It's nice to see ILM so busy

...for a change. Busiest I've seen it in a decade.

I know polls are not everyone's cuppa tea, but hopefully some good conversations over the albums chosen will be sparked.

Good work ILM!

Busy clippers

ILM has way more active threads than ILE at the moment. Posting about music is much less stressful than about politics. Certainly much more fun.

Yeah, it's good!
I'm not voting on the polls but it's great for discovering new albums, and also getting a sense of what various folks look for in music...

I really like seeing what everyone lists.

less stressful? we're basically all on the same page politically but my aesthetic daggers are drawn let me tell you

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lol imago.

I agree, all these lists have been really fun to look at and given me some ideas for new stuff to listen to, which is what this board is all about.

i've been here about a week and it's really nice to see that such an old and venerable corner of the internet is still alive + kickin. i stumbled on it like a year ago, forgot what it was called, then rediscovered it while reading retromania which was written like 13 years ago!

only wish i'd discovered it sooner. been a long time since i've actually enjoyed talking to strangers on the internet

I'm enjoying the activity too and have a list of albums to listen to that keeps growing, which can only be a good thing.

I did listen to Mercyful Fate's "Dont Break The Oath" for the first time last night after seeing it on Neandarthal's list.....which was nice

i think everyone saw i was posting again and said "quick! look busy!" as well you should. things getting a LITTLE too sleepy around here. i don't really do polls but i did vote in two of these polls. for kyuss and space needle. for years i hid polls and never knew what anyone was talking about when they brought stuff up from poll threads. i was a happy idiot.

Lol skot

if you like jazz or funk then you can vote in mine if you want. Hopefully not too sleepy for you

i am enjoying this sudden bloom of nice low-stakes threads where ppl can politely shoot the breeze about music they are enthusiastic about, cant even begin to comprehend why ppl wouldnt like it, we should make this a regular seasonal thing

niche genre personal polls next?

Someone less lazy than me should make a thread compiling all of these polls into one thread. I’m having trouble following them.

Trouble is they all end on different dates, but I'm going to try and keep an eye and note the winners of each one so we can do a poll of those

XP oh I see what you mean. Yeah good shout

Bee OK to thread

only wish i'd discovered it sooner. been a long time since i've actually enjoyed talking to strangers on the internet

Honestly I think ILM is underrated (including by the folks who post here)… there’s no place else that I’ve found decent conversation about music, and I’ve tried, believe me I’ve tried.

(The same goes for movies/TV and other stuff on ILE. I don’t know where others go for such fare, but it’s never worked for me.)

i've been here about a week

Welcome!

ty dog latin, iirc you kicked this off?

Jordan: The Pollback

"It's Nice to See ILM So Busy" sounds like a good Hold Steady song title.

this is all just preening

I think that's too cynical.

sleeve, yes was me. Didn't expect it to blow up but glad it did. Love seeing people's lists

Also, welcome tremolo. Like others have said, I don't know where people go to find out and discuss music and pop culture and, well, Everything, but ILX is the best place I know of

I would also like to take a minimum of 2.5% of the credit for pushing this along

Don't settle for less than 5%.

Yeah dog latin! I meant a thread titled like…

The thread to archive all the polls of personal top lists

I know there’s been several previous ones too (frogbs, bradnelson, peace man… come to mind… I guess I somehow made mine too but I went by decade not all time)… so maybe if I have some time I’ll try to organize the current ones and see which previous ones I can find to post links into a single thread for reference and easy accesibility I guess….

I mean idk if I’m the only one interested in consulting and researching albums from all these lists in the future lol… right now is way too much to even start focusing on what’s catching my interest.

I’ve already listened to four new-to-me albums in the past three days :)

These polls have been a true delight. I haven’t contributed to any of the convos, but have been thrilled to see so many records I love, and even more thrilled to add to my list of new discoveries that I’m stoked to explore.

Surprised forks hasn't compiled a spotify playlist of every album on the lists

Forks left ilm :(

That sucks :(

I hope the rude response to the ILM 77 tracks rollout wasn’t a part of forks leaving. That was lame

eh he tried a slower rollout and asked if it was better some said yes some said no. can't remember it getting particularly heated.

aww, I didn't know he quit. He should come back!

