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As the forum 'moderator' I suppose it's up to me to do stuff like this. I've noticed a lot of new posters and I think that's a good thing, but it'd be nice if some of the 'regulars' and the new people could put a few lines down about who they are, what they're into, hype their websites if they want to, etc. etc. Just to be neighbourly, you understand...;)

― Tom, Tuesday, 30 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am : Dr. C aged 39 I live : in South-West London I earn money for records by : doing marketing in UK and USA I like : 1960's : US Garage-punk (Nuggets etc), Kinks, Small Faces

― Dr. C, Tuesday, 30 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am : Dr. C aged 39 I live : in South-West London I earn money for records by : doing marketing in UK and USA I like : 1960's : US Garage-punk (Nuggets etc), Kinks, Small Faces 1970's New York Punk, The Who, most punk/new-wave post '76. Kraftwerk 1980's Factory 1990's : electronica, Mag.fields

I have a weakness for : box sets, extra tracks, remasters of old stuff I can't be bothered with : hip-hop, metal.

When I'm not obsessing over music trivia I : play soccer (goalie or striker), play guitar (loudly and badly) do stuff with my 2 kids (8 and 5), drink beer.

What else do you want to know?

― Dr. C, Tuesday, 30 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well i like it here, so since I'm planning on staying for a while... I am Omar Munoz, 29, Spanish but born and still living in Amsterdam. Work at a new hip hop magazine, also write S.F. stories. Like: to read theory, S.F. and yr usual American writers. Fashion, film, drugs all very interesting. Hardcore Real Madrid and Ajax fan. But on to the music: at a young age got obsessed with The Beatles, went through a dreadful Supertramp/Pink Floyd period, for a short period lived the life of a metalhead and was saved by the onslaught of rave. I'm still trying to make sense of the shift that whole period/lifestyle had on my way of thinking. I like every sort of music but have certain obsessions: Kraftwerk, Astrud Gilberto, Detroit Techno (esp. Underground Resistance), Basic Channel, Spiritualized, 1968-1975 Miles Davis, Coltrane, dub, Patti Smith, NEU!, jungle that channels the ghost of rave (Doc Scott, Source Direct, Total Science). My favorite Beatles song is: 'I Am The Walrus", my favorite track of all time probably is Derrick May's 'It Is What It Is', closely followed by Carl Craig's 'How The West Was Won'. Next month I'll become father :) That's it...

― Omar, Tuesday, 30 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

David, 36, gay, living and working in north west London.

Favourite bands: The Magnetic Fields, Marc Almond, Kirsty MacColl, Orbital and XTC. Favourite album right this minute: Lemon Jelly KY.

I've recently started a blog: http://swishcottage.blogspot.com

― David Sim, Tuesday, 30 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hi. I'm Tanya. I Hate Music.

What else do you need to know?

― Tanya Headon, Tuesday, 30 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm Mark. At 31, I'm the elder statesman of the Pitchfork staff. Whenever I want to feel good I play the Boredoms' Super Roots 7 in my car really loud. If I feel sad, I play either Nobakazu Takemura's "Kepler," Schneider TM's cover of The Smiths' "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" (re-titled "The Light 3000") or Nina Simone's cover of "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues." When I'm angry, it's Bob Dylan's "She's Your Lover Now." To boost my confidence, it's something off Dr. Dre's 2001. And if I'm feeling misunderstood, Silver Jews' "Random Rules" usually does the trick. Jan St. Werner is something close to a hero of mine, I really love most all of what he does, from Mouse on Mars to Lithops to Microstoria. And I want John Coltrane's "Welcome" to play when my future wife walks down the aisle.

― Mark Richardson, Tuesday, 30 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm Dan and I'm a 28-year-old African-American living in Boston, Massachusetts. By day, I'm a big software engineer geek, while at night I sing in various choruses around Boston, including Tanglewood Festival Chorus (the OFFICIAL chorus of the Boston Symphony/Pops Orchestras, nyah nyah nyah). I like sunsets, science fiction and bragging about my singing. My turnoffs include the word "moist" and Fred Durst.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 30 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm an American Tom, a quietly punk 20. I wear lots of sweaters, to make up for which I drink alot, wear my pocketwatch on a chain, and just got an odd-looking piercing done by a bearded lady. People think I'm gay, but I'm not. My favorite music is/was made by Stefan Jaworzyn, Fahey, Ayler, Weezer, Outkast, Gluecifer, NWW, Beefheart, Scott Walker, Britney, Nick Cave, Creedence, the Stooges, AMM, the Dead C., Sleater- Kinney, the Mag Fields, Blind Willie Johnson, Ground-Zero, and the Boredoms. I like bowling, darts, pickles with pancakes, and Coen Bros. films. I've been told I have "impossibly blue" eyes and "Hobbit feet." I'm currently going out with someone, but don't let that stop you.

― Otis Wheeler, Tuesday, 30 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I like this and I like that. I'm intrigued by the fact that Otis has heard all this cool stuff that I haven't, and therefore am also jealous of the bastard. I do things. I enjoy things. I smile. How are you? Yes, I love me too. Embrace the nothingness that is me. Further lies to be found at my home page.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

White, male, British, straight, mid-30s, living in the Leiden, the Netherlands. Got massively into my dad's Buddy Holly + Beatles albums when a bairn, never looked back. Last album bought Kid 606 'down the scene'. Love Newcastle United + Sparta Rotterdam. Read obsessively politics + history. Speak Dutch badly.

