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The Next Big Thing
Tom:
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And as for this Indie being a Big Thing, there are some examples. Modest Mouse's latest album debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The Shins and Arcade Fire both debuted at #2. Man, Modest Mouse was even on a Kidz Bop cd.
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Kids tryin' to sing like Brock and swearing sounds a little weird and I doubt parents would want that. Wait it was Float On, that's a real tame one never mind.
P.S.: Who's RSB?
Shadows Collide:
Certain electronic music is really quite inspiring and should really develop over the next year hopefully. I'd love to see bands take inspiration from the group Supersilent etc. and blend acoustic and electronic together in the most beautiful way possible. Sure this has been done before, but its the next logical step from the generic post rock stuff.
Personally I love anything Psychedelic (so I eat up stuff like Devendra regardless of his pretensions). Tinymixtapes is one of my favorite sites, if only for their review of De La Soul's 3 Feet High... Really passionate stuff I think.
Jackie Blue:
Devendra Banhart is psychedelic?
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mfpole:
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P.S.: Who's RSB?
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Oh wait, my bad. That's supposed to be you.
Edit to make this post at least worth something:
I feel like this "indie" movement is becoming like the major label grungefest of the 90's. Though as long as whatever is popular sucks, there will be a backlash of good music, as Gang of Four came out trying to reverse Punk and Classic Rock, and Pavement did also with Grunge.
est:
--- Quote from: Shadows Collide on 30 Dec 2007, 19:01 ---As long as people don't treat that dance music (Muscles, Daft Punk, Girl Talk etc.) as anything more than it is eg. dumb yet enjoyable electronic sounds that shouldn't be treated on an intellectual level AT ALL. Daft Punk have some really great songs, but it irks me how much music in general is being molded around that kind of music. In 2008 it could "take over" and distract people from good bands that don't follow this trend.
I don't "hate" it but we shouldn't overstate what it really is.
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A lot of this kind of dance music is about capturing feelings. I agree there is nothing super-intellectual about Muscles' (for example) lyrics, but how perfectly he captures/recreates certain feelings has got to be worthy of mention.
I don't really want to harp on about it because I don't want to derail or anything, but I also really take exception to blanketly calling dance music non-intellectual. I hope that's not what you were doing (because there is some rather interesting electronic music and even dance music about) but even in Daft Punk's music there is a lot more going on than you probably give them credit for. I don't know the technical terms for it, but in a lot of "simple mindless dance music" there is a certain layering of sounds, timing of the introduction of new sounds, sound theming within individual songs and across an album, callbacks to previously-introduced concepts, that sort of thing.
I'm not trying to say that fun dance music is a work of genius or anything like that, I just think that saying there is no intellectual level to any of it is a bit of an extreme statement.
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