pitchfork review is up now
lol a+ bump
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
pitchfork thread is a joke
lex hates humor
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
not much more to it
OPPA GANGNAM STYLE
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
fwiw i made a 100% bullshit post to this thread yesterday and no one said anything about it
Artists who waited ten years or more to make a follow-up
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― mbvgz (how's life), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
I can sorta see whiney's point about threads like that one as they seem to have little actual discussion. Like "s/d: albums that fit x criteria" at least encourages qualitative judgements whereas "let's list every exampe of albums that fit x criteria" results in just that, a list. And then it sorta does become tv tropes for music. However as a registered poster with fingers he is in a position to generate music discussion himself so shrug
― ☯ t (wins), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 18:33 (eleven years ago) link
example
this was the thread that i think got whiney on his whole tv tropes thing, a thread i started, admittedly without deeply pondering its greater implications on the discource of ilm as a whole....that said i think there is some good discussion on it
Every huge artist has their "New Jersey" - a huge event album that ultimately feels a bit hollow & signals a career decline
― downton arby (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
there've always been threads like that on ilm
― don't call it a cloud rap i've been high for years (zvookster), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
for example the classic creatively bankrupt newish chillwave/post-AnCo bands whose names are just '80s ephemera
― don't call it a cloud rap i've been high for years (zvookster), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
http://d2ywbsv4foxae1.cloudfront.net/p/hasbro-3195-96653-1-product.jpg
― administrator galina (Matt P), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
*sniffs* i grow weary of superficial discussion
― administrator galina (Matt P), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
the great thing is that lex didn't actually read the thread, he merely found its presence in new answers insupportable
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
I think it's kind of funny that Whiney basically said "I was going to complain about ppl guessing a Pitchfork score" but apparently decided to create all the 1980s movies where a punk band recorded the theme song instead
like, how are you going to bag on ppl for having obsessive fun and then start an obsessive fun thread
― Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
whiney, god bless him, is the king of going after people for doing stuff that is basically 99.99999999% similar to the stuff he does
― zero dark (s1ocki), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
he's a goer
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.angryyoungandpoor.com/store/pc/catalog/products/ts/likeyout.jpg
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
hahahah
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
Whiney & The Lex one of my fave Cartoon Network shows in the 90's.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
the narcissism of whiner differences
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
I had to See Image Info on that one, I kinda want that shirt
xposts
― there were chinchillas, these weird little rat animals, in cages (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― administrator galina (Matt P), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
horace: eram quod es; eris quod sum
― the late great, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
delenda est ilm
― Ballboy to Afghanistan (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
I Love Mewling
― scott seward, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 23:58 (eleven years ago) link
.. a nu-golden era beckons perhaps ..
some cracking good threads at the moment ..
or is this cos 2013 has become interesting after a dreary couple of years ..
― mark e, Thursday, 7 February 2013 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
yeah threads that are just a catalog of things have always been a part of ilm, like alex in nyc's "album covers that have someone wearing a hat" threads or Favorite Long Songs ?
the discourse on poll threads doesn't really seem much different than what was on the Pick Only One or In Praise Of threads. they're just a harmless catalyst for discussion imo.
scott otm about the decreased britisher presence, that's the main difference between old and new ILM to me. which really just means that i'm when i check out an artist that gets rapturously praised on here and i'm like http://www.city-data.com/forum/members/jill61-603505-albums-emoticons-pic62805-shrug.gif it's for gucci mane and not girls aloud now.
