Introduce Yourselves!

::stands up:: Hi my name is Mog and i'm an alcoholic,.... oh wait wrong room ,... damn humor i just couldn't help that ::slaps hand:: BAD MOG!,.. er i mean,... my favorite band is Our Lady Peace, but i manly listen to metal, and not this new rap rock crappy genre "metal",... ::sigh:: oh well Mog needs an advil,...

I am an enigma. Not Enigma. The last year has been one constant battle against a Fleetwood Mac obsession (probably God taking revenge on my love for Prick Decay). I was cured by a Neil Young mix-CD.

I definitely qualify as a musical wh--err eclectic. Started off as a hard-core 'classic rock' fan, and although I've matured beyond that, I'm still willing to put up a fight for the Doors, Beatles, Pink Floyd etc.

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!

Ally, 22, layabout sod. Just realised I was described in this forum last year as a 'Glaswegian smart-arse' by Mr Michael Jones, which possibly sums it up. Enjoy being called a twat in public, and dancing on my own. I'm sure I'm a quiet boy, but people seem to laugh when I say this. Ho-Hum.

matthew, 25, computers but maybe not forever. i have a website at stuckwiththeduck.com that nobody understands. sundays, i like to watch golf on mute.

I'm going to start trying to contribute to I Love Music occasionally (if I remember), so here goes . . .

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.

I don't know if anybody's gonna make it this far down the page, but here we go... I'm Patrick Hould, 28, I'm a French Quebecer living in Montreal, and I work for the city's income security department. My meat-and-potatoes Clash/Stones/Springsteen tastes make me a bit of a dad-rock type by Freaky Trigger standards, but really I have a huge appetite for music old and new, as well as a curiosity that my income can't possibly keep up with. Also, I hate my ancient pre-Pentium PC for not being powerful enough to play MP3s.

From Austin, TX, mid 20sish, working at an audio/visual library still, loading/cleaning projectors and filmstock, surfing the day away. I was once a regular here before here existed, but that all changed. I miss some of you people, even though I don't really know you, and all the new faces... Little Freaky is a big baby now. Otie's Fahey tribute was really swell btw. I write about music sometimes, but not near well enough to get paid for it (or contribute to this site). I'm an elitist. Recent purchases: Stones "Sticky Fingers," Hall of Fame "S/T," Low "Things We Lost in the Fire," Ex "Pokkheherie," Air "Moon Safari," Boredoms "Vision Creation New Sun"...I like most music, have trouble with some of Tom's more mainstream dance-pop stuff. I know very little about "techno"...I am punk rock. Hello Kathleen...been a while *tips hat*

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.

what the hell--my name and email should have been on that last post.

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.

are people still reading posts this far down the page?! Oh well, here goes. i'm in working in london as a sound engineer but my heart is in belfast, northern ireland. used to do a proper fanzine called weedbus, i'm now setting up a fledgling zine at www.slowthrills.com. left-field indie is mostly what i'm into - last few records i've bought have been Arab Strap, the Strokes single (The Modern Age), Low ('Things we lost in the Fire'), and the Kings of Covenience album.

That's all for now...

I still read all the new answers to this question. So there.

I'm resubmitting my answer! I am a postgraduate student studying Mass Communications, I'm going to be writing a dissertation on on-line diaries dealing with issues such as identity and community. After I graduate I am faced with the prospect of work, though ideally I'll do some sort of research/academic job. I like lots of music. I have about 450 Cds and 200 tapes and 70 seven inch singles. That makes me kinda geeky? so I'll keep quiet about my comicbook collection!:) Ok, have fun! bye bye!

hi. 30 something support analyst. obbsessed with music. www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk.. a lo-tech website easier to maintain. too many genres hit the spot to isolate specifics, but to start - on- u sound,turntablism,indie rock, foetus, mo-wax,fax the usual suspects basically. time consumed by fatherhood and so music is third in priorities.thankyou

hello, last weekend a strange man in a pub told me that i should go to freaky trigger, and i never ever ignore the advice of strange men in pubs. they know too much.

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.

Age: 28 Location: Baltimore, MD, USA

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.

maura mae deedy, 19, short pixie hair with wispy bangs.

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.

I'm a 38 year old, almost completely asocial ex-junkie living close to the ass end of the world. (Does that make me sound cool?) ('cause it's meant to).

writer now and then first in UK to interview youssou n'dour inadvertently outed the late billy mackenzie as bald attended ut's last ever show first to develop theory that daphne and celeste's appearance on never mind the buzzcocks was this millennium's answer to the sex pistols and bill grundy (it was certainly funnier) favourite movie: mabaroshi favourite inexplicable use of a smiths song: "how soon is now" as themetune to charmed favourite improv guitarist: john russell favourite member of hear'say: myleene, obviously

A 33 year old news desk editor for a weekly news magazine based here in New York City and freelance writer on the side. LOVES: KILLING JOKE, Cop Shoot Cop, Firewater, Gang of Four, the Stranglers, Iggy & the Stooges, Buzzcocks, (vintage) Kiss, Motorhead, XTC, Julian Cope, Pussy Galore, Skeleton Key, the Ramones, Television, Jeff Buckley, lots of old metal and (sheepishly) old goth, Gavin Friday, Talk Talk, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Cocteau Twins, Massive Attack, Robyn Hitchcock, the Modern Lovers, Velvet Underground, (vintage) Devo, Berlin-era Bowie, classic American hardcore (Minor Threat, MDC, Circle Jerks, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys), the Wonder Stuff, (vintage) Alice Cooper, Kraftwerk, Laika, This Mortal Coil, Prong, the Saints, Public Image Ltd., and loads more.

