What Have We Spawned?

Congratulations, Tom!

But still. Even 10,000 Abba fans *can* be wrong. ;-)

Congratulations on you success Tom. Rock on! Have you seen the hits Fernando..........

Very little to do with me. The guilty parties are listed here.

What the fuck!?! I'm third? Above Ned? Oohh, if my boss would get his hands on that little piece of information I'm dead meat :)

very little to do with you? you have, what, three addresses on the list? totalling 850 posts? i'd say it has a LOT to do with you. ;)

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Tom is #1 on the list, plus two other emails that are definitely him. Weirdo, you shouldn't post stats claiming yourself a non-guilty party when you're #1 ;)

Bloody Hell! I'm in the top 20! But I guess in terms of length of post and quality I'm way down! oh well! :)

OK, it's more to do with me than anyone else, but 8% of something is still "very little" so there. I'm a market researcher you know ;)

Omar, I'm not surprised at all that you're above me, but I am completely astounded that I'm above everyone else besides you, Tom and Robin. What the hell? Yay me, er, I guess.

It's a disgrace that's what it is. I've only been here since january, now I like to talk music but this is nuts. I'm off to a 12-step program for forum-addicts. It's all the fault of that bloody Smiths c- o-d thread. :)

You just made 3 posts about how many posts you make. That sort of thing may have something to do with it... :)

I'm this ( || ) close to overtaking pinefox. Now I have something to shoot for.

I got more hatemail - what iz I doin wrong ?

Meta-question: are there now, in a sense, 'too many' threads? Don't get me wrong, I find many of them fascinating and am always interested to see new ones. But

a) There is a growing tendency for people to respond to threads thus: 'I think we have already had this discussion - see the thread from January' (etc).

b) It is - forgive my twee feebleness here - getting increasingly confusing and arduous scrolling up and down the central page of threads, which now seems as long as the Yellow Brick Road. This is, I think, more of a problem on some computers than on others. Could there be another way of organizing them, visually? Or would that just create new problems?

I suppose I'm second mainly because I've been here since the start, though I sporadically hibernate. But hasn't huntsman@clara.net posted more than 55 mails by now?

Bloody Hell - in just one week we've gone from 10000 to over 12000. She will nae take it, Jim!

APRIL ILM MOVERS AND SHAKERS In groovy chart form. 8 new entries, 6 went up, 5 went down, 1 non- mover. 1 (1) Tom
2 (6) Robin
3 (4) Pinefox
4 (-) Mark S
5 (-) Geordie R
6 (8) Ned
7 (5) Ally
8 (2) Omar
9 (13) j e l
10 (14) Nick
11 (-) DG
12 (-) Guy
13 (12) Sterling
14 (19) Neuromancer
15 (7) Dr. C
16 (-) Sean
16 (-) Alex NYC
18 (16) Fred
19 (-) Dan
20 (-) Gareth
Based on no. of postings in month of March. Beware - additional e- mail addresses not counted.

I was gunna — may still — point out on another thread that a key characteristic of chart-value is that you can be surprised.

Well, I'm surprised. Appalled, in fact.

(I was away for a week!)

you didn't miss much.. it was pretty quiet

I could hear YOUR typing clear across seven counties, Geordie.

I was the second most prolific poster in April? Wow.

I suppose I've started off May with the intent of going down a few places next month :).

Apologies: rereading Tom's post I discover I may well have been the second most prolific poster in *March*.

just cracked fifteen thousand. much like tom, i will believe until my dying day that the15,000th was me posting the lyrics to crazytown's 'butterfly'. glory be.

Stats for ILM - week ending 6th May. This will be a weekly thing. 1 (1) Tom
2 (3) Pinefox
3 (7) Ally K
4 (6) Ned
5 (-) Patrick
6 (4) Mark S.
7 (-) Nicole
8 (18) Fred
9 (10) Nick D.
9 (8) Omar
11 (-) K-Reg
12 (-) Ethan
13 (14) heybuddy
14 (12) Guy
15 (16) Sean
16 (-) Stevie Nixed
17 (15) Dr C
18 (9) j e l
19 (16) Alex in NYC
20 (2) Robin

Ah, thought so. At least my time went somewhere constructive. I used to be a total waster when not contributing to ILM; not now.

