Introduce Yourselves!

Hair-laden.

Hello, I'm Chris. I'm 21 and from Northern Ireland but studying French Studies with European Studies at Lancaster University in England. I graduate this year and I'm thinking of doing a Masters in Dublin in a coupla years, after I've earned a bit of money doing some shit job in Belfast. Musical passions are mainly what you might call indie, but especially with a post-punk/new wave kind of bent. Interpol, British Sea Power, Talking Heads, Pixies, Mclusky, MBV, Arcade Fire, Ikara Colt and LCD Soundsystem are all favourites. And I'm a big fan of Liverpool FC.

There you are, hello one and all.

and so on.
I've traded mix cds with Nate Patrin and Charlie Rose but otherwise haven't had any contact with anybody else on the board.
So there you go.
Hoping to drag myself out of lurkdom...

Last week of CD purchases:
"Pop Ambient 2005"
Cut Copy "Bright Like Neon Love"
"Putting the Morr Back in Morrissey" (Morr Music label comp)
Spiritualized "Complete Works Vol. 2"
Wedding Present "Take Fountain"
M83 "Before the Dawn Heals Us"
"Phil's Spectre: A Wall of Soundalikes" (compilation of 60s tracks with Spector-influenced production)

Priti I'm just getting my feet wet here, not the most knowledgeable person about Hindi music. I thought Rahman's score for Lagaan was pretty great, my daughter and I went around singing that title theme for WEEKS before we forgot it. Other than that, I dunno, most of my stuff is compilations, etc.

In fact, we should probably check to see if there is a thread around here, or start one....

Grew up in a musical household, first musical loves (upon reaching adolescence and beginning a search for self-definition) were Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Fugazi, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, The Who. Still like all of those today (though there are surely others I've long forgotten).

Work as a quasi-journalist (heavy emphasis on "quasi"), play in a fairly serious band. Some of my my top albums of all-time:

Jay-Z: Reasonable Doubt
Led Zeppelin: III
Jimi Hendrix: Axis Bold as Love
DJ Shadow: Endtroducing
Jim O'Rourke: Halfway to a Threeway
Fugazi: Red Medicine
Thelonious Monk: Thelonious in Action
Ornette Coleman: Free Jazz
Miles Davis: Filles De Kilamanjaro
Sam Prekop: s/t
Tortoise: Millions Now Living ...
Gang of Four: Entertainment
Mississippi John Hurt: 1928 Okeh Recordings
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
John Coltrane: Complete Live at the Village Vanguard 1961
Tony Williams: Lifetime
Wu-Tang: Enter the 36 Chambers
Silver Jews: Natural Bridge
Meters: Look a Py Py

Top 10 of right now:

Jim O'Rourke - Insignifigance
Blonde Redhead - Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
David Axelrod: Songs of Experience
Bill Evans: Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Can: Ege Bamyasi
Miles Davis: Live at the Filmore East
Miles Davis: On the Corner
Mike Wexler: EP
William Parker: And William Danced
Kris Kristofferson: Silver Tongued Devil and I

Representative quote from my Myspace profile: "Did I mention that if you go to clear channel shows, you are fucking your favorite independent club/non-asshole sellout musician in the mouth with a rusty screwdriver? Well, you are. Please stop. Now."

Dan Perry is my official sponsor in this Alcoholics Anonymous of musical listeners. Thanks Dan!

(I also live in Minneapolis. Are you going to the Gang of Four show? Sonic Youth's Clear Channel show at the Quest was not a good experience.)

I'm jealous of what you must be feeling right now.

I would kill to see the Gang of Four show. But I won't support clear channel, so I can't go. My CC boycott is running 3 years strong now, and I am an aggravated but immovable object. Sons of bitches...(both GO4 and CC)

You can't be TOO excited about it! :-)

Myonga, you may well be right about the relative merit of the rest of My Bloody Valentine's stuff; it can't be entirely coincidental that in my passing acquantaince with it none of it has ever hit me like this. On the other hand, I'm still going to have a bloody good listen to all their post-1988 stuff this week, with particular attention to the sizable chunks I haven't heard, specifically the You Made Me Realise EP. That's after I download the 17-minute live version, and build the shrine.

Perhaps I should introduce myself again (even though I've been here for over a year), since I posted on another intro thread and this is the one that always gets revived. Plus, my original intro sucked.

