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hi, music obsessive just like the rest of you, 19, going into second year of university studying English Lit, love cricket, footie (soccer), reading music reviews, writing poetry, being darkly amusing, the completed works of legendary satirist Chris Morris, favourite music includes both Blur AND Mogwai, neither of whom are shite, Mansun, The The, The Beta Band, Yes, early Rev, late Talk Talk, The Electric Soft Parade (all-too easily dismissed, actually. I have more to say about them at some point), The Secret Machines, Ride, Spiritualized, XTC, early Roxy, late Pulp...etc etc etc...

above all, however, i'm one crazy customer :D :D :D :D so get ready for some madnessssss!!!!! ;-)

(that last sentence was parody)

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

Indeed. And please never write like that sentence again. (Otherwise, HI DERE welcome to us etc. etc. But the Electric Soft Parade are not all that, at all.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

OK, you've just lit my touchpaper, opened my bullpen, yanked my bellrope, whatever you wanna call it, I'm off. The Electric Soft Parade's genius can be discovered by appreciating the quite staggering gamble they took with their first single, Silent To The Dark. An extremely catchy, singalong, chordtastic 3-minute pop song. Which somehow ends up nine minutes long. Now, notwithstanding that I am a sucker for length, the manner in which this song breaks down into a piano-led sound-collage (backed up by a drum-machine sound any NME hack worth his salt would describe as 'trip-hop') before reprising the chorus amidst a sea of synth five minutes later and then ending with more 'trip-hop', this time over what sounds like Pachabel's Canon played on a distant church-organ, and lastly a bombastic BR-style gong...the manner in which such a routine song has been wrenched into something infinitely more majestic quite enthralled me the first time I heard it and it remains a favourite to this day.

Even if they then released the opening 3-minute bit on its own as 'Silent To The Dark II'. Cowards. ;-)

Plus, their second album, The American Adventure, is one of the best albums of the 00's and beats Dark Side Of The Moon comprehensively at its own game, hands down, so there. :P

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

oh ur gonna be a treat

― david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, I don't want to gain notoriety by slaying sacred cows. I'll slay 'em if they deserve slaying. For instance, Bob Dylan is neither the greatest artist ever nor a talentless charlatan, but a fantastic lyricist and songwriter with musical limitations whom I alas rarely listen to on account on it not really being my kinda thing.

Radiohead, depressingly, are just as good as everyone says they are. That kinda pisses me off, but I'm not going to savage them just for the sake of it.

Sigur Ros mostly bore me but the post is ending NOW-

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

above all, however, i'm one crazy customer :D :D :D :D so get ready for some madnessssss!!!!! ;-)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1410000/images/_1411586_rik.jpg

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

IT IS THE NINETIES AND THERE IS TIME FOR

http://www.scotdebt.net/images/main/page_images/head_in_hands2.jpg

― Annie Get Your Gin (noodle vague), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

I SAID PARODY...jeez

(;-D)

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

hi louis.

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

There is a Hyphy panel tonight in SF at the stodgy Commonwealth Club on Market Street at 6:30pm Pacific Daylight Time. I encourage all of you to attend. $15 for non-members.

http://www.commonwealthclub.org/images/06-07hyphy.jpg

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

darkly amusing..

like guinness shits? I find that they're darkly amusing. But that's enough scatology.

What uni has the pleasure of your top-up fees Mr Jagger?

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 23:39 (eighteen years ago)

erm, Cambridge uni. Our music scene, by the way, is almost irredeemable, which is why I'm joining the radio station next year in a futile push to get people listening to stuff that isn't Matchbox 20 or The Kaiser Chiefs. I'll fail. The moment I'll fail is the moment I put Wilco's 'Less Than You Think' on because the last 12 minutes feature some "awesome" feedback manipulation.

Oh, and the amount of complacent egotism here is quite staggering to behold...

...but once you meet the right people, it becomes sort of worth it...

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 23:46 (eighteen years ago)

I'm playing it down of course. I'm actually as chuffed as Kate Winslet's dildo to be here...

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 23:50 (eighteen years ago)

Charming.

― Marmot 4-Tay: Hold these goddamn chickens! (marmotwolof), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 23:52 (eighteen years ago)

This is going to be great.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 23:55 (eighteen years ago)

he's a trip!

