(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...)
― Jeff W (Jeff W), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 18:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
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.''
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 18:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
My first ILE post was momentous. My first ILM post was not.
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 18:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
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.
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 18:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 19:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Rex (Rex), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 19:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
By the way, how do you link to a particular part of a page?
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 19:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
I thought mark s's first ILM post was about the Spice Girls.
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 19:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
My first ILM post: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
― Yancey (ystrickler), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 19:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 19:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 20:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 20:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
Talk about launching yourself in at the deep end.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 20:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
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?
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 20:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Rex (Rex), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 20:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 20:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 20:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― bnw (bnw), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 21:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 21:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 22:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
"My only complaint is that there's just not enough ALLY! I should be the fuckin' mascot, man."
― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 22:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 22:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
the first thread I started was not until about four months later, here. it was, uh, characteristic.
― Josh (Josh), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 22:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
also, the pinefox's first post was in the same thread as sterl's, I think.
― Joshk (Josh), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 23:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 23:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Josh (Josh), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 23:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 31 October 2002 00:32 (twenty-one years ago) link
― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 31 October 2002 00:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
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.
― Arthur (Arthur), Thursday, 31 October 2002 01:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
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
― ron (ron), Thursday, 31 October 2002 01:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 31 October 2002 01:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
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.
― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 31 October 2002 01:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
it appears that the savatage fan club has been overrun by the cure and smashing pumpkins fan clubs!
― ron (ron), Thursday, 31 October 2002 01:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 31 October 2002 01:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
I think my first post was on that indie rock thread too. I'm sure it sucked.
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 31 October 2002 02:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
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.
― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 31 October 2002 02:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 31 October 2002 02:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ron (ron), Thursday, 31 October 2002 02:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 31 October 2002 02:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 31 October 2002 02:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ron (ron), Thursday, 31 October 2002 02:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 31 October 2002 02:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 31 October 2002 03:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
Ha, Jess posted about the indiest of indie rock.
― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 31 October 2002 03:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan I., Thursday, 31 October 2002 05:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dave M. (rotten03), Thursday, 31 October 2002 06:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dave M. (rotten03), Thursday, 31 October 2002 06:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 31 October 2002 06:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― angela (angela), Thursday, 31 October 2002 09:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
This is an untypically humble post.
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 31 October 2002 13:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Sunday, 9 February 2014 14:47 (ten years ago) link