Who is the most famous ILM regular?

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I'm just curious... "come on people, lets stoke the ILM hive ego"... and is it true that Paul McCartney reads and sometimes posts? ( WT ducks epecting fiery flames of flameness)

― winter testing (winter testing), Thursday, 4 May 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure that it's Marissa Marchant.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 4 May 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

Me...

or Geir.

― Paul McCartney, Thursday, 4 May 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

Ned Raggett

― Two Scoops (Magic Duster), Thursday, 4 May 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

Kanye

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 4 May 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

Ned Raggett

It's a vision.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 4 May 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

and is it true that Paul McCartney reads and sometimes posts?

Paul McCartney doesn't post here. You're thinking of the singer from Klaatu.

― Cunga (Cunga), Thursday, 4 May 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Is it true that dr3w d4niels printed out ilm threads on a dot matrix printer and used the sounds produced in his epic short story about the life of astronaut john glen?

― yours fondly, harshaw. (mrgn), Thursday, 4 May 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

Gene Hackman, but he only posts to the rolling metal threads.

― p@reene (Pareene), Thursday, 4 May 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

I say Drew. Why, I just saw a photo of him in a magazine! And he knows Bjork.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 4 May 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

See above - Macca does post here. That's his email address. And he's Geir's best mate - all those nights cosied up by the fireside bonding to Badfinger bootlegs. it must be true.

― winter testing (winter testing), Thursday, 4 May 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

and is it true that Paul McCartney reads and sometimes posts?

Not here, you're thinking of I love eating baby seals.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 4 May 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

it's my unfortunate duty to report that the fame stats point to a Raggett owning...

― john clarkson, Thursday, 4 May 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

brad laner or howie gelb

― billy scrotum, Thursday, 4 May 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

Gelb's here? What threads?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 4 May 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

TS: Arthur vs. Godsmack

― p@reene (Pareene), Thursday, 4 May 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

momus.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure Bobcat Goldthwait posts here as "Esteban Buttez".

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

it's dan brown and we're all pwned

― danny invincible (michael w.), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

The most famous regular here must be Momus, with Ned the runnerup. Several celebrities have posted here though.

White Town/Jyoti Mishra never was a regular here, right?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

Seems like Chuck Eddy is more famous than most of these people.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

Hahahahaha I was about to post that, Mark!

― Dan (Come On, People) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

More people I know recognize the name NED RAGGETT than Momus or Chuck Eddy.

― JW (ex machina), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

Momus
Chuck
Matos
Douglas Wolk
John D.

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I could tell you all Mark Grout's true identity; but unfortunately I have been sworn to secrecy.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

chuck eddy probably easy takes it overall for ilm (xgau and sasha frere-jones being the only sometime ilxors that trump his fame and neither post here anymore)(phil simms easy overall ilx), drew daniel's gotta easily be the most famous musician though saul williams might give him a run. ryan pitchfork probably second most overall truth be told (drew, j0hn, momus - fame in that order - representing fragments of the indie rock market that ryan would presumably cut across and more right?). gerard cosloy posted very briefly on ilb i think didn't he maybe? harvey weinstein used to post on the noise board.

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

i think steve shasta's on espn2 every now and then.

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

these days i feel like darnielle is more famous than daniel. and definitely more famous than chuck eddy. i mean, who knows who chuck eddy is besides rock critics and their fans?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

i mean drew is probably more of an international art celebrity whose picture shows up in glossy art magazines, but i gotta wonder what sales figures will be like for "the rose has teeth" compared to "the sunset tree."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

(not that i don't wish him the best, of course!)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

you're forgetting bjork jaymc (who trumps whoever j0hn's collaborated with i'm thinking maybe though a lil while back miccio fooled me into believing for like 24 hours that j0hn was eric bachmann which was the only time i've ever been 'woah, no ways' about omg sooo famous ilxors but only cuz i sing 'web in front' at karaoke). eddy's the only one here famous enough to get a gawker hed or to be mocked unnamed (stupidly but still) on wfmu cuz no name neccessary. steve shasta might trump all these truth be told.

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

James Murphy pops up here every so often, does he not?

He's not in the same superstar category as Ned Ragget but he's popular enough.

― Jeff K (jeff k), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I'd never heard of chuck before I got here.

Didn't Geir make it on the pop charts in Norway?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

geir charted under quisling i think but his popularity faded quickly

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

steve shasta might trump all these truth be told.

agreed.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

I'm pretty famous amongst 15-year-old gamers.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

i think this is all from an american perspective though. the only writer mentioned here i'd heard of before i found ilm was ned raggett, so for me he wins. ned raggett - big in the uk!

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

well yeah for all we know aja's like freaking madonna famous in utah, let's get serious here

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

You'd never heard of Stevie Chick?

(x-post)

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

I'm amused by all this.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

Raggett nay be big in the UK but is he big in Japan?

