ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

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Yeah flopson doing god's work
--Tim F

flopson otm re: types

it's always fun figuring out your taste against the backdrop of an archetype, seeing where you cleave to it and where you don't. and seeing where you're perfectly happy to be that archetype vs watching out for the danger of getting calcified in it (the latter especially with people getting older)
--lex pretend

aw :) love u guys

sometimes i do actually realise that i am becoming quite boring and that's when I am thankful for the people who say the things i want to say but less tiresomely than the way I would put it

I did notice that 9 out of the 25 albums I voted for were made by middle-aged women and briefly wondered whether that was me getting old and calcified but then I realised no one else, old or young, is much repping for those middle-aged women so it's more down to patriarchy

Of course you've repped for a few middle-aged men as well (Cohen, Waits)

(also Quik duh)

I like to think of myself as being untied to any scene or genre. But that all gets thrown into sharp relief come EOY when I realise I've listened to naff all metal, barely any hip hop and even less r'n'b and pop this year, despite really enjoying these genres when the time comes to hearing them. I started subscribing to Wire two years ago, so among other things it's shaped my listening landscape a lot more than top 40 radio.

Being untied to scenes and genres is exactly what would cause you to lose touch with them

dog latin maybe it's time you started following those scenes then. Every year you say you are disconnected but never try to alter that!

Reading The Wire will widen the schism too.

the non-hipster indies western us version i'm thinking of are over 40, worked in a record store or were in a industrial / neo folk / post punk band in the 90s, love the stooges and nick cave, opposed to hippies and prob. can now just be described as "conservative, eccentric"
― languagelessness (mattresslessness), Friday, January 30, 2015 2:47 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh man neofolk... That's a whole can of worms on its own, I fell into a wiki/Spotify hole one day trying to understand who was racist & who was into gay Nazi kink & who was just singing about sad trees and snowball

Lol snow not snowball

hah i read through the wikis for those guys every so often too just because i don't relate to them in any way

Stop reading magazines and just see what you find in the woods

what if you find a magazine in the woods

sad trees and snowball i expect

what if you find a magazine in the woods

then you won't have to wipe with leaves

And don't just look in one place, I often venture out of the woods, and sometimes I got right up on top of the old abandoned viaduct and see whats there too

pro tip: magazines under old board in vacant lot

contendo check yr webmail

Have you ever found porn in the woods?

areweoutofthewoods yetareweoutofthewoods yetareweoutofthewoods

woodsporn

best thread ever

did & done, cs

argh you can't keep the "fascist themes unspoken". are you singing about forests?? you are a nazi!! this is crystal clear.

― goole, Friday, August 17, 2012 1:57 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Got a copy of Workshop 19 from Hardwax yesterday!

Being untied to scenes and genres is exactly what would cause you to lose touch with them

― lex pretend, Saturday, January 31, 2015 1:35 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dog latin maybe it's time you started following those scenes then. Every year you say you are disconnected but never try to alter that!

― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Saturday, January 31, 2015 3:34 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Reading The Wire will widen the schism too.

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, January 31, 2015 3:49 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Uh... isn't this what I'm saying?

ah never mind, who cares...?

I guess what I mean is, who's got the time? If I had more than 2, maybe 3 hours worth of music listening time a day then maybe I'd be able to check out all the latest things I'd like to, but I don't. And I don't see the point in specialising in just one style at a time. I have to be in a specific mood to listen to hip hop or metal, so it would be unnatural to spend a week just listening to one style unless I really wanted to. So I'm pretty happy being a dilettante in that respect.

You dont have to follow anything, its not a test!

and theres no need to put things in boxes and think i must listen to something in category 7 today.

yes. but this is all in relation to flopson and lex talking about archetypes and how we see ourselves fitting into those.

I worry about being a cherry picker sometimes but ultimately I know I'm culturally a UK DIY indie/experimental plugged-in guy over and above anything else. We're all here bcs we have our specialisations to some degree and want to benefit from the wisdom and research of others with different specialisations imho. Here as in this thread.

Man I'd love to have 2-3 hours music listening time a day.

I have a lot more than that...work with headphones on + travel

xpost yeah, it's a stretch at that

most of my music time is done on my commute, with train carriage noise and traffic to contend with. these last couple of years, i've been busy writing and producing my own music as much as listening to others', so obsessively listening to demo versions and mixdowns eats into that time, as well as effecting my listening habits to some extent as well.

In theory I have an entire waking day of music listening time available to me, most days, because I work from home. But a lot of the time - not all, but some - I find myself wanting to listen to news radio or blessed silence. As I get older, I feel less guilty about that.

I love silence!

tennis tends to be the biggest interference with my listening time - fitting new music around the matches when there's a slam on is a struggle - and even then i have no idea how some people find time to listen to as much as they do. tim if you have so little time how do you hear so many long hour-plus radio sets?!

it's also having, say, two uninterrupted hours - if i know i'll have to stop in 45 minutes there's no point starting a mix that lasts longer...

I'm pretty used with sets to listening to them across the day - commute / gym / commute for example.

Yeah I can remember the last time I had the opportunity to stream a dj set for example. No wifi on the train makes for endless buffering. Shame really, because obvs this is one of the best ways to hear and appreciate new dance music.

*Can't remember

You can download a mix and put it in your bag

I have a bag of mixes somewhere here, near the old barn

You dont have to follow anything, its not a test!

best you come over to us on ile we'll look after you

lol at ppl who just filled out ballots with 25 ALBUMS of music released in 1 year being all "where might i find the time to listen to a dj set?"

NB i don't think it's important to follow scenes or listen to dj sets in fact its often really boring i think dog latin missed my pt upthread, all i meant was its fun to talk in a reductive way about music & culture more generally

also people who are like i don't see colour I ain't got no type are usually kidding themselves a bit.

I'll happily admit that given my taste in music and general ~listening history~ I think about music in fairly predictable ways.