ILM is kinda sucking these days (boring and meta ignore not safe for work)

The red bar is your friend, Tombot!

yeah, i just never see anything on ile that makes me want to join in. and i used to start threads like a maniac, eh, what are ya gonna do. it is an ebb and flow thing. i'll be back when i have the time.

and the noize board! jeez, what did happen there? i never go there either. i used to be there every day. it can't be ALL your fault, tom. hahahaha! i don't keep up with the inner turmoil, so i'm kinda out of the loop. if i can get someone to tell me who gareth is this week i feel like i've accomplished something. is gareth even around now!??? i don't even know. and nobody will tell me what happened to blount or if he has ever come back. it's all a little confusing sometimes. where is jack cole!!?? is he okay?
and is roger really back? i got no roger hate.

noize bored gutted by IRL

blount = balls
jack cole = jack battery-pack I think
roger = if assholes could fly etc

can't keep track of gareth

i always forget that i have to make my own fun.

Can everyone tattoo this on the backs of their hands so that the next time everyone wants to freak out about how awful and boring everyone else is, we can all look at the backs of our hands and stop being dumbasses?

wallofvaginas.jpg

there aren't any threads for nektar. there should be at least one. but what do i know--i'm still waiting for someone to respond to my one thread--scott walker vs. david sylvian

i like nektar a bunch. and scott walker would win that with both hands tied behind his back.

nektar vs. walker?

NO! scott walker -vs- david sylvian

i meant who would you take, walker or nektar? nektar has better album covers, at least. and if we're throwing japan and walker bros in sylvian vs. walker, it's maybe not so cut-and-dried

Hey, it's not my fault that most music people want to release these days is boring shite that I've forgotten about before I can get to a computer and post "hay check out this hott new electo-twee act from Estonia".

Personally, I blame Raggett and the Club of Rome All Music Guide who are implementing the New World Order strategy (popular music division).

What, where?

Don't play dumb with us Raggett! We know what you're up to...

That embedded Nektar sub-thread went well. Perhaps I should start the Zickzack/German punk RFI thread here while I've got everyone's attention.

I have little time for music these days. It saddens me but what can I do about it? Two kids have taken over my life. They bring me more joy than music could ever do, but fuck I do miss the days of listening to dEUS and No New York on repeat all evening long.

Ah, you could just listen to them anyway and get the kids hooked. Indoctrination. Oh wait...

Is ILM better yet?

I will start making my own fun (read: Keith Whitley mania) here soon, but I am heading to the olde world for a few weeks. So for me, no more ILM, I love you but you're bringing me down.

Come back with tales of mystic lands.

Is ILM better yet?

Still the same tiny amount of contributors to some of the Rolling threads---whirled one, reggaeton one, etc. I need to acquire some new '08 releases in such genres...

Some interesting threads have been started or revived since this one, tho. Maybe it's had a good effect.

Newer posters see the 'old guard' posting short pithy replies (partly due to net speeds these days as discussed before, and partly due to the above) and that's how they learn the vernacular of the board.

-- Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 5 June 2008 18:52 (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

A lot of my recent posting is done on my mobile, which doesn't really allow for extended posts: If you press the wrong button, everything you type is lost without warning. So there's no point going into any detail about anything.

I don't know how many people are affected this way. Probably just me.

Not just you. Same here.

POLL

(joke)

you kidz and yer gadgets!

anyway, ilm is fine now. i had time to make it better for myself.

i had time to make it better for myself.

in bed.

(Still works)

suggestion of Zickzack/German punk RFI thread perked the whole place up

I admit I didn't read this whole thread. I tried to for quite awhile but then work got to me and then...

Anyway, I would like to suggest that if we do polls, please let's not have TOO MANY CHOICES IN THE POLL. I don't know if someone else has brought this up but it really spoils the fun and randomizes everything if there are too many choices in the poll. Especially sad are these types of best of the year things from publications. I thought the Melody Maker 1988 had a reasonable # of choices, but there are many others which have way too many choices.

okthnkxbye

naw, that's a good point

Maybe we need more threads about bands you've never heard of, or songs you like when you're drunk?

I can't understand all this poll hate at all. The polls are the main interesting new thing on ILM because they haven't been done before. ILMers seem irrationally afraid of having redundant threads, so we get one giant thread about a band which, if you haven't been on the board since like 2001 means that you have to read through the opinions of a bunch of people, many don't even post anymore, just to understand where the thread is at 7 years later. Fuck that.

At least with polls there's the chance to stimulate a new conversation with active posters on an old topic, plus you get the extra benefit of knowing exactly where those sufficiently motivated to register and click a button stand on the topic. The main problem comes in when people include too many choices and make their polls meaningless.

"Maybe we need more threads about bands you've never heard of, or songs you like when you're drunk?"

definitely. but i'm only one person. i do what i can.

in any case, here's a picture of that guy again:

http://www.consumerist.com/images/2006/04/MulliWalmartGreeter.jpg

:o

Fatboy Slim Singles Poll [Started by banriquit, last updated 18 minutes ago] (I Love Music) 17 new answers [POLL closes: July 02]
Chemical Brothers singles [Started by HI DERE, last updated 20 minutes ago] (I Love Music) 46 new answers [POLL closes: July 05]
Oasis single with the most asinine lyrics [Started by musically, last updated 23 minutes ago] (I Love Music) 42 new answers [POLL closes: July 02]

the best polls so far are the lines from rap song polls! as to what wins or loses - i mean, there's no compendium of these things.

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:Rmdf3S25JrsTuM:http://bits.webhs.org/blog/shit
All of this poll shit is out of hand.

they can't all look intersting

*sigh*

Or maybe I'm so ridiculously bored at this stupid job that it can never possibly satisfy me.

feeln u dogg last week i tried to revive a bunch of threads about hip-hop & white ppl but nobody was interested

was sucking at the time seward wrote that. not now.

but yeah people still insist in doing some silly polls

I was gonna start a Nicodemus thread (not the riddims dude), but I didn't know how to give it an angle, except for 'ayo... how bout this Nicodemus dude?'

rolling vinyl thread, non-indie underground PUNK thread, MS records thread, and world music threads thrivin!

hey now dont leave rolling metal out there mang

No, it's just me, I'm sure.

It's been better than 2008 for sure

Just curious--and this is coming from one of the all-time great thread assassins* Anyway, I'm sure I'm this for others, but does anyone else have particular posters that you reflexively recoil from? (NO NAMES PLEASE) like they drive you crazy? I think I'm projecting my own shit on them, but god, this person posts everywhere and makes me crawl up the wall....

*I would say people comment on maybe 1 in 20 of my posts, although sometimes a thread of mine will do sort of well.