Introduce Yourselves!

i work in publishing and i also teach lit at a college. i'm not going to name the bands i like to listen to, but the last 3 albums i bought were american analog set, riddim driver: gideon war, and international noise conspiracy. i refuse to buy music on cd. sometimes i like to play certain songs over and over and over. i used to have a radio show (for 4 years) and this aspect of my personality was not necessarily appreciated by all my listeners.

My real name is Joe but I made up the name PappaWheelie because I thought it was funny...now I fear all the people I've formed internet relationships with think I'm fat as they call me nicknames such as "Big Pappa" or "Big Daddy". I constantly find myself surrounded by people who are cool enough not to take themselves seriously while I throw all of my cards on the table. I love chasing things. I spent 2 years chasing down all of the info & bootlegs connected with The Beach Boys unfinished follow-up to Pet Sounds. I chased all of Edd Kalehoff's "prize music" recorded for The Price is Right for a while, but since I didn't finish that one, I'll pick it up again soon. To throw another strange thing in the mix, I am a historian of Miami Bass music who hosts a online forum with many of the old late 80's/early 90's artists. I produced bass music back then, and left it to go on this idiosyncratic path: Philisophical Hip-Hop, Vintage Jazz ('45-'65), Electronic music in general, Space Age Pop, Bossa Nova, Tropicalia, Indie Pop, Nu-Electro, and currently find myself knee deep in so called "Electro-Clash" (Miss Kittin, Fischerspooner, etc), Gutter Rock ala BRMC/V-Twin/Strokes/The White Stripes, and proto- punk. I recently spent 2 days chasing all of the recordings by the 60's "Overbeat" band "The Monks". I also write reviews, mix CD's for boutiques locally, do Electro A&R for BassMekanik.com, and produce junk on my MPC 2000 & PC software. My next goal is to get my mixed CD's on the fashion runways, move to NYC, and start my own record label. I also like to do Indian-Mod interiors and graphic designs. I would throw the rest of my cards down but I can't find them right now.

32, Bangalore, India. Into marketing technology.
After following this forum for two months started listening to Boney M and other disco which I loved when I was 9-10. Getting interested in disco, hip-hop, post-punk, contemporary dance but constrained due to availablility of albums in India.
Love writing. Will start experimenting writing about my first love, music.

I live in a tourist town in the US. A couple all-time favorites: The Smiths - Kitchens of Distinction - My Bloody Valentine - Killing Joke - Dead Can Dance. I claim to be a writer.

I'm Tav, 32, living in Surrey, just SW of London. I work as a Test Engineer for a 3G operator. I love music, all sorts, although the wide range of my CD collection tends to mask my lack of knowledge in this area. People always assume I'll know who "Dr Vas and his Vacillating He-men" are, and I don't. I play the guitar badly.

CHris, 27 years old, engaged and living in Worcester Massachusetts. Computer geek by day, couch potato by night. I hate bars, prefer to drink in my living room where I control the music. Hence the extra thirty pounds I've put on in the past year. Current playlist, Sigur Ros, Royskopp, Elbow, Kings of Convenience, Avalanches, Dr Buzzards Original Savannah Band, The PRayerBoat, Stevie Wonder, Marvin gaye, The Beach Boys, yes I know THE Strokes. Currently trying to create my own AValanches type thing using simply my PC. Not working too well. Typing this at work when I should be writing HTML, but feel like smoking and doing nothing today.

feel like smoking and doing nothing today

You have achieved a state of bliss we all desire. And to all the new people I haven't said hi to yet, welcome.

hi. i'm minna, 21, from melbourne, australia, doing arts/science @ melbourne uni.

forewarning: i'm an unabashed avalanches fangirl and i will defend them to the death. i might also bore you with my slavish-adoration-of- the-avalanches babble. if i'm doing that, just tell me and i'll stop.

i like pop: the good bits. especially hip-hop. my definition of pop is very broad. for me these days, the good bits include a lot of what happened between 1976 and 1983, 60s garage rock, disco new and old, timbaland etc.

i tend not to listen to "IDM" but that doesn't mean i think it's terrible. on the other hand, that's the very reason i don't listen to post-rock. i'm sick of indie because that's mostly what we're served here in melbourne, but i have to admit that it's good, in small, easy to swallow doses. names like grandaddy, belle and sebastian and low fail to excite me these days. i can't explain exactly why not.

i intend to start a big argument here about 'retro' in the not too distant future (unless you've already done that and can point me to the link...)

and finally, sorry, but i don't like britney, not even when she got the neptunes in.