No… I think he was somewhat disappointed about some complaints of how he had to delay the rollout several times but iirc he kind of got in a disagreement over a movie on ILE - not 100% sure as I very rarely visit that part of the forum - and added to the fact that he had been extremely busy at time he just left… no idea if he’ll ever come back or if this is just a hiatus.

Sometimes it takes just one last straw for these things to happen. It's unlikely to be just one thing. But yeah, that's a big shame

Moka is right; it was the new Top Gun, though I assume dog latin is correct about the bigger picture

the idea that this is the busiest ILM has been in ten years is simply factually wrong imo. but if people are enjoying these threads, that's cool. I would probably have done one myself if I wasn't so busy this week. don't miss the dance music historiography discussion on the mix CD thread though, that's more my ilm sweet spot at any rate

It’s natural to disagree over things in here… some people love passionately things, some people hate passionately the same things. The only thing ilm agrees on is that Pink Floyd rules.

But yeah I don’t think it was fighting over Top Gun the only reason… just the last drop.

The only thing ilm agrees on is that Syd era Pink Floyd rules.

fixed

don't miss the dance music historiography discussion on the mix CD thread though

cosign this, good stuff

I haven't voted in all the polls but have definitely looked at bunch and bunch and checked out albums that I haven't heard

That's why I'm hoping someone compiles a playlist, I've already lost track of (and been overwhelmed by) all the stuff I want to listen to *right now*, the result being a sort of choice paralysis that sent me, inexplicably, to Robert Plant's "Manic Nirvana" this morning.

I can't imagine getting passionate over Top Gun, but that's just me. I can, OTOH, imagine getting really annoyed over someone trying to pick a fight with me about Top Gun.

More like Bottom Gun.

One nation
under a butt

Turn me loose
Let me shoot them with the bottom gun

Meet me after the volleyball game

in all seriousness though the polls have a big community feel and don't have the intensity of some of the more analytical music threads, so it just has a feel of a bunch of long time internet friends chatting casually about music which tbh with life as shitty as it is for so many of us right now...is a-ok with me.

(not that there's anything wrong with the more analytical threads because I love those!)

cal’s top 500 vaporwave albums who’s in

I’m seriously considering dissapearing for months to become a vaporgoth artist so I’m in for 500 vaporwave albums to steal from.

Bet!

Bee OK to thread

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux)

Pass, Dog Latin has this.

Lots of folks posting top 50 threads, but many of the genre threads still seem pretty quiet- rap, r'n'b, afropop, global, Latin

Very sad to hear about Forks and hope it's just a break. I have had to step away for a bit too. Don't think I ever made it past a month. But like others have said in this thread, this place is special and puts up with all my bonehead grammar errors. Still wished we had an edit button as I never reread what I type out until it's too late.

The 2022 End of Year Top 77 was the best one ILM has ever had. All because of Forks and an assist with Moka.

I'm other words, Forks you Are appreciated and hopes he reads this.

Jeez, Bee, I love the vibe you bring to this place.

Thank you ♥️

Oh god the grammatical mistakes. I need to stop posting from my iPhone because the autocorrect and touch registration HATES ME. Never though I had dyslexia, but my recent posting is making me question…..

Co sign everything bla bla bla love love

can someone point me to where this spate of personal polls started? did this grow out of a discussion in some thread?

dog latin's poll spawned many imitators, that's all

ah, gotcha. thanks!

i honestly hate it, but i was a hypocrite and fell into the current polling scene. making it my business to respond to everyone in turn.

i have a love hate relationship with the internet, which is to say i think i’ve gone through a similar sort of evolution in my thinking about it which has gone like: “this is the best shit ever!” (initial facebook release) → “the internet is literally doing 9/11 on human culture” (sometime just after pandemic lockdowns ended) → “it is what it is”

ppl say plenty of snide things all the time on internet (irl too) but i haven’t seen a whole lot on ilx lately that i’d call outright abusive or toxic, just some ppl (including me) who at times seemed kinda stressed and upset and prone to escalating arguments.

