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Houn

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« Reply #100 on: 13 Jan 2006, 06:55 »
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Wow Houn.

I bow to your ultimate indieness...


....yeah, all i have to say is..

SLOW THE FECK DOWN BILLY there'll be enough peni-..erm i mean indie for everyone.


I would just like to state, for the record, that I still have no idea if the two of you are joking, being cruel, or something else entirely, but you, sir or ma'am, have a kick ass avatar, so I will dedicate my next styrofoam cup of oatmeal to a long and happy life for you!  ;)

BTW, I'm thinking The Decemberists - Picaresque is a keeper.  That first track is amazing, and I'm digging the sound on the rest of the album, too.
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« Reply #101 on: 13 Jan 2006, 13:02 »
haha

I'd say I'm the most indie cat in town :p
Are yo cringing yet sucka!??!

aaanyway, good indie eh...

Most of the obvious goodies have been said... er.... maybe some Elliott, Olivia Tremor Control and Q and not U?

yeah!
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« Reply #102 on: 13 Jan 2006, 13:37 »
Well, I first got into indie through Bright Eyes.  But he's not only a bit weird, but if you want any indie cred whatsoever... I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to listen to him ;)

Next I started listening to Hot Hot Heat and Mae pretty much simultaneously.  Kind of a weird combination, but eh.  I love Hot Hot Heat (but not so much their newest CD...) but I can only take Mae in small doses.  Some of their songs make me super-happy, and some slightly annoy me.  After that came The Postal Service, which I loved and...

Then I tried out The Unicorns and hated them.

Then I tried out The Pixies after somebody made fun of me when I didn't know who they were.  They took some getting used to.

After that I went into an indie immersion of The Decemberists, Belle & Sebastian, the New Pornographers, and a whole bunch of other bands that have already been listed so I won't bother naming them.

Last week I tried out The Unicorns again and loved them =)

I'll never be a true indie kid.  I am not nearly pretentious enough,  and I still listen to "awful" music.  But I figured I'd share my own experiances.

My main advice is if you don't like something the first time... go back to it later!  Chances are you might just need to get used to it or maybe try them again when you're in a different mind set.  Just be careful not to let the music suck you in too hard.  Indie music seems to have the power to turn you into an elitist prick like ASturge ;)




(Just kidding about the last part, Sturge.)




(Well, okay... only half kidding...)
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ASturge

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« Reply #103 on: 13 Jan 2006, 13:53 »
Sometimes I listen to Sonic Youth and just can't be arsed with them.
But other times I cant get enough.

I actually liked NYC Ghosts and Flowers, which sucks according to most people :s
But when I tried to listen to it a few nights ago I wanged off the cd in disgust.

So yeah, Sonic Youth for sure, but if you hate them at first, try them again later on in the week and see how you feel!

Also spinless, There's really nothing wrong with saying "I listen to Indie music"

EDIT: oh you did not just call me Sturgeypoo...
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« Reply #104 on: 13 Jan 2006, 15:38 »
do you not like being called sturgeypoo alexy-walexy?
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Oh no, he was fine... and now he's poorly from too much electric

Houn

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« Reply #105 on: 13 Jan 2006, 23:49 »
Ok, I've been listening to Broken Social Scene's Self-Titled tonight.  I was first listening to it on my computer speakers, and was thinking, "WTF?  This blows..."

So I turned it off.  Went about my night, ran into the new Blog post by "Marten", and thought, "Huh, well, let me bust out my headphones".  Nothing spectacular, some Sony Pro Studios (Leftovers from my video-editing days in College), and threw it back on.

A few tracks still sound a bit muddy, (1, 2, and 10 coming to mind), but overall, I'm really enjoying this album.  LOTS of great sound melding together, and great energy to it.  Good Stuff.
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« Reply #106 on: 13 Jan 2006, 23:54 »
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Oh, I did actually grab some Decemberists, and was enjoying it at work today, and then was called emo for it and turned it off in shame.

Destroy them.
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« Reply #107 on: 14 Jan 2006, 00:02 »
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Oh, I did actually grab some Decemberists, and was enjoying it at work today, and then was called emo for it and turned it off in shame.

Destroy them.


Hehe, it was a joke.  But, if it's not Punk or at least fast and offensive, the individual in question calls it whiney and emo. ;)

I did get him listening to The Soft Bulletin, though, lol.
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« Reply #108 on: 14 Jan 2006, 12:56 »
Just don't start of with Bjork, I mean I had a friend who scared someone else of any sort of indie music by doing that. Bjorks something you've got to ease into slowly.
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« Reply #109 on: 14 Jan 2006, 12:59 »
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That kind of ignorance deserves torture that would make Quentin Tarantino cringe. I say that genres should describe what a band actually sounds like.
Not that I'm hating on punk, but the whole scene has been very stale for a long time with only a handfull of decent bands.