Yay, somebody else from Melbourne! Hi, Minna!

hi electric sound of jim :) who are the other melbournians?.. c'mon, own up.

heh heh, an ILM Search using search term 'retro' gives you THREE Strokes threads in the top 5. But this thread might be what you want, minna. Or you could just start a new one, everyone else does.

haha, yes, that is what i was after, thanks. i suspected that the retro w/ respect to the strokes thing might have been done to death, so i stood back and took a deep breath. glad i did :)

24, from Norwich and so revile the rest of the (musical) world for putting down Norfolk whenever given the chance. There's some really good stuff up here, y'know. When I'm not watching chickens revolving on a rotisserie I pretend to do a fanzine, mangle the bass and think about doing something constructive with my life. I love Come.

I like the No-Man/Tim Bowness circle of bands, does that help?

hi. petra jane. eleventeen. new zealand. doing my bit to destore the gender-balance of Nerddom. make tapes. wear badges. collect 'japanese tack'. alphabetise my records. love love, wire, neil young, the zombies, nerd-ass NZ stuff, surf, joy division, stereolab, warp rekkids, drag city, bizet. etc etc. wear argyle socks. don't like the english language much. think punctuation is overrated. speak [type?] before i think. need coffee.

It's all good. I'll be visiting NZ in September, so I'll meet you then and we can talk Wire and such goodness.

I've been meaning to go legit here...

Hello, I'm Ron, 29 from Seattle, WA. I build custom furniture for a living, mostly modern-ish pieces, some steel work. For a few years after HS I produced beats for a local hiphop outfit, but now only occasionally dabble in music making. I'm hoping to get more into it again, but another style of music. In terms of listening habits, I'd like to think I have broad tastes, but mainly I'm into indie rock, soul jazz a la 60's/70's, rap and some soul but more limited knowledge there. I would like to learn more about drum & bass types of music but find it a bit intimidating to get started. Don't really know where to begin. Oh yeah, I also watch a fair number of movies, mostly newer ones. OK, bye!

Yay.. another Northwest hip-hop/beats Dj! welcome, Ron!

Hmmm, I suppose I'll do this finally. I'm 21, I live in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. I go to school here and I'm an English major, though I spent the vast majority of my time taking music classes and playing and generally not doing English major-y things.

I play drums, probably most significantly in the Ryan Meisel Quartet at the moment (jazz group, should be coming out with an album in a couple of months). I started off my musical life (at least in the teenaged obsessive sense) with metal and prog-rock, but after high school it's all been about the jazz and the hip-hop and that sort of fun stuff.

I'm 26. Born and bred San Franciscan. I work the nightshift as a software guy for a pretty large company and I have way way too much time on my hands between the hours of 10pm and 7am. I'm also going (maybe, sorta, kinda, in a way) to grad school at SFSU and thus use my time here to procrastinate on writing papers on William Faulkner novels. I don't have a website. I don't write for an online magazine. I don't really like computers very much actually. I don't know how I ended up sitting in front of one for 8+ hours a day (actually I do).

As far as music goes, I like Can, the Fall, Slayer, Cluster, Shirley Collins, the Kinks, Panacea, Lee Perry, Dock Boggs, Goblin and some other stuff which is not in my bag today.

HELLLLOOOOOOOO.......

Isn't there anybody from Cornwall on the internet, i can't find anybody.

