this is the thread where you link to your first ilx post.

First ILM thread of my own: Kirsty MacColl - why never cool?

First ILE post: Don't know cause there were six on the same day and old ILE didn't timestamp but it could be this

First ILE thread: Do you believe in fate?

i dont remember what my first was.

i have absolutely no idea what my first post was. is it that people who lurked about for a while before posting built up more anticipation of that first pressing of the 'submit' button? i probably should have spent a bit more time looking around before jumping in - some of the in-jokes and ilx culture items have caught me off guard. one thing in particular comes to mind, when on the 'home truths' thread suzy got into this exchange with (who i now know was) doompatrol. i asked the two of them to tone down their insults, not knowing that they were joking around and that she knew who she was arguing with (doomie was using some other name). she called me a mark, i didn't even realize it at the time.

-- gareth (polygons@hotmail.com), March 6th, 2001.

i think endsleigh will cover an entire house for contents up to £25000, you could maybe share that with the other bloke, can't remember how pricy the policy is though
i've got the endsleigh contents insurance for my room only (in a shared house), this is £5000, of which only 30% can be used on cds and records. not exactly ideal

-- gareth (gareth@norfolkwindmills.com), March 9th, 2001.

*warning: may have used search function incorrectly

i never did tell that homemade vagina story...

"brasil!

There doesn't seem to be much mention of Brasilian music on ILM and i was wondering what people thought. guess its kind of a search and destroy for a whole countrys music.

I'm favourable towards Marcos Valle and Dom Um Romao, think Joao Donato is ok, but don't like Caetano Veloso or Os Mutantes.

also noticing that the artists i've mentioned (and also, of course, astrud gilberto - the dilletantes fave) are 60s/70s artists. does brasil have the same 60s/70s rose-tinted cultural nostalgia as us/uk?
-- gareth (gareth@norfolkwindmills.com), May 8th, 2001.

my first thread+post. as successful as anything I've ever done.

dandy warhols - bohemian like you

Mine's too embarassing.

i miss gale :(

First ILE post. My taste in men -- also not particularly surprising.

I googled a thread called "Watson come here I need you" or something, and found that I pasted my first post there too! (and ILE search is so not working for me!)

I was just trying to be engimatic, but I guess bananas is close enough.

(You have to set the mode to Messages otherwise it will just show them in order of most posted to. Also it takes a while.)

oh dear!

Queen- you just want to spoil it for all of us england fans (Argentina today, the world cup is surel ours now!). if you don't like it then fuck off to ilm OK.
-- Julio Desouza (jdesouza@chem.utoronto.ca), June 7th, 2002.

I am an EXPERIMENTER! They call me a BUTCHER! (Cough.)
As for compatibilities, Fred and Dan tie at 100%. (Cough.) Tom's at 89%, Fred's S.O. is at 88%, Otie at 83%, Josh comes in (rather disappointingly) at 77%, Nanette's at 72% and Jerwin at 64%. (Cough.) Of course, since none of you are even remotely potential boyfriend material (Jerwin being taken and in another country), aand since I have someone very special in my life right now, the results are meaningless to me! (Cough.) Meaningless! (Cough.) Ahahahaha! (Cough.)

I am very high on NyQuil right now. (Cough.)

-- Michael Edward Daddino (epicharmus@aol.com), September 27th, 2000.

Lots to unpack here. This was based on the results of one of those compatibility quizzes that were circulating around the blogworld at the time (hence the mentions of non-ILxers Jerwin and Nanette); I was sick as a dog; I was dating a gay blogger of some renown; and I quote the Manics, what the hell?

ILE: Blah blah E/N sites blah. I'm partial to this post, though.

Ah, for the days when I just babbled on and on and on and on and on...

''Aphex Twin classic or Dud?

(Nobody went "ooh, mark sinker just posted" or similar on that Rockism thread. I wonder if such a lack of comment would be possible today...)

as far as ILE is concerned the world cup was my way in after posting exclusively on ILM for a long time.

oh dear!

''Queen- you just want to spoil it for all of us england fans (Argentina today, the world cup is surel ours now!). if you don't like it then fuck off to ilm OK.''

My first ILE post was momentous. My first ILM post was not.

Merrit puts great thought into his choice of singers, just as pop writers of yore did. Notice for example how he gives Miho Hatori "Rindy Rue" er, I mean "Lindy Lou". So there's clearly an intent to place singers in unfamiliar situations. This lends a certain amateurish charm to the album, where Merrit's melodies seem naked and worthy of attention in themselves, unsheathed from the electro-pop arrangements that he's normally about in most Mag Fields stuff (not 69 love songs, however). Also, Merrit has very limited arrangement skill, very capable, but using the same types of chord structures and suchforth over and over. So by stripping them down to the essentials it feels more like a songbook, in the classic "Cole Porter Songbook" "George Gershwin Songbook" etc. style.

