Is this the final Geir Hongro post?

Flaming Lips, since the mid 00s, although I am very much aware they went the opposite way up to 2002.

― The GeirBot (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, April 16, 2013 9:56 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

[from the thread Artists/bands who became more aggressive/loud/weird/'difficult' over time]

he lives on in each of us, His word resounds

I've read a lot about the formidable Master Geir. Whatever happened to him?

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jesus_ascending_to_heaven.jpg

we reached a point where enough ILMos agreed with the central tenants of Geiracy to the point of not needing their master among them

I think at one point Geir was away from ILM for a year or two, then came back. I doubt we've seen the last of him, though he definitely isn't as active as he was 10 years ago.

I can't be the only one who thinks Geir's relentless trolldom ultimately makes ILM a better place.

Imagine the Smurfs without Gargamel!

Geir was many things, but a grouch he was not.

I bet he hated Smurfs, though, unless he thought they were some symbol of European purity or something.

I miss Geir. No matter what was thrown at him he was always polite. Was frustrating when he refused to reply to people but ILM was livelier with him.

Love that guy

Yeah love Geir

Dude had a real aesthetic

Don't love the guy

"Dude had a real aesthetic"

the beatles

Paul McCartney's The Beatles

No, he actually had surprisingly eclectic taste, he just kidded on he didn't

kind of shocked how successfully his trolling worked. so many threads erupted into a clusterfuck, you'd think his comments were so absurd that people would've just ignored him, a la waterface most of the time

as long as it was melodic

Geir wasnt trolling

Yeah miss the guy - you needed someone like that to have a full cast

Uh, yeah he was (xp)

whether or not geir was sincere (and i think he was) the effect was pure trolling

geir will never die

He genuinely believed everything he wrote. Which you would hope was the case as he repeated them on ILM for a decade + all those years before on a mailing list ned,djp etc were on.
At the beginning of ILM Geir was the bogeyman and ppl were terrified that he would turn up on ILM.

lol

And when he didturn up Tom had to post that Geir wasn't a troll and he genuinely did believe what he was posting.

the first few geir hongro posts were 'parody'

it's not clear when the real geir turns up

he will return. one day, out of nowhere, when you least expect it

I yhink I prefer 10cc. Both have strong melodies (which remains the most important thing anyway), but I prefer the polished and sophisticated 10cc approach to the more "raw and basic" Badfinger approach.

Anyway, two great bands, not very related to each other (except both made melodic pop)...

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 3 March 2003 02:11 (10 years ago)

this is the first

just look for tom's post

xp

yeah i forgot to mention the parodies

Only 10 years ago? I thought he was here from the start.

Who did the parodies?

the shock and awe was to hit baghdad a fortnight later but ilx got an early glimpse of the onslaught

in a lot of occasions he gave this place it's bread and butter

and yes Geir will be back its not uncommon for him to go 6 months without posting

no exagerration to say that geir is the poster nostormo wishes he might someday become

he's set the tone early doors there
xxxxp

this thread brings him even closer to return

In some ways Geir is like Nick Cotton from Eastenders -- you miss him when he's not around but as soon as he turns up everyones desperate for him to leave.

"no exagerration to say that geir is the poster nostormo wishes he might someday become"

otm

I yhink I prefer 10cc. Both have strong melodies (which remains the most important thing anyway), but I prefer the polished and sophisticated 10cc approach to the more "raw and basic" Badfinger approach.

Anyway, two great bands, not very related to each other (except both made melodic pop)...

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 3 March 2003 02:11 (10 years ago)

could be any/every geir post in the last decade. nothing if not consistent.

The misspelling of the second word dates it as early Geir, maybe some nerves had gripped him as his hands over the keyboard, nerves at the prospect of this first momentous post to a new messageboard

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/105/1/1/candyman_mirror_by_monstermesch13-d61wbg2.jpg

post his name three times

Hongro, Geir - LookupAnyone
www.lookupanyone.com/.../geir-hongro....
(ex. 555-555-5555). Geir Hongro at InstantPeopleFinder.com. Find information on Geir Hongro instantly.