Omar, do you ever buy SF at Barry's Book Exchange on the Kloveniersburgwal in Amsterdam by any chance?

― Stevo, Tuesday, 30 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This is so AOL Chatroom of you, Tom.

Hi, I'm Ally, I'm 20 and I live in NYC and I'm a cigarette- holic...err, wait, I'm supposed to have quit, scratch that. I own a lot of shoes. I like virtually every type of music, I'm really not that picky. My current playlist, ie that which I've brought to work and have in my CD holder, includes Dido, the Donnas, the Who, D'Angelo, All Saints, Le Tigre, Madonna, Dandy Warhols, Donna Summer, Pulp, Lulu (? Why did I bring this to work for crying out loud?), Jay- Z, Nelly, the Junior Vasquez at Twilo CD, some trance compilation, Tommy Boy's greatest hits, Bruce Springsteen, Dusty Springfield, Marvin Gaye, Britney Spears, Joy Division, another Madonna CD, Bebel Gilberto, and Saint Etienne. I just listed those artists because they're in my case but I really honestly listen to everything. You can of course read my site if you want to learn more about my tastes cos I do review things there. Except right now I'm too busy talking about Jason Sehorn's winking disease to review anything.

Except for Mariah Carey. I can't abide that one.

― Ally, Tuesday, 30 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

OK then: male, British, 20, unemployed, prospective Open University student, living in Dorset since 1994 though actually born in London. Into a massive range of music from early 90s hardcore through current R&B to 60s / 70s folk/rock, but certain names stand out: The Fall, Public Enemy, Outkast, The Auteurs, The Magnetic Fields, Momus, Mercury Rev, My Bloody Valentine, Wu-Tang Clan, Kool Keith / Ultramagnetic MCs (purely the first names that come to mind, and only the tip of the iceberg). Favourite album ever (if I have to choose): XTC's "Skylarking". Favourite music currently: The Avalanches (though they're little short of a living dream; they *send* me).

Website at www.elidor.freeserve.co.uk. Other websites contributed to: www.freakytrigger.com, www.offthetelly.co.uk and www.transdiffusion.org. Not actually a contributor to www.commonground.org.uk, but eternally indebted to its every word.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 30 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kris, 24 (though I still get ID-ed even for cigarettes(!)), M, 1st year phD student at Berkeley in the Molecular and Cellular Biology program (I study viral genetics, sort of) after spending 6 years at UC Davis getting a B.A.S. in English and genetics, the only magazine I have a subscription to is the Economist, the only records I've listened to in the past week is an Eater collection and the first Donnas album, the only things I have on tape are boxing matches, porn, and most of the Ultimate Fighting Championships, my favorite drinks are bourbon and very cheap beer, I have terrific eyes and a nice head of hair so I wear hats and sunglasses most of the time (egalitarian, you see), I enjoy slow-dancing with the oversized women ("who look like Sam Kinison") that frequent the local dive bars, I have some sort of reputation as a rocker but 99% of what I listen to is either pop/R& B radio or whatever someone else is listening to, my favorite bands are Black Sabbath and the Angry Samoans, I am actually enjoying the Ken Burns' Jazz series quite a bit (and I nearly cried the way they set up Billie Holiday doing "Strange Fruit"), my favorite "ball" sports are baseball and pinball, my lies are often misinterpreted as sarcasm, and I'm hella pleased to meet you.

― Kris P., Tuesday, 30 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kris, you asshole, that was much better than whatever I'm going to come up with.

I'm Josh, edging up on 23, finishing a master's in math and planning to start Ph.D. in philosophy (goodbye career prospects) in the fall. I like lots of music. The last five CDs I listened to were by Bad Religion, Rachel's, the Borodin Quartet playing Dmitri Shostakovich, the Beta Band, and before that I don't remember. I inflict my musical selections on the listening public, such as it is, on one of those freeform communist indie rock stations. I write about music now and then. I also like Wittgenstein, William Carlos Williams, Thomas Pynchon, John Berryman, Borges, Haruki Murakami, and many other usual suspects. I speak Russian, but not all that well. I like ginger beer.

― Josh, Tuesday, 30 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm a 20-year-old guy from Boston, Massachusetts, going to school in Providence, Rhode Island. I'm double-majoring in computer science and theater. I like pop music but I hate making favorite band lists; there's only what you're listening to right now. According to WinAmp, I've today and yesterday listened to tracks by Eminem, Trembling Blue Stars, Destiny's Child, Avalanches, Les Savy Fav, Jay-Z, Six by Seven, Beta Band, Acen, Common, St. Etienne, DJ Assault, Alpha Breed, Skee-Lo vs Survivor vs Breeders, Backstreet Boys, Pixies, Shaggy, Magnetic Fields, Sweet Female Attitude, Snoop Dogg, and the Dismemberment Plan. I have a blog at http://bleedingears.blogspot.com/ and I don't answer questions on the forum very frequently, so I'm really just plugging myself now.

