Essentially, they let regular civilians mp3 bloggers do what only MP3 bloggers print publications used to do: Identify music worthwhile of publication to the global consciousness and then publish it. Everybody can be an “MP3 blogger” music jounalist of sorts, by merely logging in to Spotify with Facebook signing up for blogspot.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
I can only hope to someday forget Urge, MTV/Microsoft's failed attempt to use music bloggers to save the .wma file
― da croupier, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
"snipey hardman zing swing" <-- these are very fun words to say together like that.
― s.clover, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
still lol-ing about "regular civilians." i mean, i know this is what the mp3 bloggers look like when they get together, but come onhttp://themoraltimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/olympians.jpg
― tylerw, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
1998 - 2012 these are the years during which I was not interested in mp3 blogs at all
― Scott, bass player for Tenth Avenue North (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
nir >>>>>>>> any mp3 blogger ever
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
i tried to get a job at urge and was rejected!
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
re: urge i remember getting something in the email from some random person who was like "oh hey i've really enjoyed your posts on ILM and i would like you to offer you work writing dance reviews for MTV" and it took me about five minutes to figure out it was a scam
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
that was no scam that was URGE
― tylerw, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
its a shame you will start caring next year after they are all over
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
I remember Drowned in Sound when it was a review site on which they let their 16 year old writers post whatever without any kind of editorial oversight, and then after the reviews had been up for a while Sean would delete the ones that he didn't agree with. Also they had a record label that released the first ever Kaiser Chiefs single.
― if, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.chapmanrecording.com/images/Urge2.jpeg
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
urge came and went so fast that i didn't even know what it was until it was too late :(
― tylerw, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
i probably just burned a bridge w/ someone who still reads/posts to ilx
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
Also they had a record label that released the first ever Kaiser Chiefs single.
tastemakers doesn't come into it then
― like Joe Pasquale and Gandhi (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
i discovered ilx through an mp3 blog blogroll
― flopson, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
I discovered ILX by Googling the words 'take no shit'.
― 'scuse me, while I Rim the Sky... (snoball), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
i discovered ILX whilst trying to find the northwest passage
― like Joe Pasquale and Gandhi (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
i still call you all ilxians in my mind
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
i discovered ilx after emailing my favorite music writer (at the time) he wrote me back and said "oh hey if you like my writing you will love ILX" and then he quit ilx like weeks after i started posting
:-(
one thing i remember about mp3 blogs is everyone bitching and moaning about TOO MANY MP3s and TOO MUCH MUSIC and oh my god it's cheapening and sullying my experience of music w/ overload of choice etc etc etc
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
it's true i think Gold Chains lost a lot of his mystique
― like Joe Pasquale and Gandhi (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
Matthew started the LCD Soundsystem "Yeah" thread, which remains one of my favorite threads ever on ILM. All these people hearing the track for the first time at the same time. I remember that day so clearly.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
IT CAME FROM SAN FRANCISCO
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
gold chains?
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
awful blog-friendly joek "rapper"
― like Joe Pasquale and Gandhi (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
i know who he is
you were just using him as a stand-in for all the shitty mp3blog-hyped music out there?
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
yes
― like Joe Pasquale and Gandhi (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
ah point taken - i probably would have used something like bis as a strawman, not enough pixie haircut on mr chains
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
think i discovered ilx because of mr. wolk.
― Hierophantiasis (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
remember liking fluokids about 6 years ago. haven't followed an mp3 blog in forever.
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
He was on here a lot for years but he was not well suited for the snipey hardman zing swing ilx took.
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, May 8, 2012 1:36 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol this is hilarious to me cause he went all hardman on me for panning animal collective on the singles jukebox and did so on his own blog where i only saw it cause someone linked to it. so basically, lol fuck that dude.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
Our indifference to Animal Collective was akin to a bunch of reactionary stooges in '88 panning Daydream Nation, remember?
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
Takes a Williamsburg riot to put me back to sleep right now
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
Reactionary Stooges -- hmm might be a good name for a garage rock band.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://perpetua.tumblr.com/post/267696453/imagine-if-the-internet-as-we-know-it-now-was-around-in
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:55 (twelve years ago) link
(I wasn't offended -- I don't mind a good fight)
the bile in that singles jukebox roundtable is um... quite something
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
the "material things"/house-buying chorus, which garners a ton of vitriol, is kinda funny in light of the subsequent housing bubble implosion
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
"not well suited" = could not give as good as he got
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
wow, animal collective lyrics...how many guns would you have to put to my head to think about their lyrics and actually have an opinion on them? lots of guns!
i don't think i ever interacted once with matthew on ilx. thus, had no problem with him. same with dom. i was hardly ever on the same threads as either one of them. and i've never read their blogs. does dom have a blog?
― scott seward, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 23:09 (twelve years ago) link
i feel bad that i don't think i've ever looked at the singles jukebox thing...sorry you guys! love you all!
think we're in the same boat scott, I pretty much never came across either of those guys posting. don't even know what the singles jukebox thing is really
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 23:11 (twelve years ago) link
i think tom ewing started it. i know chuck and frank have contributed which is one reason i feel bad...cuZ i like those guys...
― scott seward, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
i love "teenage riot" tho
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
I know him as the dude from that pic w/ the pineapple
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
so it's basically that dude is fat, huh
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
that seems like an oversimplification, if for no other reason than how many people on this message board must be overweight, including his tormenters
― some dude, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 02:47 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, it's some pretty disgusting ad hominem shit and it seemed to happen all the time. I'm not at all surprised he eventually split.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 02:58 (twelve years ago) link
There's a balletic, Malcolm Tucker-esque grace to this:
lex: Hey Perpetua, what the fuck do you think you're doing talking outrageous shit like this here? You don't know shit about 90% of what I'm into - you don't even know what I'm into. You don't know me but you should know yourself, you narrow-minded little indie fuckwit.
― Position Position, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 03:02 (twelve years ago) link
i have periodically read perpetua since whenever, and yeah he's not a zinger. he may not be much of a critic either, e.g. he's never sued the beasties. has he gotten too much credit for being among the first such blogs? very likely.
he likes stuff and he posts about it. although i'm an outsider, i've never seen anyone specifically complain about him ever. and i suspect that were his gender different, he would have taken significantly less shit on ilm.
xp lol at lex accusing anyone of narrow-mindedness
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 03:13 (twelve years ago) link