(i have thoughts on this but i don't want to influence responses one way or the other)
― stephanie t (stephanie), Saturday, 17 May 2003 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)
http://studio-c.co.uk/killingjoke/KJ18P.JPG
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 17 May 2003 05:16 (twenty-two years ago)
Or relatively good band... same difference. Fan boys are fan boys, and they invariably annoy.
Not to start a fite or anything. Not like I could change your mind anyway, or even begin to penetrate your stony, Killing-Joke-colored facade.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 17 May 2003 05:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 17 May 2003 05:46 (twenty-two years ago)
Look... I'm not taking the piss here. I've put in some time on ILX, and most of you know I'm not an idiot. I'm only wondering whether...
Well, I guess I'm wondering about the virtues of fandom. I don't see any at all. Many many do. This criticism could be equally directed at BurmaKitty, or even Ned and his whole MBV thing. These are good people, and good bands. But the state of mind that leads someone to honor one fire over all others is baffling to me. The world is FULL of music!
So my question to Alex could be better phrased as, do you love music, or do you just love Killing Joke?
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 17 May 2003 05:52 (twenty-two years ago)
Once again... call me when the blood dries.
― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 17 May 2003 06:11 (twenty-two years ago)
So, Kenan, you're telling us you've never been a fan of anything before?
― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 17 May 2003 06:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 17 May 2003 06:14 (twenty-two years ago)
christ, i'm a total fanboy most of the time but the answer to this question, beyond "having the pleasure of experiencing whatever the hell i'm a fan of", the answer is SWEET F A
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Saturday, 17 May 2003 06:18 (twenty-two years ago)
Sure, one's degree of fandom can be seen as extreme to some, but I think fandom or over-indulgence relating to something -- artist, food type, magazine, anything -- has a lot of abstract beneficial side-effects, such as the skills to understand the mechanisms of said thing inside and outside, the skills to (often) intelligently discuss said thing's impact on oneself, the skills to speculate over minute details.... aside from skills, I think all people need a vent for some form of passion, and I think fandom like this (again, which may seem too extreme to some) is an otherwise healthy outlet... whether it's cars, vacuum tube equipment, fine wines, or Killing Joke.
― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 17 May 2003 06:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― oops (Oops), Saturday, 17 May 2003 06:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Saturday, 17 May 2003 06:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 17 May 2003 06:25 (twenty-two years ago)
Didn't realize you were such an utterly humorless grouch, Kenan. Not to put too fine a point on it, but my tastes are reasonably wide and varied (despite some firmly held opinions and stubborn convictions) and my thoroughly embarassing cd collection (now over the 2500 mark) ought to suggest as much, but I also happen to quite like Killing Joke. Moreover, I know my constant invokations of their good name upset surprisingly uptight folks like yourself, so you should probably expect a lot more of it in the future.
how long have you geekily fetishized this forgotten, relatively mediocre band?
Probably since about 1984 or so, but to call them a "forgotten, relatively mediocre band" does them a woefull disservice (especially on the eve of their next album, due in July).
Shove it!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 17 May 2003 06:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 17 May 2003 06:31 (twenty-two years ago)
You're right. Everything you said is exactly right. And I know this... I'm a fan of a lot of stuff, like, as in, fanatic, or borderline, anyway.
What got me going, I guess, is that I haven't even been here that long, but whenever I see Killing Joke, I see Alex, and by now it's so unbelievably crushingly eye-bleedingly OBVIOUS that I want to hit my head against something. It's silly fetishism at this point. The fact that he picked a relatively unknown band and not U-fucking-2 doesn't make him much different from an ardent nutso sobbingly devoted U2 fan.
Sorry Alex. It's not personal. I just don't like gimmicks, is all.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 17 May 2003 06:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 17 May 2003 06:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 17 May 2003 06:35 (twenty-two years ago)
And just to prove to you that I do indeed listen to other bands, I've "select all'd" the mp3s here on my work computer....lemme know if this is varied enough for you.
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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 17 May 2003 06:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 17 May 2003 06:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 17 May 2003 06:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― jonas lefrel (jonas lefrel), Saturday, 17 May 2003 06:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 17 May 2003 06:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 17 May 2003 06:48 (twenty-two years ago)
*calming down*
I'm sorry. That could have all come off a lot better. I just don't understand long-term fandom is all. I've loved a lot of bands in my life, but I've always moved away from them. The bands I've loved the most, I've always eventually outgrown (except for maybe The Smiths). I've gotten older and, as you say, grouchier, and I turn a critical eye to everything nowadays. Most albums I don't listen to more than a couple times. At this point, I've heard so much music that it's like, "got it, got it, got it, got it..." Not that it's tedium, I love every minute, but I don't develop from-afar crushes anymore. I don't have the TIME for that kind of thing. Gotta move on, more music to hear...
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 17 May 2003 06:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 17 May 2003 06:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 17 May 2003 06:55 (twenty-two years ago)
― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 17 May 2003 06:57 (twenty-two years ago)
Okay, with these exceptions:
The SmithsThe ClashThe PixiesJohn ColtraneTalking Headsand lately:InterpolManitobaand onand onand on
Look, I like a lot of stuff, alright? Like it a lot. But I don't name drop the same damn thing every chance I get. Cause that would be, you know, tiresome.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 17 May 2003 06:57 (twenty-two years ago)
None at all, I guess. Just bugs me. Don't care about Killing Joke.
