You're dead on. The whole "indie" sound of the 2000s is nothing more than a revised version of the alternative sound of the 90s. There are already bands out there that are nothing more than corporate indie sounds, but they can't reach a target audience that won't listen to a band unless they know somebody who knows somebody in that said band, or perhaps they discovered them playing coffee houses before they even had a full length album out. The rebel youth of the 60s/70s spawned the wacky children of the 90s with their understated angst and indifferent demeanor. So begin the hipster fad.
To me, this new VW cd is light summery music. I won't listen to it a third time until I can put it on at the beach house. (though Katrina re-construction doesn't start till next week) Winter calls for heavier rock. The rebel youth of the 60s/70s That may be my new sig!
i must be getting old or something, but i really can't stand "indie" music. it lacks any real balls. and it's often some guy singing in a whiny tenor. at least radiohead, the cure, the smiths (just to list some past whiners) had some edge to them and were born from punk. but these "whippersnapper" bands these days. fluffy IDM and Indie bands i dont get at all. altho, i used to get a kick out of ThouShaltNot.
True, always whining about something. wah wah wah dream dream dream out on tour with the smashing pumpkins nature kids, i/they don't have no function i don't understand what they mean and i could really give a ****. the stone temple pilots, they're elegant bachelors they're foxy to me are they foxy to you? i will agree they DESERVE absolutely nothing nothing more than me
It's weird. Indie music today can easily reach so many people thanks to the internet. Word of mouth spreads much quicker and the scene has a lot more coverage. You can listen to xxx band by a quick Google search. Everyone has heard of everyone. In the 90's you had to hunt for hard-to-find CD's and relied on a handful of magazines to hear about upcoming bands. I also had to walk 5 miles in the snow to get to school. Get off my lawn, hipsters. You have it so easy now.
It's just terminology. Don't get caught up in the minutiae. "Alternative" was a term used in the 80s to refer to bands that were the "alternative" to mainstream, big record label, mass-appeal bands. Early on, this referred to sub genres like punk and new-wave. When that "wave" of "alternative" bands became the mainstream sometime in the 90s, the word became a misnomer. As in, the "alternative" to what? "Indie" became the term used to describe these acts in the 90s. It's literally short for "independent" and referred to bands on labels not named Sony, WB, etc. (simplified version, obviously).
The blueprint is simple now. We go to rottentomatoes to tell us what to think about movies and pitchfork to tell us what to think about music. "People who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read" - Frank Zappa on Rock Journalism.
to me the Velvet Underground was the first alternative band. It wasn't pure pop, it wasn't pure punk, it wasn't all rock. It was experimental but also a bit mainstream. They were different, "alternative."
Vampire Weekend. I like their self titled debut and they have a good live set , which is pretty much the first album in its entirety. they were making fun of themselves as not having an arsenal of songs to play, having been born out of the idea of a screenplay for a film... subjective music thread is subjective
I'm a big Indie fan, but I still don't get this group. They're on MTV Unplugged right now and they're just...bland. They're playing, but I'm all "This is it?" Next please. Silversun Pickups come on at 11:30. Dig that band. Saw 'em at Verizon before they grew up and still dig 'em.
these sort of threads are always entertaining... like a flocking group of early teens raving about their mediocre local bands..
You are profoundly wrong. She has none of the tunes that Madonna, or Prince had on even their first albums. Lady Gaga is a great conceptual artist, but musically she is bland crapwater. With feathers.
