Classics or Duds? C or D?

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Classic or Dud? Inspirational opportunity to exchange, interact and eulogise with others from across the cyber community on a broad range of subjects within the musical sphere on an infinately refreshing variable of levels, from the trite to the amusing to the intellectual, while assessing and evaluating the inherent value or worth in a designated topic, or elitist forum for obscurist chest-beaters to cut loose their venemous drivle?

― Roger Fascist, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No MATE I think they're totally GASH!

― Ronan, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm still new enough here not to know whether that Roger Fascist is serious or not.

― Ray Manston, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This is a forum deignated to the debate of the validity and/or merit (or lack thereof) of the Classics or Duds format, not an opportunity to speculate whether I am serious or not. Kindly focus on the matter in question.

― Roger fascist, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I somtimes think if I had my time again I would have been straightforward and just called the threads "What do you think about X?" rather than "X: Classic Or Dud?". But people who've been around a while realise that that's what they turn into anyway.

― Tom, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, judging by the responses on the Hendrix thread, both of the above are true. More AND than OR.

― Ray Manston, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I managed to get three C/D threads going in a row once... whachoo think imma say, eh?

― Mr Swygart, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The first C/D thread on ILM with origins explained.

In the first year of ILM (before my time) there does seem to have been a genuine innocence and desire to know what people thought behind the C/D questions, and the answers often weighed up the artist's discography carefully before coming to a view. Now, we have threads like this one.

So, answer to Mr Fascist's qn = both, probably.

― zebedee, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh dear - the voting thing was a joke by the way!

― Tom, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey - I weighed up Shaq's discography!

― J Blount, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, indeed you did. Apologies, J.

― zebedee, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

dud.

― sean, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ha, postmodernism in action?

― david h(0wie), Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Classic when I have anything to say, dud when I don't.

― Matt Riedl (veal), Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

...or elitist forum for obscurist chest-beaters to cut loose their venemous drivle?

That's what I'm here for! (Well, leaving aside matters of spelling, obv.)

― Martin Skidmore, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Classic. As a newcomer to the forum, I’ve found this category extremely informative and thought provoking. I even enjoy the blatant piss taking that can inevitably creep into it from time to time, but I feel overall, the concept is worthwhile and valid.

― Saskia, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Indie Guilt was a c/d, thus CLASSIC. In big fucken letterzzz.

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Everything's been done before.

― Vic Funk, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Then done again.

― Vic Funk, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ahhh, the sentiment of a jaded veteran. You hit upon a paradigm at the very heart of the Postmodern Condition. Endless repetition and simulation is the bane of integrity, originality, perhaps even the possibility of the soul. The Hell of the Same right. Tell me, do you come at this from a more Nietzschean perspective (eternal reccurence) or are you a scholar of Baudrillard?

― Roger Fascist, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

roger fascist doesn't know what "paradigm" means

― mark s, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A fascistic statement if ever I heard one. A paradigm is a kind of umbrella.

― Roger Fascist, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

don't be afraid roger, the clowns afraid too!

― gareth, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Roger did the Stone Roses unite the fascists and the ravers too? On footie terraces all over the country the sky turned green like some magical acid trip and everyone's ears were filled with Ian Brown's nasal whine.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

YOU WERENT THERE MAN!!!!IT WAS A GENERATIONAL THING!!!!

― Michael Bourke, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes. Yes. That's it, that's right, you've got it.

Ronan - what is it with the Roses and you? I always thought that the Roses didn't turn ravers onto rock and vice versa - what's wrong with that? Anyway, isn't this the wrong thread?

Clowns, umbrellas, postmodernism, it's all getting too much.

― Roger Fascist, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Freudian slip there: 'didn't' put 'did'

― Roger Fascist, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't even hate the Stone Roses, I just hate the particular kind of nostalgia that was at work. And sentences like "united rockers and ravers", no personal offence or anything, I just despise them.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sure, sure, I know man, what I guess I was trying to put across was the vibe inherent in the music of the Roses: I get a real sense of that kind of universalism from the Roses' project. I get love from the Roses music. I get good times. I get, hell, smiles and sunshine from that shit. And I do believe that tracks like Fools Gold are valid crossover that turned rockers on as much ravers.

― Roger fascist, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1247895422th best thread evah

― nathalie, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

wot, better even than this one?

― zebedee, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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