― Ian White, Tuesday, 30 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Another 20 year old college boy...likes lots of college-boy music but not exclusively...lives in Hoboken, NJ...preparing to become either computer engineer or minor indie rock star, whatever comes first, which pretty much means in two years I'll be working at some dot-com in the city...hates backpack rap...addicted to Napster and Dr. Pepper...currently listening to Nick Cave's "Let Love In"...has seen Dead Alive 30+ times...last 6 CD purchases: "Crooked Fingers", "From the Desk of Mr Lady" - Le Tigre, "I Need Drugs" - Necro, "Blank Wave Arcade" - The Faint, "6 Feet Deep" - Gravediggaz...enjoys singing and writing, Big Star, D-Plan and Les Savy Fav shows, anything Kool Keith, Pixies, wearing band T-shirts and indie rock glasses, Public Enemy, BDP, basically any and all old school hip hop, driving, arguing, Pavement, D-Child, punk rock, Fugazi, "Reach Out (I'll Be There)" Outkast...wants to start a blog...That's all.

― larmey, Tuesday, 30 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

29, USA although i had duel citizenship(canadian) until i was 19. professional student, currently a grad student in physics. also a plant pathologist assistant as of today. i am one of those horrible indie types that seem to be so despised here favourite bands are pram, luke sutherland stuff, ectogram, gorkys, roy montgomery, sex clark five, anything on siesta(usually). have more college credits than anyone else in recorded history. make very little money. write record reviews in five minutes or less for friend's website but its name would discredit me greatly. libertarian, i tend not to accept anything that is free.

― keith, Tuesday, 30 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm David, 20, and I live in the unfashionable end of London (near Romford - urgh). I like loads of stuff, but principally The Smiths, Magazine and The Associates. I watch 'Vids' on Channel 4 religiously. I'm also a frustrated musician, so if there's anybody out there near me who wants to make music drop me a line...please?

― DG, Tuesday, 30 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

18 years old in Melbourne, Australia. Entering the second year of an Arts/Law degree and wondering whether there are any legal ramifications to music writing I can make money out of. I pontificate for free at Skykicki ng. I like UK Garage, street hip hop, R&B, house, jungle, techno, Britney Spears and anything with a good beat and cool production. I also enjoy a decent amount of post-punk and its decendants - late eighties/early nineties experimental guitary stuff, mostly. Right now the three songs that touch me deep down inside are Aphex Twin's "Xtal", Omni Trio's "Thru The Vibe" and Disco Inferno's "Second Language".

Contrary to popular opinion, I have not sold my body to strangers for cds.

― Tim Finney, Tuesday, 30 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

White, Male, Straight, Deprived Of Any Nationality, Depressed, Annoyed, Nearly Dead and Bored.

― Phil Paterson, Tuesday, 30 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm 21 years old and live in Canada. I'm graduating this spring with a bachelor's degree in journalism and after that it's rather hazy. I suppose you could call me an indiekid but I don't like a lot of the current "scene". I used to have strong views on the kind of Big Ideas this forum discusses but I've been just too burnt out the past few months to bother with it. Fortunately, the old spark re-appeared Friday night at a party where I threatened a good friend with physical violence when she told me how little music means to her. I thought last year was a rather dull year for new music and mostly concentrated on finding obscure songs to put on mix-tapes and CD-Rs for others. Mixing makes me happy. I don't read much anymore except for newspapers and blogs since I don't have time for anything else. I blather on in this fashion on a semi-regular basis here.

― Kathleen, Tuesday, 30 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm 26, from Sydney, Australia. I work as a legal editor, I spend all my money on clothes, nightclubs and alcohol and what is little left on cds. I am also an unrepentant indiekid. I have the bob and the glasses and the slavish devotion to Belle & Sebastian. Currently on rotation is Grandaddy, The Delgados, Le Tigre. Beloved favourites also include Suede, The Smiths, The Charlatans, The Divine Comedy, Hefner, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Broadcast, Clinic, Apples in Stereo, SFA and Shed Seven. When my boyfriend goes back to Glasgow at the end of the year I’m going with him.

― Audrey, Wednesday, 31 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Age: 20; Profession: Computer Science Major, UC Berkeley, Senior Year; Music Likes: doesn't discriminate -- velvets, post-velvets, costello, post-punk, free jazz, pop, R&B, rap, oldies rock, classic rock, minimalism, UK Garage, just plain garage, "IDM", occasional indie, alt-country, Motown, soul, occasional contempo-non-alt- country, more frequent non-contempo-non-alt-country, post-rock, big rock, non-contempo-folk, jazz vocalists, et cet.; Music Dislikes: not even Limp Bizkit, not always anyway; Literary Likes: Pynchon, Vollmann, Amis, Kawabata, McInerny, Ellis, Barthelme, McElroy, Undset; Literary Dislikes: innumerable; Style: plaid shirts, I wear lots of plaid shirts; Other interests: history, developmental psych., user interface design, workflow processing; Other hobbies: meat, I eat lots of meat; Currently Digging: tha' new Eve track; Web Presence: in collaboration with my partner in kryme, Jimmy Mod, In Review (media items want to be) .

― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 31 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You're all so bloody YOUNG!

― Dr. C, Wednesday, 31 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It occurs to me that some people may not know me either! I'm 27, live and work in Oxford but my heart is in London. I'm an 'Internet Analyst', hem hem. I like to go to the pub a lot (you should click on that link as it takes you to the best weblog in the world).

