― Elizabeth Curtis (Beth), Thursday, 12 June 2003 01:44 (twenty years ago) link
― David. (Cozen), Monday, 18 August 2003 10:28 (twenty years ago) link
I'm from Glasgow (perhaps you caught an Optimo reference?) Im kind of a lazy guy who works from home (and therefore does very little work, of course) Im sort of an architect (the sort that doesnt do much). I love these things -(smog), Talk Talk, Disco, House, Electro, Stuff that makes em happy-sad like Jeff Buckley, Nina Simone, Nina Nastasia, Spiritualized, Tilt by Scott Walker. My Favourite peice of Music is "For Bonita Marcus" by Morton Feldman. I dont care about categories in Music (they are only useful for finding things in shops) and i am as likely to be listening toThe Necks as Mary J Blige. I go to quite a few gigs which i occasionally write up for a website you probably all think is THE DEVIL and therefore i wont name it. I go dancing most weekends in Glasgow or Edinburgh - i Love Optimo and the Black Rabbit Whorehouse.
thats me - i had a look for yours (David) but i couldnt find it so maybe you could direct me to it!
Also i am going to see Buck 65 Tonight at king tuts. Antone else going?.....
― jed-e-3, Monday, 18 August 2003 10:53 (twenty years ago) link
― jed-e-3, Monday, 18 August 2003 10:55 (twenty years ago) link
― David. (Cozen), Monday, 18 August 2003 10:58 (twenty years ago) link
I've never done a proper intro (always reluctant), will do so in the (very) near future
― willem (willem), Monday, 18 August 2003 11:10 (twenty years ago) link
― jed-e-3, Monday, 18 August 2003 11:12 (twenty years ago) link
― jed-e-3, Monday, 18 August 2003 11:14 (twenty years ago) link
Ahem, I meant, of course, the sublime track 1. Oh, and album has now officially set me on fire.
― Alex K (Alex K), Monday, 18 August 2003 11:16 (twenty years ago) link
― willem (willem), Monday, 18 August 2003 11:26 (twenty years ago) link
Woah. < /keanu>
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 18 August 2003 12:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 18 August 2003 13:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Will (will), Monday, 18 August 2003 14:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Barima (Barima), Monday, 18 August 2003 15:12 (twenty years ago) link
so: hello! (back to the manuscript...)
― willem (willem), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 07:36 (twenty years ago) link
Music-wise, I'm pretty ILM-centric. Right this moment I'm listening to Kelis "Kaleidoscope". This morning I was listening to De La Soul "3 Feet High & Rising", Jacques Lu Cont "Blueprint" and N*E*R*D "In Search Of....". The last CD I bought was Dizzee Rascal "Boy In Da Corner", but Super Furry Animals "Phantom Power" is on order. My favourite album ever is Wu-Tang Clan "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)" and my favourite song is Missy Elliot "Get UR Freak On".
It would take too long to list all my favourite acts but I like chart-pop, bling-rap, old skool hip-hop, some IDM, some punk, grime, and I'm trying to get into house and dancehall more.
― Nick H, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 14:18 (twenty years ago) link
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 16:16 (twenty years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 16:23 (twenty years ago) link
To use what appears to be ILM parlance, I am very much anti-rockist. I like talking about myself, though not enought o continue this post any further.
― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 17:37 (twenty years ago) link
Ailsa, 30, originally from Inverness, now of Renfrew (via ten years in Glasgow). I work for a large multinational insurance company doing corporate accounts, and I only post short answers to things on ILM because although I do love music, I'm not very good at writing about it. I like tuneful things with guitars, and lots of pop things too. Fave bands off the top of my head today are Belle and Sebastian, Trash Can Sinatras, Teenage Fanclub, the Cocteau Twins, Boo Radleys, the Lilac Time, JAMC, the Jam, Spiritualised, Aztec Camera, Furniture, the Orchids and the Pogues, but that list may well have changed by tomorrow. It will never include the Beastie Boys or REM though. I am also ridiculously fond of most chart music of the 80s and Brit-pop of the early 90s as they were my formative years of discovering and loving music the most.
