ILM is kinda sucking these days (boring and meta ignore not safe for work)

banana nutrament ftw

haha sanskrit linking to the dermy.

http://waxidermy.com/images/deal.gif

I still think the polls should be on a separate board.

As Geir starts an Elvis Costello poll...

Most new music sucks anyway, and the new music that doesn't doesn't get any attention from the kids. It's more fun discussing old music.

Alison!

(Oh, sorry!)

I figured it out! All of Geir's posts make total sense if you add "to me" after every sentence!

It's like adding "in bed" to the end of every fortune in a Chinese fortune cookie.

Most new music sucks anyway, and the new music that doesn't doesn't get any attention from the kids. It's more fun discussing old music.

-- Geir Hongro, Thursday, June 5, 2008 2:20 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

in bed

A meme is born.

Yeah, that should keep you entertained, Scott!

Most new music sucks anyway, and the new music that doesn't doesn't get any attention from the kids. It's more fun discussing old music.

at Burger King

Come back Jess H., Come back Yancey S., Come back Keith Harris, and Love Bug Starksi's not around much these days.

Plus ILX could use some new folks (ideally some into more than indie-rock)

Most new music sucks anyway, and the new music that doesn't doesn't get any attention from the kids. It's more fun discussing old music

in bed with a hot chick.

IN STEREO

at Burger King.

ILX could use some new folks (ideally some into more than indie-rock)

A-FUCKING-MEN

Plus ILX could use some new folks in bed

(ideally some into more than indie-rock) at Burger King

to me, with a hot chick

I see less and less ILX'ors being primarily indie-rock fans, but maybe that's just my misimpression.

(xp)

oh god-x-post-fucking-damn-it

to me, whatever.

The sentiment in this thread-title is one I myself have been espousing, hence my recent attempt to bump a load of "interesting" threads. Didn't really work out.

JGO I will Paypal you five bucks if you harsh on the next dumbass Lorax post like that again, that was a beauty to behold.

i mean ffs that dude deserves my vocabulary

Link?

lorax behaves like a dicksleeve: if someone tells you that they like *the homosexuals*, what current group/artist would you tell them to check out?

where it was all hatched: The Resonant Frequency #57: Perfect World POLL - "Perfect songs are hard to find; here are 12 to start with."

i think that thread was the nadir

see, I like the polls, because I don't see much discussion on non-poll threads, and they get conversations started. I don't see how having polls makes OTHER threads suck more.

on the other hand I agree that ILM has been boring lately. I've been using site new answers instead of just loading ILM and it's opened up a whole other message board of (sometimes) fun. I rarely even read ILE before site new answers. So I think a lot of the blame should rest on site new answers.

I also agree with the comment above that posts like IMs have taken some of the vitality away, but I don't think that's the only thing going on.

I mean I still post to the poll threads but in doing so I'm just as guilty of lazy posting as anyone else.

Polls are retarded.

Polls are stupid if you think you gain anything "objective" from the final result, but as a way of focusing attention, they can help focus a thread. Not every thread needs that focus, but why not let a thousand flowers bloom? Unless there's an argument that polls cause all the other flowers to wilt, which I don't see.

this has been a really great year for albums-- indie esp. so it doesn't surprise me that ILM's been a snooze

polls are fun! if you don't like bowie don't click on the bowie poll threads! if you like bowie click on the bowie poll threads! what's the big deal?

it ruins the mood

IN BED

wait, that actually kind of made sense

i think the only unworthy threads are ones that splinter discussion among threads. everything else i could care less about. i mean it takes me what 0.2 seconds to decide if i wanna click on a thread or poll or not? idk

wait, that actually kind of made sense

Always.

xpost

see, I think that's what polls do. they replace a thread revival and subsequent new discussion with a bunch of discussion by people who never read any of the related non-poll threads, so 1. stuff gets repeated and 2. the people from the orig thread don't have much incentive to say anything besides going "uh, we talked about this already when we did that "OPO Pink Floyd album" thread."

What sleeve said there -- part of the problem is a temporal one. Points of view can and do change, and people say or project things that they don't think later on, or that they would heavily rewrite or reconsider. This would seem to be a reason to do 'new' threads via the polls, but the flipside is that there's a valuable tension to be found in those older judgments versus the newer ones, in one place.

I hate to be mr. we already had this thread eighteen bazillion times person but, uh, there I go.