Music I currently love best: late 70s/early 80s post-punk and pop- rock trash, 00s R&B and pop, hip-hop, minimalist electronic and classical music, a smattering of predictable cross-genre classics.

Music I want to learn more about in '01: hip-hop, early country and western, show tunes, avant-electronic stuff, early and latterday Jamaican music, African pop, and reconnecting with dance music would be nice too.

Music I currently love least: most current indie, post-Coldplay slowrock, 60s pop and its myriad imitators.

Music I like but dont feel a particular buzz for at present: jazz, krautrock, 80s pop, soul.

― Tom, Wednesday, 31 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm 23, living and working in London as a CRM analyst (which sounds earily similar to Tom's job) and have quite bad spelling and typing skills. I haven't contibuted yet but plan to, i really do.

Music i like: Hip Hop, current R+B, jungle before it went crap, pirate radio pumping out garage at the weekend (massive shout out to the text message massive!), st etienne, post rock (for my sins), reggae (esp early ska), Scott Walker, mowtown, 70s soul/funk, decent indie (B+S, Magnetic Fields, Smiths, etc), increasingly jazz as the years creep by, new jazzy house stuff like cinematic orchestra, abba, masters at work style house, northern soul, Dexy's, ABC, Trail of Dead. Main worry: there's too much good music and not enough money!

Music I dont like: Coldplay et al, modern soul that reckons its more authentic that r+b (e.g. Erica Badu), Beatles (dont hate, but I'm sure you understand).

― Robin, Wednesday, 31 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've hardly written anything, but what the hey. 19, from Brisbane, Australia, uni student, writer of bad poetry and complete and utter idiot with questionable taste.

Like: Pulp, Garbage, Radiohead (not Kid A), Madonna, Daphne & Celeste, Britney Spears, Atomic Kitten, Portishead, Goldfrapp, Lamb, The Avalanches, Kent, Muse, Gomez, Dandy Warhols, Placebo, Supergrass Machine Gun Fellatio and whatever crappy all-girl group is in the charts at the moment, and bugger it, Scary Spice's solo stuff. See, I told you I was an idiot. And there's even more embarassing stuff I deliberately left out.

I hate: Eminem, Limp Bizkit, Korn, Christina Aguilera, Craig David, Limp Bizkit (so bad they deserve two mentions), Moby and Destiny's Child.

― Edward Okulicz, Wednesday, 31 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nicole, twenty-feh, living in the Middle of Nowhere til I finish my masters degree in Library and Information Science. My favorite drinks are black coffee (just the plain stuff, I won't deal with all of the Starbucks fluffery) and Guinness. Likes to read history books and lots of fiction, but can't stand Bridget Jones and her ilk. Sadly addicted to Sanrio & San-x stuff, cheesy pop cultural moments like Britney and Aerosmith at the Superbowl, Aero bars, and Iron Chef.

Music I lurve: Loads of girl groups (and by this I mean stuff like Destiny's Child and the Shirelles, not crap like the Bangles), Disco, Bacharach, hip hop, most Max Martin produced material (with the exception of N'Sync), r&b, too much old heavy metal, Roxy Music (& Eno in general til he started working with U2), 70s soul/funk, some post rock, J-pop, Adam & the Ants, Nick Cave, Abba, Scott Walker, Motown, Abba, Talk Talk, Pixies, Smiths, Prince, Aphex Twin, Dusty Springfield, Felt, Donna Summer, etc. etc. etc….

Music I loathe: Verticalmatchbox's creed of coldplay, divas with no flair (Mariah, Kylie, Christina, etc.), nu-metal, coffee table stuff like David and Macy Gray (could they be related??), indieshite.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 31 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jimmy The Mod is a displaced Canadian, sent to America following that country's long and bloody confrontation with a group of Huns seeking the creation of an independant City-State in the Newfoundland area. He comes from a family of nobles, but not notable nobles. He is a contradiction, yes he is.

Likes: Pie, cheeses, intellecutal chaos and salted meats.

Dislikes: Green vegtables, fat chicks.

He contributes to In Review with partner in crime Sterling Clover, and confuses some and delights others with his alternately long winded and painfully brief diatribes on women and music, but not nessicarily women IN music.

The King is dead. Long live The King.

― JM, Wednesday, 31 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

maura, 25, philadelphia, cranky, often referred to as mauradotcom, vaguely dissatisfied with the state of gender/religious/employment-related/domestic affairs, wears lots of black, nearsighted, started going gray at 18, writes for nylpm and the philadelphia weekly.

current favorites: all natural lemon and lime flavors, queens of the stone age, 'fast food nation' by eric schlosser, hot roast beef sandwiches, the places, the stickmen.

perennial favorites: mudhoney, bikini kill, david foster wallace, amtrak, 'beyond the valley of the dolls,' 20-song blocks of the black crowes, fried bean curd in spicy sauce.

