there's a big *big* world of context out there that's shaped how any number of acts are received, and Radiohead's a stellar example of one such act.
While I wouldn't argue that context plays no role at all, I guess I do feel pretty absolutely that there's no context in the world that could get me to enjoy or not enjoy the taste of a meal.
And thus with Radiohead, and thus with music in general.
My enjoyment of particular chord progressions and textures, etc. is far too visceral for that.
-- Melissa W, Monday, 11 August 2008 12:12 (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
― wilter, Monday, 11 August 2008 02:26 (fifteen years ago) link
CSS "Rat Is Dead"
-- billstevejim, Sunday, August 10, 2008 1:43 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Link
Flobots "No Handlebars"
Would the ting tings count as rock? If so their two singles 'shut up and let me go' and 'great dj' have been pretty big here in Spain and they're insanely catchy.
-- Moka, Sunday, August 10, 2008 2:59 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link
The Ting Tings count.
-- billstevejim, Sunday, August 10, 2008 9:01 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
ugh
-- J0rdan S., Sunday, August 10, 2008 9:04 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
flobots and ting tings are so beyond awful
Catchy music is for the most part awful.
-- Moka, Sunday, August 10, 2008 9:30 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
also rong
-- J0rdan S., Sunday, August 10, 2008 9:32 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link
― J0rdan S., Monday, 11 August 2008 02:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I have a very strong feeling this album will end up garnishing top slots at the end of the year.
-- Moka, Sunday, August 31, 2008 6:56 PM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
― J0rdan S., Monday, 1 September 2008 00:46 (fifteen years ago) link
hahahahaha
― roxymuzak, Monday, 1 September 2008 05:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Jonas Brothers taking ILX by storm!
― latebloomer, Monday, 1 September 2008 14:37 (fifteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VQGSB4DXL._SL500_AA280_.jpg
― velko, Monday, 1 September 2008 16:50 (fifteen years ago) link
It's hard to write anything too soon about them because it takes so many listens for the layers, details and surprises to reveal themselves. My third listen on headphones on a train ride is what put it over the top for me. After finishing it I was wobbly with vertigo. It felt like the songs corresponded with the neighborhoods that whizzed by, each packed with years of memories and emotions. It's like traveling in an unfamiliar country with a lover, having an intense conversation, getting drunk, arguing, and ending the night at 3 a.m. exhausted from intense make-up sex.
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― sprinkle me mayne (The Reverend), Saturday, 20 September 2008 22:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Please tell me that's about Alphabeat.
― Tell me where the fuck you find a anorexic blapper (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 20 September 2008 22:48 (fifteen years ago) link
even worse, TV On The Radio
― sprinkle me mayne (The Reverend), Saturday, 20 September 2008 22:54 (fifteen years ago) link
But am I the only person who thinks it's amazing that Norman Cook was in The Housemartins (and Beats International; and The Mighty Dub Katz; and...) before he was Fatboy Slim? Even when "The Rockafeller Skank" hit, no one seemed to think it was a big deal.
-- Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, March 31, 2008 9:38 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
― banriquit, Monday, 31 March 2008 21:47 (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
right about now, funk bozelka brutha
― bug, Monday, 31 March 2008 23:45 (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Classic material
― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Saturday, 20 September 2008 23:12 (fifteen years ago) link
That Chris Gow revival is the worst shit on ilm for a long time.If you're gonna have gay circle jerk in-gags, at least include hte phrase "SNAKES ON A PLANE!" on them― Dom Passantino, Friday, February 15, 2008 12:05 AM (7 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Dom Passantino, Friday, February 15, 2008 12:05 AM (7 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah, man! as opposed to the usual self-congratulatory, 'look, ma, i'm cooler than these nerds! no really!!', horseshit being heaped on as it it were going outta style here, right?
weren't you kids breastfed? or are y'all just despereate for any kind of attention you can get? sheesh...pathetic.