― Jeff K (jeff k), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

For reference, also check What musicians/other famous people have made posts on ILM?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

I think this question should exclude journalists. No particular reason why.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

Only DJs and label heads allowed. Oh wait.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

i've still never heard of stevie chick!

x post

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't Geir make it on the pop charts in Norway?

Got one song played twice on National radio. In a program mainly devoted to mp3's from the Net. I'm afraid that doesn't qualify me as a celebrity. :)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

Ned thinks I'm trolling to get vote? I wish I was famous. Stirmonster is the most famous DJ on here, of course.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

Ned thinks I'm trolling to get vote?

Teasing, sir. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

yr famous in my house dan!

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

I made the pop charts in Lativa, my friends.

― Bring Me The Head of ESTEBAN BUTTEZ (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Thursday, 4 May 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

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Beck Beck

― Cunga, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 20:52 (fifteen years ago)

Alt joke: gospels of Matmos, Xhuxk, Geir and j0hn

― Cunga, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 20:58 (fifteen years ago)

Also, there's that guy from Sheep Mountain or whatever

This caused the lols on my part.

― quincie, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:14 (fifteen years ago)

Momus used to appear in the NME quite a bit, back wghen ppl actually bought the bloody thing. I seem to remember him appearing on the front cover once, and getting asked for his opinion on the miners' strike, etc. So I guess he was sort-of famous, or more famous than the very things or turkey bones and the wild dogs anyway.

― hatorade (Pashmina), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:17 (fifteen years ago)

I'm watt btw

― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, February 2, 2010 2:22 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

winner

― bnw, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:32 (fifteen years ago)

back when ppl actually bought the bloody thing

hmm? which thing?

― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:39 (fifteen years ago)

back when you had to pay to read ILX

― jabba hands, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:29 (fifteen years ago)

i remember it were all kevin shields here

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:32 (fifteen years ago)

xp yeah I get the meaning now, for a minute there I thought it meant "buying his shtick" or something

― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:38 (fifteen years ago)

I guess regular means regular, right? I mean, I see Erlend Oye's one post mentioned here, but seemingly no mention of Joe Boyd.

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 23:00 (fifteen years ago)

turkey bones and the wild dogs

A+++ ref here Pashmina, IOU a pint

― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 23:08 (fifteen years ago)

Big lols remembering the days when I used to appear on cable TV on a semi-regular basis. Chaki rocks.

― Sean Carruthers, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 23:27 (fifteen years ago)

the only reason i said "arguably" was

Results 1 - 10 of about 299,000 for "mike watt". (0.73 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 687,000 for momus. (0.24 seconds)

and i mean if we're talking to Tuomas then fame outside the US is an issue and I don't know what their respective international profiles are really

― PLIES! PLIES! PLIES! PLIES! PLIES! (some dude), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 19:56 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Results 1 - 10 of about 2,090,000 for minutemen. (0.33 seconds)
Results 1 - 10 of about 4,530,000 for stooges [definition]. (0.28 seconds)

― brrrrrrrrrrrrrt_stanton (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 00:03 (fifteen years ago)

i know who it was

― and watt (latebloomer), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 00:11 (fifteen years ago)

xp How many of those are actually about the bands, tho?

― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 00:11 (fifteen years ago)

latebloomer you should change ur name to
and what not

― super sexy psycho fantasy world (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 00:13 (fifteen years ago)

How many of those results for momus are his own posts on ilx?

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 00:15 (fifteen years ago)

also, not sure how many of y'all are brushed up on your greek mythology but thinking that google results for "momus" are only referencing the dolty ilx pariah are pretty O_o, fyi:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momus

― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 00:19 (fifteen years ago)

oh god dammit LB

― and Watt (gbx), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 01:59 (fifteen years ago)

this thread is First Response Hall Of Fame material.

― sleeve, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 02:50 (fifteen years ago)

modestmickey

― velko, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 02:55 (fifteen years ago)

The Clientele used to post here, too.

yeah, i've heard that before. love that band.

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 3 February 2010 03:04 (fifteen years ago)

still never seen any proof of that

― Zeno, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 03:08 (fifteen years ago)

search for posts by "alasdair"

― a place to bury st edmunds (electricsound), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 03:13 (fifteen years ago)

