Lux Aeterna

they could totally do an Elvis hologram like they did with Tupac

12 hitler

― every soulless meta poster is a ✰ (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Saturday, February 2, 2013 10:08 AM (13 minutes ago)

Academy Award Nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay: '70s edition [Started by The Young And The Breastless (Old Lunch) in February 2013, last updated 11 minutes ago by The Young And The Breastless (Old Lunch) on I Love Everything] POLL closes: March 11 (in 3 weeks)

Off-putting to find at least four Talk Talk threads at the top of New Answers, all with the same post from somebody called "Graveyard Poet." Don't think it's a spammer but maybe s/he just needs to be told that it's enough to post to one thread only.

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 25 February 2013 09:59 (2 minutes ago)

I do think my niceness plays a part in my occasionally finishing last (or at least nowhere near the front of the pack) inasmuch as I'm aware of the ways that I could get ahead if I were willing to be more of a general dickbag. I don't blame other people for finishing last when it happens, though, because it's a cross I'm willing to bear in the pursuit of being a decent person.

― Coke Opus (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:38 (Yesterday)

I'm pretty cool with being an unrepentant dickbag when it's warranted, though. Y'know, just for the record.

http://www.gkhealth.com/files/2011/childhood-obesity.jpg

I'M SORRY ... DAVE

The Libertines - Up the Bracket poll

Poll Closing Date: Tuesday, 7 May 2013 01:00 (in 4 days)

"What a Waster" and "Mockingbird" are extra tracks on the US and Japanese releases. "What a Waster" is an extra track on the UK re-release.
1. Vertigo
2. Death on the Stairs
3. Horrorshow
4. Time for Heroes
5. Boys in the Band
6. Radio America
7. Up the Bracket
8. Tell the King
9. The Boy Looked at Johnny
10. Begging
11. The Good Old Days
12. I Get Along
13. *What a Waster
14. *Mockingbird

― Bee OK, Thursday, 2 May 2013 02:19 (59 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Completely overlooked in the US. Fucking fantastic album, and it's hard to choose a favorite. I'll have to go with Time For Heroes for the brilliant lyrics.

― Poliopolice, Thursday, 2 May 2013 02:51 (15 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think child molestation is pretty much a universal moral no-no.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 2 May 2013 19:56 (33 minutes ago)

Moist Moist Moist

― da croupier, Saturday, 4 May 2013 23:48 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ Wet Wet Wet in an alternate universe!

― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Sunday, 5 May 2013 00:08 (39 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's like a real life WS thread but with horrible men no one else wants to talk to

this isn't that different from 77 WS thread

― broski dawg (Curt1s Stephens), Saturday, November 21, 2009 1:17 AM (3 years ago)

so the live show is proving divisive...

― Number None, Tuesday, April 30, 2013 11:20 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's certainly been interesting to read the comments on it over the last few days... loads of people complaining about being "ripped off", but also just as many throwing phrases around such as "artistic statement". If The Knife deliberately set out to confound, then it's certainly worked!

― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Saturday, 4 May 2013 20:49 (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://i.imgur.com/ChcFByB.jpg

was thinking of waiting til the last minute and leaving it til tomorrow morning, but i decided to go ahead and send my ballot in now!

― seanpennderizer (some dude), Thursday, 9 May 2013 02:50 (1 minute ago)

What the fucking fuck is this thread?

A part of me would like it if Slayer went on as just Dave Lombardo.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 02:13 (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

kill that part of you imo

:)

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 04:07 (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If I want a statement I'll go to my bank, not a record shop. Making a good record should be the priority. Then give it away for free if your politics are serious, otherwise you're a hypocrite.

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 10 May 2013 13:57 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

So there is no place in music for conceptualism or statements?

― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 10 May 2013 13:59 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No. If you want to make a political point go and become a politician. The problem with most modern music is that there is no place for music.

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 10 May 2013 14:01 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i want all artists/critics to come from backgrounds prosperous enough they have no idea even how to give a fuck

― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 12 May 2013 18:05 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol.

― Treeship, Sunday, 12 May 2013 18:23 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"the leisure class" would be a good band/album name

― Treeship, Sunday, 12 May 2013 18:23 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is this thread just "highlights"?

lux = light

what's that one band that had that youtube that markers would post all the time?

― You must be very cold in the sack. (sarahell), Friday, 17 May 2013 02:54 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the Fall?

― mimicking regular benevloent (sic) users' names (President Keyes), Friday, 17 May 2013 02:54 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:)

Gonna lock this one temporarily just to keep the discussion on the other thread.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 20 September 2007 09:10 (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

5 years pass...

Back again, to the surprise of no one.

― Matt DC, Monday, 3 June 2013 14:14 (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

keep trying to make "fuckboy" happen

its grime slang!

