I've never heard of your favorite band, either

I like indie. I'm not really sure what indie music is, but I know that being indie let's me make fun of your poor taste in music.

That said, I'm looking for people who know indie. We can drop band names and irony while masturbating to our own elitism.

It'll be fun. I promise.

Oh, and I guess I'll start. The Decemberists, are they just ripping off Neutral Milk Hotel?

 

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wow.... this thread is so worthy of our time.....

 

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Well...

It allows you to revel in stuff which could probably be described quite concisely as "crap", at any rate.

"Indie" actually means too shitty to sell more than a couple or 3 copies of anything we produce, but let's do pretend we're somehow too good/complex/subtle/"real" for "the masses", who are all really just idiots, anyway...

But, hey... maybe they are... and they are, too...

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I know Killjoy. You tell me your favorite bands and I mock you for being trendy.

 

living an ironic life must be so tiring.why cant people just come out and say what they like?its so much easier.since i stopped caring about what other people thought of my tastes ive had some of the funniest arguements ever with film/music snobs.

 

You have no idea.

 

Roman:
Questionable Content is the only reason I've heard of your bands.
www.questionablecontent.net

However, does anyone like I Am Kloot?

 

Roman,


I first wanted to congratulate you on reaching the wonderful realms of how to waste your time without feeling any regrets for it.

But then I thought this is not the right thing to do. You are wasting your time, being cynical.

 

Wasting my time. You have no idea. I've been getting nothing done for weeks. Well, some things. But really, not near enough to what I ought.

I am cynical. It's become such an integral part of who I am that I don't see it anymore. I no longer have to try at cynicism. I see the world that way.

And really, my opening here was just to open a dialogue on some of the more obscure stuff that's all lumped under indie. I thought I'd use a little self-deprecating irony, but no one really caught on.

 

Neutral Milk Hotel? Are you serious?
Please...
They are trying to capatalise on a sound that was captured best by earlier pioneers like modest mouse and the flaming lips. Sure they put a slightly different edge on it, but they deffinately are the originators of the sound.
TFL and MM made it big (relatively speaking), and so aren't considered indie anymore.

While the band has some good stuff (mainly the first two albums) the newer releases show them simply treading the same waters waiting for...something.

 

Yeah, yeah...
Just keep on thinking that.
It's comforting... I can feel the snuggly-ness of it...
mmm...

Well...

I just picked up a double CD by this outfit called The Fighting Men of Crossmaglen that I'm becoming quite fond of...
"Little Armalite"... what a bunch of kooks !

There's Kilbrannan...

The LeftOvers...

Kodo...

Apocalyptica...

Tangerine Dream...

Dead Can Dance...

The Tea Party...

Blue Öyster Cult...

The Chieftains...

Rammstein...

Megadeth...

ABBA...

Frank Zappa...

Solas...


To name... well... some... or whatever...
LoL


Fire away, B'wana...

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I must be trendy.

The Reaper, Godzilla, Burnin' for You....

Fuckin' great.

 

*tsk*

How - I ask you, sir - can you possibly omit The Revenge of Vera Gemini from that list ?

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The decemberists put out a great song called 'the tain'. You should check it out its tremendous. Alot of their other stuff is sort of watered down NMH.

 

Mephura,
I think MM hit their apex with Lonesome Crowded West. That album is gorgeous.

Neutral Milk Hotel certainly sounds like the Flaming Lips and undoubtedly were influenced by the Lips' later works. However, Magnum started recording in the early nineties. His earlier stuff, though outshadowed by Aeroplane, is a definitive, lofi folk sound that the Lips lacked. The lips were psychadelic, and some of their stuff surprisngly punk.

I don't really see the similarity between MM and NMH. MM is so... western.

Killjoy,
You seriously like ABBA, or are you just saying that?

 

SELL-OUTS!

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I would almost agree with you concerning MM and Lonesome Crowded West, but Moon & Antartica was a great album. As for the comparison I was drawing between MM and NMH, the styles are very different true, but they have something of the same...feel to them. Strong parallels in lyrical styles as well.

They lips started back in the eighties. They've mellowed out over the years, but there has always been an undercurrent that runs in the music that has been brought more to the surface in recent years. I'm tempted at times to draw a comparison between the lips and groups like floyd and the beatles that started off almost primatively and progressed musically so much through out their careers.

*1k*

 

I agree with your analysis of the Lips. Their early stuff was pretty pop. Hit in the Future Head had that crackly lofi, but even then there was a strong element of pop. Satellite Heart pretty much did away with it.

I really like Moon & Antartica. It was the album that turned me on to MM, but there're too many precursors to GNFRWLBN in it. It felt like MM is moving away from their hick, trailer trash roots towards pop-dom in that album.

 

Dat da best you got, sukka ?

LoL

Sure I like ABBA.

What's not to like ?

Cute chicks singing in harmony, On bloody key;
(not like some "indie" zipperhead challenged to the breadth of his niggling capacity to so much as harmonize with his own farts...)
glittering pop instrumentation and production;
(yes, folks... it's not a sin to employ sufficient production so that your work doesn't sound like it's emanating from the bottom of a friggin' toilet bowl - complete with "number 2" on the float...)
and about as introspective/contemplative as it gets is Knowing Me, Knowing You or Fernando.

What ?

Your suggesting some lack of "legitimacy" perhaps because they aren't blubbering over the vast emptiness of existence or whatnot ?

Sometimes you just wanna sip a gin and tonic and relax, bubby.

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I admit....a gigantic oversight.

I'm grounding myself

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