I am a jeff. I am 45. I am married. Live near Detroit and always have. Here are some of the non-sequitors which make up the seething ball of complexities I consider "me". Been working for GM almost 26 years (on an assembly line - the worst) and hate it with an existential passion. I have a BA, a Th.B, almost done with my MA and will try to do a Ph.D next, so that I can retire and teach. Or something. Have a big sister 14 years older and a brother 7 years my senior; cut my teeth on Fats Domino, Big Joe Turner, Elvis, Buddy, The Everlys - Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline from my dad (knew the music by the labels before I could read). Doo wop, Motown, Brits, Folkies/Zimmerman, AM punk, Hendrix, Stax, James, Heavy Metal, Glam (RoxyBowie, etc), Iggy, Kraftwerk...jazz (fusion, then backwards to bop and mainstream), weird stuff (concrete, Stockhausen,)Lothar & the Hand People, Harry Partch, residents, Shaggs, PUNK! (not the 90s versions), postpunk, new (hate that nomenclature) wave and that whole Mute synth thing, proto electro (Baambata, John Robie, etc) TG CV and all things industrial, disco, alternative,house, techno, 313, lots of indie. Used to moonlight as a record store guy in the late 70s/early 80s. Saw tons of bands as soon as I was old enough. Owned 70 crates of vinyl, dumped it in the 80s (sob), now own prolly 7000 CDs and, yes, some vinyl. Live in apartment because I spend too much on music :-) (ask my wife). I love coffee, dry red wine, the color purple, animals, my wife (Ann). I run and lift weights. Into Philosophy and the arts in general. Been a drummer for 35 years off and on - off lately (not good in apartments). Played on a few records which went nowhere. Used to jam with Chris Ewen who works with Stephin Merritt (Magnetic Fields) in Future Bible Heroes. Love the DEMF. Love Detroit Contemporary as a venue (Lambchop was superb there last week). I have a sleeping disorder. I was a minister for 12 years - still active in my church. I'm a professing Christian with very low cultural fences and probably would shatter many stereotypical notions (as you might have already guessed). I collect lots of J-Pop (all things YMO, Sandii, Tsuchiya, etc.). Been to Japan once to propose to my wife while she was teaching Engrish there - I loved it and want to go back. I cook. I write poetry (won a scholarship for it once). I read. I will not go gently into that good night. I will not go gently into much of anything. I hope this post takes as it's the second one I've done and will not try again. Too much info, I know. You asked for it. -jeff ps yes. Mxyzptlk is the magical imp from the 5th dimension from Superman. I collected comics before I got onto music.

Man, I never did this.

PROFILE:

Call me Dave (or Daver, if you don't lay into the R like a hillbilly). I'm 27. Thanks to the Freaky Trigger Family, I like a lot more music than I used to; specifically, Tom & Co. have shown me that my childhood love of Top 40 muzak CAN happily co-exist with indiephilia. Unfortunately, I live a fair ways away (1.5 hours) from places where my thirst for LIVE INDIE can be slaked. I play guitar; I want to buy a piano of some sort (preferably one that makes neat sounds); I write stuff about music on a pro-bono basis (though my amateur status has been tainted); I have a website (where most of my pro-bono work can be found); I take computer classes (from which a job will be secured to allow my pro-bono antics to continue unfettered); I have been spammed a lot since I first posted on this board.

WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR:

Well, the ideal bandmates would be open-minded, open to different influences, open to trying new things, open to failure. If they can stand a diehard post-punk guy smacking out bits of pseudo-literate wussy pop songs on his acoustic guitar, that's a bonus. Fans of the Beatles, This Heat, Franklin Bruno, Big Flame, and the Game Theory / Loud Family nexus get 1st priority. (List subject to change.) I'm specifically looking for someone with either a Jew's Harp, a didgeriedoo (sic), a rain stick, or a set of spoons. Anyone w/ recording equipment can join. The name of the band will NOT be Nixon Liddy Codpiece; that's my only demand.

Jeff clearly is The Man. We need more like you in the world!

I second Ned's ruling. Jeff is super cool.

ok then....my name is william[friends call me bill]. live in delta b.c.,a suburb of vancouver. gonna be 45 next month. married 22 years,2 kids[boy 20yrs.,girl 17 yrs] and a dog. worked the past 21 years at safeway-sucks ,but has allowed me to spend way to much on music.been listening to music for as long as i can remember. used to think that i was fairly knowledgeable about until i met jeff k. online ;) about 4 years ago.
really isn't a whole lot that i don't enjoy other than some country and sorry jeff,opera. been hanging around the idm lists for a the last four years but find my tastes leaning back towards the indie kids of late. of course this will surely change by next week.used to read all the time about music out of various mags,creem,trouser press,spin,crawdaddy,ect. now with the internet my eyes ....erm, ears have been wide opened.i still try to go out to the clubs ,though i do tend to feel a little awkward as my hair is quite white and i definately look my age. once the music starts though,it's all good.actually going to catch both the fridge/explosions in the sky date as well as the loscil/keith fullerton whitman shows here next month.that's about it,thanks.

hey kewl the grey panthorZoR fraktion iz taking ovah

Jeff sez: AM punk

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Hey Minna, I'm another Melburnian (and pop fan). Nice to see more of us.

OK, probably shouldn't pretend not to know about this thread any longer, so here goes.

Norwegian male, born 16.5 hours into 1969. First musical love that was all my own: Madness, after seeing them do "Cardiac Arrest" on The Kenny Everett Show.

