Indie songs from your teenage years that break your heart

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Don't leave me out on a limb here for God's sake. I've slowly been queueing up my Cd collection on winamp and in doing so have discovered a bunch of songs that absolutely killed me not so long ago. Which are your long-forgetten songs that used to matter so much but you'd forgotten about?

― Matt, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hearing all 7 minutes of Steamroller by The Family Cat in the pub the other night was fantastic!

― Jonnie, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'Purple Rain' by Prince

― maryann, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oops - not indie. Okay, how about 'Death and the Maiden' by the Verlaines!

― maryann, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The songs that break my heart tend to be related to breaking up with girls. The ones that stand out most are Orange Crush (breaking up with Jenny Hibben) and Mellow doubt by Teanage Fanclub (breaking up with Georgina Edwards.

― davel, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The World Carries On - the Frank and Walters

― jel --, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

mellow doubt by the fanclub is an UTTER heartbreaker. as is A New England as covered by Kirsty Macoll and Near Wild Heaven by REM (dunno about the indie credentials of those last 2 but huh i don't care!)

― katie, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ditto Mellow Doubt, Amazing Hangover by the Family Cat will do this for me too. A New England introduced me to the world of lesbianism via a long debate after Top Of The Pops with my Dad.

Any blustery Carter ballad can fill me with wist too.

― Pete, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But then at the hieght of indie, I was much more likely to listen to "I remember you" by skid row. *sigh*

― jel --, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Steamroller was a real blast from the past, and in The Village too, very unexpected. I heard Vapour Trail by Ride for the first time in ages a couple of weeks ago and it brought up the goosebumps.

― chris, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Wedding Present's "You Should Always Keep In Touch With Your Friends"

― Tom, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ooh yeah, and "I'm not always so stupid" heartbreaking stuff.

― chris, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You win some and you lose some
And I've lost the will to lose
My part time job
My faith in God
Falling....on a bruise
In this no-star bed and breakfast
The insolvency abuse makes me feel like
Throwing myself off the kitchen shelf
Falling on a bruise
And all of my unworldly goods
The bailiffs took them too!
With all the ducked bills and silly sods from Brian Mills' catalogue
Something borrowed bartered and blue
You win some and you lose some
You save nothing - NOTHING! - for a rainy day
You need a nutrasweet Daddy or some peppermint Paddy or just a hackneyed old cabby who can drive you and your babby away...

[DUM-DUM-DUM-DUM-DUM-DUM-DUM-DI-DUM, monster synth orchestra to fade plus the bit only Pete knows from memory...]

― DO YOU SEE, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

OH DEAR GOD.

Making Plans for Nigel by XTC managed to make me cry, quite embarassingly once. Also I cried at LOVE VIGILANTES by New Order (sob he just wants to see his family but they were told he was DEEEEEEEEAD sob sob).

― Sarah, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bloody heck, I never thought those lyrics would ever enter my counsciousness again.

― chris, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

funnily enough, Ride for me too, Chris, but Taste rather than Vapour Trail.

― MarkH, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I heard Travelling Light by the tindersticks for the first time in ages the other day which I still love and is such a heartbreaking song.

― davel, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Careful Chris or I will do the bit only I remember. (Which I think I have done on a previous thread).

― Pete, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Come Back To What You Know" by Embrace kept me emotionally stable a short period at school, though I can't remember why I haven't heard it recently. You fogeys think you're so cool with your Teenage Fanclub and your Wedding Present, don't you?

― Graham, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Blimey Davel the first time I heard that album I cried as well! Ahem, which may be a reason why it did not work with the Potential New Boyfriend of Sorts who was playing it to me at the time... oops.

― Sarah, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Get Me - Dinosaur Jr

Alcoholiday - Teenage Fanclub

Around & Love Theme From Santo Gold- Lotion

Barely Real - Codiene

I guess I've always been kinda rock.

― jel --, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So this is how it feels to be lonely / This is how it feels to be smaaaaaaall...

― Madchen, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Some of us are so ancient that indie wasn't even invented when we were teenagers. My teen years are characterised by T. Rex and ABBA, and then punk.

― Martin Skidmore, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Soul and fire-Sebadoh

― Michael Bourke, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This is how it feels when your world means nothing at alllllll....

I would say most of them killed me, I listen to only the saddest and most self pitying indie music that existed. I was a Smiths fanatic, for heavens sake.

― Nicole, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And this I know,

His teeth are white as snow...

What a gas it was to see him...

― misterjones, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Staying on a TFC tip - it would have to be 'Everything Flows' and 'God Knows It's True for me.

― Leigh, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

When I get home I am going to play some pixies very load!!