― maura, Wednesday, 31 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i'm about as new as they get, but i want to post more, so what the fuck. i'm 15 and live in surrey [uk], supposed to be a maths/physics nerd but i haven't the bloody faintest what math-rock is supposed to be [someone tell me]. listen to quite a bit... stereotypical alternasomething sonic youth and velvets, the manics and suede [i'm young enough to get away with it dammit]... quite a bit of metal and industrial, techno and some hiphop, and whatever asian dub foundation / black star liner are. eighties hangup with jane's addiction, joy division and so on, plus obsession with 1997 pop music - fantastic year. two-step garage completely lost on me, as are boybands. no website or anything, but should be starting an online fanzine this summer post-gcses. would blog, no time.

― jess owens, Wednesday, 31 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

OK - 44 (the oldest so far?) - living in delightfull beachside Thirroul, south of Sydney, Australia - working as a computer something in market research - with a loving partner + 2 dogs & 1 cat - continuing old-time favourites : Pere Ubu (still making some good stuff, amazingly), early Scritti Politti (I love all their releases but the pre-pop days are favourites), Slapp Happy (marvellous), Faust, Bowie, Eno... - currently liking : modern German stuff where digital meets analogue (Tarwater, Kreidler and, to a lesser extent, To Rococo Rot); Aimee Mann; post-glitch electronic (Pimmon et al); and, even though they've broken up and have always been disliked by most - Ben Folds Five

Have a look at my web site : http://www.users.bigpond.com/pturnbul : for more including my small place in the history of Australian post-punk...

― philT, Wednesday, 31 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But Nicole, me, you and Ron will ALWAYS have the Bangles, how could you besmirch them...

I'm going to be at work til midnight tonight. Jolly ho, all I want is a dance.

― Ally, Wednesday, 31 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hi everybody, I'm Simone, Swiss (please avoid quips on chocolate, banks and watches ;-) tough I actually live and study in Milan. I'm into a bit of everything... my favourite bands are dirty three, morphine, tortoise, arab strap, pascal comelade and... many others.

― Simone, Thursday, 1 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hi, erm...28, live and work in Edinburgh as a computer programmer and have spent a fair proportion of my life rooting about in record shops even if i didn't actually have the money to buy anything (something my wife will never understand!).

Seem to spend money on records with the hope that I will discover the new Beatles or Brian Wilson but am nearly always disappointed.

There now follows the usual random, unqualified list of stuff i really like or have been listening to lately: SFA, Boo Radleys/Brave Captain, Olivia Tremor Control, The Shazam, Jayhawks, Jellyfish, Outkast, Ben Folds Five, The Zombies, Roy Wood, Smokey Robinson, Aimee Mann, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, The Kingsbury Manx, Blur, Ryan Adams, Dexys Midnight Runners etc etc etc.

I am currently building a database of all my records and of course its for insurance reasons not because I'm sad.

One of my fave films is Brazil and my fave tv prog is the Simpsons. The current question i am pondering is, how much can you actually tell about someone from a list of their favourite things?

― mark m smith, Thursday, 1 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Which Zombies stuff have you been listening to, Mark? I got 'Odessey and Oracle' last year, and it still knocks me dead.'Time of the Season', ' I Want Her, She Wants Me' - genius. An overlooked classic.

― Dr. C, Thursday, 1 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No Ally, I think the Bangles are best left to Ron -- I haven't earned the right to call myself a fan! After all, I wasn't a "consultant" to the Behind the Music special on them like he was. The fact that I was sad enough to watch it should speak volumes, but Behind the Music, no matter what awful band is being profiled, always makes great backround noise. And how else would I have gained any knowledge of the Creed story?

― Nicole, Thursday, 1 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Name: Old Fart!!!! Age: If it's good enough for the ladies to say someting like "29!!!", then it's good enough for me!!!! Work: Computers and webby programming stuffs!!!!! Webstuffs: Senior Citizen, Senior Dads and Dadweb IndieWebPubs Location: In and around the Glasgow area, in Bonny Scotland!!!! Musical abilities: Not Too bad.... Music likes: loadsa good stuff. especially nice dirty electronic stuff!!! (As long as it's not got an ominously chin-scratching title like "Mathematical Logical Progressions vol. XIV: Teaching The Next Level of Nu-Kool" or some othher dreadfully studious title!!!!) Music dislikes: anything woefully pretentious or plain dull.. (ie I'm not too much into Van Morrison or Westlife!!!!!!)

Er... That's it!!!!!

Old Fart

― Old Fart!!!, Thursday, 1 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dr C

Odessey And Oracle is indeed most fine but given you said one of your weaknesses was box sets (as it is mine) I'm sure you'll understand I have the fantastic box set Zombie Heaven. 2 cds of everything they ever released in their original mixes, 1 cd of home demos and studio outtakes and 1 cd of BBC sessions plus a rather lovely booklet.

What with recent re-releases of Odessey I think its been getting more notice of late than it probably has for many years. The tracks recorded immediately after it as the band started to metamorphosise into Argent are equally as beautiful and even a lot of the tracks from the first album Begin Here are worth hearing. I especially like their version of Summertime(over exposed though that song is), although anything Colin Blunstone sings sounds good.

I'm sure there is no other band who would have such a strong singles collection and yet only one UK hit. Their problem I think was the complete lack of image. Just 4 unassuming guys who dropped out of their studies/bank jobs to have a go at being a band. Its pretty rock 'n' roll how un-rock 'n' roll they actually were - I'm sure if they had fought with each other, done loads of drugs and tried to write a rock opera they would have been huge but thankfully they didn't and weren't

― mark m smith, Thursday, 1 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm 23, male, from Croatia.

