Now all I need is money! heh :-/
― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 10 February 2003 04:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
that said -- i do find the retro-fitting of late seventies/early eighties synthpop to be mostly amusing, and for what it's worth has made me spin the old Gary Numan/Human League/Kraftwerk/Depeche Mode cds for the first time in a long time.
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Just found this on the Red Guitars guestbook:
"I wasn't born until 1989 so obviously wasn't around when the Red Guitars were. Stumbled across you guys by pure chance really, I was 16 working part time at a cafe. My boss had his mobile phone playing music in the kitchen as he washed up, on came Good Technology! I was amazed. I asked him 'Who's that band and what's that song called?' He told me, I went straight home after work and went on Youtube."
Mobile phone + Youtube, that pretty much sums it up.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Sunday, 1 May 2011 03:02 (twelve years ago) link
Heh. This was my first ILM post (or thread I started, one or t'other). I've changed my tune massively since I started it. I listen to loads of new stuff again these days, and have dug through back cataglogues of so much awesome. What helped was the social recommendation tools of lastfm, emusic, and well - here, as well. If it wasnt for that I'd never have discovered Disco Inferno, Hood, Veil Veil Vanish, late Talk Talk (Mr Diamond was right!), Junior Boys, Home Video... all kinds of things.
― Una Stubbs' Tears (Trayce), Thursday, 1 November 2012 08:12 (eleven years ago) link
I'm a year older than Trayce and Mr Diamond were when this thread started, and never mind retreating into music from my teenage years and early 20s (though I do like to hear these too, I just rarely think to put them on any more, and when I do it's often things I didn't really like at the time but have a sudden drunken nostalgic craving to hear), most of the music which has been delighting me these days came out when I was, oh, 3.
And I used to think my dad was oldfashioned for not having any records after he was about 21. I used to be deathly afraid of not keeping up any more, railing abt the music press's obsession with "classics" from 20-30 years earlier, but now I'm doing that too: I'm getting happier and happier to hide away with a bunch of new-to-me-but-old Italo or NDW or whatever, muttering "dubstep schmubstep" etc.
I am still listening to some new releases, though, and don't look forward to the day when that stops being true.
― a panda, Malmö (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 1 November 2012 12:52 (eleven years ago) link
I did just make myself feel a bit old writing that and realising that the Clash records that teenage me thought were ancient history and everyone should shut up about weren't even 20 years old by then.
― a panda, Malmö (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 1 November 2012 12:54 (eleven years ago) link
... when your teenkid comes into the living room to ask if you have any 'trap' music.
not only do i have none, i have no bloody idea what 'trap' music is.
official : old
― mark e, Thursday, 1 November 2012 13:41 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqmzLgoWl3w
― and yet (unregistered), Thursday, 1 November 2012 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
I was told about 'trap' music a few weeks ago, by someone who is using it to influence his own music. But I haven't yet heard any 'trap' music per se.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 1 November 2012 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
it's a trap!
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Thursday, 1 November 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=trap+music
Doesn't sound like it's my thing...
And my feeling is anyone on this board who's seeking out new-old or new-new music isn't "old". The people I know who stopped paying attention to music entirely 20+ years ago and have no desire to explore beyond their narrow confines - those are the old folks.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 1 November 2012 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
And my feeling is anyone on this board who's seeking out new-old or new-new music isn't "old".
new-old vs new-new : thats a good point.
in the last few years my groove has mainly been all about new-old music.
― mark e, Thursday, 1 November 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
I've been experimenting with my own genre - 'crap music'
― ILX until I die (snoball), Thursday, 1 November 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
Herein lies mostly everything that makes this the ultimate music message board. I have only used ILX for a few years. I found it accidentally when I googled hypnagogic! You learn more about new-new/new-old music here than anywhere else in the known universe. Nothing wrong with getting old, just don't shut up shop with your mind.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Thursday, 1 November 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
parrot's got some good points
― d-_-b (mh), Thursday, 1 November 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
He's earned tonight's crackers.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 1 November 2012 23:48 (eleven years ago) link
I know I sounded like a total purple veined dick, but I did mean it.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Friday, 2 November 2012 00:05 (eleven years ago) link
We all sound like dicks here. Or at least I do. I rarely mean it! :)
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Friday, 2 November 2012 00:14 (eleven years ago) link
I fear I am the new millenium equivalent of an old hippy who only likes VU and Neil Young. HELP!
for what it's worth, i would like this old hippy
― but the boo boyz are getting to (Z S), Friday, 2 November 2012 00:30 (eleven years ago) link
The people I know who stopped paying attention to music entirely 20+ years ago and have no desire to explore beyond their narrow confines - those are the old folks.
I was never confronted with this until I went to my 25th high school reunion. For some folks, music taste and identity is tied up with their high school and college identities and years down the line music for them was more important for them as a catalyst for those memories than as an ongoing concern.
Tonight, bored out of my brain, I got out the Clouds "Penny Century" album. It came out in 1991. I had forgotten how much I adore this album, and how much of a perfect pop record it is (gorgeous female harmonies, crisp guitar work, lovely production, the whole nine yards).
Co-sign on this. Penny Century is one of my favorite albums and should be as well-known as Last Spash
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 2 November 2012 00:45 (eleven years ago) link
It really is a great album. They were excellent live too.
― Una Stubbs' Tears (Trayce), Friday, 2 November 2012 03:11 (eleven years ago) link
I saw their one (and possibly only) Los Angeles show back when they were picked up/instantly dropped by Elektra in 1993. Terrific show indeed! Heard good things about reunion shows this year...
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 2 November 2012 03:19 (eleven years ago) link
reunion shows were ok, some of the vocals were a little rusty but generally the spirit was still there
― whining boom (electricsound), Friday, 2 November 2012 03:24 (eleven years ago) link
OK, how have I been such a massive Breeders/Belly fan for almost two decades and only heard of Penny Century on this thread ten days ago? This is a damn good record and if someone had given it to me in 1993 and said "oh by the way, this predates Last Splash and Star" I would've p. much died of instant obsession.
― a panda, Malmö (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 11 November 2012 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
You start really liking Werther's Originals
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