rolling enlightening music discussion thread

^lol

exactly. what's to hate? it just sounds like a musical album. made by a band. they made another album before this one that sounded like whatever, and now this one sounds like this. are people accusing this band of being reverse-sellouts or what is the problem?

a band had like two hits and then changed their sound a bit on the next album. is this offensive? unheard of?
maybe you people should listen to the black crowes instead of this indie rock stuff. you're obviously getting confused.

― johnnyo, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 16:51 (1 minute ago) Bookmark

# M.I.A. has turned her ire toward Lady Gaga [I Love Music] 328 new answers

u_u

i haven't even opened that. I wonder what i would find if i did a cntl+F on "genuine"

u would find all instances of the word "genuine" iirc

'genuine' is not on that partic menu, but then not much rly is - ILX loves its McDonalds-style fast-food threads with high output and low nutritional value more and more it seems

shit is like a fukkin People magazine google-trawler headline. i didn't even click on the fuckin news stories about it at risk of embarrassing myself

xp You've been on this kick a bit, LJ.

I have, because there's more to discuss than the same utterly mundane shit over and over again

gaga mia roisin murphy riri madonna nenah cherry all dragged up there. robot chicken nicki minaj pissed off at lack of mention.

who made ilxfacepalm.jpg?

hey...

^^^ yeah, jeez, feel kind of guilty now all these heavy content dudes are bringing the critique

heh

lfam still around?

1st-year lj was such a treat

that was jaymc-level swiftness of location there, shocked myself kinda

ha

I sense something wonderful is about to happen

Best modern music to convince a 50-yr old humanities professor that music does not currently suck

(xpost to sockpuppet watch thread)

I learnt my lesson tho! I won't engage on the topic directly in that thread.

clubbz

Re MIA in general, I'm with deej. I don't like any of her music (I called her first record "Tom Tom Club with a tan" and I stand by that) and I think the hype and general lovefest atmosphere around her every half-assed, fumbling gesture is somewhere between annoying and infuriating.

― Born In A Test Tube, Raised In A Cage (unperson), Monday, May 3, 2010 1:28 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark

ha, I knew why this thread was bumped

"Tom Tom Club with a tan"

SMH

what the fuck

silvio berlusconi up in this bitch

that fuckin guy

clubbz

― plax (ico), Sunday, April 25, 2010 9:08 AM

haha the listening club shit? yeah i don't get it

complicated notion, no doubt

u mad?

lol, furious

xplain me their popularity cuz they just seem like avg ilm genre thread w/ some annoying arbitrary rules applied (cribbed from oprah lol). also xplain herman g. neuname

*seeks enlightenment*

ilm genre thread + all participants listening to the same records, new and old, during the same time period

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/bestsellers-2007/28-1.jpg

lol

ppl need a sense of purpose

http://www.steerforth.com/catalog/covers_450/9781934389218.jpg

I do not understand people who don't listen to music from the 80s.

As far as I'm concerned, music was INVENTED in the 80s (or mor specifially, with Joy Division). Anything before that is just proto-music.

― Stupid (Stupid), Thursday, December 11, 2003 12:22 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark

listening clubs are actually one of the more reasonable uses of ilm imo

also xplain herman g. neuname

think he likes polls

yeah peeps on ilm actually having to stick to a couple of albums to focus on and talk about instead of pulling the obscurantist card and flopping their soundscan database egos on the table what a fuckin tragedy

lol :B i h8 music

yeah u know that in book clubs nobody actually reads the books tho rite?

only one i went to (lol the alchemist) was just ppl speculating as to who was boning whom

that's what's going on in these threads too

short conversation

Newsom-thread making an enlightening come-back

Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me (RIP blogs)

Not ILX, but one of the comments on this article is like Cameron Carr come to life:

http://www.overthinkingit.com/2010/05/18/dio-metal-sign-throwing-horns/#comment-18610

http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/990f306703d6bd760982f82aed474750?s=70&d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D70&r=GTom Houseman on Tue, 18th May 2010 1:32 pm

Heavy metal has become consumed by our corporate, capitalist culture (holy crap that’s a lot of alliteration). It is a safe way to rebel while not actually doing anything to change things. Instead of protesting heinous acts or boycotting evil corporations, or trying to make the world a better place in any way, you go to Virgin Megastore or iTunes to buy a Metallica CD that was produced by a big company. Then you go to a concert sponsored by Coca-Cola and McDonalds, never thinking about the horrific things these companies do to their workers so that they can make a profit off a 99 cent cheeseburger. But it’s okay, because you’re making devil horns with your hands, so you’re a badass.

bitter truths

relax. music is cool.

he's right tho. often have i had the urge to wage revolution on my capitalist masters but instead found the solace and peace in Poison. Were it not for their honied ballads I surely would've rebelled.

Warrant is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.