I Hate Music: Classic or Dud?

Great thread.

I thought this was going to be about Tanya Headon :(

Too populist.

I just hate the format. A whole bunch of other message boards use that style too, but it's so damn clunky. 90% avatars and autosignatures, and you can only read 10 messages nbefore you have to load a new page.

yeah totallly so the message board is pretty much 1 ILM parady.....LAME

Japanese popular music from the 20's on....

I lurk there a lot but don't dare post anything because IHM makes me feel inadequate for not understanding, say, Taku Sugimoto's new "direction".

I don't mind the stuff they cover. ILM does tend to be lighter on electro-acoustic improv etc type stuff, but could ihatemusic ever produce such classic threads as the Rolling Late-60's/Early-70's Thud-Rock Thread? Or Jazz in the late 70s / early 80s (jazz goes pop, jazz goes disco)? Or Can we talk about early-mid70s West Coast post-psych/pop/rock/folk-rock/country-rock?

It's all in the mix!

No it would almost certainly never produce those threads, but then I suspect it wasn't structured at the outset - unlike ILM - so that its backbone would be pop - at least that is my impression. I only read it every now and again, but its really if you want regular Takayanagi talk, I'm afraid. Can't be arsed to get a login.

Was it started as a 'parody of ILM'? I've never seen anything about it.

"I lurk there a lot but don't dare post anything because IHM makes me feel inadequate for not understanding, say, Taku Sugimoto's new "direction"."

Plenty of people are scratching their heads at all of this stuff. Its all up for debate, no one knows...and these feelings of confusion are what I often see when I glance at the board.

and there was me thinking this was going to be about the 3 cd compilation of Output Records tracks.

I've been a member there for a few years. Don't post so much now though.

This thread turned me off for good...

Wow, and ppl say we're rough on teh n00b.

I didn't think it was possible for a message board to be more po-faced than dissensus, but I stand corrected.

It's not that bad!

i lurked there for about an hour one day, but the format just killed me. it's the reason i don't bother with any other messageboards, too. seriously does ILX have the best messageboard format or what????

yeah - i wish the ilx template would necome the msgb template.

i lurked there for about an hour one day, but the format just killed me.

same issue i had with dissensus. i could put up with the po-faces!

wau jon abbey = serious dbag

jon 4bbey?

It's funny, people on other boards seriously hate the ILX format.

Then FUCK people on other boards.

IHM isn't entirely unlike us, evidently:

http://ihatemusic.noquam.com/viewtopic.php?t=5229

It does lack a lol britpop zing crew

The format of pretty much any phpBB board I find intolerable, mainly because of avatars and signatures. It doesn't help that IHM's color scheme isn't exactly easy on the eyes.

Seriously, though, good design (e.g., ILX) is minimal design, not a bunch of gaudy spangles attached to every post.

I would imagine that you could turn off most of the spangles on phpBB, but the fact is that nobody does it, which leads to the second rule of good design: The first rule must be enforced by law.

The ilx format almost feels illicit. In fact, it's basically craigslist.

Ditto about Tanya Headon.

Why did that thread turn you off, gnarly? ILM has its share of elitism, too...

...except on ILX, it would come in a sharply delivered zing!

This is the thing, you see - people moan about LBZC but what would ILx be if we didn't have any of it?

DISSENSUS!

What would we be if we had too much of it?

GMTV CHAT!

GMTV CHAT

Good find.