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.

AGE33, SOLD/GOT RID OF ALL MY RECORD COLLECTION DURING 1999, HAVEN'T BOUGHT ANYTHING ELSE SINCE BUT LISTEN TO LOADSA MUSIC WHEN OUT + ABOUT,HOMEMADE CD'S FROM DODGY BANDS. USED TO READ MELODY MAKER IN LATE 80'S, THEN THE WIRE IN THE 90'S NOW RELY ON WORD OF MOUTH. MY TASTES WENT FROM ROCK>METAL>INDIE>DUBINDUSTRIALTECHNOHIPHOPAMBIENTJAZZetc Before deciding I needed freedom from choice. . .

I like hearing music unannounced best of all - on a dance-floor, from a turn of the dial, in a lift, on random shuffle.

I live in London where I once snogged Billy Mackenzie.

guy, you've probably made tom more jealous than you'll ever know. ;)

should have done this ages ago i guess...

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

This is my 100th ILM posting, so it seems appropriate to splash my baby-bio all over this thread at last.

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".

I've barely said a word, but I've been reading I Love M for some time. I usually join parties just as everyone's yawning and thinking about bed, but this one still seems to be going strong, and what a vibrant, thoughtful place this is. I was about to mail saying "I'm older than all of you!" which has become something of a self-denigrating personal mantra recently, but I'm thrilled to see I'm not the oldest. Bless you. This also means that I can't fall back on "hey I'm old and I'm not listening to Eric Clapton and moaning how great music was in 1978!" and feeling I deserve some sort of Longevity Award. Brave New World...

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.

Duane wrote: living close to the ass end of the world

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.

I remember reading some of the folks here on a.m.a. way back in the day. Anyway, I am always looking for people to talk music with and especially to tip me off on anything good that's come out. Especially since I graduated last year and fell out of the college radio loop. Ah, but I start my new show at my graduate school (Sarah Lawrence) next week. Lately I have been digging Sigur Ros (who's show sold out in 3 minutes today grrr), Clinic, Delgados, Damien Jurado, Richard Buckner, the Czars, New Year... And I just got tickets to see Grandaddy and Autechre. So that is good.

when i said that thing about the ass end of the world, i wasn't trying to give this place a bad-rap. i live here 'cause I like it here.
The effect I was going for was more like, I live a long way from the percieved cultural centres of the world because cities are full of fraudulent shit that I'm trying to leave behind & rise above.
You know, a romantic distortion of the truth to (like I said) make myself seem really cool.

― D."Getting it together in the country" Zarakov, Saturday, 14 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Time to stop them damn italics.

I don't even know how to start them.

oops,sorry 'bout that.

Former music magazine editor, former men's lifestyle magazine editor, former adult magazine editor. Looking for something new to become former in. Very occasional freelance writer. Last online piece: www.villagevoice.com/issues/0104/palmer.shtml. Just turned 30. I find posting to I Love Music quite therapeutic. So excuse me if I often sound like I'm talking to myself.

I'm 25 unfortunately. At present I'm in the musical backwater that is Australia, where Leanne Rimes, Powderfinger and Crazy Town rule the airwaves.Out here on a work visa, actually from Liverpool. Got into house and techno in 1987 via the much travelled route of M/A/R/R/S through Chicago, (the city not the group) into Detroit, and these were the holy grails for me in my formative years: stuff like 'Illusion' R-Tyme; 'Promised Land' Joe Smooth; early Mr Fingers,Reese,Knuckles and followed its developments VERY closely up to and including today. Still my first love, but now I'm also getting more and more excited by the stuff many music writers dismiss as light and insubstantial, you know, the records which get discussed a lot on this site: Max Martin style pop, r+b, U.K garage. Good songs, out of this world, futuristic production. Proper shiny, visceral, stimulating music. This stuff is about making people actually ENJOY music, as well as apreciate it. A quick list of favourites: Carl Craig, Timbaland, 'I Feel Love', 'Ain't Nobody', 'Wichita Lineman', Daft Punk, Bola, Boards of Canada, Britney, Neil Young, Pepe Bradock, early PSB, all BSB, 'Technique', Rakim, UR, MAW, '76.14' etc.etc.etc.

