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Slacker |
The Swallows...Love their song Turning Bluew on the Catch And release Soundtrack!!!
http://www.sonymusicstore.com/store/catalog/SearchActio...h+%26+releas&x=0&y=0 |
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Know-It-All |
You've made it sound like a conspiracy, and maybe it is, I didn't know about The Boy Least Likely To... and the Spice Girls. Still, "indie rock" has been alienated from its roots for a while now and, while I understand your hesitance to give into corporations' ideas of what the genre is, I don't think that Sigur Ros or The Strokes are in it for the capital. I classify them as "indie rock" because I like the fluidity and room that gives me for my own opinions. |
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Participant |
Link's still good, and yes, it gets the tone right... 'Indie' is still short for independent, ain't it? Does that still mean ' not attached to a major label and therefore not commercially successful?' $0.02 |
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Jedi |
The previous link now obsolete. The link now is
http://www.catandgirl.com/view.php?loc=425. It's still hell of funny imo.  --------------- My basic objection to religion is not that it isn't true; I like plenty of things that aren't true. It's that religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. -Philip Pullman |
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Slacker First Class |
A few of my favs:
Animal Collective Wolf Parade Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Devendra Banhart M. Ward Of Montreal Modest Mouse Franz Ferdinand Deerhoof M83 New Pornographers Yeah Yeah Yeahs Arcade Fire Interpol The Strokes Tv on the Radio Arctic Monkeys Death From Above 1979 White Stripes Neutral Milk Hotel and many more... |
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Slacker |
Best Indie Rock Bands.. Or what I would consider indie rock, since it's such a clouded genre.
Bright eyes, Elliot Smith, Flaming Lips, The Pixies, Arctic Monkeys, Ween, Beck, Dinosaur Jr. , Lemonheads, The Pavement, The Mars Volta, Iron and Wine, The Shins, The Stills, Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, The Redwalls, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The New Pornographers, Clap your hands say yeah, Wolf Parade Even if these don't necessarily fit under the genre "indie rock" check them out. Great Bands that don't get the credit they deserve. Dani |
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Guru |
Really? I just find that statement so cute. Like Hello Kitty-cuteness. |
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Know-It-All |
Ironically I find that most of those artists you mentioned received far too much critical acclaim. |
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Participant |
If I stand next to you, will some of the cool rub off? |
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Know-It-All |
My tongue is firmly embedded in its respective cheek. I encourage you to do the same...or have you done so already!? |
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Apprentice Guru |
all my money to the arctic monkeys
great music & attitude from these young boys I'm Simple, I'm Dumb, I'm The Pilot |
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Jedi |
Arctic Monkeys? Really? They have a couple songs I liked but overall... quite unimpressed.
My vote goes to Built to Spill... every song and album of theirs has been good. None of their albums are really on my All Time Favorites list, but it takes a lot to put out so many good albums. And this isn't indie rock but The Mountain Goats are another all time favorite because of a great catalogue. |
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Jedi |
Has nobody mentioned The Microphones!?!?!
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Know-It-All |
I have fallen in love with Low again, of late.
Not all those who wander are lost. |
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Know-It-All |
And holy crap, I just discovered The Delgados "Hate". Wow.
Not all those who wander are lost. |
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"Forum Moderator" Jedi |
That's an awesome album, ain't it? "Woke From Dreaming" is probably my favorite Delgados song ever. Everything on that record is just so epic. -------------------------------------------------- To create man was a fine and original idea, but to add the sheep was a tautology. |
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Know-It-All |
Yeah, I am definitely falling in love with it (ironic for an album called 'Hate,' I suppose). Do the rest of their albums sound similar to this one, or does this stand alone?
Not all those who wander are lost. |
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"Forum Moderator" Jedi |
Hate is my favorite album of theirs, but I like them all, except for their debut, Domestiques. The Great Eastern is fairly similar to Hate. Universal Audio saw them stripping down their songs, even including a few crackerjack pop songs, like "Everybody Come Down" and "Girls of Valour." Peloton is a good album as well.
They've since brokwn up, but Emma Pollock has a solo album coming out this spring on 4AD records. -------------------------------------------------- To create man was a fine and original idea, but to add the sheep was a tautology. |
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Jedi |
I'm sorry, but "indie" rock is music that comes from an independent label. The term was created to give an identity to labels fighting to be heard on their own terms.
The music discussed here is "alternative", as in alternative to the mainstream Top 100 charts. It drives me crazy that terms which were invented for a specific purpose get mutated by those who don't know their history. George Orwell wld understand me...boo hoo. Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. |
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Know-It-All |
Oh, how definitive you are. We had a very diplomatic discussion of what "indie" means now. It's not us not knowing our history, it's us understanding that words' meanings change, whether you like it or not. |
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