― Perry-Como-Zombie-Memorial-Radio-Now! (Ioannis), Sunday, 21 September 2008 10:09 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/detector-1.jpg
― Tell me where the fuck you find a anorexic blapper (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 21 September 2008 10:13 (fifteen years ago) link
oh, lordy! the truth--it hurts!!!
― Perry-Como-Zombie-Memorial-Radio-Now! (Ioannis), Sunday, 21 September 2008 10:14 (fifteen years ago) link
it hurts in the butt
― I want to be your Dairy Queen (latebloomer), Sunday, 21 September 2008 17:12 (fifteen years ago) link
oh, the pain. oh, the agony.
― Perry-Como-Zombie-Memorial-Radio-Now! (Ioannis), Sunday, 21 September 2008 17:35 (fifteen years ago) link
anusol ftw
― the bridge to erewhon (velko), Sunday, 21 September 2008 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Britney Spears - Circus
Bring back the paedos and Britishes talking about pop, they were a lot more bearable than this.
― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Sunday, 21 September 2008 21:24 (fifteen years ago) link
be careful of what you ask for, dude, you just might get it.
― Perry-Como-Zombie-Memorial-Radio-Now! (Ioannis), Sunday, 21 September 2008 22:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I apologize for the brief answer before, but you have to consider Pop music in 2008 is too far away from what pop music was in the 60's. I just don't see Harpsichordes working on pop nowadays, perhaps in some sort of ironic hip-hop summer hit but I really don't see it working as a common tool in the studio.
Horns on the other side...
― Moka, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 14:32 (16 minutes ago) Bookmark
― fREETIME (wilter), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 04:49 (fifteen years ago) link
^^maybe English isn't this dude's first language though?
― fREETIME (wilter), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 04:50 (fifteen years ago) link
you have to consider
― Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 04:50 (fifteen years ago) link
He did zing me the other day ;_;
― fREETIME (wilter), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 04:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Wait I just realized you asked without vocals in which case neither does curses! or knightlife work, wicked tunes either way. The rest do have vocals though.
Mainly check out Delorean, think they might be up your alley.
― Moka, Monday, 22 September 2008 15:18 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink*with vocals :P
― Moka, Monday, 22 September 2008 15:18 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban PermalinkThis forum really needs some sort edit function.
― Moka, Monday, 22 September 2008 15:19 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban PermalinkIt does have suggest ban function though.
― sharmuta (wilter), Monday, 22 September 2008 15:20 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalinkas well a bunch of douchebags lurking around.
― Moka, Monday, 22 September 2008 15:46 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― fREETIME (wilter), Tuesday, 23 September 2008 04:54 (fifteen years ago) link
big winner hereMGMT "oracular spectacular"
― deej, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 22:00 (fifteen years ago) link
It's nice that even now unheard songs by the VU can be found...
― Mark G, Thursday, October 2, 2008 2:07 AM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― poetry unit (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 2 October 2008 07:23 (fifteen years ago) link
lol deej otm
― poetry unit (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 2 October 2008 07:24 (fifteen years ago) link
But whatever the soundtrack, both songs possess a sexual subterfuge exemplified by a line in the 1996 movie Independence Day: “This could be our last night on Earth. You don’t want to die a virgin, do you?”
― joe 40oz (deej), Saturday, 4 October 2008 01:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Do you know I heard a rap song that sampled the first guitar part of "This Charming Man" on this airplane I was on today...it was in someone's headphones. It tortured me to hear the first part of Marr's guitar line over and over and over against my will and without being able to hear the SECOND part and then some asshole rapped over it. Disgusting. What a way to sample a song and ruin the whole fucking thing.
― The More You Live The Faster You Will Die (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Saturday, 4 October 2008 16:12 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Saturday, 4 October 2008 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link
any post on the vu/stooges poll thread
― eman, Monday, 6 October 2008 19:23 (fifteen years ago) link
except mine ;)
― eman, Monday, 6 October 2008 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link
There is a sheer "WTF is happening" joy about listening to extreme metal bands that I really don't find anywhere else. I speak as someone who likes the Decembrists as wel as Paysage D'Hiver.
