In Honor Of ILX Being Ten, How About Some Quotable Posts Of Yore.

last post as dave q=

dave q wrote this on thread Best rock song of 1979: Three Mile Smile or No Surprize? on board I Love Music on May 20, 2007

cheese cake

sadly no xpost

:-(

Some friends of mine are in an underground indie rock band and have completed their first EP. It sounds very professional even if it was mixed on ProTools and recorded in a home studio.

Anywho, they came to me because they know I read a lot of mp3 blogs like ILM and Stereogum. I suggested that they send out music samples to all the major tastemakers, which they did -- but no response as of yet.

Then I found another intriguing option, for $25 they can be the band of the week on Scenestars, a fave mp3 blog of mine:
http://scenestars.net/bandspot/index.php

What do you think, is the exposure worth $25? I mean, they could just post their music on the YSI thread here for free.. Does anyone know how much traffic Scenestars gets or how many downloads they can expect in a week?

I think they should do it as Coldplay, Arctic Monkeys, and CYHSY are all prominently featured and they are looking to do a similar grassroots viral DIY thing to get label attention.

These Scenestar folks have a pretty high profile so some industry people must listen to what their flogging. Do you think journos will take us less seriously if it's a paid promotion? I have mixed feelings, free would be ideal, but they are not in a position to hire a PR person.

thx in advance,
W

-- Wrinklepaws (wrinklepaw...), April 5th, 2006. (1 trackback)
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ILM IS NOT AN MP3 BLOG

-- Special Agent Gene Krupa (dr.carl.saga...), April 5th, 2006.

oh, wrinklepaws

-- cutty (holle...), April 5th, 2006.

omg i never realized oh wrinklepaws was from my lurking days

Conan's already slipped to #2 in Late Night. He drew a 7.1 on his debut and a 2.9 last night (to Dave's 3.4). What a disaster for NBC.

― Cunga, Thursday, June 11, 2009 1:36 AM (1 year ago)

yes, good one

why is this quotable? Was this the beginning of the "what a disaster" meme?

surprisingly it does seem to be the beginning of it

i think this is the source of this ilxmeme?

This is apparantly the "Rocky Horror of furry fandom." I was of the right age to see this on VHS, but I guess I never did...

― Gnip Konop (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, August 15, 2009 6:49 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Read that as "Analympics" :(

― sir-mounter (Eric H.), Saturday, August 15, 2009 6:51 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i think most people looking for analympics and finding that would be seriously disappointed.

― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Saturday, August 15, 2009 6:52 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

but the thirty people who weren't went off and each made furry conventions. It's the Velvet Undergrowl of the movement.

― BOO LIAR BEN KONOP BOO BAD BOO BEN KONOP BOO (forksclovetofu), Saturday, August 15, 2009 6:54 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

why would you say "growl" there

what a horribly formed "joke"!

i didnt even have to look at your name below that to know it was you, dude

― in excelsis ayo (roxymuzak), Saturday, August 15, 2009 7:11 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is that really a meme, I thought it was just a failed thread

what a horribly formed 'X' is a meme

what a disaster for that meme

i don't even remember what the thread was about!!!

thread needed more form

OK, I'll be honest. Basically I was watching out for her and would be looking out for her at certain times of the day. That's all. Actually, it was worse than that - there had been times when I'd deliberately try and bump into A and / or B at lunchtimes during the summer, but that wasn't picked up on at the time. Basically, I was stalking her in a little way, but not in any scary kind of way. Just trying to see her, that's all. I'm trying hard to justify myself without sounding like a nutcase here.

It's just that A noticed this behaviour and mentioned it to others there, who'd also noticed it, and then I presume it got passed upwards. I was told by the management that me watching her - and the other workers - was making them feel uncomfortable walking past my house, and that behaviour was stopped immediately.

Er, no, no boob grab. 8-)

― Rob M v2, Tuesday, February 5, 2008 8:20 AM

haha that thread

classic jim swells appearance

max I can give his aim info to you, but he due to his driving schedule he can't exactly txt on a dime

― dell, Tuesday, February 5, 2008 10:10 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I thought he was that frosted, pudgy Aus/NZ dude whatever.