― david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 23:55 (eighteen years ago)

I'm here to learn... :)

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:00 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.property-in-the-sun.com/images/Blog/feb_2006/vultures.jpg

― gear (gear), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:09 (eighteen years ago)

I'm here to learn... :)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004D37N.02._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V1072780814_.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:12 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.property-in-the-sun.com/images/Blog/feb_2006/vultures.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v45/gybefan/salo/snapshot20060720125744.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:14 (eighteen years ago)

I'm here to learn... :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v45/gybefan/salo/snapshot20060720125744.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:15 (eighteen years ago)

hmmm.

gear, that is both funny and unkind. perhaps it will be for the best if i enjoy my own demise as much as you clearly do...

and dom...

*sigh*

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:17 (eighteen years ago)

http://julia.hanovercomputer.com/toy/nov01/catalog/ATD_12_2001/pict0265.jpg

I am made of time!

― regular roundups (Dave M), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:19 (eighteen years ago)

is this some sort of initiation rite, or genuine mockery?

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:24 (eighteen years ago)

a little from both columns

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:24 (eighteen years ago)

we've all gone through the process

― gear (gear), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:26 (eighteen years ago)

Shall I compare thee

To a dying powerchord

You’re in tune apparently

But your sound is being ignored

You won’t be extinguished

Like an answered cellphone

Always intended to disperse

Not cut off like a dialtone

Is this you?

My mama always taught me not to give out too much info on the internet

Also I can't believe you used a mini-vacuum cleaner as a "soulsucker"

...

no mockery on the internet is genuine.

But there is a newby thread where you say hello, posting a new thread on anything invites challenge, nevermind introducing yourself.

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:27 (eighteen years ago)

Welcome to the wonderful world of asshats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:30 (eighteen years ago)

It is indeed all me. Congrats re: the google search. DISCLAIMER: I wrote the poem over 3 years ago and have practically disowned it as wanky teenage bullshit nowadays.

it's not like I'm not relishing the challenge, is it? ;-)

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:32 (eighteen years ago)

I'll BECOME an asshat and women will slobber all over my thighs. 10-0.

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:36 (eighteen years ago)

I'll BECOME an asshat and women will slobber all over my thighs. 10-0.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v45/gybefan/salo/snapshot20060720125744.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:37 (eighteen years ago)

(i may have been joking there, dom)

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:39 (eighteen years ago)

well some constructive advice: google indexes this board, therefore it can be data mined by spammers, so you ought to google-proof that e-mail address on your posts unless you want e-mails extolling the virtues of RAIPSEHX and erectile dysfunction cures.

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:41 (eighteen years ago)

I forgot, you Americans don't have an equivalent phrase for our own 'taking the piss'. It's something I do quite a lot, so I'm steeling myself for a whole lotta misunderstandin'...

And cheers for the advice, MA...

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:41 (eighteen years ago)

More poems containing the word "cellphone", plz.

― Marmot 4-Tay: Hold these goddamn chickens! (marmotwolof), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:43 (eighteen years ago)

April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee
With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,
And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten,
And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.
Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch.
And when we were children, staying at the arch-duke's,
My cousin's, he took me out on a sled,
And I was frightened. He said, Marie,
Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.
In the mountains, there you feel free.
Cellphone cellphone cellphone cellphone cellphone

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:46 (eighteen years ago)

My cellphone buzzes,
but nobody is speaking.
Am I a loser?

that'll do...

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:49 (eighteen years ago)

"Taking the piss" roughly equivilant to the American "I'm just fuckin' with you, man", no?

― Marmot 4-Tay: Hold these goddamn chickens! (marmotwolof), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:50 (eighteen years ago)

perhaps, but ours is SUCCINCT.

no, wait, you win this one.

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:51 (eighteen years ago)

We rip the piss, taking is too easy for us irish, ripping is where it's at.

― Major Alfonso (Major Alfonso), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:54 (eighteen years ago)

― Whitman Mayonnaise (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 27 July 2006 00:59 (eighteen years ago)

ah, high school and ILX

so much like prison

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 27 July 2006 01:01 (eighteen years ago)

with less anal insertions

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Thursday, 27 July 2006 01:02 (eighteen years ago)

bring on the anal!!

