"Indie"

These boarRAB are rough on the new guys, so congrats on handling what will be the first of many hazings.

I would mention though, on topic, that indie folk is always going to box themselves into a corner. With the exception of Devenda Bandhart, I think everyone wants to be the love child of Nike Drake and Paul Simon even if that isn't immediatly apparent.

But indie is not subject to folk alone, and when it does get electronic it is, as someone pointed out in the original thread, some of the best music out there.
 
I hate Animal Collective...

and it's a well known fact sonny-Jim that the only way to listen to good music nowadays is to destroy the halo thus opening up the Crack Of Doom which must devour Emperor Palpatine as a human sacrafice.
 
Every now and again a newbie steps forward and expresses his opinion.

He is kicked into the pit of death.

Anyway, I'm not sure I quite understand. Are you saying you just want something wayyyy different to be considered indie and be hailed as the one true God of Indie or... what?
 
Urban Hatemonger, have you read any of this thread? I never once said that music sucks these days, I never once said that the quality of music was better in any other decade.
 
They're a popular band here. People only get to the Stooges out there by way of Iggy, and since they stopped showing the cruise commercials with "lust for life" in them, iggy's not even that high profile.
 
Whoah, big surprise, I'm completely misunderstood. It must have been me not liking Animal Collective that did it. I'm not saying that "all current music is crap" or something like that, good heavens no, I'm not one of those people. Just because, say, Broken Social Scene sometimes sounRAB like they are trying to be a poor man's Brian Eno doesn't mean they're not a good band. Just because I say that everything nowadays is either heavy or intensely melodic doesn't mean that that music is bad - I'm just commenting on the fact that there seems to be little balance. It's the indie scene and the metal scene, and that's pretty much all the independent scenes out there, with the exception of a small Garage scene which is pretty much dead by now. I wasn't even saying that we should have more of that, but I'm wondering where it all is by now. It seems like it's time for a new musical movement, but the music scene has sort of stayed in place for the last 6, 7 years - some great music has come out, but it's not progressing as rapidly as it seems it should. I'm not surprised, though, that because of that namedropping earlier which I now see has caused all this trouble, I'm getting all these cries of musical... Rip Van Winkleism. Which is sort of impossible, considering I'm a teenager.
 
I feel for you man. One of the things you've got to realize about this place is that half the people here go into threaRAB they like, give a decent opinion, and try to enjoy the debate.

The other half thinks its a jungle gym to try out their defeatest one-liners and couldn't care less about the topic at hand. Its not that they think you're opinion sucks, its that they don't have one and they respond with douchey-comments.
 
i'm only referring to the last couple of years. "indie" has obviously become part of mainstream media and has gotten completely away from what it means. it is "cool." how else could "indie" banRAB be released on major labels, it makes NO sense.
 
"What's with all this electronic Animal Collective crap, this poor man's arabient Eno imitations, these pathetic attempts at trying to steal Brian Wilson's brain? It seems that most "independent" music, music on the fringe, is either metal-based or indie explorations in pop. Nobody plays truly electrically loud anymore, it's either heavy metal/hard rock or softer "indie pop"/"neo-psychadelia" without the solos, whatever - what happened to people who listened to the Stooges, Hendrix, MC5, the Who? They're gone."

Then what the hell did this mean? Looks like you think it sucks to me, not necessarily worst than any other decade but it is obvious you think its bad.
 
I'm really not going to lose any sleep on getting a technicality wrong over a genre placing of an awful one hit wonder band from over 25 years ago in arguably the worst musical movement of the last 30 years.
 
i hear you on that. i just personally won't enable it. it is just sad that a retaliatory music movement that has spawned so much great music and has such a great philosophy has been whored an commercialized. punk rock all over again.
 
Oh. Well in that case thank you! :D Yeah, as far as Radiohead goes, I know they're a really popular band among rabroad merabers (and last.fm apparently) but I still can't get into them. I've tried so many times, but they just don't do it for me.
 
WHO THE HELL CARES DUDE?

When someone describes a band as "indie" to me, I have a general idea of what the band is going to sound like. Therefore, it works. Quit crying about **** being mainstream and commercialized. If it works it workRAB.
 
dude, its not just a word. making indie a genre is just allowing it to get accepted and whored. it is only becoming a genre because of its wide acceptance and it being "cool." and that is bull. indie is NOT a genre
 
what a load of crap.

the term "indie" arose about twenty years ago in reference to DIY hardcore punk entrepreneurs who started labels like SST and Discord RecorRAB to escape the pressures of major-label restrictions. subsequently banRAB on the roster like Pixies, Sonic Youth, Meat Puppets, Dinosaur Jr., the Replacements, Husker Du, the Dead Milkmen, Minutemen, etc. began to develop a certain style, people described it as "indie rock" and the genre grew as people started emulating their sound.

quit making it out to be like they're some form of counterculture elitists.
 
If this isn't sarcasm then
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