-- jaymc, Friday, October 12, 2007 1:45 PM

No. 90
Points: 168
No. of votes: 6
No. of #1 votes: 2

Artist: JOHNNY GREENWOOD
Title: BODYSONG
Label: EMI
Year: 2003

'Jonny In Wonderland Among The Talking Flowers

Jonny Greenwood loves the moon. When he performs as a member of Radiohead, the notoriously soft-spoken guitarist has been known to take a moment at outdoor concerts to silently point out its splendor to the otherwise oblivious audience. The music he composes is like the moon---arcane, otherworldy, and peculiar. Bodysong is infused with the same sense of wide-eyed wonder at the sublime.

The album's opening track, "Moon Trills" seems portentous of some grand celestial event; its elongated Messiaen-inflected piano chords and Ondes-Martenot wails form and reform in a harmonic spectra that travels slowly toward a dark meridian. Later, the starlit melancholy of "Bode Radio / Glass Light / Broken Hearts" unfurls in vivid plumes of glass harmonica and strings, and is shot through with dissonant adornments not unlike those emblematic of Debussy. The drowsy fantasia of "Clockwork Tin Soldiers," reverberates like falling glass marbles aleatorically tinkling a ballet for mechanical dolls. "Convergence" begins with a clash and percolates into a percussive, clattering cacophony, fighting the hegemony of beauty and melody. The banjo-driven "24 Hour Charleston" echoes the adrenalin rush of a thief in the night, as dramatic electroacoustics envelop the discordant melody. And the monistic "Peartree" with its angular, Ligetian organ harmony resonates as though the music were dispersing in the higher vaults of a gothic cathedral. In "Milky Drops From Heaven," a hurried horn takes on an animal character, the music destructing and reconstructing itself from moment to moment, as if the jazz band were tumbling up and down invisible stairs, their tempo varying at the rate of their descent. On the closer, "Tehellet" (the Hebrew meaning of which roughly translates as "hope, expectation") a languid cello is made to sound like a choir of seraphim heralding an ascent.

Perhaps Jonny Greenwood is not one of the luminaries like Messiaen or Penderecki, but here, their light reflects upon him, like the sun upon the moon.'
Salvador Saca

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 17 August 2004

The music he composes is like the moon - lifeless, pale and when you get up close it's basically a load of rock.

― Battenburg 2, Tuesday, 17 August 2004

penis liek ;_;

― Thomas Fratta, Saturday, November 6, 2004 3:45 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark

1) spudblot - flurgggggggg!!!
2) hairymams - dr.seuss hat breakdown
3) forkspliff - priestdoobnunfarm
4) deathfart - smeled
5) kilnworkers split 7-inch with Flayhorse
6) mumblepuss 10 inch
7) dirtweed dragracers
8) supercock - cockatak
9) fingerweavers debut
10) stinkgirl - no stink for you

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 30 September 2004 01:37 (5 years ago)

If the title wasn't rediculous enough, this is the tracklist:
1.Black Dragons soar above the Mountain of Shadows - Keyboard Instrumental
2.To dethrone the Witch-Queen of Mytos K'unn (The legend of the battle of Blackhelm Vale)
3.As the Vortex illuminates the cystalline walls of Kor-Avul-Thaa
4.Starfire burning upon the ice-veiled throne of Ultima Thule
5.Journey to the Isle of Mists (Over the moonless depths of night-dark seas)
6.The Splendour of a thousand swords gleaming beneath the blazon of the Hyperborean Empire
7.. And lo, when the Imperium marches against Cul-Kothoth, then dark sorceries shall enshroud the Citadel of the Obsidian Crown
8.Summoning the Guardians of the Astral Gate
9.In the Raven-haunted forests of Darkenhold, where Shadows reign and the hues of sunlight never dance
10.At the altar of the Dreaming Gods

-- Siegbran (siegbra...), February 25th, 2003 11:25 AM.