I hop back and forth. at various points in the past x years I have been bored/disgusted with basically every board here that I've ever posted to, ILM probably moreso than the others since it's so dependent on 1. new releases 2. new beefs 3. new posters to talk shit with - it's both the most vibrant/active and the most inconsistent of all the boards, blessing curse yada yada [ heavy-handed aspie modding ]

Polls are terrible. You can hide them, but that's not the problem. They are like black holes for conversation.

hey! there's been a bunch of poll threads with great discussion going on. see the Ride - Nowhere poll thread, that discussion was great, very fun to read.

They are like black holes for conversation.

yeah i don't see how a "POO: Prince single" from 3-4 years ago is any better/worse/different than "POLL: Best Prince single" so it's probably the quality of the posters in whatever thread you're thinking of not the poll form itself

see the Ride - Nowhere poll thread, that discussion was great, very fun to read

one of the better thread bimblifications, yeah

although dude you were responsible for that shoddy "12 perfect songs" p-fork dick-suck so in a way you are responsible for ILM being crap

responding to sleeve: yeah, I see what you're saying. I don't revive many old threads or read through the archive much, so I just respond to threads others have started or revived. I'd generally like to talk about older stuff, because I don't have much cash to spend on newer stuff and I don't get promos. But the liveliest / brainiest / whatever threads are mostly about newer stuff, so I mostly have to sit them out. I'm also under the impression the things I like have either been talked to death (e.g. Stones, New Order, JAMC) or are not well-regarded here (e.g. REM, Keith Whitley, the Judds) and so aren't likely to make ILM less boring if I got all thready with them.

" so it's probably the quality of the posters in whatever thread you're thinking of not the poll form itself"

yeah, it's the old generation was better routine

can we at least all agree that ILM has improved since geir hongro stopped making polls

polls are fun! if you don't like bowie don't click on the bowie poll threads! if you like bowie click on the bowie poll threads! what's the big deal?

-- J0rdan S.,

why cant more people here think like this kid? (in bed)

<3 u j0rdan

xp wait NO

here is a next level thread:

Hide Geir Hongro Polls

But even if you ignore the poll threads, I wish there were more people posting here. There are only a handful of people who contribute to the Rolling ringtone rap thread, and another small handful to the country one, and likewise for the r'n'b thread, and d-bags jazz one, and even less than that for the whirrled music one and the reggaeton one and the chitlin circuit soul one...

please don't waste any effort trying to convince me, i dont even know what 'noise' is tbfh

guess

This thread needs more salsa dancing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2XQb5fJpeg

it certainly could use maracas

it could use some deleting

^ the kind of vicious zings killing ilm

hah it occurs to me that i have no idea what kind of music darragh likes

― mookieproof, Saturday, February 9, 2013 3:22 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ilx- find by GISing 'kate bush tits', stay for the literary football gags

― 10/11 of a dead jesus (darraghmac), Friday, August 12, 2011 5:57 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^posts that float thru your head

gifs that float through mine yet, tboh

that's a one notable mixtape every 6 hours average

^

Lol slocki

What's the deal with all of the 'overrated bands' threads, and related spoofs!?

no idea and not read them but I'd imagine boredom on a sunday?

Just curious--and this is coming from one of the all-time great thread assassins* Anyway, I'm sure I'm this for others, but does anyone else have particular posters that you reflexively recoil from? (NO NAMES PLEASE) like they drive you crazy? I think I'm projecting my own shit on them, but god, this person posts everywhere and makes me crawl up the wall....

*I would say people comment on maybe 1 in 20 of my posts, although sometimes a thread of mine will do sort of well.

― Iago Galdston, Friday, January 25, 2013 1:50 AM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good post

mysterious

today has been a day of ilm exultation imo

will ILM have a great weekend

and a drug

there are definitely cliques on ilx, and certain users only read certain users

i'm sure i'm no different than the rest, and there are many posters i don't bother reading (recoil from/hate/drive me crazy are all too harsh and don't apply to me)

kale bush tits

personally I recoil from my own posts

lads

there are definitely cliques on ilx, and certain users only read certain users

i'm sure i'm no different than the rest, and there are many posters i don't bother reading (recoil from/hate/drive me crazy are all too harsh and don't apply to me)

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, September 9, 2016 2:13 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I figure I don't get read much.

Even when ILX isn't entertaining I still lurk, mostly due to not knowing where else to go on the internet. I don't use social media really.

personally I recoil from my own posts

― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Friday, September 9, 2016 3:57 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just confirmed this