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SO how many of you kind posters, lurkers and troublemakers (and I love you all!) found this place by the article in Entertainment Weekly? Just curious, seeing as how the number of people posting here has exploded in the last month or so.

― JM, Thursday, 24 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't see how EW could have anything to do with it, because almost immediately after it was published some cretinous pathetic asshole decided to take the FT site hostage so the link was invalid. Or am I remembering wrong and there was a link to the greenspun site as well?

― Nicole, Thursday, 24 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There was a link to greenspun specifically at the end responding to 'do we really need a post-punk cannon? YES!'

― JM, Thursday, 24 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is that EW article online ??

― Patrick, Thursday, 24 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Don't know, but I got this from Factiva in case anyone was interested...

Music

FREAKY TRIGGER: POP MUSIC FANZINE (freakytrigger.com) Music writing labeled "brainy" is often dismissed as boring or irrelevant, but the B-word is the not-so-secret ingredient that makes Freaky Trigger--an ultrasmart fanzine about pop music--so irresistible. Weekly features plus reviews and older stories represent a fair mix of crowd-pleasing ditties (Top 40 radio standbys like Shaggy) and esoteric hipster raves (college- radio staples like Jim O'Rourke). Nearly everyone can appreciate FT's meditations on '80s music or the fantasy pop league (where rock stars are awarded points for their oh- so-rockin' behavior). A- --Caryn Ganz

MUST-VISIT: www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a.tcl?topic=I%20 Love% 20Music Approach this message board with caution: Threads include "Do We Really Need a Post-Punk Canon?" Uh, yes.

― Nicole, Thursday, 24 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Momus actually led a lot of the residents of alt.fan.momus over here, myself included, as he's unable to access the newsgroup while in Japan. He is, you know, living there now. Perhaps I shouldn't speak for him, though. There's no telling how he discovered this place...

― mike j, Thursday, 24 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I followed a link to FT from one of Momus' recent essays. One look at the ILM board, and I knew I'd found the RIGHT place! Momus' links in his essays are a public service IMO.

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― Norman Fay, Thursday, 24 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sorry to disappoint but I found this board via the link to Freaky Trigger on Simon Reynolds' site.

― Venga, Thursday, 24 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i think we really need a post-punk cannon.

― ethan, Thursday, 24 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I just materialized.

― james e l, Thursday, 24 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nope. Was the article flattering?

― , Thursday, 24 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I rather like the idea that people can be led over here in herds. We've had Killing Joke fans and Momus fans, what's next? Oh yeah, is Alex in NYC the only person from that KJ eruption who actually stayed the course?

I came here right from the start because I have the severe displeasure of actually knowing that wretch Ewing. I've even written stuff for the bastard!

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I still blame Ned.

― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 24 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, you better. Fear, fear!

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

EW article? Haven't got a clue about that. My introduction to ILM was via Reynold's website's link to Freaky Trigger. Didn't actually check ILM out until a while ago, the title sounded so much duller than I Hate Music!

― Janne Vanhanen, Thursday, 24 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I found it through The Gathering (the Killing Joke list) who summarily invaded after someone dared to say something disparaging about the Joke. The rest of the Gathering left, but being of big opinions on bands/artists other than Killing Joke, I stuck around and have been here ever since. Didn't know EW wrote something about it, though.

― alex in nyc, Thursday, 24 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hmmmmm...I don't even know how I found this place. Maybe I was link- hopping through some pages.

― Melissa W, Thursday, 24 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i was going to start my own bboard but got lazy and checked out ILM on greenspun..

― Kevin Enas, Thursday, 24 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was here from the beginning, man. I can't figure out exactly how long I've been reading FT for though, somewhere around the beginning of the first "worst band in the world" Duel.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Sunday, 27 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I win for most pathetic and self-obsessed reason: Mr Tom Ewing — with whom I'd already had a weeny bit of friendly email interchange — said something nice in NYLPM abt something I wrote elsewhere, and I discovered it when I typed my own name into Google!

Then I stayed to see if he would make the same mistake twice — but he seems to have delegated this part of his job to Robin "Mr Genuflector" Carmody.

― mark s, Sunday, 27 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What part of Tom's job has fallen to me?

― Robin Carmody, Sunday, 27 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think I was searching for Clinic info and it picked up some part of freaky trigger. Then I recoginized all these old a.m.a. posters and thought oh, thats where they went.

Speaking of which, has ML or Persi ever popped up here?

― bnw, Sunday, 27 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Persi doesn't know about this, apparently, otherwise I'd have thought he'd be here by now. ML, meanwhile, is aware of it, but is busy with other things these days, though he's still his entertainingly garrulous self on e-mail; I usually drop him a line every month or so. The unmentionable G*****a B*b is also aware of us but thankfully, I gather, has decided to avoid us entirely in favor of complaining about us elsewhere. Sod.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 28 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am world's worst correspondent '01, it should be said. I've been meaning to reply to an e-mail of yours for weeks now Mark, and maybe my shrivelled conscience will twitch into life this evening and I'll actually do so.

― Tom, Tuesday, 29 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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