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 17:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 17:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Keith Watson (kmw), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 18:01 (twenty years ago) link
― David. (Cozen), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 18:09 (twenty years ago) link
Contact Millar for testimonial.
― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 20:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 20:53 (twenty years ago) link
― David. (Cozen), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 11:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 11:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Angus Gordon (angusg), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 12:30 (twenty years ago) link
Well, I'm 30, and I am a music critic at Danish sort-of-leftist-in-a-really-soft-and-undangerous-kind-of-way broadsheet newspaper Politiken. I mainly deal with hip hop, r&b, techno, house, IDM, all kinds of post-ravey stuff. I also write about the odd indie rock record - and when everybody else is on vacation or really ill, they let me handle the major mainstream events such as the dreadful Elton John concert I recently reviewed.
I love Timbaland and Missy, some of The Neptunes' stuff, avant garde high brow electronic composition from all the way up through the 20th century, Basement Jaxx, Public Enemy, Dre, dancehall sound system battles, Tom Waits, UKG, Gutter Garage (or is it Grime these days), the first Rage Against The Machine record, schmoochy deep house, cheesy mash-ups, Kid 606, early Detroit techno, Radiohead, Stereo MC's 'Connected', brazilian baile funk, Anticon, some of Britney's stuff, some of Justin's stuff, whatever. I guess I'm pretty predictable. I love to watch new scenes emerge. I love music that is not quite ripe and/or self-conscious. Does this make sense? Probably not.
Anyway, I am also struggling with the final paper in my Master's Degree (rhetoric), and I have a girlfriend that I love. I live in Vesterbro, Copenhagen's would-be-equivalent to Brooklyn in a flat and I own a dark blue Fiat 500L from 1969, which I love almost as much as my girlfriend.
Looking forward to get to know everybody and please don't hesitate if you have any questions about Danish music (yeah right!)
JK
― Jay K (Jay K), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 13:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Emilymv (Emilymv), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 13:37 (twenty years ago) link
Names like Sterling Clover and Ned Raggett sound a bit like sinister fortysomethings who know much more about music than I ever will (you probably still do that, though)
It's all part of the act. ;-)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 13:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick H, Tuesday, 26 August 2003 14:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Emilymv (Emilymv), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 14:01 (twenty years ago) link
― minna (minna), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 14:13 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 14:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Dale the Titled (cprek), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 14:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 14:58 (twenty years ago) link
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 15:18 (twenty years ago) link
I'm a music nut who's into about everything so I it's impossible to pick absolute favorites but off the top of my head I'd go with Fugazi, The Clash and VU as my favorites rock bands. I'm a big hip hop head too with my favorites over there being Outkast, Wu-Tang, and Nas.
― ben welsh (benwelsh), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 15:24 (twenty years ago) link
anyway, the lowdown: 43, newspaper editor (when i'm working, that is, which hasn't been the case for *ack* 9 months now), marooned in "the cradle of the confederacy" -- which i swear makes little rock seem like new york london paris munich -- for 1 3/4ths years & counting.
after years of exclusionary punk rectitude (got into the stuff in 3/78), in my dotage i seem to have become one of those mushy wow-man-like-i-love-*every*thing types i hated for so long ... not only late '70s punk & (especially) postpunk (i'm pretty pleased with the newish adherents as well, a la liars, rapture, radio 4, yeah yeah yeahs, interpol, hot hot heat, etc) but also early rap (through around mid-'84, circa run-dmc's first lp), funk, electrofunk, rockabilly, anarchopunk, '60s/'70s r&b & soul, disco, some '60s rock (pretty much the obvious ones, though please god not pink floyd -- not even the syd stuff has done anything for me, though every now & then i give it another chance), alt-country, pre-'80s country, a bit of reggae. pretty much everything, i guess, other than opera & jazz.
particular faves -- the fall (saw 'em last month in atlanta), wire, mekons, chumbawamba, redskins, cure, joy division, buzzcocks (also last month in atlanta), damned (this month in mobile), cruxshadows, dandy warhols, type o negative, oi polloi, spinners, gap band, gun club, ccr, sparks, trailer bride, riptones, killing joke, pretty things, porter wagoner, johnny cash, public enemy, bluebells, minimal man, rudimentary peni, screamers, epoxies, social distortion, crispy ambulance, wall of voodoo, tv21, red lorry yellow lorry, o'jays, 3 johns, suicide ... tons more.
