The shocking scoop - sometimes black people listen to indie!

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why does nobody this ouraged about the 100000000x articles every week going OMG WTF LOL WHITE KIDS LIKE RAP!!!!!

― and what (ooo), Saturday, 27 January 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

http://s2.supload.com/files/default/RTN_Raconte04401.jpg

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 27 January 2007 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

(indie kilt)

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 27 January 2007 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

oh shit wrong thread

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 27 January 2007 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

If there were a big trend of rock becoming more popular with black listeners, I think that would be news of some sort. My problem with the story is less that some trend like that be treated as news than that I am not convinced there is such a large scale shift going on.

OTM (although I don't know whether the second part of this is true or not). I do think, for example, that the increasing number of brown people in media and entertainment in Canada (rock bands as well as TV) is an interesting cultural shift worth at least a minor human interest story.

― Sundar (sundar), Saturday, 27 January 2007 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm not "outraged" by it at all. i just think it's a hilariously bad article. an "OMG WHITE KIDS LIKE RAP" article would probably be just as funny.

― critique de la vie quotidienne (modestmickey), Saturday, 27 January 2007 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link

"IM GOING TO STAMP OUT RACISM BY RIDICULING PEOPLE FOR THINKING ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MUSIC AND RACE" AND "LOOK AT HOW THIS NY TIMES REPORTER WROTE THIS ARTICLE AS THOUGH FOR AN AUDIENCE NOT ENTIRELY FAMILIAR WITH CONTEMPORARY MUSIC CULTURE"????!!

IM SO GLAD WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO COMBINE MY TWO FAVORITE THREAD TOPICS ON ILM!!!?!?

― max (maxreax), Saturday, 27 January 2007 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link

yes that is exactly my stance

― critique de la vie quotidienne (modestmickey), Saturday, 27 January 2007 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

There is even a new word for black fans of indie rock: “blipster,”
There is even a new word for black fans of indie rock: “blipster,”
There is even a new word for black fans of indie rock: “blipster,”
There is even a new word for black fans of indie rock: “blipster,”
There is even a new word for black fans of indie rock: “blipster,”
There is even a new word for black fans of indie rock: “blipster,”
There is even a new word for black fans of indie rock: “blipster,”
There is even a new word for black fans of indie rock: “blipster,”
There is even a new word for black fans of indie rock: “blipster,”
“blipster”
“blipster”
“blipster”
“blipster”
“blipster”
“blipster”

― am0n (am0n), Saturday, 27 January 2007 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

delete civilization

― latebloomer: crapness 2 the Nth degree (latebloomer), Saturday, 27 January 2007 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link

“blipster”

― am0n (am0n), Saturday, 27 January 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

does that make white hipsters "whipsters"?

― latebloomer: crapness 2 the Nth degree (latebloomer), Saturday, 27 January 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

"Caucster" has a nice ring to it.

― John Justen waitin to get his W2s back so he can file his tax and ball out (john, Saturday, 27 January 2007 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

"IM GOING TO STAMP OUT RACISM BY RIDICULING PEOPLE FOR THINKING ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MUSIC AND RACE" AND "LOOK AT HOW THIS NY TIMES REPORTER WROTE THIS ARTICLE AS THOUGH FOR AN AUDIENCE NOT ENTIRELY FAMILIAR WITH CONTEMPORARY MUSIC CULTURE"????!!

IM SO GLAD WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO COMBINE MY TWO FAVORITE THREAD TOPICS ON ILM!!!?!?

-- max (maxnoreaxspa...), January 27th, 2007. (maxreax)

yes that is exactly my stance

-- critique de la vie quotidienne (mi...), January 27th, 2007. (modestmickey)

What? So why did you post it with the title "The shocking scoop - sometimes black people listen to indie?"

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Saturday, 27 January 2007 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link

"IM GOING TO STAMP OUT RACISM BY RIDICULING PEOPLE FOR THINKING ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MUSIC AND RACE"

Yeah, but the way the writer handled race is kind of stupid.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Saturday, 27 January 2007 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/images/wsci_01_img0116.jpg

― friday on the porch (lfam), Saturday, 27 January 2007 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

this thread can only get really bad

― friday on the porch (lfam), Saturday, 27 January 2007 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

i dunno, it wasn't a particularly focused or in-depth article, but i didn't think it was awful

― max (maxreax), Saturday, 27 January 2007 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I will not rest until I have a "Die Blipster Scum" tee.

― The Reverend Rodney J. Greene sings you a dirge (R. J. Greene), Saturday, 27 January 2007 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

this thread can only get really bad

Don't you want to play "Who's the racist?"

― R_S (RSLaRue), Saturday, 27 January 2007 23:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Answer: Mickey.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Saturday, 27 January 2007 23:19 (seventeen years ago) link

can we just drop this and talk about oxbow some more?
that band, it's really something!

also, i listened to vivid the other day, and living colour kinda holds up well, surpisingly! it's the muzz skillings factor. that man could not be stopped.

