Introduce Yourselves!

Me too! I've been lurking & occasionally posting for over 2 years (before the ILM/ILE schism). 37 yrs, NZ resident, lived in London in the late 80's & mid 90's - 2000. I have a lot to thank ILM for - especially my dilettantism.

I've been lurking here a long time cuz I'm a bit shy, but I finally felt like posting something. Oddly enough, like Bob, I'm 19 and I also love Will Oldham, Low, Dirty Three and Songs: Ohia, though I don't live in London (I live in Illinois). Some of my other favorites: Cat Power, The Smiths, The Need, Joy Division, Tiger Lillies, Felt, Scott Walker, The Magnetic Fields... My new favorite singer is Devendra Banhart. OK, I won't bore y'all any longer :)

jed-e-3 should introduce him/herself because he seems to be from Glasgow (if I'm reading closely and correctly) and I'm nosy.

right-o David....

I'm from Glasgow (perhaps you caught an Optimo reference?) Im kind of a lazy guy who works from home (and therefore does very little work, of course) Im sort of an architect (the sort that doesnt do much). I love these things -(smog), Talk Talk, Disco, House, Electro, Stuff that makes em happy-sad like Jeff Buckley, Nina Simone, Nina Nastasia, Spiritualized, Tilt by Scott Walker. My Favourite peice of Music is "For Bonita Marcus" by Morton Feldman. I dont care about categories in Music (they are only useful for finding things in shops) and i am as likely to be listening toThe Necks as Mary J Blige. I go to quite a few gigs which i occasionally write up for a website you probably all think is THE DEVIL and therefore i wont name it. I go dancing most weekends in Glasgow or Edinburgh - i Love Optimo and the Black Rabbit Whorehouse.

thats me - i had a look for yours (David) but i couldnt find it so maybe you could direct me to it!

Also i am going to see Buck 65 Tonight at king tuts. Antone else going?.....

Also the name jed-e-3 comes from that Grandaddy Song about the Robot with the Broken heart which will kind of give you an idea what my temperement is like!

I should probably do a new introduction. I'll get on it.

Wow, a humanoid on board!

I've never done a proper intro (always reluctant), will do so in the (very) near future

well i'll have a look for yours again - this is a l-o-o-o-ong thread tho!

well get on it willem - maybe your also a humaniod?

Re: "Track 2 is the one for me, the rest, well, it hasn't set me on fire yet."

Ahem, I meant, of course, the sublime track 1. Oh, and album has now officially set me on fire.

(x-cuse me for being off-topic, but: is a humanoid a robot with human feelings or a human without feelings?)

Hello I Love Music, my name is Nick, and I can't believe I just read this whole friggin thing!

Woah. < /keanu>

I'm still D.R.E., ok?

Will, 27. Memphis. Litigation support/ multi-media trial presentations(yaaawwwwnn). So I spend an inordinate amount of time on music-geek boards. I think I like this one best as it features lots o' traffic, well-informed posters, and has caused me to laugh out loud on several occasions. Unabashed rockist, but enjoy/ collect everything.

I'm Barima. I alternate between talking too much and not talking at all.

here goes:
Hi!
Willem, 31, dutch, struggling PhD student (should be finishing this manuscript), lives together with girlfriend, rapidly expanding music collection (partly due to you wonderful people, your hints/tips are invaluable), favorite albums include: David Bowie - Low, Neu! - Neu!75, La Düsseldorf - Viva, Daft Punk - Discovery (one of those tips), Calexico - the Black Light, Motorpsycho - Timothy's Monster, Sixteen Horsepower - Sackcloth 'n Ashes, Simian - Chemistry is What We Are, Love - Forever Changes, the Stooges - Fun House, the Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat, the Feelies - Crazy Rhythms, Can - Tago Mago, Thin White Rope - Sack Full of Silver, NoMeansNo - Wrong, R.E.M. - Automatic for the People, Suede - Dog Man Star, Weezer - Blue album, Múm - Yesterday was dramatic, today is OK, Byrds - Younger than Yesterday, Neil Young - Everybody knows this is nowhere, Lou Reed - Berlin, Roxy Music - s/t, Cosmic Jokers - s/t, Sunny Day Real Estate - How it feels to be something on, Air - Moon Safari, zoppo - Belgian Style Pop, At the close of every day - zalig zijn de armen van geest, Japan - Quiet Life, Iggy Pop - New Values etc. etc.

so: hello! (back to the manuscript...)