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Thursday, 27 July 2006 01:03 (eighteen years ago)

bring on the anal!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v45/gybefan/salo/snapshot20060720125744.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 27 July 2006 01:08 (eighteen years ago)

great, now i'm being edited. i'm going to lose this one.

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Thursday, 27 July 2006 01:10 (eighteen years ago)

Anyway, you'll all tire of me soon enough. Y'know, get bored, wander off, find something else to entertain yourselves with. Look, it's started to happen already. My novelty has worn off. I'm getting closer to the safe zone of obscurity...

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Thursday, 27 July 2006 01:20 (eighteen years ago)

SHOW, DON'T TELL

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 27 July 2006 01:39 (eighteen years ago)

srsly, major mistake to introduce yourself, now everybody thinks you're a self-important twat

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 27 July 2006 01:40 (eighteen years ago)

*slinks away disillusioned*

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Thursday, 27 July 2006 01:42 (eighteen years ago)

Skipping 202 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

do tell.

― new clusterfuck thread will eventually provide me a funny display name (sarahel), Thursday, 17 September 2009 20:35 (fifteen years ago)

</wire quote>

― new clusterfuck thread will eventually provide me a funny display name (sarahel), Thursday, 17 September 2009 20:36 (fifteen years ago)

it's all around us...i'm taking a backseat now tbh

― alien vs the smiths (country matters), Thursday, 17 September 2009 20:37 (fifteen years ago)

http://www.thenextwave.biz/tnw/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/Dyson.jpg

― new clusterfuck thread will eventually provide me a funny display name (sarahel), Thursday, 17 September 2009 20:38 (fifteen years ago)

hahaha love that jpg

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 17 September 2009 20:39 (fifteen years ago)

<3 bamcquern

― plax (I know, right?), Thursday, 17 September 2009 20:47 (fifteen years ago)

question 1: dude how do you lose a hamster, let alone two of them

You do realize that's a euphemism. They're like... down there.

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 17 September 2009 20:50 (fifteen years ago)

Hi Hondurian. The posts of yours I've already seen mark you as a valuable new poster. Welcome!

― both HOOSlarious and truthful (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 17 September 2009 21:06 (fifteen years ago)

Thanks BIG HOOS

― hondurian, Thursday, 17 September 2009 21:31 (fifteen years ago)

xp Nathalie: you are my hero.

― new clusterfuck thread will eventually provide me a funny display name (sarahel), Thursday, 17 September 2009 21:34 (fifteen years ago)

seven months pass...

greetings, all.

i un-closeted over on TMI. been lurking for some years now, and hungoverly uninhibited felt like posting today.

you all make work a better place.

― lion in winter, Sunday, 18 April 2010 00:24 (fifteen years ago)

i un-closeted over on TMI.

THIS is gonna end well.

Hi!

― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Sunday, 18 April 2010 00:26 (fifteen years ago)

someone knows their HISTORY

hello again!

― maybe rabbits feel the need to play up their 'lynchian' qualities (acoleuthic), Sunday, 18 April 2010 00:27 (fifteen years ago)

don't mean to come off as obsessive (though it often seems like a positive trait here) but this thread was memorable.

i'm canadian, btw.

― lion in winter, Sunday, 18 April 2010 00:42 (fifteen years ago)

― iatee, Sunday, 18 April 2010 00:43 (fifteen years ago)

someone knows they're HISTORY

― maybe rabbits feel the need to play up their 'lynchian' qualities (acoleuthic), Sunday, 18 April 2010 00:45 (fifteen years ago)

tata!

― maybe rabbits feel the need to play up their 'lynchian' qualities (acoleuthic), Sunday, 18 April 2010 00:46 (fifteen years ago)

;)

― maybe rabbits feel the need to play up their 'lynchian' qualities (acoleuthic), Sunday, 18 April 2010 00:46 (fifteen years ago)

beatings, all!

― scott seward, Sunday, 18 April 2010 00:47 (fifteen years ago)

wait waht?

