Happy Birthday ILX

No problem Tom, it's your baby after all. I'd be like some distant relative sneaking in to the christening photo.

So in celebration, I should drink a fifth. It's only fitting.

Glad someone mentioned the solo albs - Vega's 'Deuce Avenue', a weird, paranoid mix of vocal and keyboard samples, is particularly good. The third Suicide album ('A Way of Life'?) also has its moments, and I know there's a fourth one which I've never heard. Against this, I saw Suicide a few years back and they sounded pretty lame - time and technology had caught up with them, and they were producing a kind of post-industrial funk that reminded me of nothing so much as Meat Beat Manifesto and their ilk. Martin Rev was a pretty funny performer though. So, on the whole, classic.
-- Andrew (andrew.littlefiel...), April 4th, 2001.

"You've all done very well"

don't redlorryyellowlorry, be snappy

i don't remember growing older
when did they

when did ile get to be such a monster
when did ilm get known to all

wasn't it just yesterday
when they were small

sunrise, sunset
sunrise, sunset
swiftly flow the days
seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers
blossoming even as we gaze

sunrise, sunset
sunrise, sunset
swiftly flow the years
one season following another
laden with happiness and tears

*sniff*

just kidding! happy b'day ILM

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And yes, reading about hearing "Bombs Over Baghdad" for the first time seems the best way to celebrate ILM's fifth.

(hbilm!)

Hey-ooooooooo

Woah, it's almost ILX bday time.

This thread was started on the first day I was at college. Freshman year. Insane.

That's cute. So I was right that you graduated this year, ksh?

Yeah, this May!

Welcome to ILE, big man.

I think this is still on ILM, Hoos?

The idea of this place being ten years old next year is a little nuts.

Yeah, we're on ILM.

Yeah, Ned. What's weird is thinking that I've been around for nearly 75% of the board's existence.

I was there since day 1! So was Dan and DJ Martian, I think.

Looks like Tim Finney and Alba and Sundar and Ally all posted in the first week as well.

Does Tom even still post here anymore?

Well that's embarassing.

xpost Very rarely, but he did a few days ago:

This is an interesting topic for me cos I just finished a big "decade in pop" essay piece for P4K (look out for it next thursday 'popism' fans)

Two things seem obvious to me. 1. No music now is as popular as some music used to be. 2. Some music now is still a hell of a lot more popular than other music now. I don't think (1) means (2) isn't interesting.

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he posts as "cankles" these days

All is love, JS.

Yeah, Tom checks in here and there but he's mostly busy with Freaky Trigger, Pitchfork, his regular job and raising his kids. Not necessarily in that order.

Thanks, jaymc & Ned. Still learning who's who.

the "name that song/mp3" game is one of my earlier FT/ILM memories.

I was there...that first day ILM started.

And I can hear the drums now.

also remember Ned and Dan schooling me on wax trax era industrial in a.m.a., just as I was feeling like i was gonna drop mad knowledge. still bitter.

The B.C. era, if you like.

Oh, I meant to mention you, Mark!

But unlike almost everyone else in those early months, I didn't know anyone from Usenet. Somehow I started reading Freaky Trigger/NYLPM a few months before, and then a post mentioned the board.

So we've about a year to organise that big 10th anniversary WorldFAP then?

TuomasFAPWAF will have to do.

Hmm, search tells me my first ILM post was in December of 2001, but that was by an a-hole who liked to go around pretending to be other people. I actually showed up in May of 2002 to call shenanigans, and have hung around ever since (originally posting with my real name). "Johnny Fever" was born in September of 2003.

I take this place for granted most of the time, but I've really had a good time here the last seven years. And I've learned a hell of a lot.

Happy birthday you dear old thing. And a massive thankyou to Keith & the backroom people for making everything so much smoother and more usable without losing its essence at all.

(I find ILM too addictive and tempting to even lurk mostly - I rely on people to pass the good stuff on - but I've been enjoying the P2K reaction threads.)

The idea of this place being ten years old next year is a little big nuts.

The idea of this place being ten years old next year is a little big nuts cajones.

T**t, the Spanish Balt.

Happy Gonads to ya too, Sir!

Sheez, everybody's got an August birthday (mine's tomorrow)

I was still young when I found out about this place ! But ILX has aged a lot better than me.

But ILX has aged a lot better than me.

debateable.

10 bloody years.
i think i first found this place by accident about 9 years ago.
not sure i should celebrate it, gien this thing has at times nearly lost me my job.
of course, i jest. bravo to all those that keep the machines a ticking.