Flaming Lips, since the mid 00s, although I am very much aware they went the opposite way up to 2002.

― The GeirBot (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, April 16, 2013 9:56 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

[from the thread Artists/bands who became more aggressive/loud/weird/'difficult' over time]

― Josefa, Friday, October 4, 2013 6:24 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

who is josefa? could it be..

iirc geir left us for a facebook community he made for like-minded people, so basically he's building an army of geirs

like-minded people

*shudder*

No, it's not

Well now I'm imagining him reworking "Army of Me" and that's not good.

no.3 :

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/Pages/most-read-threads.jsp

I was under the impression that he left to start up a Norwegian version of ILM

What is Norwegian for I Love Melodics?

miss him too

anyone got a link to those recordings of his synthpop solo project?

I still think geir was somebody's sockpuppet designed to make people who like melody look like racists.

flopson they were on his myspace

Yeah, "Talking to a computer"..

the ship on this has probably passed but sincerity has absolutely nothing to do with trolling

Nowadays, everything is considered 'trolling.' Unpopular opinion? That's trolling. Making a declarative statement that might not be a comprehensive view on a complex subject? Trolling. Telling a joke? That's trolling. Being tongue in cheek? Trolling. Endearingly ribbing someone? Trolling. Trolling the bridge troll? You better believe that's trolling.

He trolled me good when I first came in here. Once I realized it was part of his act I just ignored him, except for a couple of odd times when he was actually otm or made a comment so irrational it made me forget he was geir and I had to react. No point in schooling him. Him being polite about everything made him more endearing/annoying

"trolling" = "saying something intentionally provocative to get a reaction"

You can absolutely 100% mean the thing you're saying and still be trolling; the troll is the provocation, hence the initial fishing analogy that led to the term in the first place (you are intentionally throwing out bait and dragging it through the water to make it more enticing to the fish so that they'll bite).

Pretty sure Geir sincerely enjoyed trolling

Posting the literally the exact same sentiment over and over again in countless, pointless variations for well over a decade? Even that's trolling!

I stumbled across Geir's profile on RateYourMusic, which is filled with lists of his favorite albums of each year and dude was definitely standing behind what he said. Those lists are just filled with decent to bland "melodic" stuff.

i'm doubtful dude was self-aware enough to realize he was trolling, just a poor boring fuck who genuinely thought that "melody or rhythm" was the most interesting topic of conversation in the world

i mean, he's not that different from many ilxors in that regard

Ouch

"Dude had a real aesthetic"

the beatles

― nostormo, Friday, October 4, 2013 8:57 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The are the only GREAT songs on the list:

1. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
2. U2 - One
9. R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
22. Beck - Loser
31. Radiohead - Creep
35. Oasis - Wonderwall
41. Spin Doctors - Two Princes
51. Tupac (featuring Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman) - California Love *
58. Sophie B. Hawkins - Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover
59. Weezer - Buddy Holly
61. Sheryl Crow - All I Wanna Do
90. New Radicals - You Get What You Give

* Only in its G-funk styled album version, but I believe that is the version used in the video too.

Out of those, "Wonderwall" would be the one and only obvious pick if I was to pick the best track. That song may be one of the ten best songs of the 90s, and few hitlist items were.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, January 4, 2008 4:52 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

geir's taste was super weird

like narrowly defined and rigid but sort of odd in parts too

Geir liked p-funk

I don't miss him. sorta bummed to see people say they do, please sir may I have another etc.

