Is ILM too metal?

seriously?

Posers can leave the hall...

SB

there's way more rap threads and i wouldnt complain about that and i dont think anyone has ever complained about metal threads.
I posed the question of a I Love Metal board (with the rolling thread for promo talk to stay on ILM)last year, some wanted it some didn't and that was that.

winsome posters leave the hall

But should lots of people say they want one that would be great, if they dont, no biggie.

I think that there's too much music on ILM

Ha!

there's a lot of discussion here of genres I don't have a lot of interest in and I don't think it's worthwhile to tell people to post less or start fewer threads about a subject. however, it seems like there are a ton of threads about metal or metal subgenres, as opposed to threads about metal bands or specific topics relating to metal, which seems kind of odd in relation to other strains of discussion on ILM.

I just don't really understand the meta-complaint threads, I think.

yeah metal dudes be havin' fun and shit

(voted chuck eddy)

as a metalhead, I have created 23 socks to SB OP with

Brian, you should just enjoy metal threads while they last because by monday only the rolling thread will be left on new answers.

every metal thread gives birth straddling the grave

so basically as there's usually only the rolling thread on new answers you are noticing today there's more than usual.

yea i've started like two metal polls at various times in the past that got like 8 posts in them

Brian, you should just enjoy metal threads while they last because by monday only the rolling thread will be left on new answers.

sounds like a threat!

metal threads die quickly as other threads replace them on new answers really quickly. a sub-board would go at a slower pace and you could have polls/.threads on bands/albums while the rolling thread stays on ILM. It works perfectly for the footy board doing exactly that.

bookmark the threads. what's the big deal? didn't we do this already?

We don't need more threads, we need more terrorists.

i don't like the idea of a metal subboard, i actually go on the threads and look w/o posting too much...plus this is a music board and metal is music, soccer is not music

I'm not particularly into metal, but neither do I think that ILM is too metal.

soccer is not music

get it right, it's FOOTBALL

no way, dogg

real football doesnt need shoulder pads or helmets

Real men use their hands. Right ladies?

Rolling Metal is usually v focused on new shit so I think it's rite and proper for there to be other threads talking about old shit.

(however I have always found rolling metal to be very hospitable to me popping in and asking questions abt old shit)

Metal people are good people, Jon.

nycnative will u be at Agalloch on Tuesday night?

Too mental by far.

I will be seeing Agalloch on Monday night in Baltimore.

svveet

NYCNative isn't listening to metal at the moment, burn him!

ILM is too lite jazz.

I think there is too much ILM on ILM

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3295/2992472140_8d2a4abdbf.jpg

I thought ILM was I love Metal...

jesus fucking christ

jesus fucking christ

good band, not really metal though, more crust punk... xp

There aren't enough rap-metal threads

good band, not really metal though, more crust punk... xp

― SeanWayne, Friday, March 18, 2011 11:33 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

fair point

there's too much stultifying micro-analysis of novelty pop on ILM, everything else is cool - it's the lack of certain coverage that dismays me

dude we dont like oceansize!

poll is missing a key option:

'ilm is false metal'

(xp) I was listening to Henry Rollins tonight, taking his "50" speaking tour to Philly. Probably not metal, I'll admit.

"it seems like there are a ton of threads about metal or metal subgenres, as opposed to threads about metal bands or specific topics relating to metal, which seems kind of odd in relation to other strains of discussion on ILM"

I think this is why metal is great... also it's not really dissimilar to a lot of electronic music which is also more scene/genre than auteur driven.

oceansize is among the best songs on nothing's shocking, fuiud

who would disagree w/that?

it was not your fault

do you want your own board, Whiney?

― sarahel, Sunday, 20 March 2011 00:41 (14 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Goon board would be p sweet IMO

― hey jelixy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 20 March 2011 00:42 (14 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

so can a mod make that happen?

― sarahel, Sunday, 20 March 2011 00:44 (14 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

When the goons get their own board i hope we dont see a bunch of threads by people who have no interest in hiphop trying to destroy it.

it would be better if somebody late at night crept up and cut the link that keeps it moored and let it silently float out to sea

rolling metal thread is going to have lots of new posters now. Who knew so many ilxors were secretly into metal all along.

I was with this idea until AG posted four manowar polls in one day.

lol

i didnt post ANY polls. It was someone who wants to destroy the board who did that.

Holy Poster, going down in flames in a sea of SBs
Oh what's becoming of me

When the goons get their own board i hope we dont see a bunch of threads by people who have no interest in hiphop trying to destroy it.