I haven't had it entirely sink in, but the tunes feel classic, and as I've never heard Merrit's own interpretations, they stand up well. With songs like Merrit's, which are so durn good, the singer and tune itself have historically always become interlinked, partly by how well they fit, and partly because interpretation means so much to classic tin-pan-alley stuff. This isn't a fake "tribute" album to Merrit, so much as his show of devotion to the voices he loves best.

By the way, how do you link to a particular part of a page?

I thought mark s's first ILM post was about the Spice Girls.

My first ILM post: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Talk about launching yourself in at the deep end.

I can't believe my favourite's not been mentioned yet. I'm 42, so I remember when TOTP claimed performances weren't mimed. The Faces once put down their instruments mid-song (I think it was on Stay With Me) and started kicking a football around - it was the moment that blew the pretence away, combined with a magnificent rock single. What more could we want?

A1 were particularly hilarious just recently, completely fucking up a live, unplugged performance. Why didn't a manager or someone point out to them that they really can't sing nearly well enough to do that?

if you were to print out every ned raggett post in size 12 times new roman, what area would they cover

The world entire.

Greenland alone entirely covered in little semicolons, hyphens, and right parenz marks.

iceland covered in "heavens!"

In 2002 I told ILM that my favorite B-52s song is "Strobe Light".

Being a music snob seems to not be about what records you own, but your attitude. I have a lot of records that have been mentioned, but will only listen to most of them by myself (can't even get through all of Tago Mago--tell that guy to quit screaming). I try to play stuff for other people that I think they might like, whether they've heard of it or not.
Having obscure or eclectic music tastes does not make one a snob. For me, I just want to hear good music and sounds I haven't heard before.

If you don't like something just because it's popular, you're a snob. If you like something just because it's not popular, you're a snob.
Still, a snob can own a Missy Eliot record and still be a snob because of their rationale for liking it.

― Rufus Thomas, Thursday, January 30, 2003 12:26 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Pretty sure this is my first post:

I got into a pretty major car wreck while R.E.M.'s "Driver 8" was playing on the radio. I suspect that it wasn't a coincidence, even though it was the other drivers' fault.

― Chris Barrus, Wednesday, May 23, 2001 5:00 PM (9 years ago)

I put a car on its side once with REM's the wake-up bomb on the stereo

I have absolutely no memory of how I found ilx

― iatee, Wednesday, March 10, 2010 3:03 PM (3 months ago)

i was wrong upthread, my first three posts were about versus, life without buildings, and a C/D thread about galaxie 500. posts very much in character etc etc

i found ilx because i was searching for an explanation of why Andrew Wk existed.
too lazy to look for it, but naturally my first post was a rant abt how much i hated the man.

I wrote:
on the thread: What are you - heh heh - wearing right now?
on board I Love Everything
on Sep 3, 2001

Shoes and white socks, eyeglasses and a wristwatch. Actually, the shoes are hiking boots.

ha ha hhaa!

Do you still hate the WK, Thermo?

adam beales (fuckfuckingfuckedfucker) wrote this on thread Has music ever REALLY made you cry? on board I Love Music on Jun 23, 2006

While girls are biologically designed to cry in response to music, men are not. As a result, the half-men who cry in response to music often are forced to bear a heavy burden of social shame. This is unfortunate. The half-men should embrace their half-man-ness, and not feel so cowed about it.

I am half-man, hear me roar!

Anyway, I often cry at choons, though not so often as once I did. Think it depends at least as much on my own emotional state as the song in question. The first few times I heard that guy who couldn't swim covering Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" it brought me to tears. Now, it's a lovely song and all, but I have to admit that I was feeling awful damn depressed and lonely at the time. Chicken or the egg?

The usual suspects:

"Hallelujah"
"Fairytale of New York" - the Pogues
J. Pachelbel's "Canon & Gigue in D"
"Ave Maria"
Etc...

I was proud of that shit and no one even noticed.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, March 10, 2010 9:20 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I had actually been lurking for a month or so, waiting to come up with something cool enough to be a first post. I googled that shit and everything to make sure it wasn't an old joke. I was all like, "should I hit Submit Post"?

i still find it hilarious how contenderizer was the fuck-want guy

(stones, glasshouses, etc)

http://static-p3.fotolia.com/jpg/00/05/34/02/400_F_5340254_6cieipTsapvwXbCOMJ8vOMSAjBmeQ6uM.jpg

I knew I posted here a little bit under my own name many years ago, and also a few times under two display names taken from movie characters. (The problem was that I posted so infrequently, I kept forgetting my password and would have to re-register.) But when I was reading some old Scrabble threads today, I came across a 2005 post by somebody who had the word "unquoted" played against him for 224 points, and immediately realized it was me (or else an incredible coincidence). I was posting as "Merritt Ranew" from April 2005 to February 2006. And complaining about my Scrabble addiction even then.

Douglas Sirk = Roy Orbison
Mike Leigh = The Beautiful South
Jodorowsky = Magma or Albert Ayler
Robert Downey (sr.) = Zappa or Beefheart
David Lynch = Sonic Youth
David Fincher = Nine Inch Nails
Godard = Ornette Coleman
David Cronenberg = Nick Cave
Alan Smithee = ?