Stats for Week Ending May 13th:

1 (6) Mark S.
2 (12) Ethan
3 (4) Ned
4 (1) Tom
5 (3) Ally K
6 (20) Robin
7 (-) Sterling
8 (15) Sean
9 (7) Nicole
10 (5) Patrick
11 (-) Geordie Racer
12 (11) K-Reg
12 (9) Omar
14 (18) j e l
15 (-) Gareth
16 (-) Dave M
17 (8) Fred
17 (17) Dr C
19 (-) Melissa
20 (-) Tracer Hand

I obviously need a holiday. And so do you guys, probably.

oh christ.

Oh misery! If we compare the ILM top 20 with the music charts...I share the number 14 spot with Gorillaz! :(

Tom 1K! Tom's ebros address now officially has posted over one thousand messages to this board. Hot-Damn! Me? If you add my old address to my new one, I'm running seventh or so with nearly 500.

I admit half of my posts are crap, so do I get knocked down in the ratings because of that? I mean this post is just bollocks, this one right here. I should be in bed.

Is it just me, or does anyone else think it is an INJUSTICE that the Heath Ledger chatroom has more posts than ILM? The man has a cat face! What is it with girls today? Can't they find anyone attractive to have crushes on (see also Justin Timberlake)?

Tom on Abba Thread = 9,953rd, 9,966th. Ethan's Butterfly post = 14,957th.

Actual 10,000th post:I really liked Uncle Tupelo. Right after the split, I thought Son Volt was much stronger than Wilco, now it seems to be turning the other way. SV has sort of ridden the same songs into the ground while Wilco is expanding their scope.

I kinda liked AM when it came out but moreso now. BEING THERE is a bit too long and unfocused but there are some bright lights in there. I was a little weary when SUMMERTEETH came out with all the praise that it was getting. I figured it was just runoff from the MERMAID AVENUE hype, but then when I finally got the record (months after it came out and the hype had died some) I thought it was OK, then it started growning on me song by song. Now I think its great. Really fantastic. They're a really good band and depending on what their next album is, they could become a *classic* band.

-- Tim Baier (tim_baier@hotmail.com), 19th April 2001

Actual 15,000th post:

If the effect on "Whole Again" is intentional it would be an exact halfway point between the deliberate absence of any post-disco dance influence in Steps records (as Tom once mentioned) and the 70s MOR pastiches of the Beautiful South; an attempt to appeal to the teen market (but not really the pre-teens targeted by Steps) while at the same time appealing to a "mature" audience. Its aim, you might say, was to equal the achievement of Cher's wonderful "Believe" - to be the most-played record on Radio 1 and Radio 2 in the same week (I'm not sure whether it actually became the most-played on either station, but "Whole Again" has certainly been played across the board, everywhere except for rock-oriented Virgin).

And if it is subconscious, it is further proof that pop works on memories that you don't know you have (like the Radiophonic Workshop on children's TV - sorry Tom!) at least as much as memories that you know you have (like the Beatles or Abba).

-- Robin Carmody (robin@elidor.freeserve.co.uk), 6th May 2001

100,000th post:

"Your face, Your Ass... Whats the difference?"
-Duke-Nukem-3-D-, crappy game but great sound bytes.

-- Mr Noodles (infinitecow@yahoo.com), 24th February 2002

(sorry)

Also Tom and Ethan must die today to avoid being liars (or they could just call me a liar instead).

I knew my love of video games would come back to haunt me.

graham, you're just trying to tempt me into saying something rude aren't you?

Graham has Mystic Powers in this regard.

the sad part is ned probably knows word for word what I was going to write.

c'mon Graham ethan was REALLY close!!

I won't claim word for word...but I have a very close hunch. ;-)

right

are we past 200,000 yet?