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SeanBateman:
--- Quote from: zerodrone on 30 Dec 2007, 19:43 ---
What is an "average indie rock band"? Indie rock is not a genre, and I certainly haven't noticed any trend for there to be an "average" indie rock sound.
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You trying to claim that Indie isn't a genre is as bad as Tommy's old campaign to prove that Emo still meant Fugazi.
Spinless:
Kieffer, indie isn't a genre. There is no defining feature that unites all indie bands other than the fact they claim to be independent. You are ridiculous.
IronOxide:
While he's making it shit poorly, Kieffer has a point. Like it or not, "Indie Rock" no longer has much at all to do with business practice in the same way that Emo no longer has anything to do with hardcore. The words no longer mean what they once did or what their derivation is because the popular use of the language has changed it, and that's something we may have to live with. Kind of like how all rock produced today is called 'alternative', it's a word that no longer really means what it did before because companies saw a way to make money off of the title and changed what it means.
GenericName:
--- Quote from: IronOxide on 02 Jan 2008, 11:13 ---all rock produced today is called 'alternative',
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Actually, I heard some non-'alternative' rock the other day.
It all manages to sound exactly like Led Zeppelin or The Who.
I feel like 'indie' means whatever you want it to mean, because it's so poorly defined. So for IO and Kieffer, it defines a sound, but for Spinless, it defines their claim to be independent. It's a rather undescriptive term, but my friends look at me funny when I use more descriptive ones.
Jackie Blue:
--- Quote from: Dirk Hopeless on 02 Jan 2008, 10:00 ---You trying to claim that Indie isn't a genre is as bad as Tommy's old campaign to prove that Emo still meant Fugazi.
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Nope, sorry. If "indie" is a genre, what does it sound like? Is "indie rock" the genre that consists of the twelve bands that sound vaguely similar to Dead Cab For Cutie? Is it the ten bands who live in Canada and have all at some point had Kevin Drew crash on their couch? Is it Xiu Xiu? Is it retro-Springsteen Hold Steady type stuff? Is it future-backwards rave-up/pop like The Pipettes, Annie and The Go! Team? Do you think Mogwai sound similar enough to Feist to usefully be included in the same "genre"? Come on, now.
Seriously, tell me what "indie" sounds like. Because as far as I can tell, "indie" comprises about as many very different sounds as it does bands.
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