I'm yet another Nick to further confuse these boards, and I'm 20. I'm a Maths undergraduate studying in Nottingham, but currently at home in Hampshire. I mostly lurk here with the odd answer to an RFI, mainly because I feel a little intimidated and I'm still trying to learn the intracasies (sp?) of ILX. I began lurking on ILM about a year ago but have recently got a lot more into ILE too.

Music-wise, I'm pretty ILM-centric. Right this moment I'm listening to Kelis "Kaleidoscope". This morning I was listening to De La Soul "3 Feet High & Rising", Jacques Lu Cont "Blueprint" and N*E*R*D "In Search Of....". The last CD I bought was Dizzee Rascal "Boy In Da Corner", but Super Furry Animals "Phantom Power" is on order. My favourite album ever is Wu-Tang Clan "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)" and my favourite song is Missy Elliot "Get UR Freak On".

It would take too long to list all my favourite acts but I like chart-pop, bling-rap, old skool hip-hop, some IDM, some punk, grime, and I'm trying to get into house and dancehall more.

Andrew, 30, of Little Rock, Ark. I'm a clerk at the oldest newspaper west of the Mississippi and a member of several bands/recording projects here (chinese girls, affection, w/o, les attaques, etc.). Albums I've listened to the most in recent weeks include The Fall-Hex Enduction Hour, Clipse-whatever its called, Motorbass-Pansoul, Etienne deCrecy-Tempovision, Plastikman-Consumed, The In Out-Il Dito and Other Gestures, Rolling Stones-Sticky Fingers, Speicher CD1, Bangkok Impact-The Floor, My House in Montmartre comp., various Bohannon albums, Aphex Twin-I Care Because You Do and SAW1, Out Hud-STREET DAD. Anxiously awaiting in the mail: T. Raumschmiere. And Ultrafunk-Funky Al (fingers crossed--it's never in stock when they say it's in stock and I'm dying here).
If you're ever broke down in Little Rock...

strongo, 900, turn ons include the pet shop boys and the patriot act, turn offs include hairy backs and ilx.

Alex, 20, currently in Cardiff. Originally from Somerset rural hell, but originally before that was born in London. Wanting to hunt down whoever got the Lex handle before me, cos I sho' as hell haven't seen them use it. Music I love: Tori Amos, Björk, PJ Harvey, Pet Shop Boys, Tom Waits, Nina Simone, Beyoncé, New Order, Cat Power, Black Box Recorder, Girls Aloud, Peaches, Interpol, Moloko, tATu. Music I hate: The Coral, Foo Fighters, The Polyphonic Spree, The Smiths, The Darkness, 99% of everything in the NME. The only other things I'm as passionate about as music are tennis (favourite players: Anastasia Myskina and Juan Carlos Ferrero, and most Russians) and journalism (specifically, my future career, which may or may not be in the field of music journalism). Occasionally I can get very political indeed, and I used to be far more into literature than I am now (I blame my degree for the lapse there). I have a passing interest in cinema. People I fancy: Jeff Buckley, Alastair Campbell, Justin Timberlake. What I'm listening to right now: Pixies, 'U-Mass'.

To use what appears to be ILM parlance, I am very much anti-rockist. I like talking about myself, though not enought o continue this post any further.

I don't think I've ever done this yet.

Ailsa, 30, originally from Inverness, now of Renfrew (via ten years in Glasgow). I work for a large multinational insurance company doing corporate accounts, and I only post short answers to things on ILM because although I do love music, I'm not very good at writing about it. I like tuneful things with guitars, and lots of pop things too. Fave bands off the top of my head today are Belle and Sebastian, Trash Can Sinatras, Teenage Fanclub, the Cocteau Twins, Boo Radleys, the Lilac Time, JAMC, the Jam, Spiritualised, Aztec Camera, Furniture, the Orchids and the Pogues, but that list may well have changed by tomorrow. It will never include the Beastie Boys or REM though. I am also ridiculously fond of most chart music of the 80s and Brit-pop of the early 90s as they were my formative years of discovering and loving music the most.

