Is anyone else obsessed with a band

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

Good luck getting a reply from Alex Chilton.

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?

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??

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

It was hyperbole Halfway there but for you.

realised it didn’t die in 2005

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.

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

It was hyperbole

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

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