Introduce Yourselves!

After lurking here for a few months I've decided to start posting, as this is a forum where I can actually learn a thing or two and actually discuss music--the other forums I've been on have devolved into pissing matches over proving how cool and obscure the music you listen to is.

I'm a huge krautrock/psych-rock/folk/noise fan, but in the past 2 years I've gotten caught into miminal techno and cosmic disco stuff (hosting an electronic music show throughout college made this inevitable, I suppose).

I figure, where the music crits are is where I'll learn the most.

also, I live in Atlanta which is in dire need of more deep house and minimal...even the Justices and MSTRKRFTs of the world don't come to town frequently, so the city is flooded with poor-man's Diplos and electro DJs.

the other forums I've been on have devolved into pissing matches over proving how cool and obscure the music you listen to is

If you've been here for a while you surely have noticed that here too! Anyway, welcome welcome.

oh come on ned, this place is oodles better than most others. even if it sucks donkey dick.

Sheesh, I'm years - YEARS! - overdue for doing this.

Hello, I'm Mike. I'm 45 years old, I'm British, and I'm based in Nottingham during the week and a village in the Derbyshire Peak District at weekends. I've been partnered since 1985, and legally man-on-man hitched since 2006. I work variously as an IT consultant (for the money) and as a freelance music journalist (for the love, and for the pathetic reflected glory of being a Confidante To The Stars). I've written for Stylus, Slate and Time Out London, but my regular gig is with my local paper, the Nottingham Evening Post. I review one or two live shows a week, and I bag phone interviews every couple of weeks or so.

I started blogging in 2001 and made my first posting to ILM a few weeks later, but didn't start hanging out here regularly until 2004. My ILM claim to fame was running the 1000 UK Number Ones poll in early 2005, but I generally keep a low profile around here. (You're all awfully clever, and I know my place.)

I've been "following the charts" since 1971, ever since "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" turned me on to rock and roll. I've been buying albums since 1973, my first purchase being The Beatles 1967-70. My last purchases were the Black Mountain, Beirut and Ungdomskulen albums, and I'll be buying Vampire Weekend at lunchtime.

History of musical interests as follows: The Sweet -> Slade -> Queen -> Yes -> Gong -> Kevin Ayers -> Eddie & The Hot Rods -> Clash/Damned/Pistols/Buzzcocks/Adverts/X-Ray Spex/Gen X/Slits/Banshees -> Devo/Pere Ubu -> Undertones -> Cure -> Blockheads/Costello/Blondie -> DISCO!!! -> Orange Juice -> ABC -> Bobby O/Patrick Cowley -> early electro -> Arthur Baker/John Robie -> New Order -> Smiths -> Frankie/Bronski/PSB -> Prince/Madonna -> James Brown/Aretha -> the New Authenticity! (whoops) -> Jam/Lewis -> Def Jam -> Chicago house -> dance music GOOD, guitar music BORING (club DJ from 86 to 89) -> acid house -> deep house/garage -> Soul II Soul/rare groove/jazz-funk/boogie -> snotty soulboy phase, causing me to miss rave entirely (double whoops) -> acid jazz/Talkin' Loud/Dorado -> Nirvana/Pixies/Sonic Youth/Teenage Fanclub (guitars GOOD AGAIN, thank you Volume/Select) -> Suede/Bjork/Saint Etienne -> Orbital/Leftfield -> handbag/hardbag/nu-NRG -> midlife crisis mad-fer-it tops-off Tradebabe phase -> Tony De Vit/Ian M/Tinrib/Reactivate -> Rollo & Sister Bliss/Faithless/Motiv8 -> Tribal Gathering/Oasis at Knebworth -> and I had a GREAT Britpop, thank you for asking -> nu classic soul/D'Angelo/Destinys Child/Kelis -> UK garage/2-step -> abandon clubbing in favour of newly resurgent live music circuit -> electroclash/early Scissor Sisters -> oh yeah, EUROVISION! -> Neil Diamond/Johnny Cash/Leonard Cohen/Brian Wilson -> Church Of Me (& spin-offs thereof) -> Fluxblog/Said The Gramophone/Music For Robots/Benn Loxo Du Taccu -> Mali/Senegal/Tuareg/Griot -> Cuba/Omara/Cesaria/Mariza -> British folk -> Hidden Cameras/White Stripes/Streets/Franz Ferdinand -> The Knife/Hot Chip/CSS -> Rufus Wainwright/Antony Hegarty/Joan As Policewoman -> LCD Soundsystem/Good Bad & Queen/Los Campesinos/Battles/Burial -> British Sea Power/Vampire Weekend -> ?????

