― simon, Monday, 5 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― joel, Tuesday, 6 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― David Nicklaus Turner, Tuesday, 6 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Pihkal Boy, Friday, 9 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Kevin Enas, Saturday, 10 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― james e l, Sunday, 11 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
musically, i'm all over the place. in my cd player right now is aphex twin, but we can also talk pink floyd, belle and sebastian, radiohead, godspeed you black emperor!, manics (old), rem, smiths, nirvana... hell, you get the idea. i'll buy anything, and like most stuff thats not manufactured.
i have a webshite, but its crap and redundant. i'll build another when i get a moment...
oh, i'm 28, got a fantastic personality, am devastatingly good looking, and oooze charm and wit... or something...
― Richard H., Wednesday, 14 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Eighties music trivia is my superpower (or so my friends believe). I even know a non-top 40 song or two from since then. I'm probably cooler than I think I am. Or not. Hi.
― Kim, Wednesday, 14 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
I don't have a website, I do have a band and THEY have a website... we are the Cloud Minders, go to thecloudminders.com and you'll see bugger all, because we've not had time to do anything to it yet. Try seeking us inside the labyrinth of Peoplesound.com (we ARE there HONESTLY) and you'll hear what we sound like, you could even buy our EP, and we're making another one, and I'm making a solo album, but there's another story too.
I've only just scratched the surface of my musical loves, and I've only just scratched the surface of this website - any site named after a Win album is fine by me. I hate the way I lapse into American style writing when I'm saying stuff on websites. Keep up the good work, I love you guys. Can I write for you sometime?
― Rob M, Friday, 16 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Mog, Monday, 19 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― nathalie c-c, Tuesday, 20 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Still, I hardly ever listen to that stuff anymore. I'm always on the look for new and interesting music, and so freakytrigger is an incredible resource. A few years ago, I never thought I'd like hip- hop, but now I'm a convert (I admit I'm a bit of a backpacker, Black- Eyed Peas Jurassic Deltron etc). I never thought I'd like electronic music of any kind; Now I'm a huge fan of Orbital, Two Lone Swordsmen, Innerzone etc. Always open to new suggestions, thanks for being here for me!
― Jack Redelfs, Wednesday, 21 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Ally C, Thursday, 22 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― matthew stevens, Friday, 23 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Vaughan Simons, 29, living in West London, working for BBC Online (but not techie or geeky - a computer's a computer, and that's all I know). Music - used to be severely alt-indie-leftfield in the early 90s, when I was at university and then unemployed and had time on my hands. Now, I don't keep in touch with any of the latest trends, hardly know what's Number 1 in the fabulous pop charts from week to week, like everything from Gavin Bryars thru to David Gray (I know, I'm sorry), via Ute Lemper, Phil Spector and sixties girl groups, chill-out electronica (my friends think I'm stressed - I got about ten CDs that could be classified as 'chill-out' for Christmas), Magnetic Fields. Basically, anything and everything, and a lot of nothing. The favourite hidden corners of my music collection will always be inhabited by Disco Inferno, Furniture and David Sylvian though, I guess.
― Vaughan, Saturday, 24 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Patrick, Monday, 26 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Lee, Tuesday, 27 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Jake Becker, Tuesday, 27 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Is anybody going to read this? No. But anyways, I live in a small town. The last 5 records I listened to were Wowee Zowee, In A Priest Driven Ambulance, Tonight's The Night, The Queen is Dead, and Enter the Wu-Tang. I like bread.
― Jake Becker, Wednesday, 28 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
That's all for now...
― Jonathan, Friday, 2 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Tom, Saturday, 3 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― jel, Wednesday, 7 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― mark emsley, Tuesday, 13 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
here is the requisite information about myself: i am approximately thirty one and four fifths, and though it seems to be a popular method of introduction, i do not have a 'favourite' band, so for the sake of this posting i shall pretend that i do, and that my favourite band is transvision vamp. i derive great enjoyment from the between song banter on local radio stations, and the juxtaposition of classical music and platform announcements in the bar at birmingham new street station.
that is all.
― kevan, Tuesday, 13 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Work: I do software programming/engineering for $$$, which is why I spend much of my time internet browsing!
Bands that I am: Roads to Space Travel, Slow Jets
I enjoy lots of bands/artists but I have serious interests in: British Punk/"Post-Punk" (from about 1976-1982); 80s "New Wave"; 60s- 70s Jamaican Ska/Rocksteady/Reggae/Dub; and I have a soft spot for 80s synth pop.
