didn't someone get fired during that affair?

Those were indeed classic.

I'd say 2005 was a prime year for Obner, if I had to pick one.

When was the Avril Vagina episode?

I remember when Ryan Adam's Heartbreaker was the greatest album of all time on there and when CMJ single handedly started a buzz for The Wrens.

That's a funny deal. We single handedly got this album noticed and yet you can hardly find a fan on this board anymore. Talk about backlash.

And the answer to the golden age question is when OPA was recounting his deflowering of his relatives and mormons on the board.

i don't know, but this is one of my favorite threads - http://www.obner.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=20193

Back when Chase/Black Putin was the board asshole. Now that's shared by 10 - 15 of us.

Holy god no. That was a train wreck and was painful to read.

But, any sort of all night thread involving Cotton is always gold.

i think that i've mellowed in my old age.

entropy isn't what it used to be, but I miss HideousLump and Ayah posting every day

but overall... 2000 was a good year for CMJ

well for me it was CMJ around 2002.

Before all these other assholes got here?

I think the Kid A thread was a music thread highpoint, though it drove me insane for a while there. So many discarded posts, the crux of which were "No, fuck you. In Limbo is a song."

The Meadowlands thing was neat.

This was a good read...

http://www.obner.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t ... sc&start=0

my favorite headache record of 2000-something is at #1

hooray!

The problem is that I used to host everything i posted on imageshack and most of those links go away after a year or so.

Unfortunately that moment may be lost in the comedy ether.

Speaking of "lost years" there's a lot of old threads bumped where i make some great or salient point that I don't even remember making and then I'll look at the post time and realize "yep, i was drunk at work on a Tuesday"

2004, without a doubt

Despite that being the year I joined the fray?

Think again, Roberto.

it was the year of the ft world tour, during which i met many, many cmjers/obnish

the year with full-throttle newly-bachelorized colin at sxsw (where i filmed you, him in his three-piece suit, and the dancing pabst can at the deathray davies show) runs a close second...whatever year that was

are we talking quality of posting here, or number of talkative active boarders at the same time

That was a pretty great moment. I think that there are plenty of Wrens fans still here, we/they've just been beaten into silence by the haters. We'll return when new material comes along. Oh, and it's not intimidation silence, it's "there's not really anything to talk about right now" silence.

I'll always look at my experience on the board in two completely different phases. The CMJ days were completely different in that we had a smaller core, but constant visitations of all kinds. The Obner days are pretty much just the "good ole boys and girls" learning to love and hate each other more intensely through familiarity. I treasure both equally, though there seemed to be more music talk at CMJ.

Yea, we did get a lot more drive-by posters at CMJ

It was as much Boston as Chicago. Reminds me: this board sucks ever since Velouria, DHS_BruceRobertson, & ElGuapo stopped posting!

Yeah I miss Steve, but don't have the time or patience to set up shop at ILM.