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Sunday, March 20, 2011 3:18 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark

whats funny dude is that the people most interested in 'destroying it' (what a weirdly charged verb to keep using) are, um, regular rolling metal posters & readers

like gr8080 and by kurt schwitters who appear to have started the most threads

Yea I guess I hafta throw my autographed Deicide drum head now :/ cuz I'm not reel metal

good idea, throw that shit out.

Real metalheads aren't in ILM.

no they are in ULM

Internationally, Ulm is primarily known for having the church with the tallest steeple in the world, the Gothic minster (Ulm Minster, German: Ulmer Münster) and as the birthplace of Albert Einstein.

srsly the most metal place in central europe

Einstein was into dubstep iirc

I heard he was relatively into it but not a fanatic.

I m/ Metal is to be deleted due to overwhelming negativity on the idea.
Lets hope things can get back to normal now.

Look at it this way, destruction is really metal, right?

I dunno, trying to see some levity in this situ. Personally its jjj's actions I'm more concerned with here but I got no dog in the hunt so peace.

he did nothing wrong leave him out of it

Yea I guess I hafta throw my autographed Deicide drum head

you should, he lied about what he would do aged 33.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

lol

there's a lot of discussion here of genres I don't have a lot of interest in and I don't think it's worthwhile to tell people to post less or start fewer threads about a subject. however, it seems like there are a ton of threads about metal or metal subgenres, as opposed to threads about metal bands or specific topics relating to metal, which seems kind of odd in relation to other strains of discussion on ILM.

― some dude,

No point in starting a thread on a band that will get 10 posts if lucky.

Yes there is, because that is a more useful means of categorization, cataloging, making searchable. I was looking through Dino Jr. threads last night and there was one that was like 15 posts long and well, whatever, that's how long it was. I read it and it served my purpose. It was a lot better than having one ilxor post about Dino Jr. "Man, Bug is great - I hope Mascis and Barlow keep playing together for the next 20 years", then another guy be like "Has anyone heard this new band called the pixies yet?", and then someone else being like "Sonic Youth are the quintessential independent band, they'll never sell out!" on Rolling Indie 1988.

So, if I'm looking for information about Blut Aus Nord, I could look for the Blut Aus Nord thread, instead of searching by post and coming up with every mention of Blut Aus Nord in every metalhead's year-end list and every newly updated list of poll nominations.

Which, all of those lists are fucking noise to me, search-wise.

there is no point in starting a thread on every band in existence. Dinosaur Jr are a big band therefore have their own threads for the band as well as threads/polls for each album. You cant do that for every band.

Sure you can. Doesn't mean that there will be any responses though.

making it pointless then

*claps with one hand*

^ has the clap

too much metal? no. too much Rebecca Black? maybe.

When pasted into a Microsoft Word doc, page 3 of the Blut aus Nord search results is 179 pages long!

you should start a thread about that

lol

I didn't even realize it was that bad, but I kept trying to c&p the whole results into an ilx post and the site wouldn't let me!

179 pages! It is awesome! Polls are awesome! Up-to-date up-to-the-minute poll noms posts are awesome! They are awesome for searching for posts about metal bands through!

Because metal bands don't have their own threads.

Up-to-date up-to-the-minute poll noms posts are awesome! They are awesome for searching for posts about metal bands through!

not just metal bands! It's like wading through all the content farm links in a google search

I agree the Rolling Metal Promo©* Thread does move very quickly and everything gets lost in it, one of the reasons there's a compromise of rolling subgenres threads since the overwhelming majority of ilxors objected to a separate board, but if every band and album got a thread of it's own, there would be way more complaints.

*©Roxymuzak

AG, i posted my fav metal albums of 2011 so far over in the rolling metal promo thread. did you see?

was it a list of promos you had?

no! it's a list of great metal albums

Rolling Metal Thread 2011

^ you need to re-bookmark that thread buddy

i never stopped

but most of them I've not heard since I dont get promos

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

haha

but if every band and album got a thread of it's own, there would be way more complaints

I don't get this at all. Who complains about threads popping up about a small band, getting half a dozen posts, then quietly slipping of new answers into the archive to be revived again with the next release/tour/whatever? Isn't that how it's supposed to work. The only way this would be annoying is if someone decided to be an asshole and create a thousand threads a day about every metal band he knew.

Something happens with a band you like. You have something to say/share. Bump or start a thread about them. No-one's going to complain about that other than people who complain about everything.

forget it, onimo. it's goalkeepertown.