifference to Animal Collective was akin to a bunch of reactionary stooges in '88 panning Daydream Nation, remember?
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:50 (eleven years ago) link
Takes a Williamsburg riot to put me back to sleep right now
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
Reactionary Stooges -- hmm might be a good name for a garage rock band.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:53 (eleven years ago) link