C/D: Looking yourself up on Google Groups and discovering that you were debating music with ILMers almost a decade ago.

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OH, THE SHAME.

OR, THE FUN.

WHICHEVER.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

there's stuff from two years ago I feel like cutting myself over.

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

donut bitch answered my first-ever post to Usenet. In 1991.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure I read some Jess on the anime & manga groups back in the day.

― Aaron A., Friday, 29 April 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

HI DEXX!

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

WOAH IT'S LIKE A TOTAL FLASHBACK DOOD

― deX! (heart) Jackie Blue (Dan Perry), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

Persinthia? GB? I know you're out there...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Actually wait a minute, Tantrum, who the hell were you then?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

what i've been wondering lately is how many people involved in the production of many of today's furry cartoons are furries themselves, or at least closet furries. it makes me smile every time i think about it :) .

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

I hate that man so much.

― The Ghost of I AM NOT A FURRY, I AM A FREE MAN (Dan Perry), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

I can only be grateful that most normal people have no idea what Google Groups is.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

Toonophilic double entendre

This should be your drag queen name, dude.

La ToonoPHILIQUE...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah, i was all about those anime and manga groups when i first got the internet

― strng hlkngtn, Friday, 29 April 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

nearly a decade has almost dulled how twee and inane i was back then

― strng hlkngtn, Friday, 29 April 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

"now i'm just inane"

― strng hlkngtn, Friday, 29 April 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Sir, you are kindly twee yet. Underneath the understandably well-constructed carapace.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

Topic in rec.music.marketplace.vinyl

short but sweet wantlist
Only 1 message in topic - view as tree

Dan Selzer Nov 15 2001, 3:00 pm show options
The Lines-Cool Snap 12"
Black Magic Disco Club LP
Homosexuals related:
Sir Alick and the Phaser
Vencerwemos cassette(of good digital copy of original)

more to come.

dan selzer

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

and to confirm, Dan Perry was Tube Disaster on alt.music.post-punk or am I confused?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

Actually wait a minute, Tantrum, who the hell were you then?

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.music.alternative/browse_frm/thread/7b6c63c1bd7573df/63cfdb93390f3447?q=i2campbe@acs.ryerson.ca&rnum=49&hl=en#63cfdb93390f3447

Your response follows immediately thereafter...

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

Ah, how do you do indeed, Mr. Campbell. BTW, *have* you done any research on the pioneers of techno or what?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

God, now that I read that thread I vaguely remember, the goofy ass Tony who claimed that there was no African or African-American influence in techno. What a headcase.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

and to confirm, Dan Perry was Tube Disaster on alt.music.post-punk or am I confused?

You are confused. I posted (almost) exclusively as "deX!" to Usenet.

Although now I'm REALLY curious as to what this "Tube Disaster" person was like.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

PETER PRODGE! Except he did turn up on ILM once.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:27 (twenty years ago)

I'm totally blanking, there was ANOTHER Dan who posted on Usenet who I think also posted here, or maybe I always assumed you were he.

And sorry for the self-indulgent post above, just wanted to show how early I was into the Black Devil Disco Club! The stuff I found on usenet that I DIDN'T repost usually involves me admonishing NIN and Ministry fans on industrial newsgroups for not loving Cabaret Voltaire, then a year later yelling at a Throbbing Gristle fan for not being familiar with Faust.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha see, this is exactly why I started calling myself "deX!" after maybe my third post to Usenet. Too many Dans EVERYWHERE.

Tom, I miss Peter Prodigy too! He was awesome. Also, do you remember when Mark Bartlam outed himself as an ILX lurker???

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Gondola Bob to thread.

Come to think of it, Gondola Bob NOT to thread.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

― The Ghost of HELLO GOOGLE (Dan Perry), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

He is still using the same nick btw. Active poster on rec.music.progressive.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

Now I post to a board that lives under constant threat of visitation by El@yn3 R1gg5, Gondola B doesn't seem quite so scary.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

Tom, should I know this creature you mention?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:53 (twenty years ago)

Anyone who was around in the UK groups when Sally Kentwaite posted there?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

No, and count your blessings.

xpost

Sally Kentwaite was already legend by the time I joined.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

shit, i'm reliving my past reading all these messages from the mid 90s i used to post.

― nathalie in a bar under the sea (stevie nixed), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=no&lr=&threadm=4crscb%245cq%40pipe11.nyc.pipeline.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Damericans%2Bgay%2Bbritpop%2Bbrits%26hl%3Dno%26lr%3D%26selm%3D4crscb%25245cq%2540pipe11.nyc.pipeline.com%26rnum%3D1

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

xpost to Ned: I've done more research on the pioneers of techno than is strictly healthy.

Also, I seem to remember a period when alt.music.techno was regularly attacked by "TeChNo SuXx!!!1" trolls like the guy in that discussion. I think the first recorded sighting of The Smiths' "Panic" Defense happened around this time, thus making sure that techno fans who liked a bit of guitar pop on the side would be irritated forever more.

(The truly sad thing is that my posting style has evolved not one iota since those days. Sigh.)

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 29 April 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

Also, I seem to remember a period when alt.music.techno was regularly attacked by "TeChNo SuXx!!!1" trolls like the guy in that discussion.

