Any reason why ILM is so quiet these days?

247.

of all the indie stuff from the past 20 years, I had an amazing success rate guessing based on the aesthetics of the album cover.

247--could've been better but it took me 4 tries for a couple

sarahell otm

236, was doing well until the last round, no idea what 90% of that stuff was.

Front 242

250, only mistake was an impulse decision that Fela Kuti was the Fugees.

249. There were a few lucky guesses in there for sure.

248, struggled with some of the indie shit

234, struggled with most of the rap shit

243. The more recent rap/R&B stuff gave me a hard time.

246. I got the rap stuff (which shocked me) and missed a few of the indie things. A lot of them were ridiculously easy to guess, though, like there would be only one female option out of four.

the average score was 158

which means they totally made that up

the average score on this online IQ test is 115, bet you can't beat it! (everyone gets 140+)

Maybe. I think our scores are just high because we are ILM posters.

187

what horrible music!

i had no idea what lots of it was but a lot had covers which looked like they were right for the song. i thought i did ok, now i see the other scores here. i didnt do ok

oh, it skiiped level 4 for some reason

i got 234

247. Wish I had listened to some longer after realizing I wouldn't get penalized for time. Probably would have gotten a few more.

248, flubbed on Mitski, Twin Peaks, and Kendrick Lamar.

241, that was a pleasant distraction, lotta guessing on the stuff from the last ten years or so. Now, shall we do this again for every audio quiz on Sporcle?

244

I got 249, only the recent indie round at the end tripped me up.

250

so what ilm needed to get talking were online quizzes

"talking"

yeah, sorry again for taking this thread off-topic a couple of weeks ago and steering the conversation away from....hey, wait a minute!

244

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/dragonball/images/4/4b/VegetaItsOver9000-02.png/revision/latest?cb=20100724145819

250. Got em all right on the first guess except for one which i changed to the correct one right away.

i got 420!

God damn you bastards getting 250+

freakin hip kid millennials cheating the system

250 and I only own one album featured (TPAB). Have never knowingly heard Artic Monkeys, Rilo Kiley, Mitski and a few others. Why do I know this stuff?

God damn you

https://youtu.be/B0sy7y54XAE

Here is a Rilo Kiley track to knowingly listen to you

yo tresh go on messenger

I've now knowingly heard Rilo Kiley. They're great! I can pick them blind from a similar lineup based on ambient exposure to indie music. Not my thing at all though. Speedy Ortiz was another I correctly ID'd having never heard. I do, though, read interviews with almost anyone and they're very interviewed.

seems we did get a handful of new posters after all, wonder where they came from

ex lurkers maybe

rymers who defected to ilx because their off-topic and politics boards got shut down and their music board stagnated as their community sought for the thousandth time to determine which album had the best opening track. they think ilm is really highbrow because here you can have *deep thoughts* about the critical reception of late career Zeppelin albums rather than just quibbling over why "California" has such a low track rating. in the next year or so, rym will shut down all of its message boards and there'll be a link to ilm on the rym/sonemic frontpage like there used to be on freakytrigger.

clearly no longer frightened off by all the playlists

I've always thought the forum on RYM was one of the least appealing aspects of the site.

Had no idea there even was one

Seriously!?

lol oh dear, maybe that's where the person who i poked fun at for sounding like an 'acclaimed music' community member came from

let's hope their forums don't shut down too

I only look at the rym charts

mass exodus of rym shut-ins to ilm and ensuing internecine war is PRECISELY what this sleepy plain text message boards needs!!!

Does sound pretty good.

historians will judge us for our lack of foresight in introducing polls

its all good let em in

Brexit from ILM (to Livejournal) already happened in 2005.