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

otm

horace: eram quod es; eris quod sum

delenda est ilm

I Love Mewling

.. a nu-golden era beckons perhaps ..

some cracking good threads at the moment ..

or is this cos 2013 has become interesting after a dreary couple of years ..

yeah threads that are just a catalog of things have always been a part of ilm, like alex in nyc's "album covers that have someone wearing a hat" threads or Favorite Long Songs ?

the discourse on poll threads doesn't really seem much different than what was on the Pick Only One or In Praise Of threads. they're just a harmless catalyst for discussion imo.

scott otm about the decreased britisher presence, that's the main difference between old and new ILM to me. which really just means that i'm when i check out an artist that gets rapturously praised on here and i'm like http://www.city-data.com/forum/members/jill61-603505-albums-emoticons-pic62805-shrug.gif it's for gucci mane and not girls aloud now.

^^^ this sort of internet hardman vibe - which isn't really that widespread on ilm, but is more in evidence than it used to be - is exactly what people mean when they say ilm sucks more than it used to

it really isn't, but maybe the level of earnestness that used to be there has dropped more-than-proportionately

back then rap fans had a notable new album to discuss every 6 weeks or so, now there's a notable new mixtape every 6 hours.

i do not think that we agree on what notable means btw some dude

noted ilm poster darraghmac

btw this thread premise is p much equivalent to 'hell is dry and hot these days' imo but i heard there was a meta clusterfuck so here i am

ha xp

back then rap fans had a notable new album to discuss every 6 weeks or so, now there's a notable new mixtape every 6 hours.

i do not think that we agree on what notable means btw some dude

― the right to beef at (darraghmac), Friday, February 8, 2013 9:27 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

REALLY, "notable" is too far? i feel like that's a fine word to mean 'something that multiple people are listening to and interested in talking about,' it's not like i said "significant" or "important" or something.

i mean it's pretty much an indisputable fact that an hour of new music by a rapper that pretty much any hip-hop fan has at least heard of used to be a weekly or monthly occurrence and is now a daily if not hourly occurrence.

these rap chaps ought to exercise some bally self-control, is what our dear friend is flailing at

same as the noise scene. people make a tape a week. rap and noise. its easy to consume a lot of it though. even when its not memorable. its like weird candy you like. metal fans too. an infinite appetite. courting a porn-y audience isn't hard. just keep it coming.

it just struck me as strange usage tbh- imo if you think there is a notable album/mixtape coming out every 6 hours you need to raise yr ceiling of notability

this is v much an aside tho, it's not notable tbh

This has the feel of the very initial exchanges of a terrible, magnificent war

ha not at all, fwiw i recognise the ability to catalogue reams and reams of new content as a very ilm trait/talent. maybe ilf does similar but i couldn't really think of an equivalent off my head

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

i guess 'notable' has an air of 'exceptional' to it but all i meant was, like, famous. someone pretty famous, like has has hit singles and been on TV and stuff, drops a new mixtape like at least 4 times every day. that wasn't true 10 years ago.

has has = has had

i could suggest raising yr bar for 'famous', but i mean i'm not out to stop anyone's fun or anything

it's not like the rolling noise or anything else threads are predominantly about people who are 'famous' by any measure! i just mean, like, well known to fans of the genre!

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