I study journalism. I am also the editor of pop-magazine Nomad, a sort of The Face-meets-early nineties Melody Maker affair that doesn't sell very well, but has managed to show that intelligent writing about pop culture is possible even in this particular part of the world.

Spent my teenage years being an indie kid, then ditched guitars and switched to modern-day club and pop sounds. Into: UK garage, house, hip hop, R&B, Bacharach, brazilian/easy listening... I've spent the most part of last year listening to garage. Then during the summer I discovered Todd Edwards, and now I listen to nothing but garage and Todd Edwards. Mostly.

In my spare time I also DJ, and I'm starting to make tracks on my computer. They're not terribly good yet, but I've made an Aaliyah vs Jimmy Nash bootleg which I'm kinda proud of, and which all my friends and relatives had to sit through. I opened my set at last year's biggest Croatian rave with it, too. Then procedeed to play loads of garage and house. On the chill-out floor, mind you.

― Tonci Kozul, Thursday, 1 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mark - Zombie Heaven is gonna be the next box set I get, for sure. I nearly bought it while on a worktrip to Chicago a couple of weeks ago. I guess what stopped me was the fact that I haven't heard anything they've done apart from Odessey and "She's Not There' - I wondered if the rest of the box would be as good, or whether I'd be shelling out 40 quid only to find that I already had the best stuff.

So I got the Nuggets box instead (even though I had about half of it on other compilations). The best box I've ever bought! ( superb re- mastering, great packaging, fantastic book)

― Dr. C, Friday, 2 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dr C

I have the Nuggets box too and agree on how fantastic it is. Hard to believe all this stuff is from only a 3 year time period and nice to get an informative booklet too. I got the Phil Spector box for my christmas and it has an awful uninformative booklet. I suppose the quality of the music is paramount but when you pay £40/£50 for a box you expect decent packaging.

You may find that Odessey is the best Zombies stuff but most of the rest of the tracks on the box are great too and I don't think you would regret the purchase.

― mark m smith, Friday, 2 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This list is too long already, so I don't expect many people to get to this posting, but my name is Michael Dieter. I'm 20 years old, currently studying cultural studies at the University of Birmingham on an exchange type thing, but I'm usually living/studying in Melbourne, Australia. Music taste, been through early 90's US alternative (ugh), through Britpop and indie, and now embaressingly late listening to electronic dancey, rave things. My favorite colour is blue, I own a black cat named Micky (sort of co-own), the last albums I've gotten recently: Lemon Jelly Ep collection, Doves, Plaid retrospective, Thievery Corporation 'Mirror Conspiracy', Beatles 'Rubber Soul' (finally!), Spiritualized 'Ladies and Gentlemen...'

― Michael Dieter, Friday, 2 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

well, i guess it's time i came clean. my name is really alan j. billingsley and i'm a documentary filmmaker, which is a much better way of saying that i'm utterly and wrongfully unemployed, since i don't really count waiting on tables at the wander on inn in ho-ho- kus, nj as a *JOB*: it's more like a hobby. i don't even really much *like* music, though when i do listen, it's usually something like the dave matthews band or matchbox 20 or any group whose lead singer could be described as "gritty." oh, and phish is really talented. like most people, i guess, i'm just looking for someone to love and to love me: all the info you need about me can be found here.

thanks.

― fred solinger, Saturday, 3 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Snow Dog, aged 20, from Los Angeles, California. Currently unemployed and writing music reviews for Lotus magazine. I have a love/hate relationship with music, but love good criticism. Came to this board a few months ago, & post infrequently.

Likes: Dogs, cities, vegetable stir-fry, B movies (esp. Peter Jackson), anime, the desert, the Internet, video games, Pellegrino, litchi nuts, wandering aimlessly, dancing to psy trance, dreams, crazy people, midnight movies, mind expanding literature, old houses, that my name sounds cool in Japanese, melodic techno, jungle, electro, FSOL, psy trance, early Rush, finishing this paragraph.

Dislikes: Pop, Jazz, House, IDM, chat rooms, alcoholic beverages, secular existentialism, mindless people.

Currently: Sitting on my legs typing at 2:00 AM.

Website: http://greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a.tcl?top ic=Psychedelic%20Trance

― Snow Dog, Sunday, 4 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Steve, 26, living in Oxford, spending far too much time on the magic bus that takes you to london and back and runs all nite. Currently doing menial secretarial work at Ruskin College in Oxford, which is pissing me off no end.

Have been doing this for about two years, this for about three months, and this since yesterday.

Likes that belle and sebastian band, arab strap, delgadoes, b*xendale, yoyos, flaming lips, going to see shit indie bands in toilet venues, dancing at indieschmindie discos, going to the pub, listening to Radio 2 on a saturday morning (mmmm, sounds of the sixties).

― carsmilesteve, Sunday, 4 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jeremy, 21, in Melbourne Australia. I came to this page via the Reynold's archives and enjoy reading decent music commentary. I'm currently in limbo having finished a degree in Journalism and decide whether to remain idealistic or defect.

Music-wise I gravitate between some hip-hop, Brit guitar types (loved the Doves album) and dance stuff, including (this jumps from genre to genre) Herbert, much of the Detroit jazzier sound (like C. Craig & Recloose), K & D and their derivatives, Ian Pooley and the Jaxx.