― Soukesian, Friday, October 17, 2008 6:51 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark
― ○◙i shine cuz i genital grind◙○ (roxymuzak), Friday, 17 October 2008 23:24 (fifteen years ago) link
i'd say listen to all of them first, then decide which you like best and purchase
― Kevin Keller, Sunday, 9 November 2008 16:25 (Yesterday) Bookmark
― ▧_▨ (wilter), Sunday, 9 November 2008 22:56 (fifteen years ago) link
haha ^_^
― horrible (harbl), Sunday, 9 November 2008 23:47 (fifteen years ago) link
haha that is truly enlightening
― corrie ham (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 11 November 2008 01:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Pointless thread. I loathe this collectivistic, slightly fascist "we" attempts on ILM.
― Vision, Saturday, November 22, 2008 6:49 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Saturday, 22 November 2008 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link
nothing more enlightening than describing a music message board on the internet as "slightly fascist"
actually in my personal experience the younger folks I know are by and large not that into new music (which I find rather perplexing). A general survey of anecdotal evidence:- a woman in her early 20s who, when we sat down to play some songs together, all she knew/wanted to play was Ani DiFranco and Bonnie Raitt. (Annie DiFranco was old and lame 15 years ago when *I* was in college!)- another woman in her early 20s who's predominatly interested in old-timey bluegrass stuff, the Carter Family, etc.- my 18 yo cousin who told me all new music sucks (particularly the Dave Matthews Band, which is what all his fellow college students are into) and spent most of his time while we were visiting ripping old funk/soul and 70s rock stuff off of my hard drive
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, November 27, 2008 11:09 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
hm thats weird, i met three people in their twenties recently who only listen to top 40 radio... maybe its a regional thing?
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Thursday, November 27, 2008 11:17 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I dunno, the first is from Humboldt via Texas, the second is from Michigan and went to school at Smith, and the third is from Chicago.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, November 27, 2008 11:34 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Friday, 28 November 2008 12:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Post your Audiosrobbler userlink so we can always watch what you're listening to
^^^jesus fucking christ the last 100 posts on this thread are just some of the worst in ilx history
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Friday, 28 November 2008 15:41 (fifteen years ago) link
the all-uk aspie ilm allstars wiping sitting alone in the dark and judging people
^^ posts without very much self-awareness
― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Friday, 28 November 2008 16:29 (fifteen years ago) link
hahaha this is great:
My radio is amazing but probably noone else would agree with me.― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, November 28, 2008 6:29 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, November 28, 2008 6:29 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Friday, 28 November 2008 20:41 (fifteen years ago) link
never fear, dom, i'm certain that the other kids won't laugh at you too hard (just so long as you remember to play 'nice').
― Ioannis, Saturday, 29 November 2008 10:02 (fifteen years ago) link
― :) Mrs Edward Cullen XD (max), Friday, 28 November 2008 16:29 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
My room is very well luminated.
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Saturday, 29 November 2008 14:12 (fifteen years ago) link
heat v. light
― BIG HOOS is those british white steens (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 29 November 2008 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/7/7623719_09a951ec16.jpg?v=0
dom man in him room
― BIG HOOS is those british white steens (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 29 November 2008 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks for posting these everyone. The next ones to usually come are:
Clash MagazineDrowned In SoundMuzzle Of BeesGorilla Vs. BearFact MagazineNME
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, November 30, 2008 3:49 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
saddest post in ilm history
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 30 November 2008 23:21 (fifteen years ago) link
wow
― roxymuzak, Sunday, 30 November 2008 23:30 (fifteen years ago) link
https://webspace.utexas.edu/sdb55/criticspicks.png
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Sunday, 30 November 2008 23:33 (fifteen years ago) link
god, ew
― roxymuzak, Sunday, 30 November 2008 23:42 (fifteen years ago) link
the planets align:
just snuck into my personal top ten
― k3vin k., Wednesday, December 3, 2008 7:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Ditto.
― ilxor, Thursday, December 4, 2008 1:33 AM (30 seconds ago) Bookmark
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 4 December 2008 07:35 (fifteen years ago) link