The one and only thing Geir is good for is painting really bizarre alternate worlds of music, where Badfinger are really raw and basic. But most of the time, he's at best boring and at worst wantonly destructive. The number of threads he's willingly derailed and left as abandoned wrecks! No, thank you. Though I do wish he were around for some of the recent ballot polls that have been right up his alley (Simon & Garfunkel, Elton John), he'd probably make a really weird and memorable ballot.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/geirbot-2.jpg

geir never does (email) polls.

this thread has most of the people i consider Geir suspects

No, I did think he might be tempted by the Beatles ballot, but no. And he was still around then, but

http://www.mombu.com/music/music/t-i-miss-geir-hongro-10151744.html

he has some ilxor friends on facebook

https://www.facebook.com/geirhong?fref=ts

I don't miss him. sorta bummed to see people say they do, please sir may I have another etc.

― Hip Hop Hamlet (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, October 4, 2013 11:09 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seriously. j.o.s waxing nostalgic about their biggest enabler. annoying when there are a bunch of posters gone who actually made it a more interesting place.

itt A.G. sounds like my mom on "sincerity"

I don't miss him. sorta bummed to see people say they do, please sir may I have another etc.

― Hip Hop Hamlet (Shakey Mo Collier),

I get the same kind of amusement from Geir as you get from Nixon

Nixon's dead

and while zombie-Nixon would be fun for a little while I guess, I don't exactly "miss" him

i think watching people fall for geir-bait was more excruciating than geir himself. geir was pretty easy to avoid. he kinda just made pronouncements.

I don't miss him. sorta bummed to see people say they do, please sir may I have another etc.

I'm not suggesting any of this intentional. But I do think he served/serves a good purpose.

he kinda just made pronouncements.

he shitted up so many threads. like my euro country thread.

but I'm glad you guys miss your favorite racist

he shitted up so many best britpop album polls

i don't miss him. sometimes i wish there were more people like marcello and mark s. still posting away. smart idiosyncratic people who could be maddening but who would say stuff that only they would say. unique in a good way. unlike geir who really was too robotic at times. especially when people would heap abuse on him for hours and he would just keep droning away. he rarely wanted to learn anything. i like to learn. i like people who like to learn.

favourite rascist

the thing i always thought was funny about geir was that he didn't actually have very good taste even within the bounds of his own weird theories. like even if you accept that consciously "melodic" music with interesting chord progressions blah blah is the only kind of music there can be, there's a huge gulf between mozart or bach or whoever and the kind of middlebrow pap geir seemed to love most.

trolling is at its most fun when you actually believe what you're saying, but geir stuck to the character so well that it's hard to believe he was ever intentionally trolling, i.e. being antagonistic for the sake of being antagonistic.

did he ever reveal much biographical information about himself or was he more of a one-issue poster?

he once said he wasnt racist and he was actually classist as he hated poor uneducated people (as if that made things better)

he liked crowded house a lot.

now its like a euology. "He was a man not immune to the charms of the good brothers Finn." geir, we hardly knew ye. wonder if i he was fond of "danny boy".

I appreciated Geir's Crowded House love (first album is a gem), but man, he was beyond wrongheaded on drumming (which I guess we all know).

The thing that stuck in my mind was "Ringo just played beats." Which, ok, does that mean the absence of drums would have vastly improved Beatles recordings? Is the lack of any rhythmic subdivision of any kind is preferable? And if that's the case, isn't a static sine wave the pinnacle of music?

didn't he put out records in norway or something? whatever happened to his musical career?

I've noticed he rarely, if ever, seemed to address other posters on a personal level; his communication seemed to consist of speeches to the entire board.

Any examples of a one-to-one conversation where he might even *gasp* address someone by name?

Shut of Marcello. You have the right to ignore whatever I write if you don't like it. However, I am pissed off by the attacks on the music I like. Whenever somebody attacks song oriented and melodic music played by white guys with guitars, I have the right to defend the music I like. I don't accept the idea that all music has to be based on the Funk.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, March 18, 2005 6:28 AM (8 years ago)

Shut up Marcello. Right now I am putting down Ringo's importance. Last I checked, he was white.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 09:30 (8 years ago)

Marcello wouldn't have cared about anything else than skin colour. He seems obsessed with skin colour. He hates all music made by white people unless all of their influences are black.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, September 12, 2006 4:51 PM (7 years ago)

(to be fair, Marcello did bait him a lot)

like a broken hongro.

