putting my ned raggett trust on the line w/actual unrelated but essential question

#1. The assumption here is that - when a POSTER goes to the trouble of starting a New Thread - this POSTER want KNOWLEDGE!! When someone links to an earlier thread - what that someone is doing is saying this: HAY, POSTER! HERE be knowledge!!

#2. There are overburdened moderators here who, believe it or not, are trying to maintain some semblance of order to this place. In addition to general moderation duties, my understanding is that they eventually "categorize" threads (i.e. make them accessible to people, so that that one does not have to , uh start a new thread). I gather this is a basically simple, but let's face it - boring task. So when someone just waltzes into ILM and posts a New Question without going through the common courtesy of searching (That "SEARCH" link is VERY prominant at the bottom of EVERY page) for an earlier thread ... well, that is downright insulting.

#3. Graham - and many props to him for doing this - a few months ago added the Tracklink system to the ILX code. This is a wonderful thing. So now, even if some random cockfarmer comes along and starts a "Beatles - CLassic or Dud?" thread, we can link them all up!! So even if cockfarmer's silly Beatles thread inspires an amazing thread - a wondrous thread that brings out all the ILM heavyweights, debating and reassessing the relevance of the beloved fab four - the point is , NOW it is linked up, courtesy of the TRACKLINK system, to OTHER BEatles threads! YAY!

This is an incredibly positive thing DRAKE MCCAIN! Now, thanks to the powerz of the Inter-web, you can find the answers to yr. questions!

This is an archived board, which has certain advantages that tend to get lost if people don't bother to search the archives before posting a thread (or at least before posting a thread on a subject which isn't likely to be that unusual). The search function here used to be better (but it was slowing down ILX page loading in general), so it has gotten more difficult to track down earlier threads.

Don't you think it may be a little bit offensive to come to this board relatively new, only to call people assholes for trying to keep down the number of duplicate threads?

In the meantime, if my definition of 'rock' differs from yours, my tears flow unnumbered and my mind doesn't give a flying fuck.

Albums on Ned's list that could stance a chance of making it one I made (though to be honest I haven't heard a lot of the albums on it): Loveless, Different Class (Though I'd probably pick that new hits comp), Dummy, Coming Up, Automatic For The People, Southpaw Grammar (I haven't heard Beethoven Was Deaf but Your Arsenal would definitely be high be on mine), Transient Random Noise..., Low End Theory, Crying Your Knife Away (I'm assuming it's like Bee Thousand but live), Portishead and Gentlemen.

I'm a poet.

So sure, we differ.

The real absence on there for my money looking at it right this second is Rocket From the Crypt (and Drive Like Jehu for that matter). Possibly Notorious BIG as well now that I think about it.

I was looking to blow my paycheck on some new music and remembered ned's top 136 list. I shopped around and found the Disco Inferno and Kitchens of Distinction records and then came here to give my props to Ned. I used to post here with some frequency (at least a year ago) and was remembering why I stopped which had something to do with asking what i had thought was a thought-provoking question and getting shot down by someone telling me that it had been covered before. I guess I was feeling more than a little bitter about it.

So, yeah, I feel like the asshole today. I promise I'm a nice person though.

The real absence on there for my money looking at it right this second is Rocket From the Crypt (and Drive Like Jehu for that matter). Possibly Notorious BIG as well now that I think about it.

What else is absent?

I really want to know and have wondered this many times and can't believe I'm saying this...

A lot of stuff, I'm sure. You got me.