posts very much in character

yeah sadly i csn't hide the 6 month long nomination threads where people just list every song they can think of from a given decade. or the threads about these threads. or the threads about those threads.

in character and out of character at the same time:

Do you wish I had allowed a ballot of 200?
I've not even looked at the noms yet to start on mine. Need a day or 2s break from the poll to think about it/

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Saturday, October 20, 2012 4:21 PM

So, I was thinking about this question today and have to question the framing of it. R.E.M. was a very popular group for a long period of time. I'm sure I can look on Amazon or iTunes and there will be plenty of four and five star reviews for every single post-Bill Berry album. I think I've also had enough personal experiences to not be surprised by someone telling me they love Around the Sun (a number one album in Austria, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, and the U.K.).

So critical consensus ends up striking me as an irrelevant sample size, perhaps especially so in this case. I always remember a photo I saw from an Eastern European tour in the early '00s where someone was holding up a sign that said, "Reveal Changed My Life." R.E.M. was a band that inspired that kind of thing a lot more than the critical discourse around them acknowledges and for a lot longer - perhaps for their entire existence.

― timellison, Friday, November 9, 2012 12:53 AM (4 minutes ago)

zzzzzzzzz

ciderpress obv not up to speed on all forms of american high school culture.

Let's say you attend Herbert Hoover High School and you participate in an extra-curricular activity that requires being selected, based on some talent or ability -- a varsity sports team, for example. Being selected earns you the right to display an emblem that marks you as having been so honored. The emblem consists of a largish letter 'H', in rough, heavy fabric, generally in your school's team colors. This is called 'lettering' in an activity.

― Aimless, Friday, November 9, 2012 7:32 PM (7 minutes ago)

A list of UK Artists set to deliver interesting albums soon:

Monday 20th May

Dot Allison - We're Only Science (Mantra) ex One Dove vocalist turns into Britain's answer to Miss Kittin, with Keith T of Radioactive Man/ Two Lone Swordsmen at the controls.

Mr C - Change (End Recordings) superb tech house album

The The - 45 RPM - Best Of (Epic)(R) compilation of singles

MAY 27th 2002:

Danny Breaks - Vibrations (Droppin Science)

Ian Crause - Head Over Heels (Acuarela) ex Disco Inferno

Digital - Dubzilla (Function Records) key drum n bass producer from Ispwsich

Dillinja & Lemon D - Big Bad Bass (Valve) dual album - hard techstep jungle

Dom & Roland - Back For The Future (Moving Shadow)

Faultline - Your Love Means Everything (Blanco Y Negro) David Kosten makes a high profile album with guest vocals, getting good press

Icarus - Misfits (Unknown) experimental cut up electronics with breakbeats

Sierpinski - This Geography Of Ours (Jonathon Whiskey) Compared to Movietone, Boards Of Canada, Arovane, Micheal Nyman and Bark Psychosis

Super_Collider - Raw Digits (Rise Robots Rise) You know about this, Simon Reynolds approved cut up sounds.

V/A Radioactive Man Vs Transparent Sound - Beatz Clash Volume One (Longhaul) electro without the eclectroclash - this is more machine driven electro !

V/A Tyrant 02 Craig Richards And Lee Burridge (Fabric) the big tech- house compilation of 2002

The Jesus & Mary Chain - 21 Singles (WSM /Warner Strategic Marketing) nice collection of singles in chrono order from 1984 to 1998

June 3rd

Rothko - A Continual Search for Origins (Too Pure) atmospheric post rock with 3 bass guitars

Spylab - This Utopia (Guidance) Glasgow band, compared to lamb/ portishead/ massive attack

Waterglass - Wisdom Like Silence (Watertight Recordings) London based band compared to Cocteau Twins/ Cranes.

June 10th

High Contrast - True Colours (Hospital Records) Future Funk Jungle - drumnbass jungle's most anticipated debut album for 2002

Sometime in June:

V/A Andrew Weatherall - Machine Funk Specialists (Rotters Golf Club) he is back with a wicked comp.

June/ July

Peshay - Fuzion (Cubik) July 1st - more Future Funk Jungle - sublime producer.

Ils - Soul Trader (Marine Parade)fresh breakbeat from a signing to Adam Freeland's label

Layo & Bushwacka - Nightworks(XL)early July? the big summer dance album by a British artist. This is going to be sublime tech house with some added bass guitar.

Starecase - Firstfloor (Hope Recordings) Bristol breakbeat crew.

Primal Scream - TBC/ July 29th - maybe pushed back !

Transparent Sound (Electrix) electro-beats ala The Advent.

― DJ Martian, Sunday, May 19, 2002 12:00 AM (10 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I forgot to mention:

Piano Magic - Writers Without Homes (4ad) June 10th.

― DJ Martian, Sunday, May 19, 2002 12:00 AM (10 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Whatever happened to dj martian?

modem repossessed after pompey administration

the lack of hilarious rubes to score lazy zings off of is one of the depressingest features of ILX 2K12

yeah i feel like everyone's been around so long now there's just to much fuckin baggage. Even whiney went and got married, can't just zing a guy with that much community property imo

New York isn't a community property state fyi.

I prefer chemotherapy to Punch Drunk Love

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Monday, November 19, 2012 11:24 AM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hahah i love that dude

"Take Care," both Ri and Drake's best single.

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, November 23, 2012 8:27 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

eh, in the low end of his top 10, and her top 25

― The Doc Morbama (some dude), Friday, November 23, 2012 8:28 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so you think she's got 24 better singles

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, November 23, 2012 8:29 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nah, only 22 (xp)

― The Doc Morbama (some dude), Friday, November 23, 2012 8:37 PM (35 seconds ago)

nothing's inconsequential

― markers, Friday, November 23, 2012 8:38 PM (9 minutes ago)

Yeah the pubes were so luxuriant, I figured they were hiding the real stuff below.

― Sax Blatterday (jaymc), Thursday, November 29, 2012 6:17 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I beg to differ!

so do i. lavant's had "it" out (and erect) before.

wow lots of WDYLL's!!!

babies and bikes and hands and halloween and dresses and yaaaay hi everbody

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, November 29, 2012 5:19 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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:-p

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\(^o^)/

<3~~~~!

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…double vagina?

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it was supposed to be a bottom!

:3

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PS lol markers

markers has the cozy blanket of emoticons. i love it

^_^

according to noz its getting adds at urban radio.

― D-40, Friday, November 30, 2012 1:03 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hehe

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mecsbj3TZA1qem6i7o1_500.jpg

haha

I was going to do a scrotum reference but the health info behind avocados didn't support it

― I loves you, PORGI (DJP), Friday, December 7, 2012 12:22 PM (1 minute ago)

I've seen much weaker (and blander) lists than this - I like a bunch of stuff here.

― Deafening silence (DL), Monday, 10 December 2012 15:42 (12 minutes ago)

The lists are weak. Fucking lists are weak? You're weak.

ha

approaching the argument by saying tht gunowners are all racists and hate poor people is stupid

― tiniest homeless (jjjusten), Saturday, December 15, 2012 2:31 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

approaching this as an exurban/rural vs. rest of country issue isn't, tho

― iatee, Saturday, December 15, 2012 2:34 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I really do wish they would ban cars.

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, December 17, 2012 11:35 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

here's everything I need to know:

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, January 1, 2013 12:01 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/world/middleeast/new-insights-on-marijuana-in-israel-where-its-illegal.html

― Mordy, Tuesday, January 1, 2013 5:14 PM Bookmark

article urls very in character, even!