Maybe I should start mentioning Meat Beat Manifesto on every third thread. Then I could have a charming quirk, too.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 17 May 2003 06:59 (twenty-two years ago)
Fuckin' bite me, man. If you spend half as much time as you say you do reading ILM, you'd see that I weigh in on a lot of threads without ever mentioning K____g J__e.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 17 May 2003 07:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 17 May 2003 07:02 (twenty-two years ago)
Is that a challenge to read MORE ILM? Are you trying to get me fired?
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 17 May 2003 07:04 (twenty-two years ago)
― Bob Six (bobbysix), Saturday, 17 May 2003 07:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― oops (Oops), Saturday, 17 May 2003 07:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 17 May 2003 07:17 (twenty-two years ago)
haha, I even made my own when I became the first person in the 300 years of my school to stay on for the Oxbridge entrance and not be made a prefect. It read "why aren't I a prefect?" and I was offered an interview with the headmaster, as I had a right to an explanation. I declined, as the badge was just stirring - that fact going some way to an answer in itself.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 17 May 2003 11:04 (twenty-two years ago)
Wow. I was a dick last night. This is going to sound like an excuse, and I guess technically it is, but I hadn't eaten since lunch. You see right at the end there when I get all contrite? That's mid-hamburger.
Sorry Alex.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 17 May 2003 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― Andy K (Andy K), Saturday, 17 May 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)
*hides fan-girl tattoos from meanie Kenan*
buttons - they are cute though I don't wear them on my person. I have a couple of sleater-kinney ones on my Emily Strange purse -- tru ri0t grrl style boyee! Other lil' buttons I'll stick on lampshades and the like. My leopard Hello Kitty sitting on the TV sports a Kodiaks 1"er. It suits her.
― That Girl (thatgirl), Saturday, 17 May 2003 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― Andy K (Andy K), Saturday, 17 May 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dave M. (rotten03), Saturday, 17 May 2003 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 17 May 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)
1" buttons : bedford ave as "My child is an Honor Student" bumperstickers : suburbia
― stephanie t (stephanie), Saturday, 17 May 2003 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)
I love buttons, stickers, t-shirts etc. not to promote my own coolness but out of support of the bands I love! Most of the promo stuff I sport is of bands who are my friends and whom I love so I think it's cool!
Obv., if you worry that other people will think you are trying too hard then you are.
― That Girl (thatgirl), Saturday, 17 May 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)
supporting bands you love is always good in my book, esp. your friends' bands. i guess i have just meant a few people who wear them solely as fashion accessories...
― stephanie t (stephanie), Saturday, 17 May 2003 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)
I still have my Whammy Cloth. Unfortunately, my ID card got stolen along with my wallet in the early 90's :(
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 17 May 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― Poppy (poppy), Saturday, 17 May 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sean (Sean), Saturday, 17 May 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)
http://www.angelfire.com/wy/bby2k/badges.jpg
haha!
― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 17 May 2003 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― Poppy (poppy), Saturday, 17 May 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― chaki (chaki), Saturday, 17 May 2003 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― Maria (Maria), Saturday, 17 May 2003 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)
No worries, Kenan. For a start, I wasn't as awake as I might've otherwise been (despite being on duty) and could've reasoned/explained m'self better (sorry bout the "shove it" bit). Moreover, you invariably do have a point. I saturate ILM with Killing Joke propaganda to the point of utter nonsensical ludicrosity (is that a word? It it isn't, it fuckin' should be!) Of course I like and adore other music, other artists, other genres, etc. What a drab, stalky weird life I would lead if I didn't. I just do happen to get a big bang out of Killing Joke -- in all sincerity, few other bands have affected me as palpably. But, indeed they are veterans of another age...and while I will certainly crow from the highest possible rooftops of the majesty of the mp3 from their forthcoming record that was just leaked to me from their new album (Ally's heard it!), I can understand how it might give someone a big ol' migraine. Apologies for that. The bottom line: don't take me too seriously.
There's really not that much difference between Brak and the Cocteau Twins, if you think about it.
I soooo want that inscribed on a t-shirt.
I still collect 1" buttons by the way, and have drawers and cork-boards full of'em. Don't find m'self wearing'em as much, as there's precious few things sadder than an aging Johnny Fanboy who is desperately attempting to still resemble the cutting edge of hip (hello, midlife crisis). But, if I'm at a show and see them for sale, I'll always go look and will invariably pick up one or two. Just `cos.
Right...off to a wedding now.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 17 May 2003 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― Joke 2003 (vassifer), Saturday, 17 May 2003 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Saturday, 17 May 2003 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 18 May 2003 00:04 (twenty-two years ago)
I still love a button I had in the mid 80s - it said "I hate Culture Club". I bought it and wore it obsessively because all my schoolmates loved Boy George, and I wanted to piss everyone off.
― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 18 May 2003 00:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 May 2003 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 May 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 18 May 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― mei (mei), Sunday, 18 May 2003 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― duane, Sunday, 18 May 2003 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)
I've got a badge saying 'badges are for cunts', but that's about it. Understandably.
― Ferg (Ferg), Sunday, 18 May 2003 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)