i know there’s a lot i can do to build my own resilience around ppl’s tossed off snark (and to resist the impulse to be a jerk) … i just don’t think it’s found on internet. so i think i’ve figured that its best parts (like ilm) can be really engaging and fun but no substitute for real life validation (which was probably true even back in the republic of letters or any life of the mind)

so to sum up i used to be kinda alarmed when ppl took breaks from internet but now i tend to think it’s pretty healthy, esp if you can use that space to build on whatever you’ve got going on outside internet so that internet doesn’t bug you so much

predict he might be back after throwing a few sick pots

similar thinking to everyone else*

the polls are terrible

come on, doing polls instead of t/s threads has been terrible since day 1, at least these have some personality

also if you think it’s easy to make a good poll, it’s not!! i’ve been struggling for months to create a well-formed “ukg: girls like us vs girls like you” poll, but can’t figure out how because the b15 project track is called “girls like us” but the mj cole remix is “fuck me pumps”

don't think of them as polls, just think that folks are sharing their favourite albums and you get to discover some great new music and/or get a better sense of what people like, so when they recommend stuff later you know whether their taste aligns with yours...

i'm not saying they're bad lists/polls per se, i just hate seeing lists

ah yeah ok well i personally definitely hate making lists

It sure beats doomposting about the spectre of Trump on politics thread. That's not good for the mental health. I had to avoid politics threads over the past years. ILM is much more fun. Politics is an irl thing and on ILX I kinda want to escape it?

One good thing about polls/lists is that on a site like this one with its dwindling userbase you get a better chance at discussion, because there's more ppl with stuff to say about at least one of 50 albums, while if you made a thread about just one album discussion would prob die down much quicker.

The other side of this is that discussion of albums in poll threads will tend towards the fragmented.

I jumped on the train because I saw it as an opportunity for re-introduction. Some people here know each other personally, for writers their taste shines through their line of work, for some others through being very organized and engaged posters here. For the timid rest of the bunch, a quick top 50 is an easy way to say "hello, this is me / oh hi, I like your list a lot".

By all means, I wouldn't have ILM without the curmudgeon reactions, but also not without the periodic sharing of love and everyone patting each other on the back.

wouldn't mind so much if they were

25 options max
rolling out slower, only 3 a week say
not actually polls lol
more conceptual/thematic than the 'all time faves' majority
not triggering my lifelong negative attitude to album-centric music fandom

other than that good stuff y'all keep em comin' :)

I'm getting so many ideas for new albums to listen to from these lists, I thought I might as well return the favour for whoever is interested.

my belated contribution was a poll of 7 songs with a tenuous thematic unity fwiw! SO GOOD AT MAKING POLLS

First time back here in months. I don't like fads, probably because I was never good at yoyos or chatter rings. So I think I'll come back in another few months once (if...?) personal poll season is over.

PS the Beths are still overrated.

more conceptual/thematic than the 'all time faves' majority

tbf i didn't do an alltime list to avoid being like the other lists. I did 2 genre ones, but I think more people are interested in the all time ones because more people can associate with the music ?
Whereas niche genres have a select audience so nobody cba engaging with them? (plus theres a lot of polls out there)

I wonder if there had just been no polls but just a bunch of threads with each list on them, then there would be fewer complaints? Personally I think its the poll aspect thats driving the engagement.

Nobody's forcing anyone to get involved in the polls. It wasn't an orchestrated effort either, just people having fun and listing their faves

I was going to go do a search on the latest created thread sand then do a thread archiving them, but I'm going away for a few days and cramming to get work finished, so if I do it it may have to wait. Conscious of letting it slip by though. Moka's right, it would be good to compile the links into one thread.

Fwiw, I'm ignoring the poll aspect and just enjoying all the new music...

yes choose your own adventure. sheesh

PS the Beths are still overrated.

HEY

more conceptual/thematic than the 'all time faves' majority

Seems like at least half of them are conceptual/thematic

not triggering my lifelong negative attitude to album-centric music fandom

I get this, but otoh it feels like we discuss/poll “songs” much more often, so if ppl want to scratch their favorite-albums itch once a decade or whatever….

It’s just a way to talk about artists we like, shouldn’t be overthought

If I’m getting slack for Pinkerton in my thread, I’m giving slack fo anyone liking the Beths in any other thread. They are an “okay” band, in the fullness that that word entails

Album-centric music fandom is mostly dead safe from some key releases by the biggest pop stars either way. I’d love for music released strictly thru single / ep formats to make a comeback but those few albums per year that get promoted fight for streaming numbers and will bloat their releases to trick it - reason why Drake and Bad Bunny release like 25 songs per year.

I kinda agree tho, I stopped making my own best albums lists since 2016 or so and switched to favorite songs instead. Some of my favorite songs of all time come from albums I haven’t even heard.

