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

i'd contribute more if anybody else cared about the stuff i like

ILM isn't liking anything right now. Go look on the "New Answers" page. Not much new stuff being talked about. It's just polls.

is this the place where us funhating pollhaters get to say "I told you so"

Fallow periods, they happen. Also, it's early summer and everyone's going out more. (At least I am.)

It's true that I've not had any one big album or song to really grab me this year -- Portishead's the exception but I almost don't count it because I was presold on them. But last year the year was half over before something did that to me so I'm patient.

is this the place where us funhating pollhaters get to say "I told you so"

I ain't gonna stop ya!

2008 has been a very slow year, polls are actually what is keeping ILM interesting at the moment...

This is what you get when the previous year was filled with too much good music. (I hope you're real happy with yourself, 2007.)

So...anyway, how about that Los Campesinos album? *cough*

man there is so much good music this year it's ridiculous, what are you talking about

the pollen in the air is not a good thing

skot, i'm tapping out too. generally because of last year's unpromising crop of boring facebook meta chatters and heavyhanded aspie mods.

i dont know how to decribe it but i feel the whole thing has become an instant message exchange. and i hate IMs.

more importantly there should be a use value to msg boards. finding new artists, finding new cool shit. ilx has been bone dry in that regard in the last year. skot, no promises on heavy post volume, but you might find this more your speed in your darker msg board moments.

2008 has been a very slow year

-- Bee OK

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man there is so much good music this year it's ridiculous, what are you talking about

-- J0hn D.

I think Bee's right. I mean, there have been some big deal and/or v. good discs this year, but it seems slow to me. I'd love to be convinced otherwise, tho (I got a bunch of those Circuit City eMusic cards to burn through, so I'm looking for some inspiration).

I'm with John, actually -- I did say no one thing has really caught me off guard to the point of instant obsession, but there's been a LOT of good music and I'm enjoying it immensely. So it's not like there's nothing to talk about.

Ironically enough, I've been busy with writing more music criticism and stuff that will hopefully lead to a lot more money than music criticism. And, you know, life. Also, whenever I post something not on the metal thread, people tell me that it's self-evident, so I've given up on the rest of you monkeys.

How dare you have a career.

But yeah, llM does seem slow lately, and it's not like I'm one of the more prolific posters anyway. But hey, LJ is back, so maybe that will usher in a Renaissance!

How dare YOU have a career!

We are the new Chip and Dale.

The Rescue Rangers iteration, or the regular old Disney ones?

still blamin the polls, it took em a year or so but they gradually replaced good discussion (I know, poll-defenders, there are some poll threads that are exceptions, but the notion that music discussion = ranking things worst to best is a pretty closed system)

Polls are terrible. You can hide them, but that's not the problem. They are like black holes for conversation.

What about a poll ranking your various login names over the years, J0hn?

banana nutrament ftw

haha sanskrit linking to the dermy.

http://waxidermy.com/images/deal.gif

I still think the polls should be on a separate board.

As Geir starts an Elvis Costello poll...

Most new music sucks anyway, and the new music that doesn't doesn't get any attention from the kids. It's more fun discussing old music.

Alison!

(Oh, sorry!)

I figured it out! All of Geir's posts make total sense if you add "to me" after every sentence!

It's like adding "in bed" to the end of every fortune in a Chinese fortune cookie.

Most new music sucks anyway, and the new music that doesn't doesn't get any attention from the kids. It's more fun discussing old music.

-- Geir Hongro, Thursday, June 5, 2008 2:20 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

in bed

A meme is born.

Yeah, that should keep you entertained, Scott!

Most new music sucks anyway, and the new music that doesn't doesn't get any attention from the kids. It's more fun discussing old music.

at Burger King

Come back Jess H., Come back Yancey S., Come back Keith Harris, and Love Bug Starksi's not around much these days.

Plus ILX could use some new folks (ideally some into more than indie-rock)

Most new music sucks anyway, and the new music that doesn't doesn't get any attention from the kids. It's more fun discussing old music

in bed with a hot chick.

IN STEREO

at Burger King.

ILX could use some new folks (ideally some into more than indie-rock)

A-FUCKING-MEN

Plus ILX could use some new folks in bed

(ideally some into more than indie-rock) at Burger King

to me, with a hot chick

I see less and less ILX'ors being primarily indie-rock fans, but maybe that's just my misimpression.

(xp)

oh god-x-post-fucking-damn-it

to me, whatever.

The sentiment in this thread-title is one I myself have been espousing, hence my recent attempt to bump a load of "interesting" threads. Didn't really work out.

JGO I will Paypal you five bucks if you harsh on the next dumbass Lorax post like that again, that was a beauty to behold.

i mean ffs that dude deserves my vocabulary

Link?

lorax behaves like a dicksleeve: if someone tells you that they like *the homosexuals*, what current group/artist would you tell them to check out?

where it was all hatched: The Resonant Frequency #57: Perfect World POLL - "Perfect songs are hard to find; here are 12 to start with."

i think that thread was the nadir

see, I like the polls, because I don't see much discussion on non-poll threads, and they get conversations started. I don't see how having polls makes OTHER threads suck more.

on the other hand I agree that ILM has been boring lately. I've been using site new answers instead of just loading ILM and it's opened up a whole other message board of (sometimes) fun. I rarely even read ILE before site new answers. So I think a lot of the blame should rest on site new answers.

I also agree with the comment above that posts like IMs have taken some of the vitality away, but I don't think that's the only thing going on.

I mean I still post to the poll threads but in doing so I'm just as guilty of lazy posting as anyone else.

Polls are retarded.

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