― lion in winter, Sunday, 18 April 2010 00:53 (fifteen years ago)

you all make work a better place.

u mad

ps, welcome

― millions now zinging will never lol (WmC), Sunday, 18 April 2010 00:58 (fifteen years ago)

WmC while we have you can you let us know SB count for our new friend?

― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Sunday, 18 April 2010 01:07 (fifteen years ago)

it's 46 already

that was quick

― from the unhip (electricsound), Sunday, 18 April 2010 01:11 (fifteen years ago)

ps it is actually not

― from the unhip (electricsound), Sunday, 18 April 2010 01:11 (fifteen years ago)

I'll tell a poster their own number, but not someone else's.

― millions now zinging will never lol (WmC), Sunday, 18 April 2010 01:11 (fifteen years ago)

notwithstanding that I am a sucker for length
notwithstanding that I am a sucker for length
notwithstanding that I am a sucker for length
notwithstanding that I am a sucker for length
notwithstanding that I am a sucker for length
notwithstanding that I am a sucker for length

― symsymsym, Sunday, 18 April 2010 01:18 (fifteen years ago)

thanks for the greetings, sb's and other archived internet ephemera.

darraghmac, you've been especially helpful: for a while, in the earlier part of this decade, i lived on hanbury lane in the liberties (off meath st.) and dunville ave. in ranelagh.

― lion in winter, Sunday, 18 April 2010 02:20 (fifteen years ago)

I'll tell a poster their own number, but not someone else's.

OK, you've just lit my touchpaper, opened my bullpen, yanked my bellrope.

whatever you wanna call it, I'm off

― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 18 April 2010 02:25 (fifteen years ago)

(j/k, obv.)

― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 18 April 2010 02:25 (fifteen years ago)

/gets me coat

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 18 April 2010 05:39 (fifteen years ago)

lyin' in spring

― velko, Sunday, 18 April 2010 05:42 (fifteen years ago)

my brother used to live near meath street...

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, 18 April 2010 07:19 (fifteen years ago)

once i met a man at the bus stop

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, 18 April 2010 07:20 (fifteen years ago)

it was mostly dutch gold, prams and tracksuits by the spar.

christchurch.

― lion in winter, Sunday, 18 April 2010 07:49 (fifteen years ago)

darraghmac, you've been especially helpful:

this was entirely unintentional fwiw

― just darraghmac tbh (darraghmac), Sunday, 18 April 2010 20:47 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XIycjaR9wOU/T_7in1_GbvI/AAAAAAAACr0/g0FdkiKjEqw/s1600/Mansun+Six+Cover.jpg

― once a week is ample, Thursday, 26 July 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago)

http://www.clashmusic.com/files/imagecache/big_node_view/files/images/madness_7.jpg

― Jeremy Clarkson Sex Face (snoball), Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago)

http://brianslesprit.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/john-crazy-customer2.jpg

― how's life, Thursday, 26 July 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago)

four years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMynorZmU0Y

― imago, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 07:20 (eight years ago)

― sarahell, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 07:41 (eight years ago)

I think my first ILM post was saying something mean about Deafheaven. Goooood times.

― ultros ultros-ghali, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 09:59 (eight years ago)

lol, you cut your teeth elsewhere before coming here though

my first post isn't actually this. earlier that day i posted something sycophantic to ethan of all people and i think he mocked me

― imago, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 10:06 (eight years ago)

Any great pieces of music writing from the past week or so?

― imago, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 10:07 (eight years ago)

greetings, still

― estela, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 10:24 (eight years ago)

why thank you, and likewise

― imago, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 10:38 (eight years ago)

five years pass...

https://hncimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/What-A-Long-Strange-Trip-Its-Been-Hippie-Posterz.jpg

― imago, Monday, 26 July 2021 15:16 (three years ago)

(that last sentence was parody)

― pomenitul, Monday, 26 July 2021 15:29 (three years ago)

Well, yeah...You were 17. 17 then was much younger than 17 now.

― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Monday, 26 July 2021 15:34 (three years ago)

I was a sheltered innocent of 19 in fact

― imago, Monday, 26 July 2021 15:36 (three years ago)

I was 35 or so going on 15 at the time.

― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Monday, 26 July 2021 15:40 (three years ago)

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