Any reason why ILM is so quiet these days?

I turn 30 next week. aaaaaaaaaargh

took me another 10 years, don't worry about it (yet)

Traffic are British steely dan

also "my old school" is the steely dan song that pairs best with mint cilantro chutney

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Traffic are British steely dan

love Traffic, especially Mr. Fantasy, and still can't get SD. suppose you mean TLSoHHB. I try SD every so often and, no. just bought an ES-335 and I've been listening to Larry Carlton, so perhaps this is the year.

you are collecting dan accoutrements

but it isn't necessary. you may cancel the divorce proceedings.

Supertramp probably remind me of Steely Dan more than traffic does. i don't think i ever would have thought of SD listening to Traffic. Supertramp: wordy story songs, progressive, horns, "clever", huge pop/rock hits, ubiquitous on radio for decades, idiosyncratic lead vocals, nerdy, top-notch musicality and production.

something i can't get away from on Facebook OR ILM: people actually listening to paul mccartney solo albums and, like, talking about them at length seriously. i don't know how old i would have to be to do that. and i'm old!

I got started at age 14 or 15 - sure, I think about quitting sometimes, but let's be real.

Not to interrupt this legit-amazing digression but I wanted to point this out--

Steely Dan seem to be all-time-favourite-artists of pretty much everyone at the AV Club

--as a possible hint why ILX might actually seem less essential in these days: after years of being way ahead of the curve, it seems that in the past couple years, the rest of the Internet is starting to catch up

XTC are the British Steely Dan.

for Steely Dan insert any artist in any sphere of art and this is true, which is why certain kinds of opinion - those that seek to prove cilantro tastes great/horrible by algebra, or those that just repeat over and over "I love/hate cilantro and there's nothing you can do to stop me", or those furrow-browed "why the hell does anybody like the taste of cilantro?" comments - are stupid and mockworthy and to be chased away if you feel like it on any given day

― Dick Hole Son (Noodle Vague), Thursday, February 9, 2017 2:48 AM (nine hours ago

I don't think is true. I think there are some artists (at least in the ILX discourse) that are more like bacon than cilantro. There are a lot of people who love them, but there are others that are ethically opposed and still others that mock the adoration of the bacon-artist fans and think they are overrated and overplayed.

is Avalon era Roxy Music the British Steely Dan?

cockney rebel got kinda steely dan

I think there are some artists (at least in the ILX discourse) that are more like bacon than cilantro

oh man i smell an awesome theory cooking

is Avalon era Roxy Music the British Steely Dan?

― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown

well no cuz SD had no members that looked like these two

http://68.media.tumblr.com/5daafc78c5fe29fc635f109942daa32e/tumblr_npe09jkvkl1u75h85o1_400.gif

re the bacon vs. cilantro theory -- someone else mentioned KISS upthread --they are def. in the bacon category

oh for this board to be so quiet again

if that is bacon then what is bread in this theory

bread = artists it has become fashionable to claim being allergic to in the past few years? idk

lol

http://bravewords-public.s3.amazonaws.com/images/p17ng4m1tb26vvmh1dd94pf16ol6.jpg

not every food product has an equivalent artist

bread = artists it has become fashionable to claim being allergic to in the past few years? idk

Belle & Sebastian. Except Bread were much better.

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palm oil is the lost prophets of vegan fat

still trying to wrap my mind about how *disliking* yacht rock makes one an out-of-touch dad

(bacon might be a good comparison: an oily, smarmy kind of thing elevated to meme status by legions of dudes)

Didn't realise Fleetwood Mac were one of the defining yacht rock bands.

But I don't think it's hard to imagine kids liking this stuff instead of what your average punk dad likes. Maybe after Ariel Pink, Kanye West and Justin Timberlake sampling or namedropping that stuff.

to a lot of people they are! (I can tolerate them more than most other artists in the category, but)

ground zero for baconing culture might have been the Big Lebowski. subsequent baconings include bill murray, werner herzog, and sriracha.

lebowski gets a pass for hating the fuckin' eagles

i dont think herzog has been baconed yet

i mean how many people are really going to sit down w/ aguirre the wrath of god

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low-level baconing to be sure but baconing nonetheless

living it up at the joke-tel California

"subsequent baconings include bill murray, werner herzog, and sriracha."

friggin' IPA. everyone likes beer and then people ruin it.

IPA, good christ. i live on the west coast and it's like "we brew both kinds of beer: IPA and double IPA"

that article in the new york times about people standing in line all night to buy IPA. ugh. get one real beer. at a store. and then go home.

Oh god, articles in the new york times

you keep up with current events we get it

Hey, I like IPAs! I wouldn't stand in line for one, but I enjoy the drink.

it was just like two days ago. big article. about standing in line.

i think everyone in line was a fan of The National.

hate it when national fans bring kids to the beer line

oh shit sorry you are a beer line person. sorry.

just not an IPA fan. its symptomatic of something about america that i don't like. oooh, four kinds of nutmeg....

a too muchness thing. 14% goblincock beer kinda thing. you can't actually taste 8 kinds of hops in a beer. it's scientifically impossible.

I liked IPAs. Then IPAs ruined it for me. Actually had a really good one not long ago. Long Tail Limbo, but ymmv. But I keep buying them because they're usually the only beer at my liquor store that's not a lager or a stout.

you should try crushing some sessionable IPAs with some National fans sometime

when my kid is grown up enough to ask what beer tastes like I'm gonna give him an IPA