― slam dunk, Friday, 8 February 2013 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
^^^ this sort of internet hardman vibe - which isn't really that widespread on ilm, but is more in evidence than it used to be - is exactly what people mean when they say ilm sucks more than it used to
it really isn't, but maybe the level of earnestness that used to be there has dropped more-than-proportionately
― the right to beef at (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 February 2013 02:26 (eleven years ago) link
back then rap fans had a notable new album to discuss every 6 weeks or so, now there's a notable new mixtape every 6 hours.
i do not think that we agree on what notable means btw some dude
― the right to beef at (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 February 2013 02:27 (eleven years ago) link
noted ilm poster darraghmac
― every soulless meta poster is a ✰ (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Saturday, 9 February 2013 02:27 (eleven years ago) link
btw this thread premise is p much equivalent to 'hell is dry and hot these days' imo but i heard there was a meta clusterfuck so here i am
ha xp
― the right to beef at (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 February 2013 02:28 (eleven years ago) link
― the right to beef at (darraghmac), Friday, February 8, 2013 9:27 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
REALLY, "notable" is too far? i feel like that's a fine word to mean 'something that multiple people are listening to and interested in talking about,' it's not like i said "significant" or "important" or something.
― dirty drone barack boy (some dude), Saturday, 9 February 2013 02:56 (eleven years ago) link
i mean it's pretty much an indisputable fact that an hour of new music by a rapper that pretty much any hip-hop fan has at least heard of used to be a weekly or monthly occurrence and is now a daily if not hourly occurrence.
― dirty drone barack boy (some dude), Saturday, 9 February 2013 02:58 (eleven years ago) link
these rap chaps ought to exercise some bally self-control, is what our dear friend is flailing at
― imago, Saturday, 9 February 2013 03:01 (eleven years ago) link
same as the noise scene. people make a tape a week. rap and noise. its easy to consume a lot of it though. even when its not memorable. its like weird candy you like. metal fans too. an infinite appetite. courting a porn-y audience isn't hard. just keep it coming.
― scott seward, Saturday, 9 February 2013 03:08 (eleven years ago) link
it just struck me as strange usage tbh- imo if you think there is a notable album/mixtape coming out every 6 hours you need to raise yr ceiling of notability
― the right to beef at (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 February 2013 03:11 (eleven years ago) link
this is v much an aside tho, it's not notable tbh
― the right to beef at (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 February 2013 03:12 (eleven years ago) link
This has the feel of the very initial exchanges of a terrible, magnificent war
― imago, Saturday, 9 February 2013 03:13 (eleven years ago) link
ha not at all, fwiw i recognise the ability to catalogue reams and reams of new content as a very ilm trait/talent. maybe ilf does similar but i couldn't really think of an equivalent off my head
― the right to beef at (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 February 2013 03:16 (eleven years ago) link
hah it occurs to me that i have no idea what kind of music darragh likes
― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 February 2013 03:22 (eleven years ago) link
i guess 'notable' has an air of 'exceptional' to it but all i meant was, like, famous. someone pretty famous, like has has hit singles and been on TV and stuff, drops a new mixtape like at least 4 times every day. that wasn't true 10 years ago.
― dirty drone barack boy (some dude), Saturday, 9 February 2013 03:22 (eleven years ago) link
has has = has had
― dirty drone barack boy (some dude), Saturday, 9 February 2013 03:23 (eleven years ago) link
i could suggest raising yr bar for 'famous', but i mean i'm not out to stop anyone's fun or anything
― the right to beef at (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 February 2013 03:24 (eleven years ago) link
it's not like the rolling noise or anything else threads are predominantly about people who are 'famous' by any measure! i just mean, like, well known to fans of the genre!
― dirty drone barack boy (some dude), Saturday, 9 February 2013 03:27 (eleven years ago) link
please don't waste any effort trying to convince me, i dont even know what 'noise' is tbfh
― the right to beef at (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 February 2013 03:29 (eleven years ago) link
guess
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Saturday, 9 February 2013 04:13 (eleven years ago) link
This thread needs more salsa dancing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2XQb5fJpeg
― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 9 February 2013 05:01 (eleven years ago) link
it certainly could use maracas
― dirty drone barack boy (some dude), Saturday, 9 February 2013 05:02 (eleven years ago) link
it could use some deleting
― Ballboy to Afghanistan (LocalGarda), Saturday, 9 February 2013 09:04 (eleven years ago) link