I my poll, I addressed the fact I don't listen to music via albums as much as I used to - mostly because of streaming, playlisting, compiling, DJing etc.

This more track-centric approach has affected my tastes and the music I listen to, with things veering much more towards dance music and dancehall-adjacent sounds where it's more about individual tunes and moments than album-length statements.

That's not to say I don't listen to album-oriented music any more, but due to the convenience of things like Spotify and a dwindling attention span, I tend to listen to an album maybe once or twice, grab the few standout songs I like, and put them on a playlist.

And that's fine, but I should remember that some music is intended to be heard in the context of an album. There is an art to the making of an album as opposed to a bunch of songs.

So really this week has been really nice in reminding me of that - to keep my finger off the shuffle or skip buttons and just listen to things all the way through.

I've discovered new things, but it's also made me go back to music I'd completely forgotten about.

And what's the harm? This little craze will be over pretty soon, but there'll be a listening archive for weeks, if not years to come

That said I don’t mind lists. I love them actually. I don’t think they’re set in stone… someone might say “these are my 10 favorite things” and a week later change their mind.

I do love them because it compiles and makes it easier for me to find something I’ll like, more than reading thru 1000 reviews. If someone makes a list of idk 100 songs and there’s several in there which surprise me because I love as well and I rarely see mentioned I’ll end up searching and listening the other songs.

Sometimes they’re plenty useful too for finding music completely outside your comfort zone. If someone lists idk “10 essential death metal cumbia eps” it makes it easy to pick two or three from the list and see if it’s your thing and they’re supposedly careful picked and recommended from a bigger list.

The lists I do dislike are the canonical lists that magazines create but maybe they annoy me because it’s always the same sacred cows that newer generations care about less each day so they serve no purpose.

I dunno. I a have notepad file of names of artists/albums to check out - new, old whatever. It just got 30x bigger over the last couple of days and it’s fun as fuck checking it all out

Anything that can be in any ilxors top 50 albums is worth listening too. I have been having fun listening to other albums and am a little giddy knowing that I have enough albums to check out here to last me a lifetime.

Goldie - Timeless has been great background music today

Oh yeah I love personal lists. Whenever pitchfork or rolling stone or whatever make their eoy or eod lists I mostly just glance half interested through them, but the real meat is in each writer’s list when available. That’s where the actual interesting picks usually are.

So yeah ilm users posting these come from an excellent source for me.

I’d agree that we may have overdone it. They would’ve been better organized if spread out, idk a max number of polls per week.

"I’d agree that we may have overdone it."

the official ilx statue has this written at the base.

hahaha

I think the spontaneity is fun. No need to take it too seriously (although I guess we do that here too)

exactly

I'm an ILM NPC so enjoying the personal polls but not gonna add to them. Just keeping my fingers crossed for a Gerald McBoing-Boing one.

Now that list would be a tough choice full of solid classic indie, I predict

At least one person should comment on this thread every day

xxp we’re all npcs, trust

Ned is the DM

Just a bit of fun, let's be cool

It's reminding ilxors that ILM exists and that talking about music can be fun. Its exactly why many of us came here way back.

and those that dont like ilm *looks in the direction of Ireland* don't need to read ILM and others can hide polls if they wish.

^^ plz direct any questions about xp, quests accomplished and relative power levels to this guy

oops xxp

jaydm.xls

I hope the rude response to the ILM 77 tracks rollout wasn’t a part of forks leaving. That was lame

yes, that was hard to watch, and esp rude when someone has put in an enormous amount of free work to try to make things better for other people, not just that time but many other times over the years. a sense of entitlement to free work that someone else is doing is a major party foul. hopefully forks will come back sometime soon

Initially I was just turning a blind eye to these POLLs but now I am starting to think I will eventually take a gander at them.

Running year end polls is a thankless tasks and not worth the hassle and the stress it causes.

xp

i'm kind of ambivalent on the polls! i think they will one day be very useful as a marker of not just where a specific user's taste was at a given point of time, but also as a community. at the moment it's a lot and i'm kind of in a mode where i focus in on a handful of recordings for days or weeks at a time and really love them inside out, so i'm really just looking for one or two solid recommendations rather than hundreds of them. but for those one or two recs, a great resource!

i guess the way to search for these in the future will be "50"?

there's been talk of a thread linking them all, if nobody gets to that this weekend I might

The way I observed the forks thing guy down was that he was saying something like "I am a pretty interesting, dude, yay forks!" - maybe he was having a bit of a manic episode, or coming out of a bit of a slump?- and people went after him for being insufficiently 'umble, which seemed kind of short-sighted, to say the least.

z_tbd otm

And yeah, an index will be great thx

Why not just start a thread and each pollrunner can post their own link?

