Any reason why ILM is so quiet these days?

Is that why the top 3 albums in our poll were art-soul, conscious hip-hop and art-rock xp

Oh, goddamn, you're taking me back with the Radio Disney. I listened to that nonstop back in '07 or so. It really was pretty much the best pop music outlet at the time.

Is that why the top 3 albums in our poll were art-soul, conscious hip-hop and art-rock xp

― I Am In Atlanta And Thug Is Young (imago), Monday, February 6, 2017 2:56 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"seems like" or "has seemed like" if you will

I massively enjoy all the music and other cultural things I'm exposed to through ILX, but I don't post that often because on the whole my voice here feels like this weird half-facsimile of itself and it just makes me feel so crushed. I feel like I'm offering around platters of meat in a room full of tenured professors, trying to convince them my new play is worthwhile, even though I don't believe it myself. And that's a difficult starting point. There's just so much information and I feel sick when I don't see all of it, which everyone else seems to be able to do effortlessly. You all are just too smart.

lol conscious hip hop

who gave them cpr

xp and then you realise the professors have just been making poop jokes for the last hour

Bowie was the conscious hip hop iirc

psst... ilx is bad because nearly all the good posters have left

the sheer force of habit/inertia/muscle memory/addiction is main thing keeping it together atp

another factor might be the movement of a lot of posters to professional writing jobs and the resulting exhaustion at the prospect of writing anything substantive, especially for free

who are these mythical departed good posters

name names

I suspect that the % of people on this site who make a living off writing is considerably lower than it was 16 years ago

i'm an admin on a FB music group and there are around 12,000 members world-wide and it is mostly the same american white dudes who post day in and day out.

JBR and roxy (not sure about roxy, i just haven't seen a new post from her in awhile)

xpost ilm would be way weird if our faces next to our posts

max was the last one to have cut and run (in understandable circumstances) i don't wanna name names but most of the posters I used to look forward to reading daily have now slowed output to a trickle

who are these mythical departed good posters

there's a v obvious answer being as how we lost our best poster by far in the last year

but i came back

do we have any Matts left?

we have the best matt

i can say honestly that i am not here to read anyone in particular -- i am here to talk/learn about xyz thing. the people individually and the idiosyncrasies of their opinions are not of interest to me really.

I'm mostly just hanging around waiting for Scott to post another Sweet Smoke for Hotheads mix.

I should just make you a tape. I made a good tape the other day.

xp - not to say that i haven't made friends! but i am not here for anyones hot or room temp take on ______

who are these mythical departed good posters

name names

― I Am In Atlanta And Thug Is Young (imago)

ta-nehisi coates

George Orwell

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nabisco was occasionally otm, iirc

does anyone outside of ilx listen to that King group that everyone loves here or is it strictly a hivemind obsession. or what's left of the hivemind during these sad waning days of the empire.

King p much sold out a medium to large venue in london

there's a lot of ilxors in london though

there's a v obvious answer being as how we lost our best poster by far in the last year

― Mordy, Monday, 6 February 2017 20:16 (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I thought Frederik got unbanned?

audience was not rly the mostly white hipster crowd responsible for much of the visible crit discourse tbh

also nakh will return, have faith

maybe he has already

still miss a puppy

i can say honestly that i am not here to read anyone in particular -- i am here to talk/learn about xyz thing. the people individually and the idiosyncrasies of their opinions are not of interest to me really.

it's not so much being here to read so-and-so (i suppose when i was 17 it was exciting to me that Jess or Nabisco whoever wrote for p1tchf0rk), but over time certain voices limned from the chorus and grow on you. and i was being intentionally excessively glib upthread, obvs still many good voices that keep me coming back

Armpits don't draw any attention unless they happen to really stink. I think that describes my presence here.

there's a v obvious answer being as how we lost our best poster by far in the last year
― Mordy, Monday, 6 February 2017 20:16 (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't know who this is tbh

it's not clear to me whether people think that the quality of ILM posting has gone down, or if they think it just isn't active enough (as suggested by the original premise of this thread), or both

also nakh will return, have faith

doubt it; it's ok tho. this particular venue was just a constraint anyway. we lost drash too (who really was w/ us too shortly to be said to have really been here at all). idk, whatever. things die. there's a famous isaac bashevis singer quote about yiddish that works for ilx too (paraphrasing) - yes yiddish is dying and may it continue to die for many years to come.

A bit of both but a lot more of the second option.

I think a big part of it is that the sheer proliferation of blogs and social media posts and free file-sharing sites means that ILM in general is A LOT less Googleable than it used to be.

(xpost to NA)

i always figured u guys had some contact w nakh off-ilx? tell him i say 'hi' if so. i figured he was just on-and-off, hadn't noticed that this was an extended break for him? a talented writer and painfully knowledgeable dude

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Drash was great.

i remember weeks when i was top of the statscock - dark days my friends

lex's point about threads dedicated to singles and albums getting 5 posts and then vanishing is weird to me - wasn't it always like that? too granular.

i still really, really value this place. i trust you guys! mainly. and i like the "old music" threads too.

It did use to be like that. I remember when it was a huge thing if a thread reached 100 posts. The nas thread and DMB thread where people were amazed at how many posts they had.

having to register did kill those threads. I miss the days of the random googler but the spam was getting too much so registration had to happen.

For me, the search function being out of service has been pretty limiting on my use of the board.

― Austin, Monday, February 6, 2017 12:52 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

For me, too. But it also makes me wonder why I bother reviving old threads about some Krautrock band or some new thing I just discovered just to get one or two responses before the thread dies again (and yes, xp, in my experience, this does happen). Don't know what I'm expecting, necessarily--maybe nothing?--but yeah, I dunno. I hate the Rolling threads and I hate barrages of Youtube clips and I don't keep up with mainstream pop music.

But the absence of the search function has definitely kept me checking in less than usual this past week.

there used to be way more people. that makes a big difference. i remember when there were LOTS of threads with 100+ posts. but there aren't enough people around to make that happen now.