the last 'band' you were 'into' before you renounced indie
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I've tried with Belle and Sebastian because of girl. Lazy Line Painter Jane is alright.
First Spiritualized album was not entirely incompatible with the aftermath of getting off one's mash on rave cakes. Spectrum too, the Spacemen 3 continuum. Although I probably wouldn't advise either of those these days. Mercury Rev and Dinosaur Jr. too, but maybe they're not really indie.
I renounced Sonic Youth about ten years ago, symbolically flinging the Daydream Nation CD of an 11th floor balcony. Everyone thought I was crazy. Funny enough what I've heard of the latest album sounded OK. :slanted: I think I'm more tolerant these days.
The answer has to be the Valentines though. Still made the effort to see them several times on the last last tour, and the last one.
Laika and Moonshake's polyrhythmic indie-dub-kraut-psych was a good thing to have around as I recall. Who remembers Levitation? I bet you all hated them. Indie Prog! Still have a fondness for Cardiacs, and Th' Faith Healers, not that I feel the need to listen to them much. There was always some good stuff around the Too Pure axis. Earwig were OK too, they became Insides. Oh and Add N to (X) I guess*.
I used to like Cud a bit. Their live shows were fun and people actually danced which was unusual in the indie sphere. The recordings were mostly crap though. Someone started a thread on them here but you can't search for three letter words and it might have been a joke anyway.
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First Spiritualized album was not entirely incompatible with the aftermath of getting off one's mash on rave cakes. Spectrum too, the Spacemen 3 continuum. Although I probably wouldn't advise either of those these days. Mercury Rev and Dinosaur Jr. too, but maybe they're not really indie.
I renounced Sonic Youth about ten years ago, symbolically flinging the Daydream Nation CD of an 11th floor balcony. Everyone thought I was crazy. Funny enough what I've heard of the latest album sounded OK. :slanted: I think I'm more tolerant these days.
The answer has to be the Valentines though. Still made the effort to see them several times on the last last tour, and the last one.
Laika and Moonshake's polyrhythmic indie-dub-kraut-psych was a good thing to have around as I recall. Who remembers Levitation? I bet you all hated them. Indie Prog! Still have a fondness for Cardiacs, and Th' Faith Healers, not that I feel the need to listen to them much. There was always some good stuff around the Too Pure axis. Earwig were OK too, they became Insides. Oh and Add N to (X) I guess*.
I used to like Cud a bit. Their live shows were fun and people actually danced which was unusual in the indie sphere. The recordings were mostly crap though. Someone started a thread on them here but you can't search for three letter words and it might have been a joke anyway.
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matt b
Indexing all opinion
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http://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=9020
No joke. Cud are the last indie band I really liked (still like): Elvis belt and When In Rome are both excellent. One of the first indie bands to embrace dance music (I can only think of the Shamen, or maybe Fini Tribe who did so earlier)
Fantastic live band- an indie band singer who could sing!
Incredibly unfashionable, mind.
Diggedy Derek
Stray Dog
Pavement, roughly.
I'm going to come clean here. I was never into indie, at all, ever, BUT
between Belinda Carlisle and Poison and the Quireboys and the Batman Soundtrack when I was 11 and EMF and Jesus Jones when I was 12, and then dance music AT 14/15 there was a period when, yes, I liked MBV but also, in particular, the first Swervedriver album and the preceding EPs. I blame it on my Gower surfing roots and the very hot, lush summer of '92 and being head over heels crazy about a Swansea-Italo beach gal. They played handsome, romantic rock that chimed with my hormones. I still listen to Raise and feel all heartbroken and nostalgic. In mitigation, even then I hated all that Slowdive/Lush/Ride shoegaze runt litter; as I say, I could never stick with the small-world, very wet indie aesthetic. The world is too large and mad; even at age 13.
between Belinda Carlisle and Poison and the Quireboys and the Batman Soundtrack when I was 11 and EMF and Jesus Jones when I was 12, and then dance music AT 14/15 there was a period when, yes, I liked MBV but also, in particular, the first Swervedriver album and the preceding EPs. I blame it on my Gower surfing roots and the very hot, lush summer of '92 and being head over heels crazy about a Swansea-Italo beach gal. They played handsome, romantic rock that chimed with my hormones. I still listen to Raise and feel all heartbroken and nostalgic. In mitigation, even then I hated all that Slowdive/Lush/Ride shoegaze runt litter; as I say, I could never stick with the small-world, very wet indie aesthetic. The world is too large and mad; even at age 13.
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Martin Dust
Techno Zen Master
That's funny, do you know they where put together by a certain Sheffield manager Jon? In fact he's still at it, step forward please Keane...
yeah i think those are the two bands that stuck with me when i was 16-17, i liked swervedriver alot, big sound, also silverfish i liked, yes it is amazing how weedy and wet indie is or was, never got that.
cant really answer this as i never did the whole indie/rock thing first. i was into hip hop and soul/r&b first then got into rock later. im more of a dabbler in indie really, so prob just go for more of the big names but i really liked arcade fires last one, radiohead, mars volta, aerial pink, etc. also liked older white stripes, tvotr, libertines.
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
Nice image.
I didn't listen to indie in about ten years, but now am d/ling some of the albums I still have on CD back at my parents'. Bob Mould is still a total hero to me, and I have to say His n Hers by Pulp has the weirdest effect on me, almost dragging me back by sheer force of nostalgia 15 years. I'll s top thinking about that - it's quite frightening
What happened was that someone was going on in quite pompous terms about how legendary and influential and totally classic this album was and I was on a real drive against that kind of idolatry and found it a bit nauseating. So I decided then that the CD had to go and got rid of it in the most immediately available way.
yes people really do do that about sonic youth and fucking radiohead and it winds me up
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
well i don't know of any great indie out there right now, in fact i pretty much despise most of it I hear, but you said "guitar music" and there's definitely lots of great guitar music out there (om! earth! etc)... i'm just being pedantic i guess.
i once saw a punch-up at an ariel pink gig which was pretty weird.
is ariel pink indie? he's good.
there are loads of good bands that would maybe once have been indie but i can't bring myself to call indie cos indie now is some generic men in parkas moaning nostalgically for an imaginary time that they don't remember, bit like nazis etc..
john eden
male pale and stale
BBC Radio 6. Steve Lamacq, it was 25 years ago today Toploader released their debut album, ooh do you remember, here's Dave on the phone with some requests hi Dave what are you up to today, yeah they were good times then, we'd go out, yeah not like now, ha ha! Really takes you back. Proper music. Nick Hornby and all that. Record shops. Gonna buy it again on vinyl at record store day. Gotta have the vinyl. Wife doesn't want it in the livning room though so it's one for the mancave.
More into classic rock these days, yeah. Love a bit of hip hop now and again though yeah boyeeeeeeeeeee Flavor Flav! Rebel music, isn't it, like Don Letts said. Tried to get the boy into it but he wouldn't listen, eh.
More into classic rock these days, yeah. Love a bit of hip hop now and again though yeah boyeeeeeeeeeee Flavor Flav! Rebel music, isn't it, like Don Letts said. Tried to get the boy into it but he wouldn't listen, eh.
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