What you listened to while ILM was temporarily out of service and who you talked to about it

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I don't think I need to elaborate.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Thursday, 25 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I actually spent a large portion of today trying to convince Fred Solinger and David Naylor that The Strokes are unadulterated crap. Also, I discovered that both Ned and I like _Headquarters_ by the Monkees.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 25 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

meta-question: most notable taste rift between Dan and Ned? There must be at least one album, SONG even, you just can't agree on..

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Thursday, 25 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

meta-meta question: Is this the soonest a meta-question has ever appeared on an ILM thread?

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Thursday, 25 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Outkast -- Aquemeni. New Jack City soundtrack. Some hella dope old skool mix on 107.5. Weird conversation about that "Better Off Alone" song in which [dude] tried to convince me it had been an underground hit, and had sold out or something. The new Tori, which I'm still collecting my thoughts on.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 25 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I also spent some time chatting with Ethan about a ton of different stuff; I just can't remember all of it. The Beatnuts were heavily featured.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 25 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am listening to Cat Power's What Would the Commnity Think. So cool. An original rare in these times of recycled rubbish.

FUCK ELECTRONIC MUSIC. Shit I am getting OLD.

― alex in mainhattan, Thursday, 25 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nmh's "in the aeroplane over the sea"

― ernest, Thursday, 25 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

sally timms and francoise hardy

― anthony, Thursday, 25 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I d/l'ed every Hellacopters song audiogalaxy had (mine are all on vinyl, and not so portable, plus there's lots of stuff I hadn't heard before). The Plastic People of the Universe too, but that was only like 3 songs. I don't think I've seen anybody in the past couple days, never mind talked about music.

― Kris, Thursday, 25 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

dan, i believe it was long before ilm went down that we last talked, some time around thursday or friday. jumping up and down to off the books can make you lose days though.

― ethan, Thursday, 25 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

tony valens & the incisions!

― duane, Thursday, 25 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the matador 3-cd compilation thingy i bought ages ago and never really listened too (it's now been MD-ed). saw various mensh-es of this on a couple of threads some while back, so ta

― Alan at home, Thursday, 25 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I listened to:
What's The Matter Boy? - Vic Godard & Subway Sect
Halber Mensch - Einsturzende Neubauten
Visage - Visage

― DG, Thursday, 25 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

His Name Is Alive: Stars On ESP ESP Family: ESP Summer Warn Defever: I Hope You Live 100 Years Slowdive: Slouvaki Neil Young: Unplugged Neil Young: Weld

― Michael Taylor, Thursday, 25 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

To answer the meta-question -- yeah, something came up once or twice. Damned if I can remember what, though.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 25 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Talked to Caroline about Dolly Parton. She wants a Dollywood T-shirt. We were listening to Willie Nelson. Then we talked about him. What a light touch he has with his voice, how it just spills up. She was talking about Tom Waits's early albums eventually and I said that I always thought Tom Waits one notch away from Billy Joel, I mean switch in the gravelly rasp and the Piano Man is Tom Waits through and through. There was an uncomfortable silence.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 25 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the Piano Man is Tom Waits through and through

Except not as good as Tom Waits, see. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 25 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

tracer
dolly is brillant at finding the direction of the current and riding it out .
adn i want a motherfucking tshirt

― anthonyeaston, Thursday, 25 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Straight Outta Compton" and "Stay Hungry" (Twisted Sister -- please don't ask why).

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Thursday, 25 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dollar 'Hand Held in Black'n'White'+'Videotheque'
Fennesz - 'Endless Summer'
Kraftwerk - 'Neon Lights'
Green Velvet - 'Flash' (Danny Tenaglia's Nitrous Oxide mix)

Only person I discussed this with was my wife who wondered WTF I was doing playing Dollar.

― stevo, Thursday, 25 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I listened to stuff for 1000, the bad game music for Civ II, the Pulp album, Felix Da Housecat, and the Five album. I talked about music on IM with Fred, on e-mail with Maura, and in person with Isabel while I taped "We Love Life" for her.