Hi. I'm Tom. I live in Baltimore. I'm 23. I like Rancid. I'm much, much taller than you.

Hello, I am Keith and I'm 30 and live in Edinburgh.

Hi, I'm David, 21, student, writer, and I like Ailsa. I live in Glasgow.

Im Matt, 21, work for "The Man". I like 60/70's garage and psychadelia...and reading about things that really happened. I hacky-sack, but im not a hippie. I spent $250 on a VIP ticket to go see AC/DC open up for the Stones in Germany, some think that was crazy...i thought it made sense, and it was worth it. Ive lived in California, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Virginia, and now i cling to life in Maryland. Im a pisces, and i enjoy long walks on the beach.

Contact Millar for testimonial.

Nick H, what is Jacques Lu Cont "Blueprint"?

Welcome to the thoughts I used to think less a blog, more a repository.

Andrew M from Little Rock who works for a newspaper: I don't suppose you know Dan "Tube Disaster" Bailey by any chance?

Angus, 32, in Melbourne. I've been reading ILM for a few months but usually when I feel like posting something, someone has already said what I wanted to say, except more pithily and with more background knowledge. Musically, dance (esp. disco, house, techno, microhouse), pop (esp. electro-pop and classic vocalist-oriented pop a la Dusty Springfield or Jacques Brel) and classical (esp. late romantic and early 20th century) are my mainstays.

Really interesting reading. this, Didn't realize many of you were so YOUNG ... Names like Sterling Clover and Ned Raggett sound a bit like sinister fortysomethings who know much more about music than I ever will (you probably still do that, though).

Well, I'm 30, and I am a music critic at Danish sort-of-leftist-in-a-really-soft-and-undangerous-kind-of-way broadsheet newspaper Politiken. I mainly deal with hip hop, r&b, techno, house, IDM, all kinds of post-ravey stuff. I also write about the odd indie rock record - and when everybody else is on vacation or really ill, they let me handle the major mainstream events such as the dreadful Elton John concert I recently reviewed.

I love Timbaland and Missy, some of The Neptunes' stuff, avant garde high brow electronic composition from all the way up through the 20th century, Basement Jaxx, Public Enemy, Dre, dancehall sound system battles, Tom Waits, UKG, Gutter Garage (or is it Grime these days), the first Rage Against The Machine record, schmoochy deep house, cheesy mash-ups, Kid 606, early Detroit techno, Radiohead, Stereo MC's 'Connected', brazilian baile funk, Anticon, some of Britney's stuff, some of Justin's stuff, whatever. I guess I'm pretty predictable. I love to watch new scenes emerge. I love music that is not quite ripe and/or self-conscious. Does this make sense? Probably not.

Anyway, I am also struggling with the final paper in my Master's Degree (rhetoric), and I have a girlfriend that I love. I live in Vesterbro, Copenhagen's would-be-equivalent to Brooklyn in a flat and I own a dark blue Fiat 500L from 1969, which I love almost as much as my girlfriend.

Looking forward to get to know everybody and please don't hesitate if you have any questions about Danish music (yeah right!)

JK

i am emily. i wish that communism worked. i live in kentucky, usa. i enjoy politics: the far left, and music: Postal Service, My Morning Jacket, Ida, Rainer Maria, Quasi, Slint, Low, etc. i dislike conservatives and animals dressed as humans.

What about humans dressed as animals?

Names like Sterling Clover and Ned Raggett sound a bit like sinister fortysomethings who know much more about music than I ever will (you probably still do that, though)

It's all part of the act. ;-)

Ronan, it's a 2 CD compilation he did in 2000. I thought it was a mixed when I bought it but alas not. It meant to be a selection of tracks which influenced him, along with a few LRD and Zoot Woman tracks and mixes. I think it's listed on AMG. It's pretty good.

humans dressed as animals are okay, humans that smell like animals are not.

emily what if they smell like guinea pigs who smell sweet, like hay?

