Are ILXers Dinosaurs?

I am so much a pop dinosaur.

Tom is otm, you have to be clubbing really. I know I never "got" the mix album I reviewed for 102 Beats That till I started going clubbing. There's a minimalism in club tracks that isn't there so much in chems fatboy etc. Or if it is there you can see the non- clubbing types don't like the track. For example Denmark by the Chemical Brothers. As bad as it may sound I think you need to appreciate it on a clubbing level to really get that track. My clubbing friends and I all think it's the best thing on Come With Us, whereas the non clubbers like that shite Richard Ashcroft song. grr.

Me.

*or if so I can just as well say yeah well to fully understand [dodgy pop track] you have to have heard it in MY HOUSE MAN.

Well, that's me screwed over then. But I like them there Sticky songs Tim made us aware of! *pouts*

Simple truth is there is a large gulf between album dance and club dance which is seldom acknowledged, the gulf between hits and dancefloor tracks, and you can only hear the more underground stuff in clubs really. Of course you could download it, but generally clubs are the gate to this.

that makes for witty one-liner but ass theory...unless it's john's clever way of saying "unless you're out of your head (chemically) you dont understand [a. dance music] [b. the dead, maaaaaaaaan.]" taken on the surface it's like saying that no band can be understood -except- via recordings (and i -hate- live shows and clubs.)

a few things which can not be replicated at home:

- bass and treble intensive sound-systems (for music specifically functioned to be played on big, big bassbins - jungle, fer instance - yr losing half the sound range playing them on home stereos.)

- the dj mix (yes, yes there are -albums-, just like there are -live- albums. it's as much a performance as anything else.)

- crowd buzz. (sorry, but it's true.)

NNNGRRROWWWNCHHHNKNNN

*makes vague reptilian T-REX mating call*

Danny boy aside is there anyone out there who prefers 'dance' music.

― kiwi

you mean feindflug, right? hell yeah, til death.

I wonder how a mating call could be vague.

i think it's vaguely reptilian not vaguely mating

though if anyone could attempt to mate vaguely it'd be lord custos

May I just say that my grandchildren have been playing The Streets around the house and it's jolly good.

― Momus, Thursday, May 2, 2002 2:00 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

can't tell if this is a funny joke or not. babies makin babies.

yes, I'm a Bakissaurus

even i, a relatively young ilxor, am a dinosaur at this point.

One of the amusing aspects of this thread is how carbon dated it feels, chiefly in the sense of the strong distinction between "album dance" and "club tracks", which I think would no longer really make sense within a couple of years afterwards.

Tom's question "Who here listens mostly to the kind of dance music that doesn't get reviewed in Q?"

There's a lot of discussion (on ILM and more broadly) about how the critical treatment of pop music has changed over the last two decades but a lot less about dance music - or indeed rap, though I think the change has been more structurally dramatic in the case of the former.

Old ILM was Jurassic Park dinosaurs, wrestling with the intersection between the magic of life and the demands of commerce, so busy discovering that poptimism could be discovered that they didn't think of whether it should, etc.

Current ILM is Jurassic World, we're all these gross cross mutations, no one knows or cares what the plot is anymore, Morgan Waller is Chris Pratt.

old ilx-style "poptimism" remains the correct stance, modern non-dinasaur poptimism is the mischievous rat eating everybody's eggs

drake is the chicxulub asteroid

We’re certainly getting there.

Not dinosaurs, just heavily in their 50s and 60s

I wish I were a dinosaur

ILXors being consoled/condescended to by Fantano clones:

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/montypython/images/0/0a/Attila_13.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180804210408

Bah. Go here.

I was temporarily absorbed by wikipedia and learned a new cool fact: there are two main ways to prevent a mass extinction by asteroid impact. The first is to blast the damn thing into fragments less than 35 meters wide. The second is for Earth to dodge. Earth is not the fastest thing, so it takes 425 seconds to fully dodge from its previous position. So your objective is to deflect the asteroid and buy yourself that time. It's about the time of Heroin by the VU.

I want to be a Parasaurolophus.