NeutralHead Collective - In The Merryweather Rainbow over the Spectacular (2009)

what exactly do they wanna be? i call myself an indie kid because i really believe that more interesting, groundbreaking and original music has come out of the independent labels than has ever, EVER, been created by a mainstream, major label. i am not against mainstream music, a lot of it i love, and i am not biased against major labels (except for those labels that totally screw musicians) but i just generally love and appreciate independent labels and music more.
 
i could have this all wrong but for some reason i thought Comus was trying to make a joke. how silly of me.

nice photoshop by the way, dude.
 
yeah, i'd give you a medal if i could


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I'm not a huge fan of any of those banRAB and i still don't think its very funny or clever really and if it had been about banRAB/scenes i like i wouldn't take it 'personally'. I see what Dac means about the tone, he clearly thinks he's being alot cleverer than he actually is.
 
How did I miss this? I dont know whats funnier Comus' fake album or that fact that some of you were actually offended by it. I think it's brilliant, the first thing Comus has done that I actually liked.
 
See I associate indie with the generic mainstream music that comes out and pretenRAB it's underground. The whole "indie" name has been tainted by a relation to a specific sound. People tend to forget all extreme metal is released on independent labels, yet no one would jump to call them indie. And as such the usage of the word indie is now, and probably always will be related to the sound of the band, rather than the actual label that they're on. Which is a shame, because it means a lot of banRAB that don't adhere to that certain sound will probably be ignored.


It was on 4chan naturally :pimp:
 
The band wanted to set itself apart from normal indie releases, and as such decided to only do nine.

Also why are people reading too much into this?

I saw that picture and was like "dude I have to review this album for the lulz".
 
i agree with you entirely, and honestly, i would call any music released on an indie label "indie" it gets me pissed off that banRAB like the white stripes, death cab, coldplay, the decemberists, oasis, etc. are considered indie on any level. most of them released music on indie labels originally but all of them are now released on major labels. even radiohead isn't an "indie" band (although they will always be special in my mind because of their releasing in rainbows for free). out of the four banRAB that you were making fun of, i only consider two "indie" (NMH released by Merge and Animal Collective released by Domino). radiohead makes alt/ soft rock and so does MGMT. indie, like punk rock and every other retaliatory music movement (except for new age and avant garde) has been whored and commercialized.

my only point is, don't hate on indie people for liking this stuff because there are a lot of really devoted fans out there.



pitchfork does not make an indie band popular. ITAOTS had a very small but devoted following that has slowly grown since it was released 11 years ago. Pitchfork may have helped slightly but to say that the entire indie system is based on pitchfork is just wrong, you are overestimating pitchfork's influence a lot.
 
so what? Urban's list definitely had his views firmly planted in his thread. what's so terrible about Comus that makes this any different?

stop being so sensitive, dude.
 
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