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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger
I think you will find most of the original punk movement was on mainstream labels
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Meh, it kind of balances out, but (IMO) the better ones were on major labels back then. But you still had a bunch of them popping up everywhere doing it DIY style.
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Originally Posted by boo boo
So is the mainstream, so to bash the mainstream wouldn't be any less closed minded... Neither is a genre, and truth be told, every band starts out as indie pretty much, it's the bands who gain a reputation as being Indie that I'm generally refering to... It's bands who devote themselves to the most primitive, miminalistic, non representive music possible whom I great dispise, and I don't dispise many bands.
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Not every indie band does that, and I don't believe i've ever bashed the whole mainstream. I like a bunch of mainstream bands, goin' from Mcfly to Blink. I just listen to mainly from underground bands.