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« Reply #110 on: 14 Jan 2006, 14:18 »
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That kind of ignorance deserves torture that would make Quentin Tarantino cringe. I say that genres should describe what a band actually sounds like.
Not that I'm hating on punk, but the whole scene has been very stale for a long time with only a handfull of decent bands.


Again, he was just joking, lol.  As a guy who's lost jobs due to his mohawk, he knows better than most about tolerance for taste.  Doesn't mean he can't poke fun. ;)

But, yes, I know plenty of people who are d*cks about stuff like music and fashion.  "OMG I can't believe you listen to that shit u need some metal man Ozzie's so funny he's like drunk all the time and gets women, and then his wife is like, BAM, but anyway, you're a homo, indie-music boy!"
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« Reply #111 on: 14 Jan 2006, 15:29 »
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Oh, I did actually grab some Decemberists, and was enjoying it at work today, and then was called emo for it and turned it off in shame.

(Not really on the turning off or the shame, but there was copious amounts of mock-sulking and fake LJ posting.)


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Hehe, it was a joke.  But, if it's not Punk or at least fast and offensive, the individual in question calls it whiney and emo. ;)

I did get him listening to The Soft Bulletin, though, lol.


I thought I did. Oh well.  Miscommunications are WAY funnier, anyway! =D
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« Reply #112 on: 14 Jan 2006, 18:55 »
Further following Jeph's Top 20 of 2005, I hit Sufjan Steven's Illinois.  I can't stand it.  It grinds at my core the same way that Ace of Base's "Sign" does.  It's like a big, fat splinter in my soul, begging to be removed, itching and annoying until you finally break down and hit the stop button.

Maybe I'll try again later, though.
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« Reply #113 on: 14 Jan 2006, 20:42 »
Haha, seriously? And I though Sufjan was one of the more accessible indie folk artists. To each his own, I guess.
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« Reply #114 on: 14 Jan 2006, 21:02 »
Indie.... it's been mentioned lots of times im sure but you can't go wrong with Soft Bulletin by the Flaming Lips.

and of course My Bloody Valentine's Loveless!
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« Reply #115 on: 15 Jan 2006, 05:41 »
The Kooks.
I love the Kooks.
Someone please say they've heard of the kooks!
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« Reply #116 on: 15 Jan 2006, 06:18 »
The... Kinks?
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but the music sucks because the keyboards don't have the cold/mechanical sound they had but a wannabe techno sound that it's pathetic for Rammstein standars.

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« Reply #117 on: 17 Jan 2006, 07:07 »
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I know the kooks, they were on mtv 2 and I didn't like them because they sounded like every other band that was played that day except the arcade fire, clor, tom vek and bright eyes.

The one time I turn on mtv, for a whole day there was only one band I loved and several I'm indfferent about. The rest were new indie britcrap and old kerrang hits from 2002.



Whattttt?
The Kooks are so good!
Okay they sound slightly like the arctic monkeys
but the arctic monkeys have a heavier sound
and I dunnoooo...
o_O well I like them so there :p
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« Reply #118 on: 17 Jan 2006, 08:45 »
Prefuse 73, Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, Of Montreal, The Apples in Stereo


I know of these guys because they are all from my city, and I like every single one.



On Arcade Fire:

To quote a friend, "You know how in cartoons, when the characters get in a fight, they make this big cloud that's noisy and chaotic with limbs sticking out everywhere? Arcade Fire live is like that, but with guitars."
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« Reply #119 on: 17 Jan 2006, 08:49 »
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do you not like being called sturgeypoo alexy-walexy?


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« Reply #120 on: 17 Jan 2006, 13:43 »
I saw someone mention Tom Waits. I've been a TW geek for three or four years now -- started with Blood Money/Alice, then progressed (regressed?) all the way back to Swordfishtrombones while also adding in his more current albums. (I'm ignoring his earlier stuff.) I can say with confidence, after trying to get several friends into him, that he is probably not the best place to start. He takes work. Lots of work. The most common reaction is "Eeew!", followed by something like "It sounds like Satan is eating my brain!" (actual words of one friend). He took me some getting used to, too. However once that early period in which all your senses rebel is passed, he is a very very valuable experience; he is continually stretching my musical bounderies with his arrangements and lyrics.

With that said, I'm not sure if he's even indie -- with the exception of a song off of "Good News For People Who Like Bad News", I can't think of anyone he really sounds like. But then, I'm very new to indie myself, so perhaps there are bands on this thread that are Waits-influenced.

No one that I've seen has mentioned Mercury Rev yet, either. I just got Deserter's Songs the other day and it is really, really good. I'm liking it a lot. There's a lot of orchestration, but it doesn't seem syrupy or overbearing. No trouble with accessibility for me, so if a fellow indie neophyte could make a recommendation, I think that'd be it.
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