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

sorry about that er my own way of saying there is awesomeness around in many things if you dig but strike that as projecting blah.

is this thread about ilm or hip hop/goons?

either way, ilm is p much the only place i can regularly count on someone having anything in common with me (wrt music) so i would feel kinda lost without it now. where could i talk about popol vuh and shirley collins and and and? how could i ask questions about experimental bagpipe music, etc? afaict everything is just fine on ilm for fringe weirdos.

otm. there are very few people irl who i can BS with about weirdo music. i'm not looking for much else, let's just BS, people!

tl; dr any of that but anyone check out /mu from time to time, or is active over there? every time i check i get something good out of it, learn about some new sound and whatnot.

What's /mu?

music board on 4chan. particularly special place considering the quantity of content that is posted over there and nothing is archived. or maybe i am just lucky. last time i checked there was a thread about microtonal dance music like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLfYdfO3bgE and a noise suggestion thread where i heard of torturing nurse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGd7Gy1Wwac . noise threads seems to pop up frequently

ps let's have a minute of silence for the poor nurses that get so mistreated in the realm of harsh zik.

Hmm I've always been afraid of 4chan

why would i go there when i can stay here? the people here are mostly nice.

afaict everything is just fine on ilm for fringe weirdos.

Yes yes fuck yes. There is so much fine music I have discovered from ILM including Shirley Collins and Popol Voh. I lost touch with Hip Hop well over 10 years ago when I became a bit of a Golden Age stuckist. I wouldn't post on one of these goonie threads because I would probably get ripped for being a dull monosyllabic clueless fuck. But I am glad they exist, because I am still going to pick up on the odd mixtape/album off them. I only discovered ILM a few years ago so I still don't take it for granted and think it is the ultimate music resource.

regarding 4chan : content wise they have some of the best sub boards on television & film, music, fashion, literature, health, travel etc
but it helps to have a thick skin for the rare times a troll shows up to post something disturbing. why go there, well the thread title says "ilm is kinda sucking these days" so i was listing a place to check out if one feels like it. anonymity and ephemerality sure is another game tho and it's always nice to come back "home" to familiar names.

regarding music on reddit , they have a bunch of boards but in my experience they are not very satisfying.
couple ok places would be http://www.reddit.com/r/listentothis r/futurefunkairlines (sort of a rolling dance music thread but more meh)
and http://www.reddit.com/r/RepublicOfMusic (only content created or published within the last three months is allowed)

my only point of posting itt at all was to say that ilm is not sucking/is not partic boring from my perspective.

dig. to me it varies over time.

LL otm; ILM delivers as always

other message boards i have seen make me cringe. make all you dopes look like friggin' super geniuses.

the goon thread is such a red herring, none of the other rolling threads are at all like it. the only reason it's intimidating to go in is because of the inefficient admin shipz mentioned upthread, and because the regulars post so much - most days, 100 new answers isn't surprising, and that's even if someone hasn't decided to be pedantic. but the only zings are directed at each other, not n00bs. also, as someone who has been a n00b in my time, it's fairly easy to ask neophyte questions and get civil responses - it's easy to tell when someone isn't really interested in engaging with a genre, and obviously fans of that genre don't take well to that.

mostly i agree with la lechera, as much as the internet has expanded ilm is one of the few places i feel like i can talk about pop music with people on a similar wavelength to me. ilm has plenty of negative points but almost every day there's something positive i read or hear through it.

other message boards i have seen make me cringe. make all you dopes look like friggin' super geniuses.

― scott seward, Saturday, January 26, 2013 8:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is it p much. I mean there are plenty of other places where people bring deep knowledge but they tend to overwhelmingly be tossers about it

Pretty much agree. Truth be told thought about jumping ship at one point to some kind of other message board but didn't want to end up
1) Finding out well-known jazz critic whose opinions I respected is actually kind of a blowhard
2) Learning to hate jazz or something else the way I've learned to hate "Music"

/slight_rhetorical_exaggeration_but_not_much

But if I didn't stick around where would I get those cherce nuggets like Dr. Tim Finney analyses billstevejim?

other message boards i have seen make me cringe. make all you dopes look like friggin' super geniuses.

― scott seward, Saturday, January 26, 2013 8:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seward otm as usual.

Other borads try to imitate us

http://ihatemusic.noquam.com/

that's often an interesting borad, j0n @bbey and d@n w@rburt0n know their avant shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcjSDZNbOs0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

ihatemusic has been around a pretty long time now. Kudos to those guys for keeping it going.

not posted there in a long time

This thread makes me feel like I haven't kept up my end of making goon threads imposing to outsiders enough. :/

Dissensus--c/d?

do other boards (reddit/somethingawful/etc) have threads about ilx like ilx has about them?

Do we have a thread about something awful

II'm sure chakis board Haas had some threads about us

searching 'something awful' immediately brought up two threads about them

dissensus got pretty slow/dead when all the heavy theory people left. it kinda felt like things fizzled out/shot their wad after the big 'nuum debate five(?) or so years ago

"This thread makes me feel like I haven't kept up my end of making goon threads imposing to outsiders enough. :/"

could there possibly be people intimidated by the right rod rev? such a sweetypie!

I know, I'm slacking.

Rod Flash?

on occasion i've wondered what it would be like to be nasty and snarky on ilx. would it be fun? i've gotten pissed off before and i always feel like i can't really be mean because it would be too...uh, mean. cuz if you aren't usually rude/mean then it feels worse to the person you are being mean/rude to. i've made bad jokes before and had my tone misinterpreted and i feel like when that happens things get magnified. sometimes you have to be careful on the internet! i always try to apologize right away. or explain what i meant. god i actually remember almost every time that someone took something i said the wrong way! that's how careful i am. i still cringe when i think of those moments.

(and sometimes you can be insensitive and not even know it. i bitched about polls years ago and pfunkboy still thinks that its personal. and it really isn't. i just got sick of polls a long time ago. not the people who love them. i'm telling you, you gotta be careful on the internet. people can't see you or hear you.)

xp - i stopped paying attention to I Hate Mus1c when some mod deleted one of Warburton's posts where he actually questioned the perfection of Keith Rowe and commented that IHM might as well be called the Keith Rowe Fan Club.

hahaha. I bailed for a similar reason. Someone posted about how they never listen to "popular music" because it's inherently inferior to "free improvisation." The discussion was actually kind of interesting, but was soon deleted.

I thought about posting how Rowe got all his ideas from Pete Townshend and Eddie Phillips, but figured I'd just get banned.

would it be fun?

yes

not enough yes

Scott you are a good and decent person and I really admire that. It also must be hard to know more than everyone else and also be nice. It's enough reason to stick around, to know that the people I keep company with are kind/good people.

i can't think of anywhere else to ask this but

mbv flashpoll #2: let's predict the Pitchfork score!

- what the fuck is that thread, have you no fucking dignity
- please tell me the only reason it's still going and has so many answers is because the thread starter is getting mercilessly clowned

pitchfork review is up now

We'll get em back when the D'angelo record finally drops, lex.

i would hope no one gives a shit about what p4k gives the d'angelo album

(it's not the MBV excitement that annoys, obviously, carry on with your enthusiasm)

lex you think about pitchfork 100x more than people who actively read pitchfork

I don't get the impression anyone on that thread actually gives a shit about the pitchfork score, if that makes you feel better

lex you think about pitchfork 100x more than people who actively read pitchfork

― available for sporting events (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, February 6, 2013 4:19 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

o really do tell me more about what i think

it's been bobbing around the top of ilm new answers for days, it's impossible to overlook the thing