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Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: quietnow on 18 May 2006, 13:16

remember the anniversary?

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Kai on 18 May 2006, 13:24

My dad forgets his anniversary all the time. I only remember it because it's right after my birthday.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: quietnow on 18 May 2006, 13:35

damn it if i didn't walk into that.

http://www.lawrence.com/bands/the_anniversary/

but post other forgottens plz.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Kai on 18 May 2006, 13:43

I'm well aware of who the anniversary are. I'm just an ass.


Also: They're from Lawrence? Fuck, that makes two terrible bands from here.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: quietnow on 18 May 2006, 13:46

i apologize.

if it makes you feel better i am from anaheim.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: quietnow on 18 May 2006, 13:49

thank you for informing us.

MENTION SOME MORE HAS-BEENS PLZ!

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Kai on 18 May 2006, 13:51

Are we sticking entirely to indie? Because I haven't payed any attention to In Flames or At the Gates in years.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: quietnow on 18 May 2006, 13:52

speaking of at the gates: skitsystem rules.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Garcin on 18 May 2006, 14:16

Throwing Muses.  Gone but not forgotten.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Mark7 on 18 May 2006, 14:24

The June Brides :)

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: OtterErotic on 18 May 2006, 15:26

Chavez.  Find me a song better than "The Guard Attacks" and I'll find you..... um..... HEY, LOOK OVER THERE

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Johnny C on 18 May 2006, 15:41

I am choosing to forget Morrissey because he is forsaking Canada just because a few of us kill some seals, earn money and help to keep the fish stocks at sustainable levels.

Who's Morrissey?

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Kai on 18 May 2006, 15:51

WELL MAYBE CANADA SHOULD STOP CLUBBING THE BLOODY SEALS

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Joseph on 18 May 2006, 16:06

And maybe Morrisey shouldn't be a prick.  Comparing seal hunting to Hitler killing the Jews, the guy's an ass.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Kai on 18 May 2006, 16:08

MORRISSEY IS JUST STANDING UP FOR WHAT HE BELIEVES

AND THAT IS THAT SEALS ARE WORTH MORE THAN JEWS

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Joseph on 18 May 2006, 16:12

Well, no arguing with that logic.  I suppose there's nothing left to do but go club me some Jews, and sell their skins and meat.













  And, before someone accuses me of some insane anti-sematism, that was most definately a complete joke.  Just to be clear.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Kai on 18 May 2006, 16:32

I don't think anybody would think you weren't joking.




But still.


Fucking anti-semite.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Johnny C on 18 May 2006, 16:33

If you've seen March Of The Penguins then you have no sympathy for seals. They are brutal and rude creatures, and if they were people and you were party they would be the guys to come in and drink your beer and shit on your sofa and gang-rape your girlfriend.

Speaking of which, I haven't heard anything from Seal in a while. But I guess he isn't really indie.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Kai on 18 May 2006, 16:34

Yeah, when did the seal get this sort of "oh it's just a cute little seal" personage?

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: rive gauche on 18 May 2006, 16:35

Quote from: tommydski

the breeders.
three great albums, especially 'pod'.

drive like jehu.
insane san diego mathcore.

silkworm.
you are all sick of me talking about this band.

owls.
possibly my favourite album ever.

I love all of those bands.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Johnny C on 18 May 2006, 16:35

Everyone pictures baby seals when they think of seals. Or they picture seals at the zoo. They don't picture the vicious, bloodthirsty carnivores the seals actually are.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Rubby on 18 May 2006, 16:47

Quote from: Kai

WELL MAYBE CANADA SHOULD STOP CLUBBING THE BLOODY SEALS

I've never even seen a fucking seal, yet I am Canadian (oh shit, I just quoted an add).
Take that Morrissey!

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Joseph on 18 May 2006, 17:00

Quote from: Johnny C

Everyone pictures baby seals when they think of seals. Or they picture seals at the zoo. They don't picture the vicious, bloodthirsty carnivores the seals actually are.

  And of course, no one seems to want to mention that hunting the baby seals is actually illegal.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: nuisance on 18 May 2006, 20:23

How about Medicine?

Brad Laner came out with this crazy psychedelic record, like a decent American response to My Bloody Valentine... heaps of harsh, ear-bleeding distortion and squealing feedback, strange reversed bits and shit falling out of time, but in the middle of the chaotic arrangements all these boy/girl pop songs...  Most crazy major label debut ever, surely.