Here from very nearly the beginning - I posted on a thread called The UK Music Press: Has It Ever Been Good? on Aug 31, 2000. It wasn't a very good post but Stevie T made a better one immediately afterwards to which I responded "I agree with Stevie". I should have mostly stuck with the latter approach.

Needs Stevie to say something first though.

Not really.

I agree with Stevie and Michael Jones.

also remember Ned and Dan schooling me on wax trax era industrial in a.m.a., just as I was feeling like i was gonna drop mad knowledge. still bitter.

hahaha good times

I was scanning back through AMA via Google Groups a few years ago and realized exactly how many of those folks made the jump over here; it was kind of frightening! (Also made me wonder what happened to folks like ML Compton and Mark Bartlam.) I also stumbled across what was probably my first Usenet post, back in September 1991 on rec.music.industrial... and it was answered by donut bitch!

ML's still around, just saw him earlier this year at Sparks.

About the only a.m.a. regulars who never turned up besides ML and Mark were Persi and G*ndola B*b.

hahaha oh the reflexive googleproofing

Did JackieBlue come over here, too?

...hmm, not sure. Kris and Otis did for a while.

I love it when J. pops out of lurkerdom once every 14 months!

okay enough, we're acting worse than Sinister here

I was going to say!

What's a bach party btw?

It's where penises are served, duh.

see here:

what do you look like: August 2009

Johann Sebastian penises or Carl Philip Emmanuel's?

(oh, ex-post-penis)

tarrr

I seem to have posted as early as March 01, although I was lurking for a few months before then. It looks like there was at least one other toby around then, though, who posted more than me.

well, friends, more than three years on this board. i am older, wiser, gayer, and infinitely more obsessed with music. thanks for ruining and making my life at the same time.!!

I have less hair, more gut, and more debt since I have been here. Thanks, ILX!

ILX turns 10 in a couple of weeks. How shall we celebrate?

Greatest hits tour. Let's revisit tipping and pizzas while having a beatles opo

Let's all meet up at NYC ATP.

http://mynokiablog.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/cake.jpg?w=533&h=400

Whoa! If I feel old after having posted here for 7,5 years, I wonder how the people who were here from the beginning feel? Are there even many of those left? All I can think of is Dan, Ned, and Kate.

Looking at threads from ILX's first month, I see Sundar, Tim F., Nicole, Michael Jones, Mark R., Alba.

I showed up in 2002, became Johnny Fever in 2003, and I apologize for all the rest. Happy Birthday ILX!

Appropriate that Alba was there at the dawn of ILX and that Sundar was there for that beautiful event.

The person who first dragged me onto ILX (Elvis Telecom) is still posting. I kind of hate him for ruining my life.

(ha ha, not really.)

Yeah, I don't see how anyone can hate Elvis Telecom.

happy 10th ILX!

happy decade, ilx!

Jeez I've only been here since Summer 2006, I feel like such a babby.

i've been here 8 years. lucky you guys!

Nine for me. It was only recently that I started feeling like an old regular.

Yeah, I still feel like a n00b after eight years.

I had a quick look earlier and couldn't find any birthday threads. Now I see there are two. This is obviously what stopping posting regularly has done to me (i.e. made me into some kind of blind-ass dick).

Anyway. Was it 2004 I started posting here? It must have been. I'm genuinely not sure how I ever found the time, but I still keep saying I'll make an inglorious and unnoticed return one day.

Happy birthday, ILX. Felicitations, ILXors.

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seven and a half years "on" here for me. oh woe.

Man, I've been around for a while, haven't I? (Though not much lately.)

I first posted at the back end of 2001, and I've been a regular since, ooh, early 2004 probably? Happy birthday ILX!

Time for another look at It's the ILE Trivia quiz!

nine years of my life. good lord.

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/images/a/6343.jpg
A little older, a little more confused

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3020/2937791157_759ef88a43.jpg

happy birthday ILX! ive enjoyable wasted countless hours of my last six and a half years here, and made some really really sincerely great friends.

nine years of my life. good lord.

― strongohulkingtonsghost, Thursday, 26 August 2010 18:10 (3 hours ago)

I couldn't have put it better! I'm amazed, to be honest.

Been here since day 1, I s'pose. It's been sidereal.

happy birthday! don't post as much as I used to, but will always have an ILX place in my heart

TEN!

