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Queen Boo 01-10-2023 06:36 PM

The Smiths inventing indie is a pretty wack take.

They didn't even invent jangle pop.

Synthgirl 01-10-2023 07:49 PM

Is indie a distinct genre? I've seen that term applied to such a wide swath of rock music, from Sonic Youth to Stereolab to Beck to Neutral Milk Hotel to Bright Eyes to LCD Soundsystem. I honestly think filing bands under "indie" isn't an adequate way to actually denote their musical characteristics.

Queen Boo 01-10-2023 09:47 PM

Indie just became the catch all term for bands on independent labels who couldn't be put into other categories and even when those artists joined major labels the term stuck.

So no it's not really a genre, most of the "subgenres" are vastly different styles that just happen to fall under the indie umbrella because they have no place else to go.

Lucem Ferre 01-16-2023 08:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 2224307)
Yeah I wouldn't use Twitter follows as a metric either. I follow some fashy types too just so I can heckle them and their fans in the replies. Why just yesterday I made fun of Jackson Hinckle's shoes and I think it brought us that much closer to the revolution.

But I stopped watching Punk Rock MBA's videos cause he seemed like a basic bitch. Like, he seems to think DIY is supposed to be an individualist boot straps concept and that is painfully lame. He did get me on to slam death metal though so it wasn't a total waste of my time.

PRMBA just stinks of conservatism.

Tristan_Geoff 01-16-2023 06:07 PM

First indie song


TheBig3 01-16-2023 06:21 PM

I'll be dead before I figure out why first matters.

Tristan_Geoff 01-16-2023 06:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheBig3 (Post 2225602)
I'll be dead before I figure out why first matters.

Clout and argument starting

TheBig3 01-16-2023 06:22 PM

I guess that makes sense.

Queen Boo 01-17-2023 01:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre (Post 2225522)
PRMBA just stinks of conservatism.

I thought he would be ok at first because the first video I ever saw from him was mocking Kid Rock which is an activity I can fully get behind, but then I watched a few more videos and realized how sh*tty his taste in music is, and then I learned about how much of a reactionary he is.

He dresses like someone from Prager U trying to be hip with the kids, that should have been the first red flag.

Lisnaholic 01-27-2023 09:41 AM

It's a pleasure to read such a robust condemnation of R.E.M.

I have been curious, disappointed and puzzled by this group. Why are they so highly thought of? There's a clip on youtube with a guy explaining for 18 mins why Losing My Religion is a "song that changed music". I couldn't find anything in the song to justify that claim at all. To me it was just a ho-hum song, conventional structure and instrumentation, with (yet again) a young man over-sharing some angst I'm not interested in.


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