Then of course the records steadily went to shit as the label cleaned up his act and suddenly Medicine were on the fucking Crow soundtrack (the shame!! :P).  Brad did the reasonable thing and fled rock for the lands of electronica, doing stuff as Electric Company.

Anyway, I still reckon 'Shot Forth Self Living' is a gem.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: jcknbl on 18 May 2006, 21:29

Quote from: Johnny C

Speaking of which, I haven't heard anything from Seal in a while. But I guess he isn't really indie.

I'm pretty sure I went to a Seal concert in like 4th grade. A friend invited me to go even though I had no idea who Seal was. From what I remember it was a pretty bad show. Not as bad as the Killers though. That show sucked.

Wow, I might have a Seal t-shirt somewhere. I totally need to find that.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: valley_parade on 18 May 2006, 21:38

Man, I don't even care what that dude thinks about seals. I like his music.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: pip_helix on 18 May 2006, 21:52

Quote from: tommydski

owls.
possibly my favourite album ever.

O.O

love. love. love. i got a hold of it last summer, and have been more or less obsessed with it ever since. but only one or two other people ever know what i'm talking about when i mention them. 'tis sad.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Hat on 18 May 2006, 21:58

Quote from: Johnny C

Everyone pictures baby seals when they think of seals. Or they picture seals at the zoo. They don't picture the vicious, bloodthirsty carnivores the seals actually are.

Or you know, some kind of weird carnivore empathy. Look at us, we love puppies and kittens as well. Its creepy. Wheres the lower food chain love, people?

Ok, I'm done, continue to talk about bands I have never heard of. Except Sebadoh for some weird reason, because I think I am thinking about an entirely different band, also called Sebadoh, which is odd.

Is it an actual word/name/reference to something?

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Inlander on 18 May 2006, 22:15

Are you sure there's more than one band called Sebadoh?  Because that sounds powerfully unlikely.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: E. Spaceman on 18 May 2006, 22:49

I hope this only happens in Mexico. But Echo and the Bunnymen are completely unknown. Maybe MAYBE one in twenty persons will say "Oh Yes, they did that song on Donnie Darko".

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: jcknbl on 18 May 2006, 22:54

1 in 20 is really good. I'd say 1 in 45 out here.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: E. Spaceman on 18 May 2006, 23:00

That is within the indie liking population (the one I'm most likely to speak to.) General population would be somethng more like 1 in 10,000

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Johnny C on 19 May 2006, 00:26

Quote from: Hat

Wheres the lower food chain love, people?

Fuck that. Grass is boring.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: ASturge on 19 May 2006, 02:27

Quote from: Spinless

My CD collection says Sebadoh.

YES.

Also, Chapterhouse! rarr!

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Mark7 on 19 May 2006, 03:31

Tsunami, Black Tambourine, Unrest, Velocity Girl and The Spinanes.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Garcin on 19 May 2006, 04:47

To Bonnaroo.  Duh.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Garcin on 19 May 2006, 05:54

Quote from: tommydski

the breeders.
three great albums, especially 'pod'.

Did you know that Tanya Donelly co-founded Throwing Muses before she was in The Breeders? Wikipedia says that she is doing solo stuff under Warner Brothers, kids stuff, and making babies.  No wonder she dropped off the map.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Inlander on 19 May 2006, 06:33

Quote from: Spinless

On the topic of Sebadoh . . . The members have launched solo albums since and one is now a third of Dinosaur Jr.

Lou Barlow was also a member of Dinosaur Jr. before forming Sebadoh.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Misereatur on 19 May 2006, 07:27

Quote from: Dark Flame

Well, no arguing with that logic.  I suppose there's nothing left to do but go club me some Jews, and sell their skins and meat

You might get somthing on the skins, but the meat? I doubt that.
Just go clubbing Jews for the heck of it.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: nuisance on 19 May 2006, 07:47

Quote from: tommydski

tanya d left the breeders after 'safari' and formed belly. they were pretty good as i recall.

Yeah, back in the day I had the cassingle of 'Feed the Tree', the lead single off the Belly album.  It was very cute, but very nice.  And a little creepy, as befits a member of Throwing Muses.

Can't believe someone could know Sebadoh and not at least know The Breeders' 'Cannonball'.  I feel like every party at someone's house involved that song when I was at university.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: alyosha on 19 May 2006, 12:20

Quote from: Johnny C

Speaking of which, I haven't heard anything from Seal in a while. But I guess he isn't really indie.

Morrissey Clubbed him....

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Thrillho on 19 May 2006, 12:21

What the fuck?