― M@tt He1g3s0n: oh u mad cuz im stylin on u (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 27 January 2007 23:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Dude, Muzz was the man - Doug Wimbush just could not hold a candle

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Saturday, 27 January 2007 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Wimbish, sorry

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Saturday, 27 January 2007 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, sorry about the last comment I made re: Mickey - that was a bit unfair. got carried away.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Saturday, 27 January 2007 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link

aw jeez, not this shit again

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Sunday, 28 January 2007 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Morley Timmons OTM

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Sunday, 28 January 2007 01:02 (seventeen years ago) link

aye aye aye

― friday on the porch (lfam), Sunday, 28 January 2007 01:05 (seventeen years ago) link

But I want to talk about Time's Up! Great and largely overlooked album.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 28 January 2007 01:06 (seventeen years ago) link

New Jack Theme anticipated dance punk. Hot beat.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 28 January 2007 01:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I liked the pseudo-highlife guitar on "Promise of You." Reid is too good to be lumped as a simple shredmatic guitarist.

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Sunday, 28 January 2007 01:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, that's one of my other favorites. They were a rare example of a band of musicians all of whom could play just about anything and yet managed to briefly create a cohesive and convincing sound.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 28 January 2007 01:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Time's Up is fucking awesome, yes. I saw that tour and it was fucking blinding.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Sunday, 28 January 2007 01:32 (seventeen years ago) link

My first rock show was on that tour - U. Maryland, Lungfish opening. I was eleven or so. I chanted "Elvis is Dead" with everyone, enthusiastic and completely clueless about the implications.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 28 January 2007 01:38 (seventeen years ago) link

"For a long time I was laughed at by both black (and white) people"

This happened to me when I was around 11-12 and wore my Nirvana hoodie to school. But it was nothing malicious, it was from friends.

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Sunday, 28 January 2007 01:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I was eleven or so.

Christ on a stick I feel old now.

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Sunday, 28 January 2007 01:48 (seventeen years ago) link

How are those Yohimbe Brothers albums?

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Sunday, 28 January 2007 01:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I would've been old enough to drink.

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Sunday, 28 January 2007 01:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I just realized that I somehow, despite them being the formative years of my life, managed to make it through the 90s without hearing Nirvana. I probably first heard them about 5 years ago. I know for a fact that I heard every shitty band in their wake, but I was just young enough to have missed them.

― The Reverend Rodney J. Greene sings you a dirge (R. J. Greene), Sunday, 28 January 2007 02:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I got made fun of for listening to Cypress Hill AND for listening to Fugazi.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 28 January 2007 02:08 (seventeen years ago) link

But mostly because I was a giant dork.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 28 January 2007 02:14 (seventeen years ago) link

some things never change

― Wrinklecause for Applause! (Wrinklepaws), Sunday, 28 January 2007 02:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I kind of thought that went without saying on internet message boards.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 28 January 2007 02:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I remember a brief period in 6th grade where kids who liked Nirvana (me) were made fun of by kids who liked Bryan Adams (everyone else)

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Sunday, 28 January 2007 02:42 (seventeen years ago) link

oh god, i wish i wasn't in a library right now. i am using every shred of my being to not LOL.

― mts (theoreticalgirl), Sunday, 28 January 2007 03:17 (seventeen years ago) link

this thread can only get really bad
Don't you want to play "Who's the racist?"
-- R_S (Al__suca...) (webmail), January 27th, 2007. (RSLaRue)
Answer: Mickey.

-- A-ron Hubbard (Hurtingchie...) (webmail), January 27th, 2007. (Hurting)

never forget

― critique de la vie quotidienne (modestmickey), Sunday, 28 January 2007 04:30 (seventeen years ago) link

hurting, am i racist because of that old confession about wanting to have sex with an asian girl, or did something on this thread out me?

it never fails to amaze me how crazy sensitive the ilx political correctness patrol is. not to get all little green footballs on you, but whatever.

― critique de la vie quotidienne (modestmickey), Sunday, 28 January 2007 04:32 (seventeen years ago) link

blipsters have sideways earginas

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 28 January 2007 05:41 (seventeen years ago) link

----"I kind of thought that went without saying on internet message boards. "

dude that was dignified as all hell!

― 808 the Bassking (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 28 January 2007 07:48 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah living colour, for all their faults, where fucking amazing live.

it's funny how everyone forgot that they were on the first lollapalooza tour! that's where i saw them. i guess maybe in retrospect they were considered like the "unhip" or "too 80s" band on lollapalooza. but they pretty much blew every band on that bill - inc. jane's - out of the water. they did sailin' on by bad brains and really rocked it.

i don't know if they "blew away" the butthole surfers though...you can't really lose a game yr not playing...gibby was just guzzling whiskey and playing with a vocal efx box and making puking noises into the mic. then he shot a shotgun over the crowd and called everyone "college faggots".

i think i saw a few black people at lollapalooza.

― M@tt He1g3s0n: oh u mad cuz im stylin on u (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 28 January 2007 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

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None of them are remotely as boring as 99,99 per cent of today's contemporary R&B or hip-hop acts.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:24 (seventeen years ago) link

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― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:25 (seventeen years ago) link

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