this is the thread where you link to your first ilx post.

(You have to set the mode to Messages otherwise it will just show them in order of most posted to. Also it takes a while.)

oh dear!

Queen- you just want to spoil it for all of us england fans (Argentina today, the world cup is surel ours now!). if you don't like it then fuck off to ilm OK.
-- Julio Desouza (jdesouza@chem.utoronto.ca), June 7th, 2002.

I am an EXPERIMENTER! They call me a BUTCHER! (Cough.)
As for compatibilities, Fred and Dan tie at 100%. (Cough.) Tom's at 89%, Fred's S.O. is at 88%, Otie at 83%, Josh comes in (rather disappointingly) at 77%, Nanette's at 72% and Jerwin at 64%. (Cough.) Of course, since none of you are even remotely potential boyfriend material (Jerwin being taken and in another country), aand since I have someone very special in my life right now, the results are meaningless to me! (Cough.) Meaningless! (Cough.) Ahahahaha! (Cough.)

I am very high on NyQuil right now. (Cough.)

-- Michael Edward Daddino (epicharmus@aol.com), September 27th, 2000.

Lots to unpack here. This was based on the results of one of those compatibility quizzes that were circulating around the blogworld at the time (hence the mentions of non-ILxers Jerwin and Nanette); I was sick as a dog; I was dating a gay blogger of some renown; and I quote the Manics, what the hell?

ILE: Blah blah E/N sites blah. I'm partial to this post, though.

Ah, for the days when I just babbled on and on and on and on and on...

''Aphex Twin classic or Dud?

(Nobody went "ooh, mark sinker just posted" or similar on that Rockism thread. I wonder if such a lack of comment would be possible today...)

as far as ILE is concerned the world cup was my way in after posting exclusively on ILM for a long time.

oh dear!

''Queen- you just want to spoil it for all of us england fans (Argentina today, the world cup is surel ours now!). if you don't like it then fuck off to ilm OK.''

My first ILE post was momentous. My first ILM post was not.

Merrit puts great thought into his choice of singers, just as pop writers of yore did. Notice for example how he gives Miho Hatori "Rindy Rue" er, I mean "Lindy Lou". So there's clearly an intent to place singers in unfamiliar situations. This lends a certain amateurish charm to the album, where Merrit's melodies seem naked and worthy of attention in themselves, unsheathed from the electro-pop arrangements that he's normally about in most Mag Fields stuff (not 69 love songs, however). Also, Merrit has very limited arrangement skill, very capable, but using the same types of chord structures and suchforth over and over. So by stripping them down to the essentials it feels more like a songbook, in the classic "Cole Porter Songbook" "George Gershwin Songbook" etc. style.

I haven't had it entirely sink in, but the tunes feel classic, and as I've never heard Merrit's own interpretations, they stand up well. With songs like Merrit's, which are so durn good, the singer and tune itself have historically always become interlinked, partly by how well they fit, and partly because interpretation means so much to classic tin-pan-alley stuff. This isn't a fake "tribute" album to Merrit, so much as his show of devotion to the voices he loves best.

By the way, how do you link to a particular part of a page?

I thought mark s's first ILM post was about the Spice Girls.

My first ILM post: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Talk about launching yourself in at the deep end.

I can't believe my favourite's not been mentioned yet. I'm 42, so I remember when TOTP claimed performances weren't mimed. The Faces once put down their instruments mid-song (I think it was on Stay With Me) and started kicking a football around - it was the moment that blew the pretence away, combined with a magnificent rock single. What more could we want?

A1 were particularly hilarious just recently, completely fucking up a live, unplugged performance. Why didn't a manager or someone point out to them that they really can't sing nearly well enough to do that?

"My only complaint is that there's just not enough ALLY! I should be the fuckin' mascot, man."

the first thread I started was not until about four months later, here. it was, uh, characteristic.

also, the pinefox's first post was in the same thread as sterl's, I think.

