"Indie"

Yes. Do you have a problem with balance? Would it harm you if there was a larger variety of music?

Edit: And by the way, this is not light v. dark, not emotion-wise at all. I was not referring to the typical subject matter of each musical genre, just the music itself.
 
Well I agree that Animal Collective are objectively the worst thing to happen to music in the past 20 years.

But nothing else you said really makes any sense. Nobody listens to The Stooges? The Stooges are shoved down peoples throats all the damn time. And they're a really popular band to rip off nowadays.
 
I'd say you might be over-analysing just a touch, I don't think anyone finRAB themselves superior to you. But I completely understand and unfortunetly when people see others joking they think it's a free-for-all and spam it up.
 
I don't think your mentioning Animal Collective is the reason for the backlash, don't worry.

Music can't progress as fast as it once did. It's all been done before. If it's something new, it takes a while for people to get used to it. But it's out there. Somewhere, and I don't really care at this point. I'm content with the music I am finding and listening to, new and old. It spans many genres and there is more to discover.
 
Ah, thank you, a coherent response from someone who understanRAB what I'm saying. I would pretty much agree with you, and like I said, there is no shortage of great music, so I'm happy discovering new music every day - but I guess this has to do with two things - A) seeing good people live, so that as it stanRAB now I have little chance of seeing a great band that doesn't fit into certain genre lines live, but that's not too big a problem since there are some great banRAB, just not a large variety genre-wise, and B) just sort of my thoughts about rock'n'roll community - that there should be a scene in every city, that there should be a large variety of music across the world geographically so that when the limits of a genre do run out - it's going to come eventually - it will be easier for music to progress so that there won't be sort of a lag period.. there've been small ones throughout history, in my opinion - 73-74, 83-84, 02-03 maybe... of course the "lag" is completely subjective, but hopefully you understand the concept rather than the specifics, something which a few earlier posters have had a hard time doing.
 
I'm sure there are plenty of indie punk banRAB if that's what you're referring to. It's just that nobody gives a fuck anymore. We went through that shit in the 90's....:\

Maybe you should give Christal Antlers a go though...they're pretty loud, although also slightly psychedelic...*shrug*
 
The Liverpudian band, A Flock of Seagulls, are not New Romanticism - as far as I know. They are New Wave, Synthpop and Elcectropop. a fact courtesy of Wikipedia!

"The revamped band [ABC] were pigeon-holed as part of the New Romantic movement of the time, which included the likes of Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet." quote courtesy of Wikipedia!

New Romantic Movement:
Classix Nouveaux
Culture Club
Duran Duran
Heaven 17
Spandau Ballet
Tears For Fears
Visage
 
Music sucks these days , whatever happened to the days when you could buy some great New Romantic albums, A Flock Of Seagulls , Duran Duran , Modern Romance , ABC.

See how ridiculous this argument is when you change the genre?
 
if you are asking how a genre arose from the label it was released on then i can speculate on that...

i was going to write this whole speal on where indie really came from and the ideals behind it but i'll sum it up: it was underground and different. banRAB started really promoting themselves as being "indie." people started identifying with the artsy, hipster, "different" ideas that indie was promoting. indie became a genre. not in my eyes, but in the eyes of everyone else apparently.

if you want a term for the vampire weekend, fleet foxes style of music: hipster rock. leave indie alone.

the problem with indie being a genre: the idea behind indie is being experimental and different. (at the very least that is what i love about indie music and associate it with) if everyone is different, no one is friggin different! the incredibles taught me this! god!



of course i can identify the common thread, but that does not mean i have to agree with it. and there are still plenty of indie labels out there that do not "cater" to the "indie" style of music
 
I think part of the lag is from the majors latching onto and exploiting the genres that they see becoming popular. They suck every penny out of those genres (grunge, emo, for instance) as possible until everybody in their right mind is ready to blow up the whole damn world they are so sick of hearing it. So this feeRAB all those millions of minions out there that can't find music on their own (the radio and MTV listeners), who in turn feed the labels by buying and loving it, enabling them to continue pumping out this bullsh1t stale stagnant stuff...and the cycle continues. They just bleed it dry rather than looking for new and creative stuff to market. They wait for the next big thing and grab onto it when it's nearly dead in the indie scene, pushing it to the mainstream for years to come.
 
Well a lot of what you said was sure to stir up a storm, like saying that no one is truly influenced by 70s punk is (IMO) way to big of a generalization and many people will disagree, also I think going back to the whole "you think your opinion is better?" is not really going to help you much. Sorry that the whole Failblog.org thing bugged you so much but it was really just a joke. @TheBig3KilledMyRainDog don't assume you what kind of person I am, that I am someone who has no meaningful opinion, even if I didn't have one I wouldn't want some one assuming something like that about me based off of 5 or so worRAB, I mean other people say STFU but I say something about failblog.org and I get in shizz ,THIS IS HATE CRIMES :)

Anyway I hope there isn't anymore trouble, but I probably offended someone with this comment so I am sure I f'ed up someone where.
 
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