I've just picked up some champagne and am looking forward to celebrating ten years of ILX and nine years of me wasting my life and annoying everyone on it.

That quiz, I know one, have a reasonable guess at two, the rest I have no idea.

Morning all.

Over the last year I’ve been content to be a very occasional lurker and even more occasional poster. The preceding eight years certainly had their ups and downs, and yes, if I had them over again I wouldn’t have said maybe 98% of what I did say here, but then I think about where I might have ended up if not for the roads, actual and otherwise, which ILX opened up for me. I spent most of my time here as a grieving widower and/or confused, furiously self-projecting fuck-up but all I can do is thank everyone who did stand by me and/or stand up for me when things were at their worst. These days I twitter, comment on Popular and blog on Then Play Long and that’s enough for me. Just over nine years since I thought life was over for good, I find myself back in the life I used to have before I came to ILX, before ILX even existed, with the benefit of not-making-these-mistakes-again wisdom, and that’s fine by me. But without ILX I doubt I’d ever have found my way back home.

All good wishes to everyone on ILX, even (especially!) if they can’t stand me, and enjoy the next ten years, as I’m sure I will.

Hey Marcello :)

And happy 10 years y'all! Wow, I can't believe even I've been here seven and a half years now and I felt like I was a latecomer to the borads. It's been a great ride - I've come and gone from other forums, but this place has always stuck with me like a big, bad felafel.

Huzzah!

Hi everyone and happy birthday ILX. Sorry I missed the FAP (as per). Here's to the future!

Awkward air-kisses and embarrassed man-hugs to one and all.

(and hi Marcello - hope things are going well for you!)

Wow, my first post was on the 11 March 2001. I don't just feel old, I'm trying to justify what I've been doing with my life these last 9 and a half years.

happy birfday ilx
wow, tho dont post that often nowadays just checked and abt 8 years since first post, where did the time go?

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Arts_/gallery/2007/01/10/morrissey460.jpg
Where did the years go? Why did the years go?

About 'justifying' time spent here and all (and don't worry dog latin, I'm not singling you out or anything!):

In a segment of the interview series I did with Scott Woods the other month I predicted there would be some 'argh where did the time go' handwringing of sorts -- not the most radical of predictions and I'm sure a number of posts like that are functioning more in a sense of 'wow time did fly' or light humor rather than deep angst or anything like that.

I'd simply suggest this -- ILX functions as a constantly archived mass conversation, but at base is just that, a conversation. It is no more something to justify than the conversations we all have with others who inspire, amuse, engage or even annoy us in any number of contexts. For some it's a necessary outlet when no other one seems available, for others it's just part of how we communicate with others in general, there's no one answer.

And as such, these conversations are part of how we learn and reflect and act, continually. The archiving may be new in terms of human history, the many distances crossed similarly, but it is simply a continuing of that which has been a hallmark of language and humanity in general. It's only something to justify, or a waste of time, if you think it needs to be.

There are plenty of things I've regretted saying or writing or thinking over all my years on this planet, there's plenty of things I'm proud of. There are arguments and discussions I wish I hadn't been caught up in, there were others I was thrilled by and wished wouldn't end. ILX is just a subset of that -- and on balance, it's a damned good one, a resource, a comfort zone, a chance to connect, more besides. People stay in conversations and discussions, people leave them, people leave and return and leave...that's no different from the rest of life. Neither are the sometimes wonderfully ridiculous in-jokes.

I think that's all the justification anyone needs, really.

well said hippy ; )

That's well-spoken hippy to you, punk.

The tressed one speaks great wisdom that is balm to the soul of the weary poster.

good post, Marcello

(and Ned, too -- seconding cozen with the "well said")

Hello Marcello. Hope things are good with you.

Just over nine years since I thought life was over for good, I find myself back in the life I used to have before I came to ILX, before ILX even existed, with the benefit of not-making-these-mistakes-again wisdom, and that’s fine by me

very pleased to read this. hope you're well.

also: happy birthday, ilx.

1st post was 3rd December, 2000. good god. happy birthday ilx.

Don't forget.. on August 26th 2000, 15 years ago today ILM started

musical memory jogger of that year, that was then...

rym top albums of 2000
https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/2000

rym top singles of 2000
https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/single/2000

aw quinceañera

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Happy BDay ILX ...

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Happy birthday ILX!

i wish i remember what brought me here in 2001

I can't remember what brought me here, but I know it took me ages to register.

I came to ILX for the waters