Is anyone else obsessed with a band

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Disclaimer I;’m very drunk as I type this but I’ll try my hardest to be comprehensible. Hi so basically I used to browse this site a ton when I was in high school, I remembered it the other day and realised it didn’t die in 2005 like I thought so I thought it might be a good site to say this on. Bceause I need to get it off my chest for sure maybe. I am really obsessed with big star. I’m 18 now and started listening when I was 12 getting very into them at like 15. Obviously I love plenty of other bands but I’m obsessed by Big Star and Alex Chilton in particular. I’m in college now and I think I could write my dissertation about him, eg. I’ve written letters to him, done essays analysing big star songs, I literally have a shrine to him in my bedroom. BTW I don’t want to have sex with him (at least not consciously, maybe Freudianly x).
Has anyone else felt this way about whatever other artist? I would love to hear about it if so. Thx. Love, astrid

idiotpills, Wednesday, 14 August 2024 08:03 (nine months ago)

Good luck getting a reply from Alex Chilton.

Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 14 August 2024 08:47 (nine months ago)

You're definitely not alone. I'm guessing that's how a lot of us ended up here. I joined ilx because I was so obsessed with Bruce Springsteen I couldn't stop talking about him, and I had run out of people who would listen.

What was it about Big Star that you connected with?

Lily Dale, Saturday, 17 August 2024 04:45 (nine months ago)

if you're 18 then you were born in 2006? so if you thought this site died before you were born maybe this means you were a poster in a past life?? does the number 77 mean anything to you??

frogbs, Saturday, 17 August 2024 04:57 (nine months ago)

lol. I tend to get obsessed by particular albums, rather than bands. Like I can be completely fascinated with trying to imagine a particular album was made but have little interest in anything else by the band. I guess the muse is usually fickle.

o. nate, Saturday, 17 August 2024 14:25 (nine months ago)

I wish i still became as obsessed with bands as I did when I was 13-21ish. It's a great thing.

Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Saturday, 17 August 2024 18:12 (nine months ago)

You guys are awesome I thought you’d be more mean in a charming Gen x way
Also I was born in 2005. The number 77 means the year punk died to me
Tbf im more obsessed by the “3rd” album and that time and place than big star in general xoxo

idiotpills, Sunday, 18 August 2024 12:49 (nine months ago)

So you were browsing threads here around 2018 - 2021, but never encountered a post later than 2005?

Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 18 August 2024 13:18 (nine months ago)

Seems possible to me. If you don't go to Site New Answers, and just search for threads on things you're interested in, you find a lot of threads that haven't been updated in twenty years. Plus a lot of long threads where the bulk of the posting was pre-2005, and you're not necessarily going to pay attention to the dates at the very end.

Lily Dale, Sunday, 18 August 2024 14:49 (nine months ago)

yeah plus this site still looks hella 90s (in the best way possible)

brimstead, Sunday, 18 August 2024 15:17 (nine months ago)

It was hyperbole Halfway there but for you.

idiotpills, Sunday, 18 August 2024 18:16 (nine months ago)

realised it didn’t die in 2005


citation needed tbqh

katy perry (prison service) (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 18 August 2024 18:19 (nine months ago)

Sure, I'm obsessed with bands...but there's no point to any of this. It's all just a... a random lottery of meaningless tragedy and a series of near escapes. So I take pleasure in the details. You know... a Quarter-Pounder with cheese, those are good, the sky about ten minutes before it starts to rain, the moment where your laughter becomes a cackle... and I, I sit back and I smoke my Camel Straights and I ride my own melt.

145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 19 August 2024 16:03 (nine months ago)

idiotpills you should check out the long long big star thread on here if you haven’t already, lotta great reading material starting around 2016

brimstead, Monday, 19 August 2024 17:22 (nine months ago)

It was hyperbole

There's no hyperbole allowed in your first 100 posts, that's been a rule here for a million years.

Halfway there but for you, Monday, 19 August 2024 17:34 (nine months ago)

written in the Book of More Mean

145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 19 August 2024 18:31 (nine months ago)


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