― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link
come back when you can spell 'portentous'actually, I was almost going to write 'pretentious', but that would be mean-spirited and unfair as well as being a cliché
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― briania (briania), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link
well, as long as you also dislike fugazi
my reaction to the 'four years prostrate' line has always been 'in your case, it was probably at least six'.
it is a terrible line, but they went to Emory. where did you go?
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― shookout (shookout), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link
i don't like prejudice against music/artists that are earnest and/or explicitly political, even if the music isn't good.Okay, it's official, if gabbneb ever disses U2, Bruce Springsteen or the Clash, we have to remind him of this post.
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link
Like you were implying I'm a sexist pig of something.
I'm talking about everyone here, and saying that I think there's a gender dimension, because these artists are being criticized for qualities that male artists are less criticized for.
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!ST, Friday, 17 September 2004 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link
ok, poorly worded - this was supposed to be an opposition
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link
Wasn't there a rather cool early-90s hip-hop song that sampled "What I Am"?
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link
No, that'd be that obvious answer, but it wasn't either of them.
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link
And as for Natalie Merchant, I fucking HATE her, not only for her insipid music but also for her idiotic remarks back in '86, when she expressed genuine dread that R.E.M., because they were working with Don Gehman, J.C. Mellencamp's producer, were making a "heavy metal album!" Like, huh?!?! What an idiot - she's exactly the kind of person who woulda burst into heartbroken tears at the sight of Bob Dylan's Stratocaster at Newport in '65! 10000 Maniacs and one lunatic.
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― kephm, Friday, 17 September 2004 17:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:30 (nineteen years ago) link
It was a Dan Perry kind of post
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Evil One (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link
That's the one - thank you!
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― frankE (frankE), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― shookout (shookout), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:56 (nineteen years ago) link
ok, this makes me hate them
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 18:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― shookout (shookout), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 17 September 2004 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link
there's logic to this. I'd totally listen to an Indigo Girls CD-R comp made by somebody who I knew had taste and access to their rather huge discography).
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link
Is this truly the closest thing to a general Indigo Girls thread on ILM(??)
I'm realizing, very belatedly, how great they are... but intimidated at the idea of getting a grasp on an act with 15 studio albums (not to mention solo / side projects). Beyond the S/T (which I revisited for the first time since, probably, high school – it made me laugh at how good it is, on a song-by-song basis), and the Best-Of / Essential playlists, any tips on how to "get into them"?
― juristic person (morrisp), Tuesday, 28 September 2021 17:27 (two years ago) link
Light some incense
― calstars, Tuesday, 28 September 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
Goddamn, for decades now I assumed they were saying "The closer I am to find," which I always assumed was an awkward but deliberate grammatical mistake.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 28 September 2021 17:54 (two years ago) link