Pop annoys me and I love anything by Kundera and Haruki Murakami. The Avalanches new disc is my constant summer companion.

cheers.

― Jeremy Shiell, Sunday, 4 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Name: Michael Bourke Nickname: Carrot Height: 5ft 8' Hair: Red and needs cutting Eyes: Blue and bloodshot I dont like saying what my fav bands are so the last things I was listening to on Winamp were Nas, Bo9b Marley, Pixies, Regular Fries, Duke Ellington, Happy Mondays, Tommy Spurlin and the Southeren Boys, Beach Boys, OP8, CJ Bolland and Leonard Cohen. I'm currently unemployed. Ive often been told that I look like a young Van Morrison (I dont know whether to take that as a compliment or not) My favorite books are Trainspotting, Catch 22 and The dead school My Favorite movies are One flew over the cuckoos nest, Wild strawberries, Pulp fiction and Mad Max My fav albums are Pet sounds, Slanted and enchanted and Better living through chemistry

― Michael Bourke, Sunday, 4 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh yeah, I'm 23

― Michael Bourke, Sunday, 4 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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a lot of "if u call ur dad he could stop it all" goin on tho

― zvookster, Thursday, 5 September 2013 14:56 (eleven years ago)

hi dere am.curious.sometimes!

― Z S, Thursday, 5 September 2013 14:57 (eleven years ago)

hi am curious!

― zvookster, Thursday, 5 September 2013 14:57 (eleven years ago)

i'm also a vegetarian btw, tho i consume milk & cheese & like saying "i'm a beegan. only bees." at dinner parties

― zvookster, Thursday, 5 September 2013 15:15 (eleven years ago)

lol

― Treeship, Thursday, 5 September 2013 15:16 (eleven years ago)

I'm loaded, dunno about you losers

― Frances Ha-Ha #CUNT (wins), Thursday, 5 September 2013 15:17 (eleven years ago)

i am concerned that the tentacles of ned raggett reach all the way to NJ.

he must be stopped

― waterface down (jjjusten), Thursday, 5 September 2013 15:19 (eleven years ago)

We need more ned ragget influence in nj not less

― Treeship, Thursday, 5 September 2013 15:20 (eleven years ago)

Ned Ragget is a poser and asshole and must be stopped. Ned Raggett, however, is a fine fellow.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 September 2013 15:21 (eleven years ago)

(42 years and people still can't spell my last name even when in this case it's RIGHT THERE *grouse grumble*)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 September 2013 15:22 (eleven years ago)

Sorry dude.

― Treeship, Thursday, 5 September 2013 15:23 (eleven years ago)

Tbf, i haven't been aware of you for 42 years

― Treeship, Thursday, 5 September 2013 15:24 (eleven years ago)

its a goddamn outrage dude my sympathies xxpost

― Nad Racket (jjjusten), Thursday, 5 September 2013 15:24 (eleven years ago)

RIP -t

― crüt zingmaster (crüt), Thursday, 5 September 2013 15:26 (eleven years ago)

and hello a.m.s.!

― crüt zingmaster (crüt), Thursday, 5 September 2013 15:27 (eleven years ago)

Has anyone made a "Ned Ragget" sock?

― Treeship, Thursday, 5 September 2013 15:27 (eleven years ago)

sorry I mean a.c.s. :[

― crüt zingmaster (crüt), Thursday, 5 September 2013 15:27 (eleven years ago)

That could be a source of mayhem

― Treeship, Thursday, 5 September 2013 15:27 (eleven years ago)

weird thing is it's pronounced ned raggé, go figure

― zvookster, Thursday, 5 September 2013 15:28 (eleven years ago)

http://www.unileverusa.com/Images/Ragu_Logo_New_tcm23-295615.jpg

― Same old bland-as-sand mood mouthings (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 5 September 2013 15:34 (eleven years ago)

(42 years and people still can't spell my last name even when in this case it's RIGHT THERE *grouse grumble*)

feel u

― i bet it's spelled B-O-R-E-D (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 5 September 2013 16:39 (eleven years ago)

Whatever happened to the concept/vision dear old Tom expressed in this thread?

Oh, right.

Hello,

I am a human experiment.

― c21m50nh3x460n, Thursday, 5 September 2013 17:02 (eleven years ago)

'lo am curious.

welcome to ilx/ilm.

bad stuff :

i eat meat.
i have never tried to spell raggett for fear of an ilm zing.
i only have one stereolab album, that i have never made it all way through cos of dullness.
feel guilty cos i am not poor.

good stuff :

i love jason falkner, despite only having one solo album by him.

― mark e, Thursday, 5 September 2013 17:51 (eleven years ago)

that's not who you are and what you're into. Where's the hype for your website? xp

― stet, Thursday, 5 September 2013 17:52 (eleven years ago)

that's not who you are and what you're into. Where's the hype for your website? xp
― stet, Thursday, September 5, 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Stet, it's too late to try to enforce any type of rule on this site, I'm afraid.

And yes, I *am* a human. I'm into just about everything. I like to think of my web site as the entire World Wide Web.