K-reg

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

I also am Ian Moore. I got fed up with the Pihkalboy name when it became apparent that no one can spell it.

Such miserable weather!

"The greatest writer the music press never had." "Crack-brained old acidhead." "Decrepit ex-child prodigy." These are just some of the things which have been said about Marcello Carlin. An Italian- Scottish hybrid, Marcello's interest in music was galvanised by his parents taking him to see "Mary Poppins" at the George Cinema, Bellshill, at the age of nine months, and tapes of him atonally bawling his way through "Let's Go Fly A Kite" still exist. Similarly early exposure to his late father's extensive modern jazz and contemporary classical record collection helped to nurture his passions. In the 1980s he came to Oxford to study English Language and Literature; contemporaries of his included Simon Reynolds, David Stubbs and Stewart Lee. Since then he has led a full and varied life divided between Oxford and London and continues to maintain a highly successful career (which is entirely unconnected to music). To music press veterans he is probably best remembered for his controversial but lucidly argued polemics which appeared regularly in the Melody Maker letters page; indeed he holds the record for most "Letter of the Week" awards in that formerly august journal, but has never sought to become a music journalist (short answer to the question "why not?" - IPC freelance rates). But his correspondence has also infrequently appeared in the Guardian, the Independent, the Wire, Mojo, Uncut, Coda, Downbeat, Literary Review and London Review of Books. He supposedly appears in "High Fidelity" (the book, not the film) as the chap in the suit who asks for the theme tune to "Fireball XL5" (which indeed he did once do in the late Rock On Records in Camden which was the acknowledged model for Championship Vinyl) but much prefers the writings of Ian Penman, Paul Morley and Iain Sinclair (and Ray's Jazz Shop and Intoxica). If he could overcome his minor social affectations, such as continually talking about himself in the third person as if he were Wyndham bleeding Lewis, then he still has the potential to become a fully-rounded and sociable human being.

Tracer Hand, 26, born in Tennessee. Killt me a bar when I was only 3. Have lived in Chicago, Glasgow, Providence, 46th St. Manhattan, now Park Slope. I get traxxy for the dexxxy and I end up seeing a bunch of of my friends' bands, like Dare Diablo, Itchy Trigger Finger, and Slut 'Em Go.

I play sad country ballads to myself on guitar because nobody else can stand it. Which goes for most of my records too.

38 years old, canadian living in california for the last 4 years. getting pretty sick of it, too. came to ILM via the great I Hate Music site, which I think I found through a link on a site about The Fall. I enjoy reading this stuff, even though much of it is about current British Pop, which I don't hear much of over here, and, to tell you the truth, am not very excited by the sound of. But I like the writing on this site, and the debates. I currently like a lot of older US and British garage rock stuff (yeah, the Nuggets box, and more than a few others), some of the current US country rock stuff (whiskeytown, etc), punkrock (ramones, buzzcocks, more ramones), rockabilly, 40s and 50s R&B, drony psychedlic stuff like Spiritualized, african pop (franco, four brothers, prince nico mbarga), older reggae (desmond dekker, etc), some of the better spanish-speaking rock (manu chao, los fabulosos cadillacs), oddball rock (the fall, captain beefheart, the grifters) and a bunch of other stuff. I used to do community radio shows in Ottawa, Canada for years, and am a recovering music junkie. Still buy about 10 LPs a month, which is quite a few less than I used to.

Hey there, I live in Chicago; next month I'll turn 28. For money, I work for a publishing company and currently edit a soccer magazine. I'm also an editor for could-be magazine, webzine StopSmiling, the print version of which should be back on newsstands in June. Ooh. Aah.

I confess: I really am Geri Halliwell. Sorry.

I'm new. I like lots of music. I live in Canada. Shame on this site for giving me yet another way to watch my oh so budding youth slide past. oh...i'm 23 and a guy.

still 33, was brought to you by creative e-mailing, boxes within boxes, blah blah . off on my travels....

31, single, music geek lawyer whose "lawyerly" work has nothing to do with music or the entertainment industry (and who likes it that way). Born and raised around Princeton, currently living in Hoboken and working in midtown Manhattan, and saddled with a silly and unpronounceable ethnic name.

Will tell more maybe later. Just hanging out for now, taking it all in.

Scott Bassett - 31 years old, white. From Middlesbrough but grew up in Lagos, Nigeria where I regularly got to see King Sunny Ade play at the local Ikoyi Club and through that developed a love of African music (which no one seems to mention on this site). Now living in Surrey where I do computer shit for the NHS (except when I'm reading ILM instead which is quite often - now for instance). Love: Louis Jordan, the Stooges, Mekons, James Carter, Kinks, Archers of Loaf, Minutemen, James Brown, George Jones, Unholy Modal Rounders, Le Tigre (the album), Trailer Bride, the Go-Betweens and Miles. Hate: the current crop of whiny Brit bands - Coldplay, Travis et al. Also hated Radiohead until I heard Kid A.