Yes, lets blame the modern indie scene because you can't find anything worth listening to.

qft.

I'm hoping you didn't read my last post... there is not a shortage of great music out there today, I repeat NOT. Read my last post, please.

Yes, yes, yes. There is no balance between light and dark. There is a disturbance in the force blah blah blah.

Yes. Do you have a problem with balance? Would it harm you if there was a larger variety of music?

Edit: And by the way, this is not light v. dark, not emotion-wise at all. I was not referring to the typical subject matter of each musical genre, just the music itself.

I don't think your mentioning Animal Collective is the reason for the backlash, don't worry.

Music can't progress as fast as it once did. It's all been done before. If it's something new, it takes a while for people to get used to it. But it's out there. Somewhere, and I don't really care at this point. I'm content with the music I am finding and listening to, new and old. It spans many genres and there is more to discover.

Ah, thank you, a coherent response from someone who understands what I'm saying. I would pretty much agree with you, and like I said, there is no shortage of great music, so I'm happy discovering new music every day - but I guess this has to do with two things - A) seeing good people live, so that as it stands now I have little chance of seeing a great band that doesn't fit into certain genre lines live, but that's not too big a problem since there are some great bands, just not a large variety genre-wise, and B) just sort of my thoughts about rock'n'roll community - that there should be a scene in every city, that there should be a large variety of music across the world geographically so that when the limits of a genre do run out - it's going to come eventually - it will be easier for music to progress so that there won't be sort of a lag period.. there've been small ones throughout history, in my opinion - 73-74, 83-84, 02-03 maybe... of course the "lag" is completely subjective, but hopefully you understand the concept rather than the specifics, something which a few earlier posters have had a hard time doing.

I think part of the lag is from the majors latching onto and exploiting the genres that they see becoming popular. They suck every penny out of those genres (grunge, emo, for instance) as possible until everybody in their right mind is ready to blow up the whole damn world they are so sick of hearing it. So this feeds all those millions of minions out there that can't find music on their own (the radio and MTV listeners), who in turn feed the labels by buying and loving it, enabling them to continue pumping out this bullsh1t stale stagnant stuff...and the cycle continues. They just bleed it dry rather than looking for new and creative stuff to market. They wait for the next big thing and grab onto it when it's nearly dead in the indie scene, pushing it to the mainstream for years to come.

I hate Animal Collective...

and it's a well known fact sonny-Jim that the only way to listen to good music nowadays is to destroy the halo thus opening up the Crack Of Doom which must devour Emperor Palpatine as a human sacrafice.

Every now and again a newbie steps forward and expresses his opinion.

He is kicked into the pit of death.

Anyway, I'm not sure I quite understand. Are you saying you just want something wayyyy different to be considered indie and be hailed as the one true God of Indie or... what?