If not for Emily I would've never known about doggles!

Emily PH33RS MONKEYDOG!

26, almost married (next Saturday), I live in Baltimore County (just outside of B-more). Write for Baltimore City Paper, Orlando Weekly, Skyscraper (soon), and Tailspins. I lurk more than I post. Feel like I should say more....but I'd rather spend the time rocking out.

Hey Stewart O., I'm good friends with Dan B., and I miss him. He's been in Montgomery, Ala., for a bit now.

I'm Ben Welsh. I'm a student at DePaul in Chicago, IL. I write --occasionally about music, but not always -- for the DePaul student paper The DePaulia. I'm training to be a conventional journalist..considering the Medill graduate program at Northwestern anybody got any tips?

I'm a music nut who's into about everything so I it's impossible to pick absolute favorites but off the top of my head I'd go with Fugazi, The Clash and VU as my favorites rock bands. I'm a big hip hop head too with my favorites over there being Outkast, Wu-Tang, and Nas.

my name having been dropped here (cue sally fields' "you like me! you really like me!" oscar acceptance speech) today, thought i'd join up ...

anyway, the lowdown: 43, newspaper editor (when i'm working, that is, which hasn't been the case for *ack* 9 months now), marooned in "the cradle of the confederacy" -- which i swear makes little rock seem like new york london paris munich -- for 1 3/4ths years & counting.

after years of exclusionary punk rectitude (got into the stuff in 3/78), in my dotage i seem to have become one of those mushy wow-man-like-i-love-*every*thing types i hated for so long ... not only late '70s punk & (especially) postpunk (i'm pretty pleased with the newish adherents as well, a la liars, rapture, radio 4, yeah yeah yeahs, interpol, hot hot heat, etc) but also early rap (through around mid-'84, circa run-dmc's first lp), funk, electrofunk, rockabilly, anarchopunk, '60s/'70s r&b & soul, disco, some '60s rock (pretty much the obvious ones, though please god not pink floyd -- not even the syd stuff has done anything for me, though every now & then i give it another chance), alt-country, pre-'80s country, a bit of reggae. pretty much everything, i guess, other than opera & jazz.

particular faves -- the fall (saw 'em last month in atlanta), wire, mekons, chumbawamba, redskins, cure, joy division, buzzcocks (also last month in atlanta), damned (this month in mobile), cruxshadows, dandy warhols, type o negative, oi polloi, spinners, gap band, gun club, ccr, sparks, trailer bride, riptones, killing joke, pretty things, porter wagoner, johnny cash, public enemy, bluebells, minimal man, rudimentary peni, screamers, epoxies, social distortion, crispy ambulance, wall of voodoo, tv21, red lorry yellow lorry, o'jays, 3 johns, suicide ... tons more.

nonmusic obsessions -- silver age marvel comics, horror fiction (especially lovecraft) & movies, sf (especially philip k dick), the paranormal (color me "fascinated skeptic"), "outlaw" sports leagues (federal league, afl, aba, wha, wfl, usfl), baseball, '70s basketball, ultraleftism in general (anarchism in particular), dreams (just started keeping a dream journal -- recorded at least bits & pieces from 8 different ones this a.m.), post-depression u.s. history (especially the '60s), certain tv shows (buffy, law & order, etc).

Welcome Tube Man! Good to see you again - I think you'll enjoy it here!

You may be amused to hear that I've been in contact with our old friend Ms. Tagonist's sparring partner Steve Wallace (he's now the guitarist in Penetration and is actually a really good bloke!) and indeed have discovered "Ann"'s true identity - "she" is actually Billy Gilbert (ex Chelsea, now in The Lurkers)!

Mrs. H, 33/3 years of age, living in Seattle WA with a husband whose musical taste matches mine in only one area- that involving all things Mark E. Smith related. Otherwise, I seem to align with Phil T tastewise (old people rule!) Fell free to harass our marital community whilst in the Pacific NW. Nice to meet you.

minna- iguess guinea pig smell is okay, and Dale the titled-NO MORE MONKEYDOG!!!!!!!!

