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

feedback is usually something you ask for unless you're publishing something very publicly and my ilx writing just kinda shouldn't be held to the standard of my published work because i am not working with an editor, please don't hold me to such a standard because i will fail to meet it, and it will upset me, do you get why i got upset?

he's got some previous for this, it's not long since he was telling me to get a thesaurus for not hating his fave director in a verbose enough fashion for his liking!

well that’s what i already do! can’t really be responsible for people’s weird overreactions

― the late great, Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Yes, you can. Especially when they're telling you so.

ooh a call back to one of your most infamous posts! i hope i'm not the only one who appreciated that.

the metaphors worked fine - you've got to work to be an asshole about the concept of pressure building (to an explosion) or seeing power lines swaying through a car window

ivy would've been told to die back in 2001 for that thread with no pushback, so at least this is an improvement (of sorts).

told to die for starting an enthusiastic thread about an indie rock band? you what

Indie is like the most hated genre of all time on ILX. Predictably enough.

Except that nobody can agree on what indie actually is.

Of course, there's that too. Actually the current glut of polls suggests maybe not as hated as I thought.

It's like goths who claim not to be goths

One thing I always found funny is that what was known in the US as 'College Rock' the UK equivalent got dismissed as 'Student Disco'.

Student discos were where it was played but I don't think the music itself was ever called student disco.

Shed Seven, Kingmaker etc certainly did but it was purely a derogatory term used by people. Dont know if it was ever used in the media.

Yeah, you might be right. That's exactly the sort of band I was thinking of too, I don't know if college rock was the same thing though.

That's why I said the UK equivalent.

Amerindie was always quite different to the UK kind. Have a look at my indie rock poll thread and you will see its quite different to the UK indie of its time.

What I mean is I'm not sure US college rock was about second string indie bands who were on major labels and who were perceived to lack substance or credibility. I thought college rock covered bands like REM, the Replacements, Husker Du as opposed to, er, Cud.

... but I could be mistaken there.

no you're broadly right

I thought college rock was basically indie bands who had jumped to majors so got the bigger push on radio?

told to die for starting an enthusiastic thread about an indie rock band? you what

― imago, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 bookmarkflaglink

You are not a real ilxor, hence the confusion.

That’s the way I remember it, although it’s been awhile.
(xp)

Xp charming

"Indie Dance" was a genre - in about 1992.

I thought college rock was basically indie bands who had jumped to majors so got the bigger push on radio?

― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, August 30, 2023 8:20 AM (six minutes ago)

I thought it was called college rock because it was what was played on *college* radio (small, independent, freeform) not mainstream, at least initially /during the 80s

Was around in 89 iirc

xp

As a non-American I obviously know sfa about college rock which is why I brought it up and will defer to actual Americans on the matter.

xp yes

College rock circa 1989 was certainly REM, Replacements, Pixies. It also encompassed more venerable post-punk like Smiths, Cure, Talking Heads. Depeche Mode.

Plus some things that were actually pretty poppy - Blind Melon, Blues Traveler, BNL, etc.

I listened to the college radio station KUSF throughout the 80s and from what I remember college rock was a reference to indie bands from the 80. It didn't translate to the 90s

ymp those last 3 were definitely not on radio in 89. there were probably some analogous artists, but I can't think who atm

89/90 maybe Tracy Chapman, Suzanne Vega.

90, Sundays? NIN?

You're correct, though - Blind Melon, Smashing Pumpkins, Goo Goo, Hootie etc would have been more like 92/93.

I'm thinking like Hoodoo Gurus, Smithereens, Stan Ridgway solo

The company was started by Robert Haber in 1978 as the College Media Journal, a bi-weekly trade magazine aimed at college radio programmers in Great Neck, NY. The first issue was published on March 1, 1979, and featured Elvis Costello on the cover. Staff would often describe these early issues as 'a bunch of photocopies stapled together.'

trade magazine aimed at college radio programmers in Great Neck, NY.

How many colleges in Great Neck

A non-commercial educational station (NCE station) is a radio station or television station that does not accept on-air advertisements (TV ads or radio ads), as defined in the United States by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and was originally intended to offer educational programming as part, or whole, of its programming. NCE stations do not pay broadcast license fees for their non-profit uses of the radio spectrum. Stations which are almost always operated as NCE include public broadcasting, community radio, and college radio, as well as many religious broadcasting stations.

On the FM broadcast band, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has reserved the lowest 20 channels, 201~220 (88.1~91.9 MHz) for NCE stations only. This is known as the reserved band, sometimes known by the term "left of the dial" (taken from the Replacements song of the same name)

ILM is leaking

Yes, it's what I thought, it's a different thing altogether. "Student disco" is obviously pejorative and college rock isn't - and it's seems it even covers a different time period.

Student disco ——> landfill indie ———> ????

it’s landfill post-punk right?

Followed by the blossoming studentgaze movement.

geology rock

ooh a call back to one of your most infamous posts! i hope i'm not the only one who appreciated that.

― sarahell, Tuesday, August 29, 2023 11:42 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

you weren't.

"skot is a legendary shitposter and also did not challenge the hoi polloi"

wait, am i really shitty? isn't that like people on 4chan posting pictures of dead bodies or something? maybe i'm just too prolific. i don't know about the hoi polloi.

i did post a lot of pictures back in the day. sorry. i was excitable! man, i had a lot going on back then.

tbf you did use to flood threads with images that you didn't like. I assume that iswhat the poster refers to?

weirdly i used to think i was defending ilx by doing that when some random asshole would be an asshole on a thread. random googlers! i was trying to defend the poptimist castle! but i realize how annoying i could be. i just hate the word shit so much. it makes me think of shit.

defending ilm from stupid asshole posts was a noble gesture but sadly here we are in 2023

I had hoped that post was meant as a compliment of some sort. Now I am not so sure.

eh, its okay. i know i'm not for everybody. who is? well, ned, i guess. but i'd like to think i've toned things down a bit. i kinda just want to stick to my 80s thread on ilm now. its a good spot to park myself. someone compared me to bimble on there! ah, bimble.
i just came back to chat, really. and i missed the folks here. i can't talk to anyone else on the internet. everyone is so slow. here the brains still work a little. i don't mean any harm though. i don't defend castles anymore.

I do think that post was meant as a compliment but anyway scott ilx is richer for having you along