<3 to your endz but tbftye they just arent real grimey

nor are mine, exactly, but i could probably walk to somewhere grimey, not that there would be any obvious reason for me to do that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1J2ArwYBMQ

realness

http://pappzd.com/2012/11/tn1-gang-members-trial-mistaken-identity-murder-kwame-ofosu-asare/

No, trust me. :)

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 20 September 2008 15:42 (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i trust no one

― ○◙genital grinder◙○ (roxymuzak), Saturday, 20 September 2008 15:48 (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

theyve seemingly decided that the five syllables in their own postcode is long for a gang name so theyve gone for a pseudo postcode name except that it happens to be the actual postcode for tunbridge wells

now there's a turf war

Man Identified, Charged In `Fat Rapist` Attacks
November 21, 1986|By BUDDY NEVINS, Miami Bureau Chief

HIALEAH -- A 26-year-old unemployed man was identified Thursday as being the ``Fat Rapist,`` whose vicious attacks terrorized this blue-collar community.

Leonel Leopodo Fumero, a heavyset Latin, was charged in two of three attacks blamed on the Fat Rapist, police said.

Alyssa Milano said how much she liked Hipster Puppies!

― shiroibasketshoes & tuxedos (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 13 November 2011 13:57 (1 year ago)

"He joined NAMBLA"

Definitely not a mark in his favor.

― Alex in SF, Friday, 29 August 2008 00:13 (4 years ago)

There was some kind of Steampunk party in Atlanta a few weeks ago (sadly i didn't get to go). I don't know how it turned out but some hip local bands played and it sounded like some kind of cool thing. It seems to sort of fit into Etsy DIY culture and "The Dream of the 1890s" etc. Next time i hear about a Steampunk party i really need to make a point to check it out.

I do wish there were Cyberpunk-themed parties though. Maybe that's what raves are like (I've never been to one).

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 14 January 2013 05:28 (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I have a thesis about altered-scale Western music: it sucks. But it sucks kind of deliciously, these lesser geniuses trying to create a school of thought that rivalled Second Viennese School -> musique concrete & Xenakis, and basically coming up with a lot of "I like to play out of tune and I am crazy"

http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/integrity/pages/cite/

fundament666

31 July 2013 2:02pm
Recommend
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USA, just like Iran, except with more choices for fast food.

Strummered fundament666

31 July 2013 2:18pm
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Or Just like East Germany, but with worse beer.

I have a thesis about altered-scale Western music: it sucks. But it sucks kind of deliciously, these lesser geniuses trying to create a school of thought that rivalled Second Viennese School -> musique concrete & Xenakis, and basically coming up with a lot of "I like to play out of tune and I am crazy"

― Gregory Bateson is always appropriate (sarahell), Monday, 29 July 2013 22:12 (2 days ago)

gonna give Owen a pass coz of y'know Heartland and that, but yeah this is a bit flip

This is anti-intellectual, smug conservative challops in the extreme. No passes.

?? I write altered-scale Western music, it was a comment of self-indictment.

Also if you listened to the examples posted on that thread you might agree? idk. Don't call me smug. :)

I was talking about that post, as a discrete thing. You probably redeemed yourself in my eyes later in the thread.

And sorry, I have no idea who you are or your musical background.

Think the point was that even in self-indictment you shouldn't deign to speak for everyone; perhaps your biggest crime (in my opinion) was to not elaborate on "I like to play out of tune and I am crazy" because I think that while *perhaps* a lot of this music does stem from a subconscious desire to push beyond, to transcend the meagre palette conventionally available, in manifesting experimentally this conceit, perhaps genuine and sincere expression is found. I suppose that would be your thesis, which would be very welcome on the altered scale thread. I'm also perturbed by "lesser geniuses" - subjectivity is permitted, of course, but it's a really loaded term regardless. Anyway, it's a fucken great thread and you've posted loads of awesome stuff there, which is the real reason you get a pass (from me at least)

@ sarahell, a few posts later, I explained: Just to be clear, I am posting on this thread to be proven wrong. I love extended scales, my own new music uses 24-tone tunings, primarily for saturating the colours of essentially diatonic music. I've spent the last five years buying up as many records by famous scale-doctoring composers as I can find and what I've heard has been either

Do you think ilx has an accurate outlook of what a normal dude is like

― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Thursday, December 21, 2017 8:15 AM (forty-five seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What to choose, yeah, I really don't know, I really don't know what to choose...

― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Sunday, November 19, 2017 1:17 PM (one month ago)

if u choose not 2 decide u still have made a choice iirc

true dat

Kim Karadashian West? That must be his wife? Is she in the music biz too?
I went to her Twitter page (60 million followers!), and if anybody is interested,
I guess she has a "$15 Secret for Avoiding Stretch Marks"

― nicky lo-fi, Thursday, 26 April 2018 13:15 (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

on the offchance that isn't itself a c&p

consider the source

I worked with a guy that would print out articles every morning to take into the bathroom for his morning poop.

― Yerac, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 17:58 (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yerac you should write a book with all these characters, seriously

i'd read it

― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 18:07 (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

same

― don piano (Ross), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 18:08 (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

stop stop im already dead

I'm going to wait for the book about the guy who makes sneering comments about the people that he spies reading Yerac's book.

I would not read either of those books! Just being honest 😝

Aw.

party pooper

If prog just means "radio-friendly mainstream rock perpetrated by people who have classical training, who have played technically complex music at various times in the past, and who are widely regarded as having 'chops' in the guitar-mag sense," then that is pretty meaningless.

