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On YouTube shreds thread

These videos make me sad. Why? Because I find them kind of amusing but not laugh-out-loud funny. To be honest, I started with the Clapton one, and figured out after a minute or so that the music wasn't what he was actually playing. But I didn't understand that the music was supposed to sound COMICALLY AND CATASTROPHICALLY WORSE than what he was actually playing. And that made me feel it must be the case that I don't actually understand what makes music work at all, and maybe I should just stop listening to it, even though I think of myself as liking and appreciating it.

-- Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 24 October 2007 15:09 (3 hours ago) Link

On INXS:

They were not the most innovative band even at their best, so they don't have that Beatles/Hendrix/Kraftwerk thing where people say "this sounds corny now but back then it was the first time anyone did that". I did like some of their records at the time but there's nothing there that I'd want to listen to again.

-- snoball, Thursday, 22 November 2007 12:59 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

are INXS mondeo pop, dom?

Eh... no, they're too... sleazy. I think most Mondeo Pop acts you'd be happy for your little sister to date. Plus there was something a little... American about INXS.

You really need to be commissioning me to write the great Mondeo Pop article for one of those rags you work for.

How in the hell does a song like "Kiss the Dirt" sound American?

i pointedly avoid being in a position to commission anything i'm afraid, dom!

maybe el moz should take some "personal responsiblity" toward his audience of vulnerable young white guys?

I'm not sure if there is anything resembling a thought here. I could get mad, but then I realize its the internet, where we take being "irreverent" to mean you are intelligent, as long as you don't offend anyone.

-- swinburningforyou, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 21:31 (Yesterday) Link

Come on, racists don't make music swinburningforyou likes, that'd be stupid.

-- Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 21:33 (Yesterday) Link

please don't put me in some absurd situation where I have to list off musicians/writers whose work I enjoy that are racist. thats not what this is about and you know it.

-- swinburningforyou, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 21:38 (Yesterday) Link

^^^this is the dude who's first major contribution to ILX was "Is Perez Hilton the new Lester Bangs?"

a fruitful day

you beating me is like seeing an all white zebra

Who is the private voter of "Finesse Mitchell!" Someone is feeeling like a dildo.

-- Pål Útlendi, Thursday, January 3, 2008 12:48 AM (18 hours ago) Bookmark Link

yea that guy is awesome.

key revive on that kevin john bazookla thread

Wow -- congrats Matos and Maura and Jess and whoever did those illos! I'm impressed you got this thing live so quickly, and w/ no bugs that I caught. Can't wait to read it all, and there are no other polls I feel that way about.

Of the things I voted for (and thanks to Curmudgeon for the shout-out), the ones I'm surprised didn't get more respect are "Chocolate Rain" in singles (come on -- that song is **still** earworming me) and the Omar Souleyman comp. in reissues.

A lot of people's reissue choices are weird to me, only 'cause I try to vote for stuff that's not been released/ is super obscure and hence "new." I didn't even know half of these albums got reissued last year...

-- Mike McGooney-gal, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 09:07 (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

not a new poster, zing denied

Sorry to all ILM posters who voted, but when Britney Spears is higher than High on Fire, Neil Young and Baroness, it just confirms my belief that the apocalypse is right around the corner. Or, alternatively, that polls like this suck real hard.

-- Bill Magill, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 15:20 (6 seconds ago) Link

bills been around for a while. one time he fucked a whore.

Ha! Every single time I see BMagill post, I think about the whore thing. To me he's totally the guy who pays for sex.

link?

Ever been with, or been, a prostitute?

haha he sounds like a decent enough dude

like he'd def buy a 13 year old beer if asked while walking into a liqour store

is he this guy:

http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/bill.magill/

hard to say, it doesn't mention fucking whores in the bio

neil young and high on fire are better than britney...and i like bill pretty much, he seems fine...that thread is creepy though, that's why i stay to ILM mostly.

Admittedly, my tastes don't line up with the typical "pazz and jop" (dumb name by the way) voter or pollster.

-- Bill Magill

burt stanton

bleh

BURT_STANTON, CULTURAL CRITIC

oh no people stop paying attention to that guy!!!

total NS vibe from him

^^^ haha, what? Mash ups have been in the US for decades; see: Negativland and those filthy 60s beatniks; they got big again here in the late 90s/early 200s. So yeah, the style seems pretty dated.

-- burt_stanton, Friday, February 1, 2008 4:34 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

that's it, I'm voting for Nader

-- burt_stanton, Friday, February 1, 2008 4:06 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I'm voting for Nude Spock

-- gabbneb, Friday, February 1, 2008 4:07 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I'm probably voting for nader.

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, February 1, 2008 4:07 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

isn't nude spock captain lorax too?

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/3341/aspergersdefinitionwj9.gif

That is my favorite post ever, pretty much ^

ca[taom ;prax os a sweethear and i would fuk iim

who are these 'hip sters' liking black metal? i not see them at gigs.

all i see are the waeklings wanting their souls to be punished by the music that cleanses!

-- Vas Djifrens, Sunday, 3 February 2008 03:04 (2 hours ago) Link

it's now being called Canadian Metal

-- jaxon, Thursday, January 31, 2008 11:01 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Link

-- Vas Djifrens, Sunday, 3 February 2008 03:04 (2 hours ago) Link

indeed!

CANADIAN WEREWOLF TRUE PITCH BLACK METAL

HTTP://WWW.MYSPACE.COM/BYZANTUM

-- Vas Djifrens, Sunday, 3 February 2008 03:05 (2 hours ago) Link

it is not hipster soup but the sound of lightning cracking your brains

-- Vas Djifrens, Sunday, 3 February 2008 03:12

who is "Choose Leif" and is s/he 15?

(nb still way better than my posts at 15)

w4lter and no

Colin C.

Vas has actually been around awhile

instead of "s**t" you guys should say "crap"

-- mkcaine, Wednesday, March 19, 2008 11:19 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

^^this

go easy mkcaine, it's taken ILX 5 years to go from 'poo' to 'shit'

print newspapers all suck-- insane christians or jewled 'liberals'. th times occassionally happens to cover whatsup or has got a decent subtext to an op ed bt most of th time it seems like a joke orchestrated by some sinister overlord, inane story after inane story. there should be like a retrospective newspaper that talks real history without basing their entirety on the notion that the only genocide was on Hitler.

-- mkcaine, Thursday, April 3, 2008 11:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

music is to subvert into mind the laws of life..?-- newspapers exist to inform day t' day. who does this well?

-- mkcaine, Friday, April 4, 2008 12:18 AM (3 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

dude thats luriqua

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