Sometimes I feel lonely in my indie-free hometown when all I really want to do is get four-eyed with the locals. Trouble is, nobody around here listens to indie, or cares. How do I propagate the good word without being pushy or alienating myself? Is it unreasonable to hope that a year from now, I will be able to put up fliers around town that say: "Daft Punk is Playing at My House Tonight!!!" and somebody actually shows up??
i'm in the same boat and sometimes I feel alienated from everyone else. No one seems to understand how someone can devote so much time listening and finding music. When I play my music in the car, most people are dumbfounded and ask "where the fuck do you find this stuff?". Most people in my town don't realize that there exists music outside of what they hear on the radio. It would be great to be able to discuss indie music with people.. in person. The only person i've converted so far was my dad whose rocking out to Arcade Fire's latest release. Im hoping that by moving to a bigger center it'll be easier to find others to discuss music with.. maybe we should have a secret wave to identify each other (how about an ignorant fuck-you middle finger).
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However, I master the trick just like Nixon Causin terror, quick damage ya whole era
Definitely bigger cities have a better indie scene. I live in San Diego, and I know about 10 kids my age that I can talk to about indie music and the latest releases, etc.
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Originally posted by BContrat: Definitely bigger cities have a better indie scene. I live in San Diego, and I know about 10 kids my age that I can talk to about indie music and the latest releases, etc.
Ah, a fellow SD native.
I found that once I started going to shows and went to college the number of people I could talk to about semi-obscure music grew fairly rapidly.
You shouldn't tell people Daft Punk is playing at your house unless they are! That's false advertising. Feel free to play the song, though.
I live in a college town, so I have plenty of friends who listen to the same music as I do. My friends play I'm From Barcelona while playing beer pong, for chrissakes.
------ Aren't there any girls out their who like good music? I need to and want to meet them. My favorite bands are Overkill River, The Nife, Songs:Ohio, and Nuetral Milk Hotel. Please let me know if your into indy music and like to go to show's and drink beer's and makeout.
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Chamberk, when I read your post all the fluids in my body emptied out onto the chair and floor and I drifted out of time and space for one full cosmic cycle. When I came to, only a few moments had passed in this world, but I am now called Goathouse The White. Cherish what you have my friend. Cherish what you have.
Originally posted by goathouse: Chamberk, when I read your post all the fluids in my body emptied out onto the chair and floor and I drifted out of time and space for one full cosmic cycle. When I came to, only a few moments had passed in this world, but I am now called Goathouse The White. Cherish what you have my friend. Cherish what you have.
I certainly do. We're all going to see TV on the Radio tonight.
------ Aren't there any girls out their who like good music? I need to and want to meet them. My favorite bands are Overkill River, The Nife, Songs:Ohio, and Nuetral Milk Hotel. Please let me know if your into indy music and like to go to show's and drink beer's and makeout.
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When I came to, only a few moments had passed in this world, but I am now called Goathouse The White.
Good one, goathouse. I had to chuckle when I read this
It absolutely depends on where you live. The only person I've ever met (outside of a forum of course) who cares about the same music I do is my brother. Most of my friends listen to decent enough stuff, but not really that types of things I do. College does help quite a bit, though. A lot of people get exposed to new stuff in the dorms, frat houses, or wherever. These are probably the most open places, aside from a concert, to discuss obscure music. A lot of college students are interested in discovering new things.
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Originally posted by GG Allin: i'm in the same boat and sometimes I feel alienated from everyone else. No one seems to understand how someone can devote so much time listening and finding music. When I play my music in the car, most people are dumbfounded and ask "where the fuck do you find this stuff?". Most people in my town don't realize that there exists music outside of what they hear on the radio. It would be great to be able to discuss indie music with people.. in person. The only person i've converted so far was my dad whose rocking out to Arcade Fire's latest release. Im hoping that by moving to a bigger center it'll be easier to find others to discuss music with.. maybe we should have a secret wave to identify each other (how about an ignorant fuck-you middle finger).
