Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here

all fair, i'm pretty socially inapt + don't like a lot of things + i know my opinions don't really jive with most ppl on this board. yet something, if only force of habit, has kept me here for over a dozen years and i still get turned on to a couple things per year from this board that i likely wouldn't have found elsewhere. so... i'll be here till i'm not. thank you!

you're welcome

lol @ the notion that Aimless is some sort of firebrand troll

ha yes

wait, who were you before esby? what's your old display name?

sleepingbag

^^

Yet to really see the point in them tbh, feels pretty useless as a troll. Seems to think the solution to a proliferation of bad trump threads is more, worse trump threads

there is no solution, only trump

Being at/near the center of clusterfucks does not necessitate trolling. See also: gabbneb

the good faith poster has logged on:

don't worry, grampa's gonna start the revolution any day now and then it's off to the re-education camps for me

― lumen (esby), Thursday, October 17, 2019 4:30 PM (five days ago)

apt

Very few threads on ilx are actually useful in a utilitarian way. The quality and quantity of Trump threads is as pointless to argue about as the best 100 albums by bands that start with the letter H

most people on ilm think the latter is very point...ful?

Anyway I appreciate esby and his nakhchivanian tribute act persona

talk about chalkchivanian and cheesby.. bloody sacrilege :p

nakh was never a troll. when he was being an arsehole it was from the heart

Wait .... what?

yeah come on nakh was good to great and esby is faintly rotten watery garbage

he's doing an incoherent whiff of joe rogan thing but the laziness is so palpable it doesn't even get a troll response other than aimless who seems to enjoy engaging disaffected young men

We should compare these two posters via analogies to bands that are influenced by other bands.

Like the Rolling Stones ...

wait, you guys don't listen to joe rogan? and I'm the troll? lol, ok...

He’s no gaz coombes. Sorry that’s just how I feel

talk about chalkchivanian and cheesby.

gods work right here calz

I miss nakh he was nice to me once

Very few threads on ilx are actually useful in a utilitarian way. The quality and quantity of Trump threads is as pointless to argue about as the best 100 albums by bands that start with the letter H

― sarahell

I can only get to about 75, and some of them might not count depending on how strict your criteria are:

Hagar the Womb - Break the Silence
Hail - Hello Debris
Hail Spirit Noir - Mayhem in Blue
Half Japanese - Half Gentlemen Not Beasts
Hall & Oates - Abandoned Luncheonette
Hallelujah Chicken Run Band - Take One
Hama - Houmeissa
Hammer Screwdriver - s/t
Hampton Grease Band - Music To Eat
Hangedup - Kicker In Tow

Hank Wood & the Hammerheads - s/t
The Happy Dragon Band - s/t
Happy End - Kazemachi Roman
Happy Family - s/t
Happy the Man - Crafty Hands
Haram - When You Have Won, You Have Lost
Hardwater - s/t
Harmonia - Deluxe
Harmonium - Si on avait besoin d'une cinqueme saison
Harpers Bizarre - Feelin' Groovy

Harpy - Do Not Eat
Hatfield and the North - s/t
Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time
The HE 5 - Merry Christmas Psychedelic Sound
The Head Shop - s/t
Headstone Circus - s/t
The Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F.
Hearts & Minds - Electroradiance
Heavy Vegetable - Frisbie
Hedningarna - Hippjokk

Heimat - s/t
Helado Negro - This Is How You Smile
Heldon - Stand By
The Heliocentrics & Mulatu Astatke - Inspiration Information
Hellripper - Coagulating Darkness
Hellwitch - Szygial Miscreancy
Helmet - Meantime
Help - The Second Coming
Helvetia - The Clever North Wind
Henry Cow - In Praise of Learning

The Heptones - Party Time
Herpes - Medellin
Het Pandorra Ensemble - III
Hieroglyphic Being - The Disco's of Imhotep
High Contrast - High Society
The High Fidelity - s/t
The High Llamas - Gideon Gaye
High Rise - Live
High Tide - Sea Shanties
Him - Many In High Places Are Not Well

Hirax - Hate, Fear and Power
The Holy Modal Rounders - The Moray Eels Eat the Holy Modal Rounders
Holy Sons - Decline of the West vol. I & II
The Holydrug Couple - Hyper Super Mega
Home - Falling Into Place
Homicide - Illsurrekshun
Honeyelk - En Quete D'un Monde Meilleur
The Honeymoon Killers - Les Tueurs de la Lune de Miel
Hopeajarvi - s/t
The Horrific Child - L'etrange Monsieur Whinster

Horse - For Twisted Minds Only
Hosome - New Fascio
Hot Butter - More Hot Butter
Hotel X - Routes Music
Hotline - You Are Mine
Hotzenplotz - Songs Aus Der Show
Hound - Out of Time
Houndog - s/t
However - Sudden Dusk
HP Lovecraft - II

The Hua Family Shawm Band - Walking Shrill
Hugo Largo - Mettle
The Human League - Dare
Hunger - The Lost Album
Husker Du - New Day Rising
Hussalonia - Home Taping Is Killing Me
The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - s/t

helium - the dirt of luck

Heart and Haim were robbed

I’m not getting any of these jokes and I’m very annoyed

Least relatable post ever.

hmmmmm

If you think this place isn't poptimistic enough, we must not be living in the same universe.

Haha I also felt slighted by that remark but from the other side

I think there's truth in all perspectives here

Don't you 'both sides' me! Entire genres are absent from these polls, fuck giving more space to the same old hegemonic shit everyone already knows about.

There is indeed too much indie in the albums poll. But the corrective certainly isn't more chart pop.

I’ll both sides you as much as like!

Matt has an excellent point but the poptimist post is more like “the wrong people are posting here”.

No jazz, no so-called 'world' music, no classical, no 'experimental', etc., and the real cause for dismay is the supposed lack of pop.

And not just any pop. English-language pop.

you must not know about me

I don't, no. Which is fine – relative anonymity is the great equalizer.

Pop made it to #47, what more do you want?

You don't understand. Anglo pop may seem ubiquitous but it is actually oppressed by rockists and their hegemonic ideology of authenticity.

Every time I go to the supermarket, they blast Keith Rowe and John Tilbury's Duos for Doris, please help!

oh i forgot this was happening

I know entire genres are absent and it annoys me too, but this is breastcrawl's lament for a specific form of cultural positioning that certainly had (has?) its place. Although I'd say reports of its demise are exaggerated

It would have had its place in a completely different context. As it stands, it's just the same old Anglo-American (indie) rockist vs poptimist tertium non datur turf war that knowingly ignores impossibly large swathes of music, some of which happen to be as immense as entire continents. What are the chances that, say, Toumani Diabaté's The Mandé Variations – a relatively well-known 'world' music album that I voted for – will place at this point? I hope to be pleasantly surprised, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

good point, well made tbh

polling is, i would argue, fundamentally not an effective means of challenging hegemony and "consensus". if you want to poll a population of, largely, anglo-americans on "music" and somehow get results that aren't dominated by anglo-american pop-rock the only way to do that is to write the rules so as to exclude anglo-america pop-rock.