Now I am wondering who's been more racist on ILX: Geir or Marcello?

thought geir and marcello were the same

Those quotes are bizarre. From all I've read of Geir, he seemed v. polite and unruffled by anything other ILMers had to say.

Always preferred Comstock Carabineri tbh

People who just post shit like Geir is a racist are so boring and stupid. Geir is a class act.

Marcello on the other hand is a cretin. Geir (and others) buggering off from here is a good look. Crawling back time after time is pathetic.

I suppose you can post racist comments and not be a racist. Not classy though.

Sigh.

as bad as geir is/was, this thread is horse shit

backstabbing someone who 'left' ages ago is pretty much the worst of ilx in a giant conga line

I'm sure dude will be devastated if he reads this and discovers that a few people on here didn't much care for his posts

yeah he was pretty sensitive to that while he was here

So anyway when did marcello disappear?

he's still around.

a little bit.

he has a blog, check it out.

it's called "Then Play Long" and it's subtitled "Marcello Carlin and Lena Friesen review every UK number one album so that you might want to hear it"

so that you might want to hear it

didn't he put out records in norway or something? whatever happened to his musical career?

http://www.youtube.com/user/HongroeBand?feature=watch

i think geir might be the person responsible for me hating polls on ilx. there was one year where he really went to town.

I was under the impression that he left to start up a Norwegian version of ILM

― Moodles, Friday, October 4, 2013 9:57 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In fact, I just noticed this post:

I went and created a music forum on Facebook (in Norwegian) including many of the features I like about this place.
Just don't find the time to post here as often, but I haven't abandoned ILX completely.

― The GeirBot (Geir Hongro), Monday, February 4, 2013 7:27 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I just looked up how to pronounce the name Geir. I thought it was "gear" but apparently it is "gayer"

i think i remembered him saying it was gear actually

and hongru

I'm pretty sure there was a thread wherein he said it was more like gayer

A politically correct power ballad by Hongroe

How do you pronounce "Geir Hongro"?

Gair Hongru.
with the "a" pronounced as in "jam" rather than as in "bar". And the "u" roughly as in "Blur" (really a nonexistant sound in the English language though). Also, the "r" is of course the Norwegian one - like in Spanish or Italian.

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, November 20, 2007 6:51 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I too was fairly interested with the guy: a cursory look through the thread below reveals a norwegian who was essentially disinterested in anything outside his purview (empirically limited by any useful standard), who knew Varg Vikernes ( or his brother?), had no use whatsoever for live music/ exclusively interested in super-passively absorbing recorded music, visited the U.S. once many many years ago, …aw shit… there's a lot in here for them what are interested in this very peculiar fellow…or…I dunno…maybe there are a lot of Scandinavians with whom he has a lot in common, so in context, he's not peculiar? Beats me!

Ask Geir Hongro

it wasn't varg. his brother went to school with another of the 2nd wave of norwegian bm guys

Everyone owes it to themselves to check out this amazing, heartfelt song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1PUBDilm_c

What the shit is this?

You mean, you guys want me to do another post? Have mostly gone over to Facebook these days, discussing music with Norwegians in Norwegian, that is unless I waste time discussing with crackpot conspiracy theorists and blatant racists. :)

please go away agin

hi Geir, ILM needs you now more than ever

that is unless I waste time discussing with crackpot conspiracy theorists and blatant racists. :)

― The GeirBot (Geir Hongro)

http://i.imgur.com/nKSBLgw.jpg

this is too, too rich

(xp) Unfair, I don't recall Geir ever indulging in crackpot conspiracy theories.