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Skibas_clavicle on 19 May 2006, 22:21

Reading everyone talk about Sebadoh and Dinosaur Jr. makes me really happy. One of my oldest friends and I were talking about Lou Barlow today which also makes it appropriate. Anywho, back on topic: CocoRosie, Shellac, Atom & His Package, Tortoise!

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: E. Spaceman on 19 May 2006, 22:29

Were Coco Rosie forgotten? or just unknown.mI've only got Noah's Ark, which a girl burnt for me. It's lovely and the cd even has squiggly pink drawings.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: KharBevNor on 20 May 2006, 00:43

Tortoise really aren't forgotten.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Merkava on 20 May 2006, 11:48

Aren't they Buck 65's backup band?

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Skibas_clavicle on 20 May 2006, 13:09

Quote from: tommydski

the new album is out soooon, 'excellent italian greyhound', and you can hear live versions of all the new songs on various file-sharing programs.

plus, don't worry, the average shellac fan(atic) listens to shellac every day.
i certainly do!

Cute. Link, please?

Also, maybe these bands seem forgotten to me because they're a little older and 99% of people I know have no clue who I'm talking about when I mention them.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: The Final Whisperer on 21 May 2006, 19:09

Quote from: tommydski

okay! just to show you all my 733t indie skillz i'll tie this all together.

you do realize that 733t is teet?

that made me chuckle.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Rubby on 21 May 2006, 20:04

No. 733T is Leet, as in elite.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Kai on 21 May 2006, 20:08

I've always seen 7 used as a t, and 1 used for l.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Joseph on 21 May 2006, 20:40

Yeah, that's definately the way it is.  Until this moment, I have never, ever, seen 7 used for an L.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Inlander on 21 May 2006, 21:17

I feel like saying the Sundays.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: nescience on 24 May 2006, 12:00

Helium.  FORGOTTEN TO THE WORLD.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: E. Spaceman on 24 May 2006, 13:08

Whatever happned to Ride? They were pretty good.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Mark7 on 24 May 2006, 13:16

They split up

Andy Bell was in Oasis last I heard.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: E. Spaceman on 24 May 2006, 13:21

Ah shit, I think being forgotten is better than playing with Oasis.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Johnny C on 24 May 2006, 13:28

The Snitches.

The Salads.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Nick Cave's Havalina on 24 May 2006, 15:13

Holly Beth Vincent! Grant-Lee Buffalo!
That Brad Laner record sounds amazing. What more can you tell me about Medicine?

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: nuisance on 24 May 2006, 16:40

Quote from: Nick Cave's Havalina

Holly Beth Vincent! Grant-Lee Buffalo!
That Brad Laner record sounds amazing. What more can you tell me about Medicine?

Ha, was just listening to 'Fuzzy' the other day.  Stands up with most of this contemporary country rock stuff, IMO.  Sorry, alt-country. :P

There's probably more information about Medicine on wikipedia or something, what do you want to know?  From memory they did 3 albums in the early-mid 90s, each getting progressively cleaner, as I said.  

They got the Cocteau Twins' Robin Guthrie in to produce the third, if I'm remembering rightly, and it's appropriately spacious and jangly, but just not that interesting.  The song that wound up on 'The Crow' soundtrack is in that kind of vein.

Brad Laner's done maybe 4 or 5 solo albums as The Electric Company, released on Kid 606's label, Tigerbeat 6.  They're sort of in the vein of FX Randomiz or maybe Dat Politics, but if you're not right into this kind of nonsense those points of comparison probably mean nothing (I'm insulting my otaku status here, not your ignorance :)).

He reformed Medicine last year or the year before, but it's a new band, him and Sharon Lee (Bruce Lee's daughter, met via soundtracking 'The Crow' I guess).  I think Sharon is a fairly bad singer and Brad's forays into the explicitly digital domain have taken what I liked out of the music.

'Shot Forth Self Living' really is quite hard to listen to - it starts with a squeal of feedback that stays put for about 2 or 3 minutes (while other things happen ;)) and there's a lot of really harsh, trebly distortion piercing eardrums at every turn. :)

Does any of that help in the slightest? :|

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: Hairy Joe Bob on 24 May 2006, 19:27

How about the Field Mice, or the Pastels? Great bands, small labels, never made it big, but in hindsight two amazing and really very influential bands.

Title: forgotten indie.
Post by: borderline blues on 31 May 2006, 03:13

Has-beens?

Anyone to ever reach has-been status is more like a 'never-really-was'.

Eh, mates?