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My first post (here) was on the "List the Next Five Albums You're Going to Buy" Thread. I haven't picked up the Joseph Spence or Ornette yet, but I did eventually get the other ones.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 22:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think this is where I first said something, it's the earliest I can do.

"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

This looks like it. eek.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 22:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

this was the first ilm thread, and thus tom's earliest post. my response there is the first one so I think that means I posted the first response to ilx. (there are some slight complications. this thread of tom's, posted the same day, also has a post from me as the first response. but I think the other one was earlier. there are two other threads started on that first day: this one, which I take to have been posted later because its first response is on the next day (probably after midnight), and this one, which I just think contains later responses than tom's first thread.)

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

patrin in older skool than sinker shockah!

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

Crumbs.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 23:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

hmm, I wonder how that k got in there. I must have had byron's 'josk' post in my head (see first thread).

― Josh (Josh), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 23:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

Jan. 15, 2001 - How Did You Discover Freaky Trigger?

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 31 October 2002 00:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

(josk - your jan jelinek cd burn is on the way!)

― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 31 October 2002 00:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

My first ILM Post. Creepiness in Rock. I said "Kicks" was from Sally Can't Dance, not Coney Island Baby, I was mortified!

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

apparently from my second ever post on ilm:

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

I have no idea -- I know it was to ilm but it mustn't have been anything memorable. Is there a way of looking it up that I've missed?

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 31 October 2002 01:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yay for Mark S's early posts -- comprehensible punctuation, Derrida refs, a nice piece of name-dropping (Matt Black of Coldcut), and supple aphorisms such as 'Air guitar is dancing for people who are frightened of the middle of their bodies.' (What has happened since?)

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

i think this was the first thread i started

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

(Another really typical thing I'm doing in that first post is coming to the defence of essentially rather superficial people I feel are being picked on, using defensive arguments those people themselves would never in a million years have come up with. The same thing happened on the Vice thread. The reason I make common cause with these people is essentially that we share a common interest in Dandyism, which I'm always trying -- rather pointlessly -- to validate intellectually.)

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 31 October 2002 01:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

C'mon bnw, I met you in New York before 9/11.

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

I guess this is mine:
foreign synth pop

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

That Wilder guy from the electric sound of jim's link has some good taste in music.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 31 October 2002 02:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

nicole - do a search for your email address (in the email addy field) and they will come out in chronological order

― ron (ron), Thursday, 31 October 2002 02:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

I should have thought of this, thanks,

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 31 October 2002 02:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

I should have guessed: expressing over-excitement for music journalism and porn, as per usual.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 31 October 2002 02:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

i didn't think to do it either - graham pointed it out above :-)

― ron (ron), Thursday, 31 October 2002 02:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Doh! I have been so tired this week, I don't even think I've been reading things properly. Sorry Graham!

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 31 October 2002 02:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

ROCKISM ALERT!!!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 31 October 2002 03:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

sundar: That is true. I think back then I wasn't fully afflicted with ILxticism, so it doesn't register as strong.

Ha, Jess posted about the indiest of indie rock.

― bnw (bnw), Thursday, 31 October 2002 03:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

What's dandyism? Wouldn't that just be, like, dressing like Tom Wolfe or whatever that guy's name is that wrote that one boring book and all those other really boring books?

― Dan I., Thursday, 31 October 2002 05:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

this is not that embarassing, but there are definitely a few that should never be read by man or beast. forgive me, i was naught but a sophomore...

― Dave M. (rotten03), Thursday, 31 October 2002 06:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

the creepy thing is that there's someone with MY NAME on the 'very first thread', but who is clearly not me. what's up with that?

― Dave M. (rotten03), Thursday, 31 October 2002 06:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

I delurked to talk about the surrealness of the edited-for-television version of Mallrats but I remain mostly lurky.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 31 October 2002 06:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

i started by owning up to my librarian past.

― 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

(If you want to link to an individual post, either copy it from the search results as N. said, or click "Show All Details" at the bottom of the page, and copy the address of the "(link)" link - the address should have "#123456" or something at the end)

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 31 October 2002 14:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

The first thread wasn't very long, was it? That debate would've gone on forever on todays ILX! But it does namecheck Loro by Pinback and that is still a piece of complete and utter gorgeousness to this day.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 31 October 2002 14:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

ILE: Interracial r*l*ti*nsh*ps (I talk about my mom's early attitude toward my sister's boyfriend, who's black)

ILM: What's Your Favourite Guitar Solo? (I name some favorite guitar solos)

glad to see I treaded somewhat lightly back then

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 31 October 2002 14:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

ILX has made matos more agressive (just like me!).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 31 October 2002 15:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't think I'm that much more aggressive except in terms of output, or--attitude-wise--when irked, nondirectly, usually. except for that silly blowup w/Jess elsewhere recently I'm pretty well treated by the group, and I hope I respond in kind.

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 31 October 2002 15:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

u2 r gay!!

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 31 October 2002 15:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

*hugz*

― jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 31 October 2002 15:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

mine was on a thread about worst and best cover songs:

weller's take on joe smooth's peerless 'promised land' was a bit shit. probably not the worst, but worthy of derision nonetheless.
-- michael wells (wellsmj1@hotmail.com), March 20th, 2001.

i still agree with that.

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 31 October 2002 15:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

awww! thanks, Jess

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 31 October 2002 21:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

five months pass...

I'd like to take the opportunity to revive this thread for no reason.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 14 April 2003 10:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

Malcolm In The Middle.

-- Nordicskillz (allmanbrothersrul...), December 8th, 2002.

From "People You'd Like To See Kick Axl Rose's Ass".

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 14 April 2003 11:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh no you don't...

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 14 April 2003 13:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

No, after 5 months on ILX, it's the other way round.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 14 April 2003 13:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

Graffiti - good thing or bad thing ?

i said graffitti tags were better than graffitti murals

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 April 2003 13:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

ILM: It was back in July; I didn't realize it was that long ago!

ILE: Wokka wokka wokka. Right before Xmas.

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 14 April 2003 15:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Honor the Piumaman!

― Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 14 April 2003 15:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

I was never a newbie. HAH!

― kate, Monday, 14 April 2003 15:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

What Kate said.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 14 April 2003 15:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's not as glamorous as it might seem.

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 14 April 2003 15:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

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