Any reason why ILM is so quiet these days?

I don't really feel like presenting a case and an argument on this point. I'm sure you could even trudge up posts where I was doing exactly what you're talking about, but you'd in turn just be demonstrating exactly why I stopped enjoying ILM

i love ilm but i pretty much only post when i am fawning over something and i need to share my enthusiasm, i've never really had the heavyweight opinions that others bring but i appreciate them

*dredge not trudge

scott it's more like "off the peg", readymade

okay, got it. that would be off the rack here.

Btw I actually think it had been less nasty and polarized in recent years but I just already felt sort of fatigued of the experience by then. When I first came to ILM there was more of an overthrow-the-old-guitar-order/make-fun-of-post-rock vibe that I found off-putting and intriguing at the same time. Because I liked some post rock a lot and I didn't really see why it was so worthy of bashing but I also hadn't encountered anyone who so strenuously hated it before.

tortoise were no penguin cafe orchestra. that's right, i said it...

Scott you were always one of the posters who kept me coming back to ILM

2006-08 period was pretty volatile iirc, but that was mostly down to dom and the zing crew.

"Scott you were always one of the posters who kept me coming back to ILM"

i apologize...from the bottom of my heart...

penguin cafe orchestra is tight

The DMB thread is a fucking embarrassment from this vantage point.

Which thread is this, I'd like to read it!

some really horrible poster started it under an assumed name
Dave Matthews Band : Name Your Reasons Why They Are So Bad & Hated.

Oh right, have never thought about looking at that for even a nanosecond.

It was once the largest thread on ILX until registered log-ins came in. Random googlers were lols

Sounds good!

the legend is that Jon W posted links to it on DMB forums. I've always meant to ask him if he did (to say thanks)

that thread is 100% worth it IMO for this one googler post, i think about this all the time and not just for lolz (although mostly)

alright.. i only read the first bunch of postings.. and i dont know why there are so many haters out there.. dave is a great guy and does alott of work for charities.. pardon the spelling haha.. i dont know where you get corporate rock band from.. since hes libral as hell.. his lyrics are great.. just get beyond everyday and gravedigger.. his so smooth on the guitar its not even funny.. everyone in the band has incredible talent.. and i dont know how you can say its bland music.. some of the greatest artists ever are bland.. for example.. and keep in mind i love the beatles.. but "we all live in a yellow submarineee yellow submarinee.. la la la" its very boring as well.. oh and about his voice.. very few people have the range that dave has.. and what kind of music does everyone here listen too??.. besides britney spears and john mayer of course..
― CcchrissS, Friday, December 9, 2005 10:25 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah that's the legendary one.

oh and about his voice.. very few people have the range that dave has..

hahahaha this is one of the most insane claims anyone has ever made about music

Tina bringing the cliches lols

You need to stop the hatin' on Dave. DMB are a terrifially talented band who write great songs, play their instruments well , sing with passion and write about important issues. You 'music fans' here can keep your alternative rock rubbish like Nirvana , Pearl jam , Sonic Youth and Pixies and leave the genius of real music like Dave Matthews to the millions of real music fans worldwide. Thats why they've sold millions of albums and gigs sell out instantly.

― Tina R, Friday, 6 June 2003 16:06 (12 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Also why do some people keep going on about regular date rapes while listening to dave? Wheres the evidence to back this up?

― Tina T, Friday, 6 June 2003 16:08 (12 years ago)

h stencil had the best first reply, M@tt

The guy sings like a muppet.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 19:34 (12 years ago)

otm

I think now that Doobie Bros. are hip maybe in 10-20 years DMB will get some kind of 90s classic rock revisiting.

they have a huge fanbase that's never gone away, and a mainstream 90s popularity that i doubt has turned to hatred in most of the people who bought the first two albums. they've got rock and roll hall of fame written all over them and yeah, no reason to think their hits and maybe even some album cuts will be huge on future equivalents of the classic rock format.

But not in the UK thankfully as nobody has ever heard of them over here

AJD has got a point, mind.

I used to be a music journalist and I started this thread:

Buckinghamshire

It wouldn't be a great loss if I went.

Best threadstart of 2015 imo.

Hi.

And after all that I have no idea what DMB are like.

I imagine if "Achy Nearly Heart" was a more serious song, that's what DMB would sound like..

i'm just going to keep starting threads about songs i like :))

^^ gets it

I book marked this thread a while back, only now reading it. Funny thing: some of my friends (lawyers, mind, but I love them nonetheless) went to see DMB a week or so ago. I didn't even know the band was still active. I just kept thinking, "you still like this band?"

As a lawyer I can say with confidence that being one is not an excuse.

it is, isn't it? Quiet, I mean. On ILM

music is quiet

except jute gyte, jute gyte is loud

the new ruth lake is a good quiet album

the new laura mvula is a good album that is neither quiet nor loud

i listened to a dif juz record yesterday. it was pretty quiet. it has the bird from the cockatoo twins on it singing in a banana suit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A8h-nrTRY0

I'm still plenty busy following ILM, but if there are legitimate concerns about the message board going down the drains I was thinking maybe we should try to... recruit new (young) posters?

see you in 600 posts

I was thinking maybe we should try to... recruit new (young) posters?

How?

i bet if you looked it up the 10th post on ILM was that it wasn't as good as the good old days

Since I've gone over to the SNAside, I have no idea what ILM looks like these days. Isn't it all rolling (micro)genre threads and the occasional enormo-poll?

I remember in like 2001/2002 there was complaints about nu-ilx but my op wasnt about not being as good as it was, just that it was quiet and had been for quite a while.

tom you traitor

would prefer to have new ppl come in organically, though i realize social media has made message boards like these a relic of the past

a more natural approach would be trying to get lurkers, of which there are supposedly many, to post more often

but FWIW i don't think this board is particularly close to 'going down the drains'

neither do i. its not what i meant in the OP.

SNA does seem to be a big reason for ILM being quiet as noone is starting many threads or reviving there.
Do lots of people exclude ILM from their SNA in settings?