"Go down" not "guy down"

xp great idea, duh lol

there's been talk of a thread linking them all

speaking of free labor, that's a big task! but that would be very useful i'm sure.

and speaking of all that, i've long since realized i'm not diligent or focused enough to keep this up to date, but potentially this thread or something like it (maybe even a google spreadsheet or something?) could be useful for organizing the vast amounts of ballot polls, end of year lists, film, games, etc:

The ILX List of Lists

I can start that if nobody objects?

go for it imho

just put a lot of relevant keywords in the title for future searches

Now I recall that forks dissed somebody's favorite film as well but didn't have the kind of status to do that with impunity such as Morbius eventually achieved which is now sealed in stone with his martyrdom.

well lets crowdsource the title here and i'll post it

something along the lines of
Archive: Post a link ITT to your 50 albums series of polls *insert your own pun here*

awww, that just made me sad...

x-post

impunity such as Morbius eventually achieved

nah everyone went to pieces projecting all their own wailing and gnashing onto him when he did it too

What was the film(?) I'm out of the loop on all this

OK, i'll just go with the thread title if there's no objections

Archive Fifty : Post a link ITT to your 50 albums series of polls *insert your own pun here*

Thanks Toshiro Nofune

Was I the only one to actually rank my top fifty? Most are alphabetical I think. Surprised Ilxors aren't so finnicky

I think when I first loosely started a list, the first 5 or so I would say were definitive in my top 10, but I’m too old at this point to agonize placement.

For me, it’s been more of a fun surprise at a particular artist’s album placing on a list. I think I’ve seen a couple of lists with REM’s Out of Time placing, which pleases me even though I personally wouldn’t place it as their crowning achievement. Little things like that have me wanting to go back and reconsider/rediscover things I’ve slept on.

I made a vaporwave list of 9 but relished it was more canon than my own preference

It was like 50 / 50 canon / my picks

Something like this

Chuck Person - eccojams vol 1
Macintosh plus - floral shoppe
2814 - 新しい日の誕生
vav-31 - a night on the town / dream city
new dreams ltd. - initiation tape part one
Luxury elite & saint Pepsi - late night delight
猫 シ Corp. - palm mall mars
仮想夢プラザ - 仮想夢女の子

Kind of impressive of Daniel Lopatin to have released, Eccojams, the Games EP, Ford & Lopatin and OPN’s Replica in a year.

As far as I’m concerned Lopatin deserves all the success he has come into. He has been a workhorse for over a decade, his commitment is admirable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqg5YrtD87U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN0czUMRMU8

My favorite vapor is early vapor

Just keeping my fingers crossed for a Gerald McBoing-Boing one.

!! Thanks, WeWantMiles! I'll see what I can come up with, the hard part is deciding on the parameters.

Like its not going to be all post-punk, Gerald!

Was I the only one to actually rank my top fifty?

One of the few, maybe. I thought about doing that but found it impossible. Any ranking I would assign would be largely arbitrary and subject to change.

I think I initially ranked mine but then changed it to alphabetical because that's what everyone else seemed to be doing. I assumed it was so people would post about the albums rather than argue about placings?

Any ranking I would assign would be largely arbitrary and subject to change.

yeah I just listed mine as they came to mind, or as I looked through the collection to remind myself of what I really liked

Is there any way to tell if I've voted in a poll?

try voting in it again, if you've voted before it (usually) won't let you

^^^

fwiw the system used to allow you to vote as many times you wanted as long as your votes were paced a certain interval (one week? two weeks?) apart. but at least one poster abused the system by voting 10+ times in polls with distant closing dates, so the mods may have tightened up the polling regulations since I regularly pulled that shit

I'm too lazy and undisciplined to post my 50 albums, sorry/not sorry

I feel like no one would care about my 50. First album would be Frank Sinatra, No One Cares.

The last two posts go for me as well.

But I’ve at least come around to not minding if others do it.

Is there any way to tell if I've voted in a poll?

I think you can vote once, and then one more time after the 24 hour warning (but that might just be a false positive).