Newer, smaller bands I would vouch for: Spoon, Candymachine (RIP), Enon, Les Savy Fav, Lifter Puller (RIP), The Fuses, The Glands.
Interests: Musical gear/instruments/recording ( http://www.guitargeek.com/layouts/display.php3?id=399 ); Vintage analog and newer, cheap, digital synthesizers; BMW motorcycles (preferrably 70s boxers, I own a '77 R75/7); Saab 99/900 autos (up to 1994); My dog Benny; Basketball; Football; Driving too fast; War Movies; Behind the Music; Drug Legalization (not for my own purposes, however).
Dislikes: Most music journalists; Record Labels; Most Booking Agents; Promoters; Record Reviewers.
― Tim Baier, Thursday, 15 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
mauramae dot com. i am AICON 14! sophomore in college, wheaton college, near boston, too poor to ever get out there to do anything and when i do. i spend more money. i am studying anthropology and women's studies, doing astronomy in my spare time.
i am into neutral milk, and apples in stereo, liz p, bjork, just bought le tigre and LOVE it. prince (!), elliott smith. i really hate writing all the bands/artists i listen to cause i always forget something. i should just catalog my cd collection. i adore mix tapes, and those are my favorite things in the whole wide world. i love making mixed.
i don't like pretentious elitist hippies, and recently i don't like being touched when i am sleeping. i like silver bangles and fun clothes. i have a coat, hang bag, scarf fetishes. i like to cook. my dad and gramma are both sick and 2001 has been the worst year of my life so far.
― mauramae, Monday, 19 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Duane Zarakov, Tuesday, 20 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― mark sinker, Monday, 26 March 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
LOATHES: The plague of self-styled so-called 'divas' (Mariah, Whitney, and their vile ilk), contemporary cheeze-whiz r'n'b (Sysquo, Destiny's Child, R.Kelly), teen pop in all its vaccuous manifestations (N'synch, Backstreet Boys, etc.), lowest-common-denominator-fueled hip-hop that is obssessed solely with the acquisition of easy wealth and "booty," unforgivably mookish rap/rock bands like Korn, Bizkit, deplorably self-righteous and self-congratulatory Lilith women like Paula Cole and Jewel (and to the same extent, Ani Defranco) and yawnsome fraternity rock like Dave Matthews, Phish, Hootie, etc. etc.
― Alex in NYC, Monday, 26 March 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Geordie Racer, Friday, 30 March 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
I live in London where I once snogged Billy Mackenzie.
― Guy, Sunday, 1 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― fred solinger, Sunday, 1 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
i'm gareth, i like pop music (well, i'm here aren't i, so i spose thats obvious). live in london, but originally from oop north.
i'm probably supposed to insert a big and exciting list of eclectic music here or something.
i run surface vs depth/1471
the self publicity is now over
― gareth, Tuesday, 3 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Born in '68, earliest musical memories: "School's Out", Lt Pigeon's "Mouldy Old Dough", "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep", "Without You" (the last two equally moving). Pop-life shaped early on by older brother (born '58). Preferred my Abba records to his "Brain Salad Surgery", but after being singed by the cleansing fire of punk in Sixth Form, his tastes got more interesting. As a result, Joy Div and Magazine transport me back to Mr Odell's RE class as keenly as Blondie or BA Robertson. Fave record of 1980: Lipps Inc - "Funky Town".
"Boys with toys" sneers future thesp R Delamere in Physics one week, as we enthuse about the latest Fiction Factory release. He has a 'Smiths session' on tape... I'm not sure what this means. Moz with flowers in his pants makes a big impression, but so does Mr O'Dowd in a kimono and lipstick - the Stephen Patrick obsession starts much later. Mostly, it's the Bunnymen and China Crisis, Frankie and the Icicles. Y'know, local boys come good. Don't stray too far from chart territory because, after Kid Jensen, it's all gets a bit strange. German metalbashers? Nein danke.
1984-87: the wilderness years. Bro' leaves home, I start buying 'Q' and Joni Mitchell LPs. Melody Maker have someone I've heard of on the cover - 45p later, Stubbs, Reynolds & co have me snared. There's an inspiring South Bank show on a Mancunian ex-quartet - oh, I know they were magnificent all along, I just, er, taped the singles off the radio... If 4AD offered season tickets, I'd buy one at this point; Black Francis screams on the Late Show and things turn upside down. Coast through the latter under/postgrad years, comfy with post-MBV indie dreamers. My guitar-pop conservatism reaches some kind of apotheosis/nadir in '92; "Mixing It" on R3 play some of that daft dance music - scandalous that this context should 'legitimise' it for me, when extended rave blasts in East Midlands nightclubs on 'alternative' night never did - but suddenly, my ears are open. So, somehow, Penderecki leads me to Aphex Twin.