nonmusic obsessions -- silver age marvel comics, horror fiction (especially lovecraft) & movies, sf (especially philip k dick), the paranormal (color me "fascinated skeptic"), "outlaw" sports leagues (federal league, afl, aba, wha, wfl, usfl), baseball, '70s basketball, ultraleftism in general (anarchism in particular), dreams (just started keeping a dream journal -- recorded at least bits & pieces from 8 different ones this a.m.), post-depression u.s. history (especially the '60s), certain tv shows (buffy, law & order, etc).
― dan bailey (dan bailey), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:19 (twenty years ago) link
You may be amused to hear that I've been in contact with our old friend Ms. Tagonist's sparring partner Steve Wallace (he's now the guitarist in Penetration and is actually a really good bloke!) and indeed have discovered "Ann"'s true identity - "she" is actually Billy Gilbert (ex Chelsea, now in The Lurkers)!
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Emilymv (Emilymv), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:15 (twenty years ago) link
I'm John Magee, from Boston, MA (originally Detroit, MI). I'm a former college DJ (WMBR, "Breakfast of Champions") & I focused on late 80s - early 90s indie rock. I'm also into plenty of 60s and 70s rock, krautrock, various avant-garde stuff (Red Krayola, etc.). I'm 33.
But my real hero is Neil Young. I think I'm quite the Neil scholar, but there are some people around here who blow me away.
Some of the other classic stuff I always come back to: Richard Thompson, Elvis Costello, Steve Earle, Dylan, Talking Heads, Joni Mitchell, Television, any proto-70s-punk, Replacements, The Who, Stones, etc. etc.
I soured on indie-rock, and I spent a good part of the 90s focused on alt-country and its roots in 70s rock. I pretty much ran the gamut on that and have been spending most of the 2000s catching up on electronic music 1985 - 2003, modern hip-hop, and listening to as much new music as I can possibly get my hands on.
I also enjoy tons of classic country music - I have a decent collection there - and even some modern stuff. I'll listen to anything coming out of the Nashville machine and usually find one or two good records per year (Alan Jackson Drive last year, for example).
I'm also way into recording engineer stuff. I have a full PC-based studio with some great outboard equipment. I love making music even more than listening to it.
Soulseek: find my base collection, which i am progressively digitizing and am through L at the_magster. Find my recent downloads at scrimshander.
That's enough.
― southern lights (southern lights), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 21:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Steve Kiviat (Steve K), Friday, 29 August 2003 04:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 29 August 2003 04:35 (twenty years ago) link
Right now I'm working at an independent animation studio in Canada making a low-brow funny TV show. I'm surviving on zero income for a while while this studio is getting established, doing work thats too good to be real work, & I like it like that. I'm way into self sufficiency. I bike everywhere & I'm obsessed with dumpster diving. Latest thing I'm proud of scoring, is two huge bags of day-old bread to feed a dozen people this week.
I listen to lots and lots of music every day while I work. Music is the ONLY thing I spend money on- esp. in mass quantities of old records and tapes from flea markets & garage sales. Can't love them enough. People drop all kinds of wierd stuff there. Accordingly my collection centers in the 80's. Especially post-punk stuff. Screw lists, I'll just name my top favorite album of all time: Chameleons "Strange Times"; and last one bought, Rational Youth "Cold War Night Life."
Well, I guess thats all that matters I guess. Maybe I should mention that my greatest unfulfilled wish is to give birth to tadpoles. Also, my balls are slammed in a cop car trunk & I accidentally swallowed the key, won't somebody please free me?
― sucka (sucka), Friday, 29 August 2003 05:06 (twenty years ago) link
― sucka (sucka), Friday, 29 August 2003 05:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Jesse Fuchs (Jesse Fuchs), Friday, 29 August 2003 05:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Speedy Gonzalas (Speedy Gonzalas), Friday, 29 August 2003 05:31 (twenty years ago) link