Again I'll stress the point that record companies are cashing in on this indie trend and bands such as 'the boy least likely to..' who were put together by the same people that produced the spice girls just proves this. The word indie is being bastrdised and now I've got to put up with people coming along telling me what "indie" is/has become.
Yes I think we should agree to disagree. *shakes hand*.
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.
Originally posted by kendocubano: I think this link will only be good for a day or two, but I think it gets the tone just right, and is hella funny. http://www.catandgirl.com/
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
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...
Posts: 11 | Location: White City of the North | Registered: 15 February 2007
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.
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Posts: 6 | Location: Regina | Registered: 22 February 2007
Originally posted by i am a slow typer: 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.
Ironically I find that most of those artists you mentioned received far too much critical acclaim.
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.
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.
Posts: 232 | Location: Portland, OR | Registered: 20 February 2006
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.
Posts: 3856 | Location: NE Indiana | Registered: 14 April 2005
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.
'for my purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset, and the baths of all the western stars, until I die.'
Posts: 2056 | Location: The ever silent spaces of the East | Registered: 12 February 2007
Originally posted by Ishmaelscoffin: 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.
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.