― sarahel, Tuesday, December 2, 2008 4:27 PM (5 years ago)

for whatever reason, after 7 months of lurking, I decided to share my brilliant opinions about matching the filmmaker to the band

you'll be down at the door of the place tomorrow morning waiting for it to open. unless it's closed on sunday. but it probably won't be. not that many stores close on sunday anymore, really. they close early, like at 6:00, but they're open during the day. the only thing that's ever closed all sunday is the library. all day. and, you know, what i've seen a lot of places doing is closing on monday. you'll have wanted to go there sunday night and it was closed and you get there monday morning and it says 'monday: closed.' and! then you read that it was open sunday night. so you have to wait until tuesday. but, i guess it's their right to open and close when they want and i didn't really need to go there that badly.

i like 'sunday morning' and 'femme fatale.'

― d k (d k), Saturday, October 19, 2002 7:05 PM (11 years ago)

index -- middle -- pinky down -- ring tucked -- invert -- "gigantic grandfather / jehovah-bearded / on brown daguerrotypes" --- free pimp c - free z-ro - free yayo - free project pat.

― cloverlandthug, Wednesday, December 24, 2003 9:16 AM (10 years ago)

I feel like Lynch is more Pixies than SY

oh no doubt the best pumpkins album, the only that breathes...bill'ys ambitions strangled his muse (i'll bet you wish that his muse's ambition was to strangle his vocal chords, but that's neither here nor there) I don't know if Gish is any good because I can't listen to it anymore, but I do know that the songs on Mellon Collie with a few exceptions (Muzzle, Bodies, Stumbleine) tend to crumble into dust with the merest touch. SD had the strongest songs out of all the big albums, but after listening to it for 13 years (Pumpkins used to be my favorite band in high school) I can start to see what haters mean when they say they're all slight variations of the same song.

Maybe I just have a thing for its more lo-fi production style, but Iscariot really seems like the roller coaster ride that Siamese only wishes it was. I mean, Frail and Bedazzled is better than every song on SD except Mayonnaise. It has more spirit, better solos, a catcher melody, (I could go on about the album but I'll choose not to)...Contrary to his own and popular belief Billy was at his best just tossing things off. That's the poignant irony of his Pavement kissoff, Cherub Rock. A little more Indie Rock would have saved the man's soul.

― George Lochinski (Destroy A. Monsters), Thursday, September 28, 2006 3:38 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also started this thread within a few days of joining:

Pixies in everyday situations...

Tindersticks.Waiting For The Moon....nice for late afternoon listening
― Jacob Sanders (LolVStein), Thursday, August 11, 2005 10:38 AM (8 years ago)

ShariVari wrote this on thread gyptian - holdyuh on board I Love Music on Jan 21, 2011

The soca refix is the one i've been playing constantly for the last year. I'm always surprised that soca / soca remixes don't make more of an impact on the charts.

Pvmic

Made mine back when you didn't have to register w/ ILX, can't remember the name i used

Oh wait I found it

X = Creed
Y = any black metal band, with the possible exception of ANAL CUNT
― Mickey (modestmickey), Tuesday, January 18, 2005 12:43 PM (9 years ago) Bookmark

rolling: "dragnet" - the fall
cutting: "cLOUDDEAD"

― noodle vague, Wednesday, July 23, 2003 9:35 PM (10 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The early days of not having to register/using comedy names in the display field makes this really hard, but it might have been this (Greenspun posts don't seem to have a timestamp any more) on "what was the first song you heard all year"?

I know it was something Scottish. We had a Scottish Music Only marathon round my flat. Something about New Years belonging to the Scots, I'm still not entirely sure why, may have had more to do with the Absinthe and the Laphroiagh than the date.
So chances are, it was PRML SCRM, Belle and Sebastian or... ::oh the shame:: Travis.

― xxxx, Tuesday, December 5, 2000 1:00 AM

Or it might have been about the impossibility of achieving happiness in a hypermediated and hypersexualised environment that shows every sign of worsening.

But mentioning Belle and Sebastian is the most embarrassing thing of all.

free fall wrote this on thread What are you listening to todizzle? on board I Love Everything on Jun 17, 2004

pearls before swine - side one of "these things too".
the renderers - a dream of the sea.
karen dalton - in my own time.
les rallizes denudes - high or die.
charalambides - first listen to "joy shapes" (holy shit).
jerry garcia - side two of "garcia" (the first one).

^and nearly 10 years later still listen to them :-/

I posted once in 2002. I don't like it--there's even a typo. (Omen of the future, and probably one of the reasons I stopped; I hate not being able to fix typos. I've adjusted.) My first post under my own name was a thread about supporting actors in 2005:

In Anticipation of Morgan Freeman Beating Thomas Haden Church

A couple of months later I started posting under a second name (the "merritt ranew" account), and continued using both until early in 2006. I guess you could get away with that then.