― c21m50nh3x460n, Thursday, 5 September 2013 17:58 (eleven years ago)

cosmopolitan

― Nad Racket (jjjusten), Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:16 (eleven years ago)

Hello am curious! I also live in Hudson County (Hoboken). Welcome, neighbor!

― Evan, Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:21 (eleven years ago)

Wow. I thank you all for welcoming me to ILM. I wish I could thank each one of you individually but that might take quite some time and interrupt your busy schedules. I must thank Ned Raggett for suggesting I introduce myself here. Ned, you are a fine fellow and a most noble person. Thanks for the suggestion. For the low-income/broke people: Maybe someday someone will create a specific thread on ILE for us (the low-income/broke people) to get together online and share relevant personal stories, news articles, etc. It might make for an interesting thread. For Treeship: Thank you very much for that compliment of saying that I seem like a cool person! As for my obstacles with creating my Twitter account, the basic story would probably be a bit too long to go into here in this thread, but I can send you a message at your user profile. Any help in the matter is appreciated.

― am.curious.sometimes, Friday, 6 September 2013 00:24 (eleven years ago)

yeah, please feel free to shoot me a private message anytime. welcome to ilx.

― Treeship, Friday, 6 September 2013 00:25 (eleven years ago)

Thanks Treeship. Just sent you the private message a few moments ago. If you need me to clarify anything in the message, just let me know. You can send me a private message or an email (I included my email address if you need it for anything), whichever you prefer.

― am.curious.sometimes, Friday, 6 September 2013 01:09 (eleven years ago)

I wish I could thank each one of you individually but that might take quite some time and interrupt your busy schedules.

what?? what?!? i am sprinting to the bank to make important investing decisions, checking my rolodex via a palmed mirror that also allows me to check out my business hair. a crucial marketing meeting awaits. i lead a team that lives to make other people buy things. i'm scheduling in a workshop to learn how relaxing can benefit my triple bottom line! profit!!!

― Z S, Friday, 6 September 2013 01:14 (eleven years ago)

When will ned Raggett stop impinging on the rights of people to have twitter accounts this will not stand

― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 6 September 2013 01:22 (eleven years ago)

SEIZE HIM

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 6 September 2013 01:44 (eleven years ago)

I am simply horrible, so. (And thanks to a.m.c. for the most kind words.)

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 September 2013 01:44 (eleven years ago)

OH HI

NJ REPRESENT

― TITTWISORTH (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 6 September 2013 01:56 (eleven years ago)

What are the demographics on this thread geographically? Feel like so many of us turn out to be from NJ.

― Evan, Friday, 6 September 2013 14:02 (eleven years ago)

Well I certainly amn't - from NJ!:)

― t**t, Friday, 6 September 2013 16:47 (eleven years ago)

When I first began posting on ilx, I lived in Nashville. Then I lived in Florida for a few years and now I live in Atlanta. I rode a train through NJ once and spent the night at a big suburban house where my friend nannied for a guy named Tony Danza (not that Tony Danza), so I feel like I've done NJ reasonably right.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 6 September 2013 16:57 (eleven years ago)

I love NJ.

― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 6 September 2013 19:04 (eleven years ago)

cotswolds.

― mark e, Friday, 6 September 2013 19:08 (eleven years ago)

i am concerned that the tentacles of ned raggett reach all the way to NJ.

I read this as testicles, or maybe I just pretended to. Eat your heart out Brian Eno.

― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 6 September 2013 19:12 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ3tqIukBKg

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 September 2013 19:13 (eleven years ago)

Wow, I just spent a few minutes reading through some of the original posts itt.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 6 September 2013 19:15 (eleven years ago)

Hi. I'm Paul Cox (no, not the photographer or the guy who runs too pure). I'm 28 and now live in Nashville. I didn't move here to be a songwriter, and the music scene here is nowhere near as vibrant as its portrayed through the rest of the world. But, there are a few decent clubs and some good record shops -- enough to keep me broke, anyway. I've lurked around here for close to a year, but have only begun posting recently.
― paul, Tuesday, March 26, 2002 8:00 PM (11 years ago)

I was but a wee little babe then.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 6 September 2013 19:30 (eleven years ago)

I rode a train through NJ once and spent the night at a big suburban house where my friend nannied for a guy named Tony Danza (not that Tony Danza), so I feel like I've done NJ reasonably right.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, September 6, 2013 12:57 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's like going to see the Eiffel Tower or Central Park... at least do something original next visit...

― Evan, Friday, 6 September 2013 19:32 (eleven years ago)

How come there's 1200+ posts on this thread, and I don't recognize 75% of these people?

― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 6 September 2013 20:34 (eleven years ago)

before we can answer, we need to know who are the 25% ?

― mark e, Friday, 6 September 2013 20:36 (eleven years ago)

i was in nj yesterday. it was okay but i'd rather pump my own gas tbh

the one and only Ned Raggett (a most noble person if I do say so myself)

sounds fishy

― mookieproof, Saturday, 7 September 2013 00:10 (eleven years ago)

Litterer's Orange Juice!

― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 7 September 2013 05:27 (eleven years ago)

Johnson's Popcorn! Shriver's Salt Water Taffy! Mack & Manco Pizza! (Uh oh, looks like they split and now it's just Manco & Manco.)

― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 7 September 2013 05:29 (eleven years ago)

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