Let an EXCELSIOR be an EXCELSIOR, and let sleeping LOLS lie

lol awesome

haha

lol

guys i feel like hitler but don't post about easter candy on this thread or i will have you transported to a camp

― kim tim jim investor (harbl), Saturday, March 10, 2012 2:37 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

<3

if you don't love r&b i don't know wtf went wrong with your life really

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:48 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Funny because true.

more like pvmic

<3 this

lex otm

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzwzm5jptk1qbn5iyo1_500.gif

*pats self on back along with everyone else*

That was your back I was patting?

the lex, famous for his love of fun and appreciation of all forms of music

The Tyranny of Humour R&B

No joke I was JUST thinking this morning in the shower how I really dislike pretty much all R&B I know....

grand pronouncements about how the kind of music you like really means that much about who you are as a person are barfffff

if you don't love meaningless generalizations about people based on an extremely narrow spectrum of their personal tastes i don't know wtf went wrong with your life really

guys i'm in a hurry cd somebody just paste the video for Cameo's "Back and Forth" in here please, cheers

What went wrong in my life w/r/t R&B was that I was raised in the backwoods.

grand pronouncements about how the kind of music you like really means that much about who you are as a person are barfffff

― a little tiny crunk person (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, March 13, 2012 2:38 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They do say something a little bit sad about the adult making them, sort of like over-obsessiveness with a sports team.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2eU2CG3WN8&ob=av2e

whoever doesn't love this is a fucking scoundrel

lol @ n/a

whoever doesn't love this is a fucking scoundrel

I don't *feel* like a scoundrel....

But it would be hard to find music I hate more.

scoundrel is such a good word

wastrel is good too
maybe better

rapscallion

I grew up in the boonies (different boonies, granted) too and still enjoy some R&B. Not anything made in the last 15 years, though.

http://www.vesivus.com/swminis/pics/BH_Card_Han_Solo__Scoundrel_07.jpg

ooh wait KNAVE

What went wrong in my life w/r/t R&B was that I was raised in the backwoods.

― free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Tuesday, March 13, 2012 1:42 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was it on a farm in alabama?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_LQ4_MhDu4

I grew up in the boonies (different boonies, granted) too and still enjoy some R&B. Not anything made in the last 15 years, though.

"No Diggity" was made in the last 15 years, as were "Dance With Me" and "Peaches and Cream".

I grew up along the Canadian border in Minnesota and Montana. There was no rhythm up there b/c it froze up and got rusty from the salt.

haha

Patches was R&B's riposte to Honey by Bobby Goldsboro.

I did once watch an "Unsolved Mysteries" episode set there. I think it was the one about a whole town that had never heard R&B.

I grew up along the Canadian border in Minnesota and Montana. There was no rhythm up there b/c it froze up and got rusty from the salt.

― free societies must let drunken gay Texans have sex (Je55e), Tuesday, March 13, 2012 1:56 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

word? what town?

How are they going to distinguish real 4G when it becomes available?

― everything else is secondary (Lee626)

4RealG

― Ned Raggett

"No Diggity" was made in the last 15 years, as were "Dance With Me" and "Peaches and Cream".

― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Tuesday, March 13, 2012 1:54 PM (2 minutes ago)

Oops, you're right. 2001-ish is about my cut off date. By the time Amerie's "1 Thing" had come out my sisters' and my taste in music were no longer identical.

i definitely had a subtle-but-total change of hearing on modern r&b since i was a teenager, even 20-sth. i can't even explain when or why it happened tbh. at the time stuff like boyz II men and new jack (in a small town high school) seemed like boring fake thin sounding crap for idiots and women ("nothing to me about my life" indeed). now i'm less pent up about shit and i could hear pop r&b hits from any era all day and be totally happy.

reading a lot more pro-pop and and pro-r&b criticism/discussion in the past decade probably helped a lot. for an unfamiliar and disliked genre sometimes you have to read and think your way into it first. and then it all becomes recontextualized and your ear for it changes. certainly songs like 'pony' really stuck out even at the time

probably not the right thread for this tho

why am I the only person who like R&B who hates "Pony"

maybe it's because you're a classically-trained musician ... or maybe you're not the only one?

now i'm less pent up about shit and i could hear pop r&b hits from any era all day and be totally happy

reading a lot more pro-pop and and pro-r&b criticism/discussion in the past decade probably helped a lot

what i dislike about the pro-r&b faction on ILM is the assumption that you're either "pent up" or unfamiliar w/ poptimist criticism if you don't like r&b

i mean, i like "pony" and "1 thing" and usher and timberlake as much as the next person (which is to say i could blast it 10 times in a row no problem) but fuck me if that means i need to get deep in the intricacies of the dream or janelle monae or whatever

The intricacies of Janelle Monae?

ill dude

well hold on now, Janelle is superdope

The-Dream is super overrated tho

The "unbookmark the excelsior thread" days are arriving ahead of schedule lately.

word? what town?

In MN we lived in Deer River ("Canadian border" was an exaggeration, tbh) which is west of Duluth somewhere. In MT we lived near a place called Condon, which is 90 miles north of Missoula and 70 south of Kalispell.

i wasn't trying to be prescriptive there. i was absolutely pent-up and not-even-subliminally angry about music as a younger dude! i had a pretty narrow range of what musical expression and para-musical heroism was supposed to be.

xp oh i'm sorry eric were you hoping to find a catalog of steady lols herein

Ooh I like that song "Patches" up above. I could dance to it, which is kinda my litmus, if only it didn't have those talking slow-downs.

thanks to iTunes buyers the words "Janelle Monae and fun" can be written in the same sentence

also can i say that reading a lot more pro-pop and and pro-r&b criticism/discussion in the past decade, particularly on ILM, has actually kind of turned me off pop music