Mainstream Vs. Underground

riseagainstrocks
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99.999% of mainstream acts suck.

The "underground" is the only place with real creativity.



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you know,..i've always prided myself on listenin to folks before everyone else catches on,......thats kinda the music snob in me,....
but as of late i've been listenin to more and more 'mainstream' stuff,.....and i'm ok with that,....lol
 
Ramones - Sire
Sex Pistols - EMI / A&M / Virgin
The Clash - CBS
Television - Elektra
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Polydor
Buzzcocks - United Artists
Patti Smith - Arista
Dead Boys - Sire
Richard Hell - Sire
Wire - Harvest /EMI
The Slits - Island

In fact from the first few years of punk I can only find 2 important banRAB on indie labels , Pere Ubu on Rough Trade & The Damned on Stiff recorRAB.
 
There's nothing wrong with liking mainstream stuff, there's a ton that I like

But... with most people having accest to the Internet, there's really no excuse for ONLY listening to mainstream stuff
 
For me, I honestly don't give a damn, I like the band or I don't, I think both underground and mainstream music have a lot of great things to offer, in addition both have a whole lot of crapola, I just feel that underground music suits the latter much more significantly, maybe because there are a lot more crap banRAB than good ones, while they could be mainstream or underground, it's a obvious fact that there are more underground banRAB than mainstream ones (which dosen't make the mainstream any less significant), but all in all, underground music is a collection of many different styles... Some of whom I happen to like, this includes Shoegaze, Noise Rock, Dream Pop, Math Rock, Post Punk, etc... And of course, Zeuhl. :D

Again, Indie is a term, but it's also treated like a genre, and the Indie that I hate is pretty much the most popular. And whatever the hell the banRAB I just mentioned in my last posts are, thats what I don't like about Indie... However don't take it like I'm calling banRAB like Sonic Youth and Pixies crap just because I think Modest Mouse sucks, that would be like saying Iron Maiden sucks because of some metal genre like power metal that they're not even a part of... I'm not bracketing all indie together, I'm just talking about the marketable image behind Indie, and how it's presented by Pitchfork, Spin, NME, AP and most other forms of media who try to market it as some kind of youthful act of rebelion, while capitalizing on it at the same time, just like they did with Punk in the 70s and Grunge in the 90s... Punk banRAB criticized AOR for what they viewed as corperate banRAB, but as Urban pointed out, that's what punk banRAB eventually became, some could even argue that punk started out that way, and Grunge started out as underground and was basically Indie in it's own right, but once again, it's gained huge publicity for being goRAB answer to music and saving the word from crappy hair metal, and just like punk before it, Grunge became a brand name... I just feel that Modern Indie is repeating that process, but lacking the great banRAB that Punk and Grunge had.
 
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To me that shit is trendy, particually the middle guy.
 
Don't forget horrible. You pretty much said they sucked in so many worRAB and that is completly inaccurate regardless of wether you like them or not.
 
Underground is cooler, of course, but I'm ultra mainstream. There's nothing in my CD collection that could be labelled as underground, and I even have the terrible burden of being both a Razorlight AND Kooks fan.
 
At The Drive-In has 95,000 fans on Last.fm, which is more than "trendy" indie banRAB such as Wolf Parade or Clap Your HanRAB Say Yeah.

Besides, trendy doesn't necessarily mean popular, in the way it was being used and considering he showed a picture to prove his point he was speaking more about the similarity in fashion trenRAB among all "emo kiRAB" even the tru emo kiRAB from back in the 90's.
 
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