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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    If Radiohead isn't mainstream, then I think maybe we should open up a discussion on what mainstream is. I don't feel it is just Puff daddy, Rick Martin, Eminem type shit. For me Radiohead is as mainstream rock as you can get.

    more mainstream than foo fighters?????

    if you hear it on commercial radio than chances are it's mainstream.

    i don't know about ryan adams. his music goes out on the lost highway label. but i couldn't tell you if that's just a imprint under a major or not.
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  • karma defectkarma defect Posts: 5,483
    more mainstream than foo fighters?????

    if you hear it on commercial radio than chances are it's mainstream.


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  • EchoesEchoes Posts: 1,279
    I would call it post-rockish, but much rather I'd just listen to it. The name doesn't really matter that much, I'm sure you would agree.


    I would question your knowledge of what constitutes a post rock band if you Pavement post-rock, but ultimately it doesn't really matter, no. You calling them a post-rock band doesn't change the sound they make (although it does point people who haven't heard them before in the wrong direction)
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    i would go out on a limb and say that the mars volta are post rock.
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  • If Radiohead isn't mainstream, then I think maybe we should open up a discussion on what mainstream is. I don't feel it is just Puff daddy, Rick Martin, Eminem type shit. For me Radiohead is as mainstream rock as you can get.


    Radiohead is about as indie as Pearl Jam is...
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  • karma defectkarma defect Posts: 5,483
    Echoes wrote:
    I would question your knowledge of what constitutes a post rock band if you Pavement post-rock, but ultimately it doesn't really matter, no. You calling them a post-rock band doesn't change the sound they make (although it does point people who haven't heard them before in the wrong direction)


    Your idea of post rock isn't mine. I would not call Mogwai post rock.

    Post rock is for bands like Polvo, Slint, June of '44. I think Pavement is better discribed like that than to call them Pop rock or what did you call them again.
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  • karma defectkarma defect Posts: 5,483
    Radiohead is about as indie as Pearl Jam is...


    Not at all indie then. That is what I said.
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  • karma defectkarma defect Posts: 5,483
    i would go out on a limb and say that the mars volta are post rock.


    I wouldn't think so but that hardly matters. I wouldn't know what to call them.
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  • EchoesEchoes Posts: 1,279
    Your idea of post rock isn't mine. I would not call Mogwai post rock.

    Post rock is for bands like Polvo, Slint, June of '44. I think Pavement is better discribed like that than to call them Pop rock or what did you call them again.

    pop roc, as in rock with some very poppy tendencies - i.e. Range Life or Gold Sounds or Here. Those songs are wonderfully poppy.
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  • Jeff MurrayJeff Murray Posts: 1,259
    FUGAZI - Check them out. Created their own label to control their own destiny. No corporate control, no one to answer to. Dischord records still remains independent to this day and still has artists signing with them. They never play a venue that restricts by age and the shows are normally around $5 - $10. I know there are other good indie bands out there, but these guys stuck to their ideals for over 15 years. Now that is indie cred.
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  • karma defectkarma defect Posts: 5,483
    Echoes wrote:
    pop roc, as in rock with some very poppy tendencies - i.e. Range Life or Gold Sounds or Here. Those songs are wonderfully poppy.


    Yes I know what you mean. I wasn't trying to talk down to it or anything, I have plenty of poprock thingy's. I just don't think Pavement fits that bill.
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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    FUGAZI - Check them out. Created their own label to control their own destiny. No corporate control, no one to answer to. Dischord records still remains independent to this day and still has artists signing with them. They never play a venue that restricts by age and the shows are normally around $5 - $10. I know there are other good indie bands out there, but these guys stuck to their ideals for over 15 years. Now that is indie cred.

    well ian mckaye's a bloody legend, isn't he. :)
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