Discovered, when enrolling in a new school (roughly high school equivalent) in Oslo in 1984, that record shops could be more than I had thitherto discovered, and with what still remains my best friend started scouring 2nd hand shops, learning along the way to love Kate Bush and Propaganda. Got a Bryan Adams album as a birthday present from my uncle, sensed that it wasn't really my cup of tea and exchanged it for...Marillion's Misplaced Childhood.

Took up the NME in '86 (starting with the WOULD YOU PAY £4M FOR THIS CRAP issue), and, after reading that Morrissey interview two weeks later, got more into The Smiths. Turning a bit indie-kid the following years, without forsaking pop like Depeche and PSBs or weirder stuff like Coil.

New university-type place of study 1990. Met other new still current friends with interest in classical music, who tried to turn me on to Stravinsky and Webern (successfully) and Mozart (less successfully). I played them Stump and Momus in return. And The Shangri-Las.

All CDs stolen in burglary early 91. Thankfully they left the vinyl.

Didn't really get Ride, shoegazing and so on, and am still reluctant to place MBV or Lush, whom I like, into that genre. Sucker for shameless punnery, so listened a lot to Carter USM. Reading Festival 1989, 90, 91, 92, 93 and 95 (IIRC), by the way. Wrote to Billy Bragg to ask whether I could have copies of the photos he took when coming onstage during The Pogues' set at one of this.

Got a bit bored with the indie stuff about at that time, so welcomed the assertiveness of Suede -- being a professed cultural anglophile played a part as well, of course, and the US stuff popular in student circles at the time (Lemonheads, Dinosaur Jr etc) didn't exactly change my mind. Heard Foxbase Alpha a sunny hungover indoor morning, and wuvved it. Had token hip-hop albums (PE, DLS).

Took the stance of Douglas Coupland in the Blur vs Oasis wars, although I preferred the former.

Had a hiatus from about 97-01 when little music was read about or bought. Sensing a loss, and learning about mp3s, started using that there Interweb to catch up a bit. Discovered that the once fine (to my mind) notion of Britpop (catchy, poppy, irreverent) had been usurped by post-Oasis bores. Found ILM late 2001; love it.

There. Now go and reply to my Band of Holy Joy thread already.

I guess I should finally do this. hi, i'm geeta. I'm 22. a film/ videomaking geek. i live in the general boston area. my college work was in science and engineering subjects, mostly, though now i might be heading to grad school in media studies (and moving to london in the process.) i'm employed in the documentary filmmaking biz, for PBS. you know those screwy documentaries on TV about robots or the mysteries of the brain or whatever? that's the stuff i work on. I've worked on a bunch of different zines in the past---my current project is to resuscitate an old zine of mine, the original soundtrack, which last existed in 1998. hopefully the comeback issue will finally go up in april. i am obsessed with 8- bit nintendo games. i own a devo suit.

I've just written one of these but the computer crashed. I go to Goldsmiths College, i'm 20, from Southampton, was raised by a member of the Militant Tendency and am currently employed in the New Pancake chinese takeaway in Stockwell as a typist for its blind and extremely paranoid owner. I help put on gigs by the Totally Bored collective in New Cross, which range from the depressingly scmindie to the actually quite good. I was destined for a life of computer geekhood, but for my Kate Bush and New Order fixated father forcing me to read the NME until I ceased reading Manga Mania. I, like many others on ILM was a teenage manics fan, though its far cooler to be so in Southampton than North London. Mainly at the mo I like Gold Chains, Nite Flights by the Walker Brothers, World Destruction by Time Zone, Laundrette by Vivian Goldman, Smooth Chick by Missy Elliott and No Time by Beenie Man, and I originally intended to grow up to be a music journalist but have come to believe that this may now be the preserve of people who dont actually like music. Accidentally finding this site a month ago did make me revise that opinion a bit.

for nathalie : AM Punk is the nomenclature I am giving to 60s era stuff in the proto psychedelic vein...quite possibly an Anmerican phenomenon. Think "The Seeds", "Professor Morrison's Lollipop", "Count Five", "Standells", etc., etc. Stuff which got AM radio airplay in the mid-late 60s in my area. -jeff

OleM: so did you get the photos??