I feel like no one would care about my 50.

Definitely disagree with this. I always like reading your posts, you are well informed and insightful. I’m sure your list would be interesting.

It’s not too late james

xp Thanks, jimbeaux. I will consider it then. Last night as I was falling asleep I was running a bunch of albums through my mind that might make a theoretical 50 list.

Not as many new threads on ILM now.

Most topics already have a thread. It's hard to conceive of a topic whose interests would be better served by making a new thread rather than reviving an existing thread.

IT IS NEARLY COMPLETE

Clearly the only solution is for more people to start polls.

Most topics already have a thread. It's hard to conceive of a topic whose interests would be better served by making a new thread rather than reviving an existing thread.

― lord of the rongs (anagram)

The threads that are too big to display in a browser (also known as pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.))

You can roll threads, y'know.

not sure about the terminology, but doesn't ilx already truncate very long threads? when i click the giant pitchfork thread, i see the first 50 posts, then "Skipping 21291 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.", then the most recent 50 posts.

seems weird to say that there isn't much reason to start new threads when so many ilm threads are about particular artists or albums. if someone is excited about a new artist or album or song, i'd much rather see a new thread about it than have it buried on some rolling genre thread, in part bc the new thread will actually get my attention when i'm scrolling sna.

There have also been a few threads started on “general” topics in the past few days (one just a few minutes ago)! Seems like novel topics are still out there… or older threads exploring them, if they exist, aren’t worth trying to dig up.

i was _this_ close to starting a "bands that..." thread last night. very glad that i didn't though (it was "bands/artists you've heard every single second of recorded music by")

at first i thought it would be a way of showing bands that some people are REALLY into, and maybe there'd be some surprising answers. but then i remembered that among music listeners, especially passionate ones, there are a ton of people who really have listened to every single second of recorded music by hundreds of different bands, and people who make a point of tracking down every last rare thing just to know that they've done it. so, maybe less of a passion thing than a collector/obsessive mentality

as i idled on the Post New Question page, i imagined intrigued answers, angry answers, flippant answers, funny ones, antagonistic, and no answers at all. i considered the grateful dead answer, wondering if live recordings should count with a band like the dead, and then someone who claimed to have listened to all of the grateful dead live recordings, all of them, and that made me want to post it. then, i sneezed violently and spilled coffee all over the place, and my goldfish had died. terrifying

jaymc OTM. I like many of the "rolling" genres, but rarely am I tempted to click on those threads because I usually don't feel I'm into them ENOUGH to really join in with them. And often it's just people sharing a YouTube and then moving on. I miss the days when albums or even individual tracks would have someone stanning for them enough that it merited a thread

This is a good point. Individual artist or track threads are good. Now that I am thinking about this, I remember trying to deviate from the rolling ILB thread and starting a thread for an individual book but it really wasn't worth it *sigh*

not sure about the terminology, but doesn't ilx already truncate very long threads? when i click the giant pitchfork thread, i see the first 50 posts, then "Skipping 21291 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.", then the most recent 50 posts.

― i really like that!! (z_tbd)

Right, it does. But if you're interested in reading/searching anything from more than 30 days ago, then that thread becomes basically un-usable.

I've never understood the bias against thread proliferation tbh.

ah, that's true (about searching for something in a huge thread) -- although, i never use it, but you can turn off images in ilx preferences, which would make the loading time substantially faster.

but yeah otm about thread proliferation, the more the better

You can just expand the thread if you’re on the Web (admittedly it’s much clunkier in Zing).

I usually stick to the rolling threads (don’t create ones for new artists and certainly not tracks), although maybe there’d be more discussion if I did. I wonder who’s the most prominent artist who doesn’t have their own thread.

You can even make a single artist thread and post by yourself until maybe somebody else eventually shows up.

And also cut and paste posts embedded in other, more rolling threads.