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So it's a pub rock record then?
-- Tom (ebro...), February 25th, 2003 11:26 AM.

i think i've found (one of) the first lol threads, before the excelsior! thing started:

this is the thread where you copy and paste whatever other posts on ilx made you laugh out loud

oh duh there's posts on the end of that thread talking about the whole history. whoops.

where are you from, Obvioustan?

xp

― warmsherry, Thursday, January 15, 2009 1:16 PM Bookmark

xpost yeah, but it does seem to be the first one (and has links to the sequel and the, um, sequeltothat.)

I've just went a searching across ILM and the only instance of anyone talking about "oriental hotties" is when a troll called "xx" started mouthing off about my (platonic) love of Shonen Knife and their music.
It was xx who made the racist/sexist comment about oriental women.
(xx was another one who loved to make accusations based on nothing but the paranoid delusions within his fevered brane.)
...as for the "uncle tom" comment, I'm doing another search right now.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, June 9, 2003 9:56 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark

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― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, May 23, 2003 1:47 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i actually looked for a "like" button tehre for a second

one of my favorite things on ILX ever

OTM^^

also most of the posts on this thread, especially when Geir gets in on the action:

y'all ready for this?

one of my favs: post your made-up tom waits lyric

no particular post, but this is an underrated thread imo:

President Kennedy Injured in Dallas?

cupcakes are way better than pizza.

You are DEAD to me.

― xhuxk, Saturday, March 15, 2008 3:07 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"one of my favs: post your made-up tom waits lyric"

this might actually be my favorite thread on ilm. sometimes i kinda wish it could get locked because its such a perfect thing.

no particular post, but this is an underrated thread imo:

President Kennedy Injured in Dallas?

― gr8080, Friday, September 3, 2010 2:14 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

i LOVE that one... so maybe posters at the top of their game

except for maybe those first two kind of out-of-character deej posts

he recovers pretty quickly tho:

Where's that young sprightly lad Dr. Morbius to share his opinions on the matter?

― deej, Thursday, February 14, 2008 5:30 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

i can't wait to hear the word "guilty" read to whoever did this

― J0rdan S., Thursday, February 14, 2008 5:55 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

i love how NO ONE spoils it

It does get spoiled, but only in the best way:

ok i was watching tv and that negro what's his name, muhammad x, is all like "lol you get what you pay for" or something did anyone else see this?

― amateurist, Thursday, February 14, 2008 6:35 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

amateurist the point of this thread is to sound like you would've back in 1963

― and what, Thursday, February 14, 2008 6:38 PM Bookmark

hahahah:

I'll always remember where I was at this moment. Sitting in front of my computer reading an online message board.

― Bobbi Peru, Thursday, February 14, 2008 12:41 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

and lol @ this juxtaposed against the now meme-status of "good luck usa":

We got your back over here, America. Stay strong.

― Dom Passantino, Thursday, February 14, 2008 12:51 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

It's a few months too late, but MIA was trying to say that she's with Coco.

― Cunga

Actually needs a bit more context:

not feeling the (born free) video - there's no reason for it to be 9 minutes long ans for all the viscera there's a pointlessness to the entire concept

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend)

It's a few months too late, but MIA was trying to say that she's with Coco.

― Cunga

Kennedy thread was wall to wall excellence tbf

tik a boo all involved

Mark S on fire in this thread: mastermind, the game

MM1 was MM2's assistant, but bumped him off at the behest of GF1, and took over
MM3 is MM1's useless son obv, a classic "prince-in-waiting" roué dimwit, more interested in banging cocktail waitresses two at a time than Mastering the Game, let alone his mind: when MM1 vanished, GF1 had MM3 quietly garotted — by GF2, naturally.

GF2, MM1's octopussy-lucabrazz,i had never been his lover, stil less MM3's mom (whose death in penury in Eastern Europe in the mid-50s had pushed MM1 into this mode of life). Caring more about the Style of the Game than mere worldly loyalties or passions, GF2 was swiftly suborned when GF1 made appeal to the Aesthetics of Gangster Succession.

GF3/4 were models hired for the photograph.

― mark s, Saturday, August 10, 2002 5:00 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Also pleased to have a small part in one of the better thread revives.