I have a very similar situation. Most of the music I listen to is perceived as strange or absurd by the people I know. Because I am aware of this I never bring up the music I listen to with a lot of my friends because they either a) don't know about it or b) don't care (often it is both). Only a select few of my friends will actually listen to my thoughts on genres like ambient, or noise, etc...but that doesn't mean I will get them to take a chance and try it out for themselves. I consider music to be one of those more divisive subjects like religion or politics that has to be carefully navigated. And because I'm an asshole I have to constantly bite my tongue when my roommate is gushing about the new Muse record.
Once you get to college you'll meet people who are in to the same stuff you are. Although for the most part I the kids that listen to the same stuff I do are (usually) pretty weird. The people I do hang out with like a lot of pretty shitty stuff (some decent stuff too), think a lot of what I listen to is weird, but respect my opinion as the "resident music elitist". I really don't mind listening to stuff like Journey and Nelly or whatever at parties, everyone's having a good time and singing along, which just isn't gonna happen with some indie band. The only thing real downside is I don't have anyone to go to shows with.
yeah, university was a great place to find others with a similar taste in music.. in my 4th year i lived with 4 other guys and remember playing caps with wolf parade blasting in the background and dancing around to daniel johnston after to many rum and cokes. but when you come back to a city where country music runs the show, you get knocked back to reality.
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However, I master the trick just like Nixon Causin terror, quick damage ya whole era
the reality of the situation .. at least where im living. the breadth of typical conversations cover topics ranging from nascar to hunting and anything in between.
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However, I master the trick just like Nixon Causin terror, quick damage ya whole era
i have met very, very few people on my campus who like the same music i do. i have a radio show though, and peolpe seem to have much better taste there. not that i hang out with other dj's that often, but i do look at their playlists and listen to their shows.
but anyway, so you want to know how to throw an indie party... hm. it would be very difficult to throw a big one. it is most feasible with 1-5 friends. over the summer a few friends and i would get messed up and put on an album and just listen to it.. and who listens to mainstream albums? of course we listened to indie.
if u are gonna introduce people to indie, you gotta play something that will knock them out right off the bat. one night a friend and i were drinking and after a few beers, i made him listen to the first few songs of the microphone's glow pt 2. loud on the stereo. after "the moon" ended, he just looked over at me and we started laughing. it was an awesome experience.
Hey, that makes me think I'd like to try changing the direction of the thread; or at least supplementing it with another dimension. If you'd like, please call attention to specific albums, bands, or songs that you believe would serve as an intoxicating introduction to indie. Stuff to make believers out of staunch unbelievers. I've found a home for MIA, Bloc Party, The Knife, Neko Case, Stone Roses, Hot Chip, Fiest, and more recently Spoon. But this is my GF we're talking about here, so my web of influence is basically just a string between two people.
I guess I'm pretty lucky. Although my college town (Greeley, CO) is pretty -ahem- rural, there's a fairly strong 'indie' community (20-40 people I am acquainted with show up at various egoings on). We have dance parties on occasion, and they're always a blast. Here's some of the stuff that usually goes over quite well:
DAFT PUNK! Kraftwerk Fela Kuti Konono No. 1 Sly and the Family Stone XTC Prince Spoon James Brown Annie Annie and Erlend Oye's DJ Kicks
DFA stuff The Clipse, Lindstrom, Girl Talk, Herbert, I could go on...
Originally posted by vitunkrapula: I guess I'm pretty lucky. Although my college town (Greeley, CO) is pretty -ahem- rural, there's a fairly strong 'indie' community (20-40 people
I have a few questions. For one, do these friends of your's know that you are calling them that?
Second, are you the DJ at these gatherings? If so, you know you're setting yourself up for a hefty backlash if this whole "Now That's What I Call Indie!" thing falls through.
For myself, if Radiohead doesn't deliver on their next album, I'll be run out of my own body.