1. I remember being evicted from the Camden Monarch one Tuesday night at midnight and wandering down towards Kentish Town in the hopeless quest for an illegally open boozer. The only light was from the few streelamps and we were soon lost in a labyrinth of backstreets. We emerged onto an eerily silent main road and –lo and behold- waiting for us around an enclave of shuttered buildings was an Irish pub with wide open doors, a halo of light and melancholy Irish Country and Western music. We sat down at a booth unable to believe our luck and as we got slowly paralytic on cold beer, nostalgically talked about the old days, heady with our unexpected escape from a dreary walk home.
2. On a nightmarishly drunk Friday night trawl of Soho pubs, an Irish girl led me by the hand through narrow, cobbled backstreets to a Casino entrance, past the bouncers and through a series of rooms occupied by sweating toffs in bow ties, losing money around dimly-lit and cramped roulette wheels. I realised I was probably in trouble as I staggered in pursuit of her, but we headed through a concealed entrance to an ornate upstairs room, with 18th Century paintings of prancing horses and waiting staff who brought pints of lager to our table as we lounged in gilt-backed chairs. The room was deserted apart from me and her and the drinks were dirt cheap. I woke up in her flat in a high rise in Notting Hill the next morning and left immediately. Despite carefully placing it in my wallet the night before, I had lost the membership card I’d filled out for the casino.
Both of these pubs were ideal for a further visit, but although I have tried to retrace my steps again and again when sober I have never even found the streets that lead to them. Do you have any similar experiences of boozers that simply aren’t there in the cold light of day?

Oh, yeah. Definitely The Clientele.

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 3 February 2010 03:21 (fifteen years ago)

losing haringey pt 2

― a place to bury st edmunds (electricsound), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 03:24 (fifteen years ago)

LOL. One of my favorite songs of the decade, actually!

(Pt. 1, I mean)

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 3 February 2010 03:24 (fifteen years ago)

"cutting people completely out of your life"

― Alasdair, Thursday, 8 November 2001 01:00 (8 years ago) Permalink

like what you did to us!

curiously,he only posted on the ile board

― Zeno, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 03:25 (fifteen years ago)

Humble:

thank you for the nice words, but i think the clientele LP is slightly overrated generally! Hopefully with the next one we will be able to escape any lingering accusations of wibbling twee.

They aren't "wibbling twee," whatever that is.

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 3 February 2010 03:33 (fifteen years ago)

singing wibbling twee

― Mark G, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 08:34 (fifteen years ago)

tht one uk funky guy

― cozen, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 08:50 (fifteen years ago)

and tht one balearica lady

― cozen, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 08:50 (fifteen years ago)

Did Jyoti Mishra (White Town) ever post here? He was a regular in alt.music.alternative for a while.

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 08:58 (fifteen years ago)

i thought he had but i can't find any posts under his name

― a place to bury st edmunds (electricsound), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 09:03 (fifteen years ago)

(I already asked about this upthread, it seems)

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 09:04 (fifteen years ago)

haha i see that's the fourth time you've asked that geir xpost

― a place to bury st edmunds (electricsound), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 09:06 (fifteen years ago)

Jyoti was never a regular in alt.music.alternative, he was a regular in uk.music.alternative, and most of those people (Rhodri Marsden, for instance) never really wandered over to ILX. It's possible JM posted here a couple of times Geir but I don't remember it. Mind you it was a decade ago - I'd completely forgotten Alasdair Maclean used to post.

― Groke, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 09:10 (fifteen years ago)

rhodri has posted here

― a place to bury st edmunds (electricsound), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 09:11 (fifteen years ago)

here are the other similar threads btw

What musicians post to ILM (at least semi-famous)?

What musicians/other famous people have made posts on ILM?

― a place to bury st edmunds (electricsound), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 09:15 (fifteen years ago)

a regular poster played in front of tens of thousands of people at a country-wide travelling festival in the last couple of weeks.

― a place to bury st edmunds (electricsound), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 09:23 (fifteen years ago)

Didnt one of the guys from Disco Inferno post here once? Something about cooling down an amp with a pint of iced water. For values of "famous" obv.

― millivanillimillenary (Trayce), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 09:24 (fifteen years ago)

ian crause's rig

― a place to bury st edmunds (electricsound), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 09:26 (fifteen years ago)

Mike Watt's way more into the MySpace than anything else. I log on like once a month and everything's dead except for 26 updates from the dude. He likes to canoe and play random shows.

― circa1916, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 09:34 (fifteen years ago)

Will High-- aka The white kid who sonned Vordul after an AOL beef posted here for awhile.

― President Keyes, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 12:48 (fifteen years ago)

Alasdair Mc still asks about you guys every now and again. Or, more accurately, "how are things with the internet mentalists?"

― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 12:52 (fifteen years ago)

"curiously,he only posted on the ile board"

Alasdair posted on my Flamenco thread!

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 12:55 (fifteen years ago)

This guy?

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 12:57 (fifteen years ago)

Yes. Up Your Ass With The Clientele being one of his records.

― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 13:00 (fifteen years ago)

My biggest O.O moment was when I found out a certain Scottish DJ posted here.

― 26 Mixes Focaccia (Stevie D), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 21:01 (2 days ago)

was this mylo or calvin?

― NI, Thursday, 4 February 2010 10:33 (fifteen years ago)

Ken Bruce iirc

― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Thursday, 4 February 2010 10:42 (fifteen years ago)

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