― Tom, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Stepping out of a backdrop-poster and dancing around my room on Visage's Fade To Grey...

― eric (by now completely faded out), Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Mats' Stink, Pleased to Meet Me and also Let It Be. I still like 'Alex Chilton' after all these years. Changed my mind about "nightclub jitters", it's actually quite good!
The Jam. "Aunties and Uncles" is my fave song now.
Smog EP.
Millionaire "Outside the Simian Flock".
Ken Stringfellow Touched.
New Order Get Ready.

― helen fordsdale, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

MOBO repeats and circular discussion of the influence of blues & jazz vs folk & classical. Why someone with such an odd voice as Britney Spears is so popular (which is obviously a good thing). Getting the feeling I should rip my own ears off as Alien Ant Farm are played four fucking times in the pub. Falling drunkenly asleep to the Jesus & Mary Chain. Listening to The Lucksmiths and The Essex Green. The Pop Group and Pere Ubu. Being pissed off about missing Jimi Tenor who was, apparently, fantastic.

― emil.y, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My friend Steve came round and lent me 'Ride Into The Blue' by Bergman, Borgmann and Brotzmann and 'Hawthorne, CA' by The Beach Boys. In return I lent him 'The Dried Rat-Dog' by Peter Brotzmann and Hamid Drake. We listened to 'Standards' by Tortoise, 'The History of Melody Nelson' by Serge Gainsbourg, some hot gospel tunes from the 'Flashbacks' series, my flatmate's fantastic Skatalites comp, and Arthur Conley's underrated 'Sweet Soul Music' alb. There was a lot of chat abt the relative merits of Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea on early 70s Miles Davis albs (Steve had just bought 'It's About That Time'). Hey, we enjoyed ourselves.

― Andrew L, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I guess I listened to the Byrds (first LP); the Smiths (the odd track off The Queen Is Dead); the Blake Babies (last LP); and last night, actually after ILM was back, Throwing Muses (Limbo, The Real Ramona). I didn't talk to anyone about any of it. I did have a brief conversation with a colleague about shows, Fred Astaire, old-time songs, etc, though.

― the pinefox, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes! Nightclub Jitters is good! But in that you feel embaressed at first way that Albini described his reaction to Slint's Spiderland.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I listened to Talib Kweli and Mos Def on mp3, then went and listened to Black on Both Sides again in a (failed) effort to like it more. Listened to Heavenly vs. Satan, "One" from the Beta Band record, three versions in a row of "Jeane" (Smiths, Sandie Shaw, Billy Bragg), and then got momentarily obsessed with the Feelings' "Dearling Darling", which starts off so perfectly: Dearling, darling, daring starling
Catch me up in your hair all a-snarling. And later: You don't get drunk anymore
You've forgotten what it's good for. Also had a massive conversion to Arto Lindsay's Prize, which had been sitting on my racks for the past year, at least, having only been listened to once or twice. (It's moments like this that make me not worry about buying loads of records and not really listening to them all -- they'll pop up again someday.) Didn't talk about music much, apart from trying to sell a friend on Prefuse 73 (he, reciprocally, tried to sell me on the RZA's Ghost Dog soundtrack) and pestering my NYC girlfriend about buying the Rufus Wainwright album, which I absolutely know she will love, if she'd ever just trust that I'm not exaggerating, and that she really does need to get off of her ass and get to a record store.

― Nitsuh, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Also found Ian dissing me on his blog and sent long rambling uninformed comments on pop music. :)

― Nitsuh, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

you should have bought the ghost dog soundtrack.

― ethan, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

do you think they'll ever do an album of the actual soundtrack to ghost dog. ie all the instrumental RZA stuff (though a lot of it was just loops used in that last track). i like the album, it's just not what i expected.

― , Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

we've been over this a million times, the japanese import version is the film score and the american version is a bunch of above-average wu fam tracks. why is everyone fucking obsessed with the score? would there be this much of a cult around it if, say, theivery corporation had done it (which they might as well have)?

― ethan, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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