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Okay, is there a BAD Basement Jaxx remix out there? (started by Dan Perry (Dan Perry) on board I Love Music on Dec 31, 2002)

New Basement Jaxx (started by JoB (JoB) on board I Love Music on Aug 12, 2003)

need some Basement Jaxx/Playgroup type-music (started by Gear! (Gear!) on board I Love Music on Sep 28, 2003)

Basement Jaxx - "Always Be There" (started by Dan Perry (Dan Perry) on board I Love Music on Nov 28, 2003)

A fresh Basement Jaxx 2003-04 thread (started by Ned Raggett (Ned) on board I Love Music on Dec 6, 2003)

Friday night Hammersmith pre-Basement Jaxx FAP? (started by Matt DC (Matt DC) on board I Love Everything on Dec 10, 2003)

Basement Jaxx, Eminem, The Streets, Dizzee Rascal: is this you? (started by JoB (JoB) on board I Love Music on Dec 30, 2003)

basement jaxx may go to number one tomorrow. (started by piscesboy on board I Love Music on Jan 10, 2004)

Choose your vocalists for Basement Jaxx's next album (started by Jedmond on board I Love Music on Jan 12, 2004)

Am interviewing Basement Jaxx tomorrow, if anyone wants any questions answered... (started by The Lex (The Lex) on board I Love Music on Feb 10, 2004)

So the woman handing out bottles of coke in that ad does backing vocals for basement jaxx... (started by Jacob (Jacob) on board I Love Music on Mar 1, 2004)

This is the thread where we remind that drugged up kid, Ian Johnson, that BASEMENT JAXX != DIZZEE RASCAL (started by People love Gravity and Ebullition! (ex machina) on board I Love Music on Jun 28, 2004)

opo: basement jaxx (remixes allowed!) (started by piscesboy on board I Love Music on Jul 20, 2004)

where's your head at? basement jaxx, somerset house, friday 6 august (started by colette (a2lette) on board I Love Everything on Aug 3, 2004)

The beginning of 'Tonight' by Basement Jaxx (started by Hari Ashurst (Toaster) on board I Love Music on Sep 7, 2004)

TS: daft punk vs basement jaxx (started by peter smith (plsmith) on board I Love Music on Oct 28, 2004)

Basement Jaxx - Broken Dreams (started by W i l l (common_person) on board I Love Music on Dec 28, 2004)

rank the songs on basement jaxx's "rooty" (started by peter smith (plsmith) on board I Love Music on Dec 30, 2004)

A fresh Basement Jaxx 05 thread (started by Stevem On X (blueski) on board I Love Music on Jan 19, 2005)

basement jaxx - "oh my gosh" (started by mark p (Mark P) on board I Love Music on Mar 10, 2005)

Damn you, Basement Jaxx. (started by The Brainwasher (Twilight) on board I Love Music on Mar 29, 2005)

Hardcore (Punk) lyrics that would make for a great Basement Jaxx tune (started by The Scottish Restauranteer (ex machina) on board I Love Music on Apr 11, 2005)

Basement Jaxx, Vitalic, and.... Peaches (?!?!) to remix 'Technologic' (started by The Brainwasher (Twilight) on board I Love Music on May 12, 2005)

Basement Jaxx singles collection (started by Anthony Lombardi (CCPO) on board I Love Music on Jun 5, 2005)

Basement Jaxx replace Kylie at Glastonbury (started by Si Carter (Si Carter) on board I Love Music on Jun 6, 2005)

Track ID - Basement Jaxx remix? (started by Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle) on board I Love Music on Dec 12, 2005)

(I bought Kish Kash bc of that 2003 "New Basement Jaxx" thread, in which it seemed like everyone on ILM was collectively freaking out about how good it was.)

the level of basement jaxx fever on old-ilm always kind of astounded me! i mean, they're good but sheesh

"the idea that this is the busiest ILM has been in ten years is simply factually wrong imo."

Busiest August 'silly season' on ilm ever, possibly.

when is the non-silly season

Vintage Season more like it amirite?

Okay now this is the problem with multiple general purpose threads per artist: which one to revive?

I usually go for the one most relevant to whatever I want to post, or the one with the coolest title.

See I usually open them and see which is most active.

Me too

most recently updated for me

^this

Most relevant doesn’t seem to really apply as often as I would like unfortunately.

yeah I mean I try not to revive threads with toxic old style ilx shit at the top or nasty thread titles.

I think 20 years ppl treated threads like we treat tweets now, and perhaps also like blog posts back then, where people want to 'own' the means of discussion for a while. Also perhaps searching was not so efficient and reliable back then. This flipped at some point with rolling threads absorbing a lot of the energy.

Just ocurred to me it might be funny/useful if you could go to a page of active users, click on any ilxor and get all their recent posts across ilx and this were to become a more popular gateway than New Answers.

Yeah, there used to be new posts for every random news article (in the pre–social media day).