Might spend the 20th anniversary looking up TNC's ilx posts. They must've had a lot of wisdom in them for a lurker/occasional poster to remember them in his goodbye post 17 years later.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 11 May 2020 07:10 (three years ago) link
Did I remember a rumour that Paul McCartney posted here at least once?
― thomasintrouble, Monday, 11 May 2020 07:11 (three years ago) link
He left after the great 'Defend the Indefensible: Mull of Kintyre' wars of 2006 iirc
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 May 2020 07:14 (three years ago) link
Lol
― My Chess Hustler (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 May 2020 10:38 (three years ago) link
i meant to leave after T✧✧@k✧✧.e✧✧ stopped posting
― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Monday, 11 May 2020 10:49 (three years ago) link
what eephus said goes for me too - i arrived in 05 or 06 and have always felt very late to the party
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 11 May 2020 12:27 (three years ago) link
a couple years back someone made a poll of all of TNC's ilx posts, it was kinda weird
I also joined up somewhere around 2004 or 2005 and still feel like I'm catching up.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 11 May 2020 12:36 (three years ago) link
Any children-of-ILXors-turned-posters?
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 May 2020 12:37 (three years ago) link
My kid lurks on here at times and has voted in end of year polls
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 11 May 2020 12:40 (three years ago) link
He was born in 2003, which was also roughly the time frame when I first joined, although my posting history suggests it was later. I must've lurked for a while.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 11 May 2020 12:42 (three years ago) link
what happened in 04 that so many ppl seem to have found this place? That's when I got here but can't recall how.
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 11 May 2020 12:42 (three years ago) link
I don't remember exactly how I found it. I was very active on the Stereolab forum around then, and that may well have been what led me here.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 11 May 2020 12:45 (three years ago) link
I may have first heard about it through hipinion.
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 May 2020 12:48 (three years ago) link
heyday of blogging iirc, and no twitter yet
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 May 2020 12:49 (three years ago) link
plus there were people making a living writing about music.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 11 May 2020 12:51 (three years ago) link
I found Tom Ewing's Best singles of the 1990s some time in 2000, I think, and was reading Freaky Trigger for a while - my first ILX post was February 2001, though I probably lurked for a bit before then.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 11 May 2020 12:52 (three years ago) link
i bought my first computer immediately following 9/11 after it became clear that physical media was too slow to keep up with the world. Plus the downloading. I found ILX a few months after.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 11 May 2020 12:54 (three years ago) link
I joined in 2003 but only really lurked. I properly started posting in 2015 (I think). I don't post enough so always feel vaguely like I'm posting from 'outside the room' as it were. I get this with all forums, tbh.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:01 (three years ago) link
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Monday, May 11, 2020 8:42 AM bookmarkflaglink
My friend that posted here told me about Geir and how he said Schoenberg ruined music so I joined purely to wind him up about it
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:04 (three years ago) link
I want this to be a true story
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:12 (three years ago) link
Hey Geir, I know you still drop by every now and then. What's less musical in your opinion, twelve-tone serialism or rhythm for rhythm's sake?
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 May 2020 13:15 (three years ago) link
“The return to the board of noted musico-phrenologist geir” may yet be my answer to thread q so steady on pom
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:17 (three years ago) link
lol I think I missed the 'phrenologist' part.
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 May 2020 13:19 (three years ago) link
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Monday, May 11, 2020 9:12 AM bookmarkflaglink
Lol it totally is. The first post under my gov't name was me ribbing him for it. I didn't realize the dude very rarely responded to barbs so I lost interest, came back a year later to talk rap and metal.
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:20 (three years ago) link
Schoenberg? I thought it was James Brown who ruined music?
― Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls (Tom D.), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:21 (three years ago) link
Papa's Got a Brand New Tone Row
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 May 2020 13:25 (three years ago) link
I started posting in 2005? no idea if I lurked before that, probably not for long if I did. I do feel like a new poster, though I've met a people off board which makes me feel more like an insider.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:33 (three years ago) link
get up get into it get inverted and retrogade
― mark s, Monday, 11 May 2020 13:35 (three years ago) link
I once started an 'end of music' Pandora station based solely on the initial inputs of James Brown and Schoenberg. Geir is a good sort, though; some time ago, I reminded him of some of his earlier ILM pronouncements and he lolled
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:45 (three years ago) link
I like Geir, I think he drops by here from time to time. Some weird opinions, but a good guy.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:46 (three years ago) link
So he's not an actual phrenologist? I'mma need a citation, wins.
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 May 2020 13:49 (three years ago) link
everyone who leaves becomes their legend in time, rarely fairly but thats life
― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Monday, 11 May 2020 13:55 (three years ago) link
did… did a nude spock write this?
― mark s, Monday, 11 May 2020 14:23 (three years ago) link
I said musico-phrenologist which is not an actual thing: I was not being literal
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Monday, 11 May 2020 14:28 (three years ago) link
Ah, my bad. I parsed the hyphen as an 'and' instead of a metaphorical qualifier.
― pomenitul, Monday, 11 May 2020 14:31 (three years ago) link
Is that around when the Baffler excerpted the MIA thread?
― Rodent of usual size (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 11 May 2020 14:31 (three years ago) link
I became a parent so I was under what I call My First Quarantine, don’t know about anybody else.
― My Chess Hustler (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 11 May 2020 14:37 (three years ago) link
lol that MIA thread was def one of my first full-on ILM reads
iirc I found this place googling for "Charalambides"
― sleeve, Monday, 11 May 2020 15:50 (three years ago) link
yeah i wonder if 2004/5 had an influx bc google still worked properly
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Monday, 11 May 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link
The googlers were great
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Monday, 11 May 2020 15:58 (three years ago) link
I learned about google on my first professional job, which lasted from 2000 to late 2003. I feel fairly certain I encountered ILX during that time as well, but it seems too early given my posting history.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 11 May 2020 16:09 (three years ago) link