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

i'm sympathetic to any theory of the case that blames poptimism for theoretical stagnation but i can't imagine 50 polls about bob dylan would be any better

i feel like people talk about dadmusic just as much as they did in the pop evangelism days, if not more. for example i would never have expected the degree of enthusiasm that people showed for the paul simon poll

doesn't seem like there's much at stake in any of the dance thread discussions these days. bring back pipecock ;)

is there a rolling thread to post about music that doesn't fit into any of the rolling threads

but it keeps me aware of pop stuff like miguel that i never would have listened to otherwise

― mh (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, January 25, 2013 12:30 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah well I heard about Miguel on NPR (from two ilxors), so meh!

― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Friday, January 25, 2013 11:34 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ok thanks

the era that is now being looked back at fondly in itself was considered a decline for ILM when it was actually happening, there's always some nostalgia for some half remembered "golden age" when things were so great, but when it was actually happening it was viewed as not as good as another fictional golden age.

looking at the early posts on any thread that's like 8+ years old is a great reality check.

old ilx was shit

what's the average age of ilxors that primarily hear music through clubbing/dancing/etc? i feel totally alienated from that segment of ilx.

ILM needs more drone music imo

skot and wmc are talking about me btw but thats fine. I prefer to know my enemies so if annyone has a problem with me then post away the reasons I do not mind at all.

u are universally loved

<3 AG

you love long lists. I can never forgive you for your love of long lists

the era that is now being looked back at fondly in itself was considered a decline for ILM when it was actually happening, there's always some nostalgia for some half remembered "golden age" when things were so great, but when it was actually happening it was viewed as not as good as another fictional golden age.

looking at the early posts on any thread that's like 8+ years old is a great reality check.

― mh (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, January 25, 2013 1:02 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah i was gonna say this, by 04 at the latest the 'ilm's gone down the tubes' crowd was already pretty vocal

that said, ilm's gone down the tubes

old ilx was so mean

hang on .. back up people, did someone mention a new klaxons album ?

[ i still love killing work hours here despite the lack of the old school ilm attrition chaos ]

let's go down the tubes - have a banana!

my favorite series of threads:

Has ILE Gone Down The Dumper?
Has the "Has ILE Gone Down the Dumper?" Thread Gone Down the Dumper?
has the 'has the 'has ile gone down the dumper' thread gone down the dumper' thread gone down the dumper?

"skot and wmc are talking about me btw but thats fine."

silly paranoid android i SO wasn't talking about you. i have no problem with you. i hid polls on ilx years ago.

It would be totally disingenuous to say I don't have issues with you, AG, but I think we manage a pretty successful peaceful coexistence.

yes I like to think i do try to make up with people. I do not intend to annoy people. Most of the time I have no idea i do it. Its never intentional. Must just be an online thing.
Scott im glad about that. fwiw i like you guys.

and if anyone does have issues with me then please webmail me and im happy to talk to you about it,

I have no issues whatsoever with you, man. Just so you know :)

tell New Management i said hi

i thought you were new management

Iago I wish you would've just called out the person who offends you rather than saying "somebody in the room"
I don't recoil from anybody's posts except my own in retrospect

<3 AG, too

When I first came to ILM (IDK, 2004?), it felt like, for better or worse, a kind of inspired insurgency. Poptimism was a mission, and there was a fervor to the whole thing. ILM eventually won its coup, and since then it has been faced with the far more mundane and undesirable task of governing.

― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Friday, January 25, 2013 11:56 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark

plus pop music betrayed the cause by deciding to mostly suck assholes for the last *checks watch* 6 years

― turds (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 25 January 2013 17:32 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i feel like the ORIGINAL ILX ETHOS is kind of dissipated by the time the term 'poptimism' gets coined, i don't know: the difference between 'this petey pablo single sounds like disco inferno's early EPs' and 'this taylor swift album sounds like a magic unicorn that shits rainbows'

ilx's tone of discussion has shifted (in part w/ the increasing er professionalisation of a bunch of ppl on the board) so there's a lot more emphasis on keeping up with things and less on exegesis. and 'keeping up with things' includes a lot of insider baseball talk. -- it seems like unless you're getting paid to write about hip hop then there's little point in your attempting to take part in the rolling molly thread or whatever it's called.

otm

so so otm

even the otms are otm.

ez snappin otm

i feel like the ORIGINAL ILX ETHOS is kind of dissipated by the time the term 'poptimism' gets coined, i don't know: the difference between 'this petey pablo single sounds like disco inferno's early EPs' and 'this taylor swift album sounds like a magic unicorn that shits rainbows'

ilx's tone of discussion has shifted (in part w/ the increasing er professionalisation of a bunch of ppl on the board) so there's a lot more emphasis on keeping up with things and less on exegesis. and 'keeping up with things' includes a lot of insider baseball talk. -- it seems like unless you're getting paid to write about hip hop then there's little point in your attempting to take part in the rolling molly thread or whatever it's called.

― attempt to look intentionally nerdy, awkward or (thomp), Friday, January 25, 2013 2:44 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

my dude

non-pros have held held their own just fine on rolling raps, just say u feel intimidated and need ur hand held rather than inventing some horseshit projection

ok tough guy

i didn't say it was impossible to take part. i said there wasn't any point.

i used to read/post to rolling rap despite knowing nothing but its gotten more impenetrable each year imo

i couldn't hang with this feral younger generation of goons, after having my "things just ain't the same for gangstas" moment i left, got chubby and moved to miami

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LyUCy3eOvs

modern country song about rolling raps

less of a vocal britisher presence of the old old days - tom, marcello, mark s., dom, lord custos xmas number one showdowns - led to more idiots like me who took foghat really seriously? feel like that was one change among many. i honestly don't even remember what was going on here or what my problem was when i started this thread. i was just bored and cranky.

well those guys going away didn't LEAD to idiots like me. idiots like me just got more vocal in their absence? possibly? i have no idea really.

rtc's otm though. it's true there are a few posters who mostly post content but they mostly popped up in the last year or two, plenty of exegesis on rolling rap threads

custos was british? no way! hes one of yours surely!

having said that i am very grateful that u all don't post in the thread

custos was british??

xp

part of it may be that rap music itself is getting progressively weirder over time

having said that i am very grateful that u all don't post in the thread

― flopson, Friday, January 25, 2013 3:05 PM (8 seconds ago) Bookmark

We'd be grateful if you didn't post outside of it. Haha, just funnin *punches you in the armm*

sometimes i wish i could filter goon threads to only "new [x] tape is good" posts

part of it may be that rap music itself is getting progressively weirder over time

― tity boi historian (ciderpress), Friday, January 25, 2013 3:05 PM (25 seconds ago) Bookmark

*shittier

custos' humor read aloud w/a british accent *does* make a *bit* more sense