Hello.

Yo.

been here since the greenspun days in various guises
i work for at&t and make shitty downtempo/elevator music in my spare time.
been an aspiring dj for awhile but always end up spending money on records instead of a 2nd turntable
just moved back to the bay area, love to dance but have no real dancing friends yet

Hey, I'm Stewart, a long time worker-lurker from a weird small town in Southern Minnesota. I'm bonkers over there being a forum where people can talk about The Shadow Ring, A.R. Kane and Brad Paisley without being too sneered at. It seems like someone could feasibly start a successful thread about Virgin Steele if he or she so desired (though I'll leave it to someone else). I think ILX's most underrated thread is "United Arab Amirites". Anyway, I probably I won't post too much; it just seems courteous for the guy who's been gawking in the corner all night to introduce himself and be a tad less creepy.

Big LURKS aka ?

Hey guys, I

Stewart=my friend.

OBD---wha?

i'm charlie
25
i like the beatles, the rolling stones and radiohead

Greets, Charlie!

:)
hola, right back

Hulloo, Charlie

I like a bit o' Teh Beatles & Them Rolling Stones too. And even a weeny bit o'Radiohead.
As for being 25, huh, my son'll be that age inna coupla months).

P.S. That wurst-like snaky thingy in the FREE HUGS! post upthread (Friday, 25 January 2008) musta be the peculiarest pictureosity posted on this thread, no ?

i'm 25, but have a few years on lj 'parrently

sup guys!

Oh dear missed this thread completely when I first joined ILM last year. Swedish, 29, female, working as medical physicist at a radiation therapy clinic. Bought Behaviour in 1990 (and in some pathetic way I consider this one of the most important things I have ever done, since it clearly made even more of an outsider, not liking Bob Marley and Guns N'Roses) and have been a massive PSB fan ever since. Did spend 2 years of my youth dressed in black listening to The Cure. Haven't put on a record of them since unfortunately. After that it was mostly Suede, St Etienne and Blur. Have a lot to thank Swedish music journalist Andres Lokko for, even though I would never admit to agreeing with him. Used to keep up with all the new cool stuff, but these days I rarely bother. Have a music taste of a 45 year old white man apparently, listens obsessively to Talk Talk, Kate Bush and David Sylvian-related stuff (everything but Japan really). Do NOT think Talk Talk should do some crap reunion tour, but wishes more than anything that Mark Hollis would bless us with a new solo album.
Favourite live band: JSBX. Dances to: Northern soul and house. When drunk any 80's classic will do.

I'm Dave, I'm 28, and I regret the alias 'gnarly sceptre'. I've been making the odd post here and there under a variety of aliases here for a few years, but I think I still qualify as a lurker.

My favourite record is always my most recent mix-tape, with the latest containing stuff by Pink Fairies, Wolfgang Dauner, The Negatives (the Bradford new wavers), Rhythm Methodists, Gino Soccio, Laser Pace (thank you!), FNU Ronnies, Chrome, Deutsch Nepal (the other Deutsch Nepal), SPK, R.D. Burman, The Cool Notes, Pastels, Game Theory, Great Plains, Tommy Jay, Municipal Waste, Detention... yadda yadda.

I'm also saddened by the lack of Kenne Highland love.

I've amassed a pretty decent sized collection of obscuro z-grade VHS flicks (post-apocalyptic/dystopian Mad Max rip offs, sub-Conan barbarian yarns, slashers, etc) which I intend to harvest for a Dutch Oven Records style cassette release. I'm a lazy bastard though, and I hate that somebody will beat me to making the Intruder soundtrack (the Indonesian one, not the Defoe one) a collector classic.

Welcome welcome.

Hey! The Los Llamarada singer was here!!

About time I said something here. I'm MacDara, 28, male, from Dublin. I've been aware of ILX for a few years, commented once or twice, but only took to regularly following the threads a year or so ago, when the Mike Watt List on Yahoo Groups fizzled out. I work in newspaper production -- sadly not a reviewer-type writer guy yet.

My favourite band is the Minutemen; my favourite album is 'The Punch Line'. If I had a time machine, I'd travel back to when SST Records was still a going concern and buy up the entire catalogue (even the crap stuff). Besides that, and my partiality to grindcore, my tastes are all over the place.