I guess I've recovered from an earlier period of indie schmindie immersion, but I've never been through a proper metal phase, nor a Britney phase, nor an Italo disco phase. There is work to be done.

And, I am here because my husband posts here (as the Mad Puffin) and said I would like it. Er, hi?

I have an obsession for pop music, although I've never done anything music related myself; sometimes I wonder if I'll ever do. Right now I'm a lot into Euro-Pop, but in general I like sophisticated, well crafted, catchy stuff.

And welcome to everyone else! Ya crazy good folk.

Hello! I'm an editor and pedent living in Glasgow, and at this second am listening to the new Frank Black album, which is grate and topp (no, really) if a bit Van Morrison. 27, and posting drunk. When not worrying about gurls I'm worrying about finding a new flat. Both these things are nearly always true.

good to have you around these parts, though, stet.

I am the proud owner of a daughter, Emily who is 12, a cat called Thomas and a collection of vinyl and cds that numbers something in the region of 5000.

My favourite artists, as well as the above include The Fall, MBV, Beach boys, Thin Lizzy and about 1000 other artists. I detest Red hot chilli peppers, White boy radio 2 indie garbage and anything lazy or generic. My favourite albums are Hex Induction hour by the Fall, Risque by Chic, Metal box by PIL and anything good I've just listened to.

I have a deep mistrust of anyone who doesn't like music or listens to it with a closed mind, I love Cricket, the fact that this world has cats in it and red wine. I detest Land rovers and the people who drive them, DIY, people who don't listen and snobbery of any kind.

Because I grew up in a place where good records/music mags were extremely hard to find, I've missed out on quite a bit so excuse me if I know next to nothing about records/artists/bands before 1995.

More of a lurker than a poster, until recently. But I'll probably go back to lurking soon.

Also enjoy Nina Simone, Tim Buckley, Missy Elliot, the Smashing Pumpkins, Elliott Smith, Basement Jaxx, Radiohead, Kylie, Blur, Madonna, Prince, the Shins and a lot of other crappy indie bands, and whatever bouncy pop nugget is assailing the charts at the moment. There's not much that I actively hate except maybe Simple Plan.

vanessa/novaeris/the axe - female 25 years old - student at UMASS Amherst - studying cinema, media studies & intensive japanese
I love to read & knit & watch films (usually foreign & kung-fu) & eat chocolate & hit things with my car & download music & take sedatives & sleep. I can only read science & non-fiction books because Im too dumb to follow complex narratives. I have a severely impaired memory & tend to foget things alot (like what year it is or in which city I forgot my car)

I grew up on britpop a la suede, blur, auteurs, etc. these days I'm much more of a robot with a preference for the electronic genres. but Im really Im really a musical schizophrenic - afx, akufen, arovane, bochum welt, bola, bonobo, brian eno, broadcast, casino v. japan, cinematic orchestra, claro intelecto, clifford gilberto, drexciya, dettinger, erykah badu, four tet, I am robot and proud, jaga jazzist, kraftwerk, lali puna, mara carlyle, markus guentner, marumari, monolake, mu, neu!, nobukazu takemura, proem, quantic, riow arai, stereolab, steve roach, swayzak, sugar plant, telepopmusik, tujiko noriko, vector lovers,, vladislav delay. etc. etc. Im totally forgetting a bunch but I love warp, kompakt, carpark, tomlab, some ant zen & ninja tune is okay, chain reaction, & rune grammofon.

as a rule I dont like vocals cos they piss me off, especially in english - I cant handle bad lyrics so most vocal stuff I cant understand one word of it.
aim = novaeris

ok I hope that was okay :P ....

I lurked here for a long time, finally registered and now post when I can bring something to the table, so an introduction was overdue. Like most people on ILM I'm into all kinds of music. Some long-term favourites include American Music Club, Felt, Boards of Canada, Kitchens of Distinction, Low, Seam, MBV and Fugazi.

Other interests include film (occasional ILF poster) and modern fiction.

These boards are the best distraction from the workday grind I can think of and I've learnt a lot about music and artists I knew nothing about before, thanks to all you good people.

I'm 32, dangerously partisan towards Prefab Sprout, Scritti Politti and Dexy's, and becoming a Dad in July. My focus doesn't waiver far from that last point these days.

The rest of my life tends to revolve around going to football matches, drinking beer and trying to beat the NME in a weekly music quiz in a North London pub.

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