When you think of “indie rock” or “indie pop” what comes to mind?
>>123675246Shit. Human shit.
>>123675268What do you not like about the genre(s) I never understood how people could dislike melodic guitar/synth based music
>>1236752463 beta males and a female lead singer
>>123675246Skinny white guy in a loose v neck shirt, black skinny jeans with some holes, and a cotton beanie.
>>123675246Fallout Boy
>>123675447you serious nigga?
>>123675246>indie rock>unmelodic, whiny, tom-tom drumming and shit like Neutral Milk Hotel and The Strokes>indie pop>melodic, smooth, good drumming and great like Popsicle and The New Pornographers
>>123675479>the strokes>unmelodicwut
Pixies and NMH
Trust funds and nepotism.
>>123675275Indie is not a genre. It is a publishing format.
Nothing, quite honest nothing
>>123675246Pretty girl goes to Rock School when she clearly should have went to Indie Rock School.https://youtu.be/h7SdOtXI5R8
>>123675246Unbearable White Racism.
Well, first of all, I’d better head the “but indie’s not a genre!” nerds off at the pass: shut up, you. Don’t pretend not to know exactly what I’m talking about when I say “indie rock.” It means white kids with guitars playing slapdash lo-fi pop songs about spatulas. You know, Sebadoh, Guided by Voices, Pavement, et al. Sure, there are plenty of musical approaches within the American indie rock scene (some bands sound like broken vacuum cleaners trying to suck up The Beach Boys and some sound like broken vacuum cleaners trying to suck up The Kinks), but they’re all just differently-textured turds in the same befouled milkshake. There are a thousand indie labels churning out the same clamorous bullshit, and ten thousand indie bands stabbing at their guitar pickups with screwdrivers to get them to make that perfect irritating hum. There are a million brain-dead hipsters trying to one-up each other with their advance knowledge of the latest group of shaggy unemployables to get signed to Sex Blister Records by virtue of their super-ironic Casiotone sound and their unimpeachable haircuts.Nadir: Impossible to determine. No matter how bad the lo-fi crap I’ve heard is, there’s bound to be something out there that’s even crappier and lo’er-fi.
>>123675246The original scene from the late 70s to early 80s, why have bands like Go-Betweens, the Clean, the DB's, Beat Happening, Camper Van Beethoven, Tall Dwarfs, Television Personalities, Swell Maps, Desperate Bicycles, Modern Lovers... etc. just been forgotten in indie spaces?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCfTVpp7pAk This song could have come out in the 2010s.
>>123678239Wat
>>123675246Carter the unstoppable sex machine
I think of olive greens, 4cuck greens, pastel yellows, sky blues, cardboard brown.
>>123675246i have that book
>>123675246Several USA rock bands in the late 80s to mid 90s formed by Midwest/New England/NY/PNW college kids or deadbeat wagies
>>123675246Slowly played chords and whiny vocals
