shhhhh secret thread to talk about music without getting into a high-pitched ilm shriekfest on whatever thread is going on atm

u2 is one of the worst bands in the world (sorry sara)

awesome idea but i gotta sb you for the u2 thing

hating on u2 is just pointless they wrote some good songs and some bad songs and they seem like quite reprehensible people that seems to sum it up

I'm not offended; originally I tried to refuse the tickets! It's impossible to fight against Teh Husband AND Teh Ex. I had a good time at the concert, they aren't my favorite, but it was fine.

a friend in the know told me they basically have an extra band that hides under the stage and fills the sound out, plus a little guy who runs about triggering the Edge's pedals for him

^^^ "little guy" sounds like he might be a Hobbit or an Oompa Loompa

u2 sucks

surm don't

ok

thks

u got it.

you're a pure dote, so my granny'd say

U2 are ballers yall just mad

ok to be fair going with the definition i have of ballers yes i can not dispute that

So general disagreement about U2 then.

so wtf is that U2 thread all about

u2

Is it about like, whether they are "good" or if they "suck"? because I think they're alright. not the greatest band in the world, but also not the worst. I used to like them, but I kind of like them now.

^^^basically how I feel

I like some of their songs, don't care about other ones. Some of their songs I like because they remind me of a particular event ("Mysterious Ways" will always bring to mind the insane 24 hour drive to the pro-choice march in 1992 for me, for example).

did you take a metaphorical walk with ur sister in the rain

Disappointing lack of rain that weekend, as I recall, but we did have some lolz because of drinking too much coffee and not having good places to stop for a bathroom break.

Well, those of us who didn't have the coffee probably thought it was funnier than those who did...

thread tldr but i will totally support it if nothing from rattle and hum made the cut

I don't think there has...

http://www.gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs/51594_o.gif

http://i542.photobucket.com/albums/gg414/cometU2/Bono%20Edge%20Animations/disco-bono-hips-comet.gif

both "Desire" and "All I Want Is You" are on there, I think

also, I voted for "Desire"

as a whole Rattle and Hum is really really terrible

xp: oh, oh no

I think we can all agree that Bono must be stopped

http://i542.photobucket.com/albums/gg414/cometU2/Adam%20Animations/ali-adam-bounce-bigslcomet.gif

http://i542.photobucket.com/albums/gg414/cometU2/Larry%20Animations/larry-banging-comet.gif

so basically you are saying we can blame Coldplay on them

yes

looks like i have been right all along then

this thread is now officially the nadir of ilx

i do my best

I feel like I've seen much, much worse here (she said darkly).

I want to reach out
and touch the flame
because I'm an insufferable asshole whose band is terrible
awwwww yeahhhh
an insufferable asshole whose band is terrible

I love you

oh my god

i love you too (not u2)

a friend in the know told me they basically have an extra band that hides under the stage

this was actually shown in the doco thing that went on before their live-around-the-world-via-satellite show from Sydney in 1993ish. though iirc it was three or four extra Edges, not a whole band of more competent players to outshine the dullard twins

oh my god those gifs... the bongos...

all is quiet
on new year's day
except for me
I'm just yowling away
I will be with you again
because some dickhead will put my record on at a party
pwnd

all you are doing is making me imagine Bono singing "Tower of Strength"

if I were a tower of strength, I'd walk away
I'd look in your eyes, and here's what I'd say:
"blah blah blah, everything I say is extremely important,
get really into classic rock, it's awesome"
think I'll say that anyway, I'm fucking Bono

must say I'm impressed by your multitasking

this thread is making me paradoxically sad that I don't actually know more U2 music

.

^^^ pretty sure that is all hilarious, but don't know the songs being referenced

probably more evidence that I live under a rock. SHOCKER

reference cliffnotes for Sara R-C:

I want to reach out
and touch the flame
because I'm an insufferable asshole whose band is terrible
awwwww yeahhhh
an insufferable asshole whose band is terrible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQxl9EI9YBg

all is quiet
on new year's day
except for me
I'm just yowling away
I will be with you again
because some dickhead will put my record on at a party
pwnd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6Y-t85vs4g

if I were a tower of strength, I'd walk away
I'd look in your eyes, and here's what I'd say:
"blah blah blah, everything I say is extremely important,
get really into classic rock, it's awesome"
think I'll say that anyway, I'm fucking Bono

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyhrYis509A&ob=av2e

When U2 played in Glasgow a couple of years ago Bono stood on stage snapping his fingers and said, every time I snap my fangers astarving child somewhere in the world dies. Someone in the crowd shouted, Well stop snapping your fingers then you sick bastard.

alecahauf 2 months ago

<3

or to put it more simply, if you're rolling your eyes at that line or the statement Beyonce is making with her album, remember that slavery was not actually illegal until 1943 and then shut the fuck up

i'm not rolling my eyes at that line.

