Will the Indie Rock scene change the world?

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  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    Cheguevara6 wrote:
    I get this feeling right now that we are experiencing something special. The whole scene with Bloc Party, Arcade Fire, Kings of Leon, Modest Mouse, Artic Monkeys, The Decemberists, it just seems like Indie rock is king of the world right now.
    I thought Indie rock bands weren't signed to a record label.
  • Housing Jim
    Housing Jim Posts: 644
    pjalive21 wrote:
    no way Indie music is going to create a movement...ive listened to all those bands listed by the original poster and all i can say is snorefest!!!

    there may be meaning to the music but the substance is lacking (or testosterone) and all pretty much sounds the same and runs together

    Exactly......you can't tell these bands apart. None of them create music that makes you stop what you're doing and listen to it.

    It's mediocrity painted in hype to masquerade as great
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  • verb_to_trust
    verb_to_trust Posts: 178
    Isn't the thread starter the same guy that started the Charles Manson sympathy thread?
  • Odin
    Odin Posts: 599
    soulsinging wrote:
    i 100% agree with you. "it's not the band i hate, it's their fans." too many indie fans are pretentious twats who think their bands shit solid gold.

    QFT
  • Alex_Coe
    Alex_Coe Posts: 762
    The White Stripes are gonna change the world... all them other bands, not so much.

    (Remember kids, bands are nothing without good songs... and Little Bird is the best song ever made.)
  • drew0
    drew0 Posts: 943
    soulsinging wrote:
    i 100% agree with you. "it's not the band i hate, it's their fans." too many indie fans are pretentious twats who think their bands shit solid gold.

    Definitly. I was on another board, and once said that Indie Music like the Decemeberists, Interpol, Arcade Fire, etc. were overrated and repetitive. I was attacked by all the indie fans, who think this decade is better than any other for music.
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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    Odin wrote:
    QFT

    qft?
  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    I love indie music. I just dislike the pretentious holier-than-thou attitude of some of the douchebags who champion it.
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

    -Tom Waits
  • CM1847
    CM1847 Posts: 577
    direwolf74 wrote:
    I love indie music. I just dislike the pretentious holier-than-thou attitude of some of the douchebags who champion it.
    Don't worry, the douchebags have already moved onto the backlash stage of most of the bands mentioned in this thread. Too many people are too concerned with image and scenes, it is really annoying.

    Indie music is getting more and more popular because mainstream rock has been stuck in a rutt for the majority of the decade, people are getting tired of the same old crap music over and over. Modest Mouse puts out "Float On", which is far from a spectacular song, but it sells a million copies of their album because it is something different. Even the most apathetic music listen is getting bored of countless post-grunge clones like Nickleback and Staind. How else would Arcade Fire debut at number 2? And Modest Mouse at #1 a couple of weeks later, even without the benefit of a good single?

    That being said, mainstream radio will still continue to be mostly crap because most indie bands aren't going to leave their quasi-indie labels(Merge, Matador, etc..), so the big money will still be backing mostly crap bands. If Arcade Fire can reach #2 on Merge, why should they sign with a major label? Sure it worked for Modest Mouse, but the Yeah Yeah Yeah's last album didn't do too well. There is safety on the smaller labels so the majority of bands will stay there I think. And with the majority of good bands NOT on major labels, the money(and therefore radio play) will keep pushing mostly crap music. Arcade Fire will be the exception, not the rule. But rest easy, there will always be quality music released on a regular basis, it just isn't going to storm the radio and pop charts anytime soon.
  • sleeplikeadog
    sleeplikeadog Posts: 156
    I can't believe this is still being discussed, lol. And seriously at that.
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  • CM1847
    CM1847 Posts: 577
    sleeplikeadog wrote:
    I can't believe this is still being discussed, lol. And seriously at that.
    I take the title of the thread as a joke. It seems like all of the discussion is about whether or not indie music will become mainstream.

    Although I'm hearing rumors of Win Butler being the second coming....so who knows?
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    CM1847 wrote:
    I take the title of the thread as a joke. It seems like all of the discussion is about whether or not indie music will become mainstream.

    Although I'm hearing rumors of Win Butler being the second coming....so who knows?

    it's not a joke. che really thinks like this all the time.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Alex_Coe wrote:
    The White Stripes are gonna change the world... all them other bands, not so much.

    (Remember kids, bands are nothing without good songs... and Little Bird is the best song ever made.)

    this time last year i may have agreed with you alex. little bird is by far my favourite white stripes song. and one that gets to me whenever i put on de stijl. :)
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  • pjfan020
    pjfan020 Posts: 426
    First of all, music can make a difference. Can it change the world....not at all. If you think that your indie bands that don't even sell a million copies of an album will change the world keep dreaming. During the 60's dylan, neil, ccr, csny, and dozens of other bands sold millions upon millions of copies of their albums, were far more outspoken, original, talented and political than these bands today and looked what happened. So just because you think a band has something good to say and sells a few albums doesn't mean that they're going to amount to anything in the great scheme of things.

    Secondly, I really can't stand any of the bands you mentioned. That new modest mouse single is pure crap. I can't understand a fucking word that guy is singing. He's got a fucking irritating voice that sounds just like every indie artist out there. And I don't even know where to begin with arcade fire.

    To close, music can make change, but in very small ways.
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  • CM1847
    CM1847 Posts: 577
    soulsinging wrote:
    it's not a joke. che really thinks like this all the time.
    Well, I just read the first post of this thread for the first time, so I can understand the absurdity of it all now. I assumed "change the world" was a joke for "become mainstream", the way grunge "changed the world" in the early 90s.

    I get the jokes now, indie music may become more popular, but no, it isn't going to change the world, discussing that is pretty comical.

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