Mid-90s: on an overgenerous income in a remote coastal town with a nice flat, a nice stereo and no pals within 200km. Expand nervously into 70s Miles, 60s Coltrane, more austere electronics... Tricky and Laika rule and I've never heard anything like "Sour Times" before in my (sheltered) life. Mark Radcliffe plays a song called "The State I'm In" by some band named after a kids' show and my life *literally* changes.
Move to London, meet some stellar folks on top of a hill, turn 30, exchange marriage vows in a Lambeth registry office. My pop-life has pulled me to the place I live, and introduced me to the people I know. What would've happened if it had been hang-gliding, or kick- boxing? I'll name five good records beginning with 'T' and then stop: "The Fat Skier", "Tri Repetae", "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima", "Tigermilk", "Thixty-Nine Luff Thongs".
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 3 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Let's say I'm 30-*, with the emphasis on the asterisk, I live in Edinburgh, I know some of you :) and it's nice to be here, although I'm a bit scared to post, honestly. I think I found this place after Tom's "Why we hate indie kids" was posted rather mischievously elsewhere, with some nice consequent fallout displaying a total lack of irony. Currently (Monday, 4pm, it changes that quick) simmering with gentle obsession over Life Without Buildings's "Let's Get Out" although I'm not sure quite why, or whether I'm making a terrible social faux pas. Oh heck, I'll just hit Submit.
― Honey, Monday, 9 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Ok Duane, well if you're near it, as our ex-PM said, I'm in it. 26 yr old post-queer Aussie writer, author and freelance media whore (email me if you want to know where my novel Fuct & Fiction's available from). Grew up in Buttfucke, Queensland, won a scholaarship to Argentina when I was 17, landed in Buttfuckette, Argentina, for a year which I dedicated to the pursuit of weight gain via alcoholism. Returned, fucked up a lot more, thought I was Rimbaud in bad nailpolish, then stopped writing poetry when I realised I was lying to myself. went back to Arg, came back to Oz, had a break down, spent 4 months in a psych clinic trying to decide why life was worth it, and cleaniing my system out of the chemicals I'd put into it. Kicked the booze in 98, finished my BA in 2000, and am now working on the 2nd novel. Likes: Magnetic Fields, Lou Reed, VU, Patti Smith, Cafe Tacuba, Illya kuriaki and the Valderramas, Ryan Adams, Avalanches, Dylan, RHPs and Mark Kozelek, Elvis, Shellac, Big Black, Eminem etc. Literature of many types, sizes etc, and of course, a nice bit of cocksucking to pass the time. Dislikes: Commercial pap, though I do have a recent hankering for the Pet SHop Boys and Madonna.
― Geoff, Tuesday, 10 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― bnw, Friday, 13 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― D."Getting it together in the country" Zarakov, Saturday, 14 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Johnathan, Sunday, 15 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 17 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Tim, Tuesday, 17 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― DG, Tuesday, 17 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― duane zarakov, Tuesday, 17 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― AP, Sunday, 22 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― michael wells, Monday, 23 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
Shepherd's Bush/West London - from The North, grew up abroad and lived all over UK. late 20s - Freelance whatever?
likes getting lost, ignoring phones, playing dumb, Chris Marker films, having a pen handy, repetition, pressing the square root button, using the optimise function on cubase, filming with digicams then watching it back with friends, driving cars at night, ctheory.com/edge.org seam, listening to Hip-Hop in city traffic, google.com, hallucinogens, The Wire's Xmas Like and Dislike interviews, napster, dancing, airports, recordable MDs players, more dancing, film sets, Artangel projects, extropian urges, crisis, documentaries, surrendipity, jodi.org, Burroughs, reflexivity in art, CDs full of MP3s, the cinema of Wong Kar-Wai/Tarkovski/Koreeda, psychogeography, Bill Viola, paradoxes, motorways or any huge bits of concrete in the countryside, riding very fast down Oxford Street through all the traffic, laughing at the TV, keyboard shortcuts, Erik Davis, the tube system, corresponding with artists, Steven Shaviro, typing..I mean, writing and music
dislikes missing the beginning of films, comedians, ignorance, national attention deficiency disorder, institutionalised religion, people grew up with access to good records, slow moving intricate things, not having a car anymore, anyone who seeks to restrict freedom of information, the guy who slept with my girlfriend, and people who dislike missing the beginning of films
― K-reg, Tuesday, 1 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― The Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 2 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 2 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link