Billy!

Roddy!

Mikey!

Jim!

class.

Always good to get more Irish posters on here!

Sorry, kneejerk response to the thread title, not to MacDara's post. Welcome.

If I had a time machine, I'd travel back to when SST Records was still a going concern and buy up the entire catalogue (even the crap stuff).

I bought most of this stuff at the time. Wouldn't recommend it.

I remember a SWA cassette as being particularly not worth my $7.

What grindcore do you like, man?

I started with early Napalm Death, but moved onto Nasum after a guy I used to work with (a drummer in a grind band, incidentally) leant me 'Human 2.0'. After that, there was Carcass, AxCx, Agoraphobic Nosebleed/Pig Destroyer, Discordance Axis, Rotten Sound, etc. I dig some powerviolence stuff too (I picked up a few Slap-A-Ham discs when the label was liquidating). But goregrind isn't my thing (early Carcass excepted).

hang on, how many Irish people are there on here?

Me, and?

there's a lot more

I'm sure there are. We're everywhere.

hi all, i'm messiah wannabe. i'm an american living in indonesia, where i have a band, soulflip (we have a website, soulflip.com, go figure) we mix traditional indonesian classical music and dance with electronic/dj stuff. i actually get paid to do this, which i am perhaps overly proud of. i'm also curently producing an album with an indonesian rapper - he's already signed to a national label, so if things go well i may finally realize my lifelong dream of becoming an asian pop star. wish me luck.

i mostly like the kind of rap you hear on the radio, electro and minimal house, and the beatles. but i used to listen to all kinds of stuff, and now that i have a decent interweb connection i intend to start listening to all kinds of stuff once again.

-mw

ps. "I'm 33, and I grew up listening to punk and hardcore. In 1989, at 15, I started booking bands and running a fanzine in CT (Fun With Cows). I booked Neurosis, Green Day, Born Against, Nation of Ulysses"

the former bass player for nation of ulysses lives in bali now, where he works as a dj specializing in disco and classic house tunes. he's quite good!

This is all very interesting! We must clearly make Indonesia the next nexus point for ILX conquest of the world. Or something.

d'you ever play in jakarta?

"This is all very interesting! We must clearly make Indonesia the next nexus point for ILX conquest of the world. Or something."

indonesia's bountiful natural resources (read: good surf, asian chicks) make it a natural target, general.

"d'you ever play in jakarta?"

every once in a while (ok, three times last year, for the first time since we moved to indonesia) i should actually be going there next week to meet with the record company, hopefully. why, you live round there?

i do not, but my best friend and his wife do and would probably be interested in seeing you

cool :)

i wont be playing with my band this time, but feel free to pass on our url...

they could always come see us in bali, jakarta people seem to come here with alarming frequency.

welcome! here are some username threads as mentioned earlier, if you ever need to control-f somebody:

OK so uh this is where you explain to us who you actually are because yr new username is a little cryptic

ILX2 NEW USERNAME TRANSLATOR COMPENDIUM

well, you're not on either thread apparently, so i'll just have to call you sleeve.

thanks sleeve!

you know the funny thing about those threads is that all the regulars are confused as well. or lying. they do have some useful info, though.

i don't thinks that's really the funny thing about those threads

hang on, how many Irish people are there on here?

-- I know, right?, Thursday, 5 June 2008 23:12

There are a few more than previous thought. Lurkers mainly.

Did you spot the missing 'ly'? Good for you!

My name is Jens and i´m 20 yrs and living in Sweden. I´m currently study at a university, Gender issues.

current favourite songs: billie ray martin - "your loving arms", the gerbils - "crayon box", throw that beat in the garbagecan! - "a kiss from you", the go-betweens - "people say", lil kim - "suck my dick", television personalities - "favourite films", kicking giant - "fuck the rules" bratmobile - "cool schmool" ´lew kirton - "heaven in the afternoon" sea & cake - "afternoon speaker"

favourite bands: erics trip, jonathan richman/modern lovers, daniel johnston, b&s, tindersticks, skinned teen, field mice & other sarah stuff, lou barlow stuff, noise addict, helen love, teen anthems.

i don´t like: most jazz stuff (that i´ve heard), metal, too cheesy new romantic...well i like most stuff. oasis, stones (except one or two songs) the who, phillysoul, westcoast hiphop, FUNK....

-- Jens, Monday, 5 February 2001 01:00 (7 years ago) Link

this is mr Lekman isn't it?