I've been posting here for a couple of weeks & I just realized this thread. Sorry!

I'm John Magee, from Boston, MA (originally Detroit, MI). I'm a former college DJ (WMBR, "Breakfast of Champions") & I focused on late 80s - early 90s indie rock. I'm also into plenty of 60s and 70s rock, krautrock, various avant-garde stuff (Red Krayola, etc.). I'm 33.

But my real hero is Neil Young. I think I'm quite the Neil scholar, but there are some people around here who blow me away.

Some of the other classic stuff I always come back to: Richard Thompson, Elvis Costello, Steve Earle, Dylan, Talking Heads, Joni Mitchell, Television, any proto-70s-punk, Replacements, The Who, Stones, etc. etc.

I soured on indie-rock, and I spent a good part of the 90s focused on alt-country and its roots in 70s rock. I pretty much ran the gamut on that and have been spending most of the 2000s catching up on electronic music 1985 - 2003, modern hip-hop, and listening to as much new music as I can possibly get my hands on.

I also enjoy tons of classic country music - I have a decent collection there - and even some modern stuff. I'll listen to anything coming out of the Nashville machine and usually find one or two good records per year (Alan Jackson Drive last year, for example).

I'm also way into recording engineer stuff. I have a full PC-based studio with some great outboard equipment. I love making music even more than listening to it.

Soulseek: find my base collection, which i am progressively digitizing and am through L at the_magster. Find my recent downloads at scrimshander.

That's enough.

I've been posting here for awhile now. I'm Steve, a 42 year-old dad (9 year-old son),US government employee, contributor to a few Washington DC publications(writing mainly about African, Carribbean, & Latin music but ocassionally re Malaco-style soul,rap,roots-rock & zydeco and indie-rock), and a Baltimore Orioles, Md Terps fan. I used to dj at the Univ. of Md radio station ages ago and put out a fanzine called Thrillseeker in the early '80s with a buddy of mine. It covered DC hardcore plus we had a Troublefunk interview in issue 1 and reviewed all kindsa records and concerts--commercial funk and rap, postpunk,reggae, roots rock, pop,...I also wrote for Op, and Option, and had a few things in Swellsville and Why Music Sucks and Puncture way back when. These days I'm listening to hiphop and r'n'b radio(likes--Lil' Jon,Kanye West and Timbaland productions, Mary J Blige); indie-whatever pop from the Pernice Brothers; Sierra Maestra; Bembeya Jazz; Neba Solo(from Mali); Patti Loveless; and call it watered down and mediocre but I like Good Charlotte's songs that get on radio and mtv...

i am the mighty Orbit, with sparkly superpowers.
there isn't really anything to say about myself; i'm pretty boring.
musical taste is all over the place.

Hi there. Custos sent me. Am I allowed to say that? Sorry Custos if I embarass you by talking about my bleedin' burnin' anus. Well I'm a music fan. I wish I had some form of talent to make music but I draw instead. http://www.cspot.org/portfolio/?mode=display_index&id=117

Right now I'm working at an independent animation studio in Canada making a low-brow funny TV show. I'm surviving on zero income for a while while this studio is getting established, doing work thats too good to be real work, & I like it like that. I'm way into self sufficiency. I bike everywhere & I'm obsessed with dumpster diving. Latest thing I'm proud of scoring, is two huge bags of day-old bread to feed a dozen people this week.

I listen to lots and lots of music every day while I work. Music is the ONLY thing I spend money on- esp. in mass quantities of old records and tapes from flea markets & garage sales. Can't love them enough. People drop all kinds of wierd stuff there. Accordingly my collection centers in the 80's. Especially post-punk stuff. Screw lists, I'll just name my top favorite album of all time: Chameleons "Strange Times"; and last one bought, Rational Youth "Cold War Night Life."

Well, I guess thats all that matters I guess. Maybe I should mention that my greatest unfulfilled wish is to give birth to tadpoles. Also, my balls are slammed in a cop car trunk & I accidentally swallowed the key, won't somebody please free me?

PS. I'm 25.

I am a complicated man, and no one understands me but my woman.