(or the statement beyonce is making with the album. i hadn't gotten that statement from the album, but that's not to say it isn't there).

that wasn't a "you" you (although I appreciate that it sounded that way)

understood.

holy fuck why wasn't I posting here instead. consider yourselves spared I guess but I p much agree with jjj on 100% of these songs

well, we're still waiting for him to get to hot fruit

I'd rather hear Hot Fruit than another dull UK diva

And yes, I agree that there was a distinct lack of decent rock tracks or anything with some kind of heaviness or edge to it. I don't think that's really ILMs fault because there simply wasn't a ton of stuff like that that I was drawn to this year.

The weird thing is that this was a really good year for me and music but now I'm feeling pretty blah

Betty who - somebody loves you - what the hell is wrong with you people

― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Thursday, January 23, 2014 5:50 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ok I should expand. This is the sort of shit that made me pissed when it would stink up Americas top 40 when I was an early teen. Lifeless anthemic dumb shit about nothing backed with paid intern synth lines, "wacky" retro multi tap reverb vocals. Plenty of stuff that I haven't liked at all, but this is the first one to make me actively mad at you guys.

― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Thursday, January 23, 2014 5:54 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fwiw jjj this was imo the worst thing out of many very bad things on the entire list & completely just completely unbelievably boggle-eyedly terrible in every conceivable way

love betty who, but mostly for 'you're in love' (which only received the one vote from me.) 'somebody loves you' isn't as good but it had that viral video so there it was.

Betty Who is supposed to be a joke or parody or something, non?

I do like that Bunji Garlin thing although its catchiness is starting to do me 'ead in.

I was thrilled Garlin made the top 10.

Also really pleased that, despite submitting a fairly wide-ranging international ballot (the only British or American performer in my top 20 was Britney) that most of the songs i voted for had other voters. It's great to see multiple votes for Temi Dollface (8), Stromae (5), Nyusha (3), Ivan Dorn, Lady Saw, etc, etc.

ShariVari, some of your picks and recommendations were excellent. I also really liked Bachanal.

Yay!

That Lady Saw track, 'Bun Fi Bun' is one of the most fiercest things I've ever heard in dancehall.

The best part of the whole tracks poll was lex praising a Paramore song's "chunky riff."

rad djp posts

The best part of the whole tracks poll was lex praising a Paramore song's "chunky riff."

― Immediate Follower (NA), Friday, January 24, 2014 12:46 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this slayed me

lol

I'm still back on j0rd humblebragging about not being able to get offended by swastikas tbh

yeah. hoping that "swastikas don't bother me" doesn't become the hip-trend of 2014.

http://www.united-academics.org/journal/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/siouxie-swastica.jpg

http://www.united-academics.org/journal/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/siouxie-swastica.jpg

yeah yeah.

i'm aware of it. still hope it isn't a hip new trend.

fwiw that pic kept me from actually exploring Siouxsie and the Banshees back catalog until around 2003 and I still kind of hate her for it

totally.

xp - pretty sure she apologized for it at one point

I've been looking for the post-2000 interview I read where basically called every black person in LA a thugged-out ape but I can't find it; I may be misremembering the strength of the statement but there were definitely bad vibes

siouxsie in 2005:

Siouxsie is surprisingly frank, if unrepentant.

"The culture around then," she explains, "it was Monty Python, Basil Fawlty, Freddie Starr, The Producers- 'Springtime For Hitler'." She kicks out her leg in a mock goosestep. "It was very much Salon Kitty. It was used as a glamour thing. And you know what?" she sighs." I have to be honest but I do like the Nazi uniform. I shouldn't say it but I think it's a very good-looking uniform."

You shouldn't say it for fear of upsetting the PC mob?

"Yeah. It's almost like you feel like saying,'Aw, come on. Nazis - they're brilliant.' Political correctness becomes imprisoning. It's very - what's the word? It's being very Nazi! It's ironic but this PC-ness is so fucking fascist. In America they're especially touchy about Nazis and it's so Nazi! You go to LA and it's so segregated. It's very Nazi and the irony is they don't get it. They don't realise how Nazi they are about taking offence to mentioning the word Nazi."

I feel like there was a specific story she was telling about an unpleasant interaction with someone but I could very well be conflating some things.

At any rate, I tend to be very wary of white people who say things like that 2005 quote because they almost invariably think that someday, when they get to know me well enough, I'll be okay with them calling me a nigger.

It's the whole conflation of PC with actual oppression. "You're oppressing me by frowning on my racism!"

I'm mad I didn't know about this thread. Much more my thing than the actual rollout.

Thanks for the heads-up last night, john.

so... Melt-Banana is kind of awesome, huh

yup!

they are! I'm a big fan of cell-scape

DJP - you just warmed my heart with your mention of "hocket"

oh yeah I meant to look that up

haha thanks!

HOCKETY POCKETY WOCKETY WACK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bd5YUEOwlE

for those wondering, here is an example of hocket:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enbHYaF8Vas

There's also a terrible video of Dirty Projectors doing something similar only much worse

hocketing and Meredith Monk = back to my comfort zone

revive

listening to grails at bedtime. grails are a good band, I think.

KISS sucks

I'm listening to King Diamond "Conspiracy", hoping to play the s/t Bathory again.

just finished Napalm Death - Scum

still listening to the Azana album
been spending the past two days listening to the Final Fantasy Tactics soundtrack.