My first ILE post was me blabbing about Velvet Goldmine. Ooh, get her.

The first thread I started was about Donnie Darko. I shouldn't have been so goddamned picky, it's a wonderful film.

you've really got to reevaluate yourself musically if listening to Eric B/Rakim reminds you of limp bizkit. you've got it all mixed up

my first was sticking up for breeders' last splash

My own first post (April 3rd, 2001) was on ILM, and was pretty typical me. 'What ifs', parallel worlds, time travel, devil's advocacy, high-flown style, a certain pomposity, a love of polemic, a division of the cool elite from the 'normals' and obligatory Japan references:

What if 'cool' were the closest thing we have in the modern age to what used to be called 'honour'? What if Victorian duels, chivalric courtships and samurai protectorates were motivated by the 'cool' of the day? What if 'cool' were just a word for the way we encode our ethical and aesthetic visions of how life should be? Would you still want to dismiss it, make its adherents 'shrivel'? Would you want a cut- off point? Would you still be evangelising on behalf of 'normal styles'? And aren't those just rather less considered, rather more accommodated versions of yesterday's cool anyway?

Later I migrated to ILX (reluctantly) with a big debate about censorship, a subject pretty close to my knee.

it appears that the savatage fan club has been overrun by the cure and smashing pumpkins fan clubs!

I think my first post was on that indie rock thread too. I'm sure it sucked.

The replies didn't help too much, except the 3rd one had some good website to check out.
But I'm looking for something more along the lines of OMD, but in French, or Italian, or any other language.

Tindersticks.Waiting For The Moon....nice for late afternoon listening
― Jacob Sanders (LolVStein), Thursday, August 11, 2005 10:38 AM (8 years ago)

ShariVari wrote this on thread gyptian - holdyuh on board I Love Music on Jan 21, 2011

The soca refix is the one i've been playing constantly for the last year. I'm always surprised that soca / soca remixes don't make more of an impact on the charts.

Pvmic

Made mine back when you didn't have to register w/ ILX, can't remember the name i used

Oh wait I found it

X = Creed
Y = any black metal band, with the possible exception of ANAL CUNT
― Mickey (modestmickey), Tuesday, January 18, 2005 12:43 PM (9 years ago) Bookmark

rolling: "dragnet" - the fall
cutting: "cLOUDDEAD"

― noodle vague, Wednesday, July 23, 2003 9:35 PM (10 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The early days of not having to register/using comedy names in the display field makes this really hard, but it might have been this (Greenspun posts don't seem to have a timestamp any more) on "what was the first song you heard all year"?

I know it was something Scottish. We had a Scottish Music Only marathon round my flat. Something about New Years belonging to the Scots, I'm still not entirely sure why, may have had more to do with the Absinthe and the Laphroiagh than the date.
So chances are, it was PRML SCRM, Belle and Sebastian or... ::oh the shame:: Travis.

― xxxx, Tuesday, December 5, 2000 1:00 AM

Or it might have been about the impossibility of achieving happiness in a hypermediated and hypersexualised environment that shows every sign of worsening.

But mentioning Belle and Sebastian is the most embarrassing thing of all.

free fall wrote this on thread What are you listening to todizzle? on board I Love Everything on Jun 17, 2004

pearls before swine - side one of "these things too".
the renderers - a dream of the sea.
karen dalton - in my own time.
les rallizes denudes - high or die.
charalambides - first listen to "joy shapes" (holy shit).
jerry garcia - side two of "garcia" (the first one).

^and nearly 10 years later still listen to them :-/

I posted once in 2002. I don't like it--there's even a typo. (Omen of the future, and probably one of the reasons I stopped; I hate not being able to fix typos. I've adjusted.) My first post under my own name was a thread about supporting actors in 2005:

In Anticipation of Morgan Freeman Beating Thomas Haden Church

A couple of months later I started posting under a second name (the "merritt ranew" account), and continued using both until early in 2006. I guess you could get away with that then.