Hi folks, Im Courtenay, 26 years old from Gisborne, New Zealand. ILV has surprised me and has really eaten into my porn quota. Enjoy all sorts of music but have a soft spot for tales of broken hearts on the mend. Have to admit to Pearl Jam being the cataylst for a musical awakning,though with the Bart Simpsons tune "Im dammed if I do..." being the previous high point I guess Im progressing. Try to keep my head above water as a high school history teacher and studying part time to finish a Masters in Envronmental Planning. Lived in Aussie for a while, exploration gold minning in WA and did the usual Kiwi/Aussie/SA OE thing in Asia and Europe for a few years- ie backpacking bum. Gotta go and play "Im begining to see the light" by Mr Reed as it never fails to please. Ned see u over here in NZ!

Ron: Actually I did -- a sheet of paper with colour photocopies of four of them. Have regarded BB as top bloke ever since for this alone. :-)

My name is Tyler Martin. I live on the west coast of the U S of A. I am currently attending college, in hopes (the familys) of making something of myself. I listen to music obsessively, all kinds. I make music, but mostly like making fun of it.

I am not the 1980s Brat Pack star Judd Nelson. My name is actually Dom, I'm an Anglo-Italian indiekid from Northampton England, studying in Lancaster. My interests are lesbian pornography and teen angst. Musically, I'm obsessive to the point of banality, especially with indie, alt.rock, and consciencious hip hop.

I live in NYC. 29 yrs old (on the cusp of geezerhood). Usually post from work, when I'm not hacking dreadful java code. Listen to lots of different kinds of music. Why? Because I LOVE MUSIC!

All right, yer in!

Gosh. Steven, from Dunedin, NZ - scarfie student artfag munter stylez. Last five things I listened to were Pere Ubu, Deltron 3030, the Clean, Long Fin Killie & MBV. Will listen to anything if you talk it up enough. Me=sucker . . .
. . . also manage to be a lurker both on messageboards & at various Dunedin gigs. Addicted to ellipses, ampersands & semicolons. Adore the way the word "shoegazer" sounds. & most of that sort of music, too.

hello. 24 yr old, toronto born and raised, graphic designer. i work on what i guess would be considered jungle with my spare time.

We really need to do a Toronto pub meet some day.

i think could do that. i tend to have alot of meetings in toronto pubs ;) .

i'm david. i don't really like people very much.

dan, London, tv writer.

Loves/has loved: Who/Beatles/Stones/VU/13th Floor Elevators/Seeds/Buckley T/Buckley J/Big Star/Smiths/REM/Julian Cope- Teardrops/OMD/House of Love/Fall/Pixies/Pavement/Teenage Fanclub...and many many more.

Alright, I only do this cause Jess has asked for it, otherwise I find it excruciatingly painful. I'm Tom, I'm 34, I live in Colorado. I don't write about music, but I like learning about it, particularly from articulate people who obv. care. I am so impressed by the highly developed opinions on music that many of you have. It makes me realize that I don't attempt to analyze and express my reactions to music enough. The only music sources I check out are IL*, Pitchfork and FT. I mostly lurk here and take recommendations from you all and check stuff out. I don't invest a lot of money in music, and I don't spend time downloading files as my connection is so slow, so my collection grows very very slowly. In fact, after lurking around here I feel like I spend more time reading about music than I do listening to it. I think the last five discs I bought are Orchestre Baobab, Summerteeth, 200%Dynamite, This Years Model, and Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space. There are many albums I used to have that seem to have gone missing or were in obsolete formats that I'm gradually collecting from used CD bins. I temper this practice with an inherent distrust of nostalgia. Which means I can't explain the copy of Underwater Moonlight now playing. I don't hang out with people who listen to much music, so I don't have to feel judged by _anyone_, which is nice. My music is for me. And when I do get to speak with someone who is into music, my enthusiasm is real. Outside of music, I'm job hunting (again), applying to schools for my next career, and riding my bike a lot. Actually, "my next career" makes it sound like my last career was something more than a string of jobs, which it was not.

G'night

ok, to be polite.

i'm stirmonster but you can call me twitch if you like. i'm a dj but please, please don't call me dj twitch - yuk. my real name is keith and i'm 34 and live in glasgow. i've been playing records for a living for 15 years and started scotland's first techno club - pure. it was the first place in the uk ever to book richie hawtin, jeff mills and a host of other techno legends. i also ran a label that released the first music in the uk from panasonic and jimi tenor. pure lasted for ten years but by then i'd had enough of all night house and techno and wanted to do something else - so i did.

so i started a club called optimo (espacio) where i could indulge my love for all sorts of music from no wave to garage rock to electro to dub to dub disco to.... just about anything really. it's the joy of my life and is possibly the most deranged club out there. no, really it is! you can check out what gets played and a whole host of other stuff link