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Post by thesved on May 22, 2024 1:44:40 GMT
Hello... I love proboards. Just gonna pretend it's still the 00s and nothing from 2009 forward ever happened.
I discovered TMV in high school, probably around 04-05. It's closely connected in my heart to my first love and I'll take my pain to my grave. Yay!
Y'all?
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Post by crawlingimposter on May 22, 2024 1:50:57 GMT
I heard Inertiatic ESP on the radio once in '03 or '04. It grabbed me instantly. I borrowed my brother's copy of Deloused for a while, and also found the Live EP and the Live at Lowlands video. It wasn't until 2005 when I had a Volta CD of my own, I bought both Tremulant and Frances the Mute on the same day and never looked back.
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Post by jabberwock on May 22, 2024 20:24:57 GMT
I think it was around 2007-2008 when I first heard of them from an older friend I used to admire - I was 14 and he was probably 25. It took me a while to finally listen to them and I remember that moment vividly ! It was a warm night of august 2008 and only a few tracks from bedlam were available on the just birthed streaming service deezer. I listened to Metatron, Ilyena and Wax on repeat the whole night with the shitty speakers of my laptop computer. I left for holydays the morning after that without any means to listen to music and I was just obsessed with what I've heard before leaving. When I came back, I went to my aforementioned friend house and we listened to deloused and frances. I was definitely embarked on a yet to be ended journey.
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Post by somniloquist on May 23, 2024 15:42:31 GMT
I think I heard "Roulette Dares" sometime near when Deloused came out. Shamefully, I must've been one of those "What? This sounds nothing like At the Drive-In! Why the fuck is he singing like that?" people, because I turned it off pretty fast and didn't touch them again til like. . .2017/2018 sometime. Pretty sure I listened to the exact same song, but I thought it ruled, so I listened to the rest and became rapidly, hopelessly obsessed. I had long periods where I didn't listen to anything that didn't include Omar in some way (y'know, ATDI, Volta, solo stuff, Antemasque, what have you), except for when riding in a car, where I don't control the music. Honestly, I'm back on my bullshit these days, haven't listened to anything else in a couple weeks. Some bands, when I get into them, I get into them, hyperfixate, make it my whole fuckin' personality.
Anyway, I'm totally kicking myself for not being on board nearly from the jump. I did see them in 2022, but honestly, I barely enjoyed it. I think I was really depressed and low energy at the time, anxious/guilty about all the money spent on the occasion (around $400 for two tickets, train tickets, a small pizza for dinner, uber), and was extremely grumpy about not being able to see the stage. I'd found a place on the balcony where I could just see it between two dudes' shoulders before a third dude stepped right in front of me in the middle of Teri's set. So I spent the rest of the show standing in front of one of the monitors situated around and saw it that way. It wasn't the same. I'd thought my mood would lift because, y'know, seeing my favorite fucking band, but no. I know that it was a good show (plenty of people gushing about it) but it just didn't hit for me. My depression's doing noticeably better these days, so maybe I'd enjoy another show, but. . .unemployment's a bitch.
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Post by sharndim on May 24, 2024 2:09:44 GMT
2003 or 2004, I overheard some kids in math class talking about them. Then I saw a blurb about them in some teen girl magazine, probably Teen Vogue. Also, I remember someone playing the Frances leak in art class at one point. It was a couple different occurrences. And I remember going to their website and listening to Inertiatic and was hooked ever since.
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