Me to tread! :-)

(even though I was a lot more into posting those threads in the hip-hop groups ;) )

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 29 April 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

The truly sad thing is that my posting style has evolved not one iota since those days. Sigh.

I seem to be more terse these days.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 April 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

ok, this is creepy.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 29 April 2005 21:28 (twenty years ago)

i swear to god, if i ever have kids they are being forced to play sports and beaten if they refuse

― strng hlkngtn, Friday, 29 April 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

Persinthia? GB? I know you're out there...

Apparently using x-archive. Anyway, check this:

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_q=gondola%20bob&lr=&hl=no

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 29 April 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

Thank you no. I would rather listen to a Kat Marco 'epic.'

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 April 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

I M X-R.M.I.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 29 April 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

If I look up "Daddino" on Google Groups, the earliest posts I find are about this Chicago mobster and pornographer with the same name as my dad.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 29 April 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

GB on guess-what:

I've looked there a couple of times, but don't think I could bear to look again. Yep, it's the same obnoxious clique whose smug, clucking arrogance and elitism previously sucked the life out of alt.music.alternative. The "Love" found on that bulletin board is so spiritually poisonous that it may sour your feelings toward music for hours afterwards. However, if patting yourself on the back for naysaying some otherwise "sacred" artist is your prime raison d'etre, then by all means, take the plunge. ;)

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 29 April 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

I remember finding some rather grim crap I posted on a few AOL message boards way back when. God, I fucking hate AOL.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

As if there are any bigger elitists out there than GB himself :-)

(OK, Todd Camanend Clarke, maybe, if some of you guys have ran across him in Usenet groups...)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

Possibly my first ever public posting to the internet!!

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/rec.music.progressive/browse_thread/thread/8bd9894705dbebf6/32a6356461492c1e?q=%22rob+schrader%22&rnum=5&hl=en#32a6356461492c1e

wow, 10 years. What a nutty decade it has been. I was working at Baked Bean Teeth's store when I made that post! Still totally love that album too. For some reason I can't find all my rec.sport.hockey posts on there. Maybe they will show up someday.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Saturday, 30 April 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

Oh no we have offended a legendary Usenet tool! How will we ever live with ourselves?

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 30 April 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

I've relived my twenties a couple of times via Google - old arguments with Thrill on a.m.smiths etc.

Them was rotten days.

― Kent Burt (lingereffect), Sunday, 1 May 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

I don't believe anyone from the first few years of alt.rock-n-roll.metal.* has joined ILM, no? You would think that Spinoz@ R@y Proz@k would've found this place by now...

― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 1 May 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

agh, bad memories. i said so much stupid stuff on some of the lists i was on back then. really ignorant stuff that i still feel bad about ever saying. i used to post on the mbv-l in the late 90's, i remember mr. ned raggett being on there. my only consolation is that i did learn from those experiences and can admit that i was stupid/ignorant

― 6335, Monday, 2 May 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

i used to post on the mbv-l in the late 90's, i remember mr. ned raggett being on there.

Yeah, was on and off throughout the nineties. Haven't been on in years. There are some good folks there! It's also how I met one of my two best friends ever Stripey, so hey. 6335, who are/were you on the list?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 May 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

i was/am ryan fedor..i didn't really post that much, i think i mostly just ended up starting arguments. (not on purpose) there were some real characters on that list. i'm trying to remember the name of the guy who was completely obsessed w/ bacharach and "moon song" tobias was his name, maybe? jeff engel used to post some interesting tangents, too...a lot of tangents on that list, obv. :)

― 6335, Monday, 2 May 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)

Good grief, I was on that list too, but posted scarcely at all. I think it was indeed Tobias - all Bacharach, 5th Dimension, Beach Boys, High Llamas and, erm, masturbation, no?

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Monday, 2 May 2005 07:01 (twenty years ago)

work it baby! hustle!

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 2 May 2005 07:46 (twenty years ago)

oh yes, the high llamas and the beach boys! i had forgot all about that...that is indeed who i was thinking about. who are/were you?

― 6335, Monday, 2 May 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Ah Tobias. I do remember him...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 May 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

Anybody spend time on the tweekitten.com website in the "cutie club"? That was my introduction to the land of chatting on the internet back in early 97 or so... I'm curious if others out there spent time there or if it was some weird isolated thing that only art students in baltimore used.

― ianinportland (ianinportland), Monday, 2 May 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

I still credit Tobias with broadening my diet of easy listening (which he endlessly argued was not necessarily 'easy' at all). : )

who are/were you?

Lurker #237, under some forgotten pseudonym. I think I only occasionally spoke up to defend earlier MBV and other janglesome indie. I certainly remember your names from there, Ryan and Ned.

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Monday, 2 May 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

cool, cool. i've really come around to that earlier mbv, myself. ecstasy and wine is a stone-cold classic, if you ask me! that list was really my first real exposure to people who were completely caught up in micro-niches of music that i had no idea even existed. really educational. someone on there even pointed me to the pixies, who i had never heard at that point...a thousand thank you's to that person. eric carr was his name, i think

― 6335, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 03:55 (twenty years ago)

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