[...]

― too gashly (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, June 18, 2018 10:32 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my main view of ilx is that its found all the right ways to be wrong

― dele alli my bookmarks (darraghmac), Saturday, July 28, 2018 11:55 AM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

David Alt.7 years ago

..."grimace-inducing" describes your review more than the original CD, in which confident conclusions are unsupported by any clarity and obscene expressions (however softened by abbreviation) have no place.
"Busy Mom" are you? I hope for your community's sake that your parenting is more civilized than your music listening, writing, or good taste.

Larsen 4 years ago

Another incompetent review by a sneering, busy mom who fancies herself quite the expert but reveals herself immediately as anything but.

sounds like she is more of a bad mom than a busy mom

Ugh... 'Happy' is playing on the radio and the only heartening thing about it is that finally it feels like we're coming out of that obnoxious faux-town craze that lasted wayyy too long.
But there's always going to be a 'Shit Trend' in pop music that exemplifies a particular time - usually it involves producers and artists jumping on an actually very credible idea, but pumping out as many watered-down versions as possible before the trend expires.
Right now, the extent reggaeton-lite fad is clearly becoming more than just a fad as it's been going on for years and recently reared its head with DJ Snake's 'Taki Taki'.
Is this the 'shit trend' right now? Or is there something more insidiously bland waiting in the wings? What other shit trends have there been in history, ones that despite being a bit shit seem to exemplify a two or three year stretch?

― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Monday, October 15, 2018 6:52 AM (three hours ago)

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--TtXBmK1v--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/cy99k7hwkcxoqclsmrzs.png

― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, October 15, 2018 9:00 AM (one hour ago)

Is that a trend or just a one-off novelty hit though?

― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Monday, October 15, 2018 9:08 AM (one hour ago)

ALBUM BY BAND

Too low!

Haven't heard it!

This is so good!

I should listen to this when I get a chance.

Nice images!

join the fun! we need more dissenting voices

I would just post irrelevant jpgs -- I am trying to be less trolly

there are certain albums by bands coming up where i'd almost welcome that

just let me know when ... and whether you'd prefer enthusiastic small dogs, penises, or hitler

or c&p from wikipedia about an esoteric topic

^would enjoy, but lol i honestly can't encourage this behaviour as pollrunner. you will just have to psychically determine when is right

I'd be surprised if I have heard even 5 of these albums tbh

like I will probably know more of the musicians whose albums are rated than I will have heard the albums themselves

I don't know if there's anything productive in determining the relative moral merits of pedophilia vs. fascism - they are not the same thing and not equivalent imo.

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, November 13, 2019 11:05 AM (yesterday

how enlightening is the morrissey thread atm?

tldr tbrrwu

everything after the title is footnotes tbrrrr

2020 shaping up to be a 2016-level shitshow.

― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 03:19 (ten hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think it's a long tradition. Nixon, Joe McCarthy, they all had imitators.

― clemenza, Sunday, April 19, 2020 2:55 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Although it’s fair to say that Biden and the Obama administration shouldn’t have depended on republicans crazying themselves into unelectability without doing more to fix things like voter suppression for example.

― “Big” Don Abernathy, Friday, 18 December 2020 09:24 (eight hours ago) link

Although it’s fair to say that Biden and the Obama admin as a whole shouldn’t have calculatedly depended on Republicans crazying themselves into unelectability without doing more to fix or even mitigate against things like voter suppression for example.

― “Big” Don Abernathy, Friday, 18 December 2020 09:27 (eight hours ago) link

how big of him to clarify that, as a whole

or even

MITIGATE

!!!!

Isn't that a wee bit presumptuous to claim your own personal pronoun? Additionally (s)he wants to be called in the plural, grammatically that is rubbish. What bewilders me there is that the Guardian immediately accepts and promotes this instrumentalisation of the language for a personal cause by reprinting it. Is there no public discussion about this kind of language intervention?

― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 15 February 2021 19:01 (forty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Record labels with female names.

lol - i feel like the aspect of the semantle thread where people c&p their results is kinda the low bar for lux levels (there are interesting things in that thread, but there is a lot of lux that is comparable to the thread map linked above)

I think I'd be more excited for a Kendrick Lamar album if I was still listening to any new hip hop, which I have stopped about the time of Untitled Unmastered. I don't think I remember anything from Damn except the annoying "Bitch, be humble" line. His number of features was also ridiculous at some point. But will be happy to listen to the new one about 15 weeks after everyone else because I still love everything he did up to TPAB.

― Nabozo, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 09:49 (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://i.imgur.com/kLThz0x.jpg

RIP Person I heard of but can’t remember reading at all.

Is George Santos neurodivergent?

sorry i'm late
― unknown or illegal user, Sunday, June 16, 2002 5:00 PM (twenty-one years ago)

bump

We all have a personal connection to this conflict because our governments are spending billions on arming one side of it.

― steely flan (suzy), Wednesday, February 21, 2024 2:47 AM (nineteen hours ago)

https://i.imgur.com/AvStqb5.jpg