― davel, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I live in a world of 100 percent total happiness 24 hours a day. This is why I can't answer this. Actually I can't really think of any, again perhaps Spiritualized.

― Ronan, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Thank you jel for reminding us all that Alcoholiday is the greatest song ever.

― Nicole, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the pixies do break my heart, but in a kind of "so much joy that it might explode" way rather than a melancholy way. so i shall just say "GOT A TATTOOED TIT, SAY NUMBAH THIRTEEN!"

― katie, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The "so much joy that it might explode" thing, hehe, this is a good way of describing it. I guess this is what I get when I hear "Lazy" or "At Night" by Shakedown or any of the other dance things I love. I can be sitting in my living room just thinking "wow wow wow" without the aid of any chemicals. wahey! I don't think I ever got it with rock music, even the Pixies and such who I always loved, but obviously dance was the thing for me.

― Ronan, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know why Chris is surprised at the Family Cat being played in the Village. Assuming it was quiz night, that is. Jeremy Spakealike is always playing stuff like that.

As for my answer to the question, any songs that mattered so much then I haven't really forgetten about. So my answer is N/A.

― N., Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

As no one as poked fun at me for my Embrace comment I am assuming everything you're admitting is just as sad.
― Graham, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Man in the Moon" by Voice of the Beehive

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Probably something by the Cat's Miaow. Maybe, "Hollow Inside". Hm.

― OCP, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Never felt TFC much outside of a couple of songs, neither of which were on Bandwagonesque. How the hell does "Alcoholiday" go anyway?

Muttered this elsewhere, but the Cure's "Trust," while not indie specifically, is a song with fraught memories that I will not revive here. I do remember suggesting the Wedding Present's "Come Play With Me" as weirdly representative of a friend's particular situation around the time it came out.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"star power" - sonic youth (or most of the rest of evol)

i want to go home right now and listen to it and take my friday afternoon nap. is anyone else at work, running on fumes after going out last night and getting maybe four hours sleep?

― drake, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Willing To Wait" by Sebadoh RULES this thread, although so does the song with similar sentiments by Yo La Tengo -- "Did I Tell You".

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Alcoholiday"

There are things I want to do but I don't know
If they will be with you, if they will be with you
There are things I want to say but I don't know
If they will be to you, if they will be to you
Listen ever get a feeling when you're taken by the hand
And led a course you can't command
Went to bed but I'm not ready
Baby I've been fucked already
Falling into line but I'm doing nothing
We've got nothing worth discussing.
Went to go but it's all hazy
People say I'm going crazy.

[Repeat all above]

[Bridge]

All I know is all I know
What I've done I leave behind and
I don't know what sort to find me.
All I know is all I know
What I've done I leave behind and
I don't know what sort to find me.
All I know is all I know
What I've done I leave behind and
I don't know what sort to find me.

End song...but personally I thought they were singing "I don't want my soul to find me" which appealed to me far more as a lyrical sentiment. Anyway, it was sorta mid tempo scuzziness, with loose guitar playing.

― jel --, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, I'm ancient and pre-indie like Martin. I had Spiral Scratch and some Ork singles, but there was nothing really heartbreaking on those records. I did quote the Buzzcocks "Breakdown" in my high school yearbook, though, and then the editors changed the lines "wander loaded as a crowd" back to Wordsworth, the imbeciles! Anyway, like N. said, if it broke my heart, I've remembered it. Like Patti Smith's "Birdland", Lou Reed's "Oh Jim", Big Star's "Way Out West".

― Arthur, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"motorcycle emptiness" and "little baby nothing" by MSP.

― jel --, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Shorley Wall" by Ooberman

― Graham, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mad As Snow - Kitchens of Distinction, fucking heartbreaker and fucking amazing.

― Chris, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My answer to this is a less-flip-than-you'd-think "all of them."

― nabisco%%, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's really the ones from my very early teenage years that break my heart the most. Sometimes it's not even the songs themselves but just suddenly being hit by the rememberance of how it felt to be 13 and hearing something that felt like a window into another world, a world much more beautiful and exciting than mine, a world I desperately wanted to be a part of. Some of those worlds are strange, even frightening but ultimately transcendant; that's why my choice must be Patti Smith's "Birdland". It doesn't break my heart in a sad way, but if you put the record on and go with her, really go all the way out with her... I know my heart feels something tremendous. It's not a place I can go every day, but knowing that it's there when I want it is one of the things that makes life worth living.

― Sean, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Being a teenager right now I can say that lately the Magnetic Fields are mostly unbearable and make me want to throw things and cry. Every single song is saying, "Look at the suffering you cause!"

I do not have any idea what will seem heartbreaking in retrospect, although there are lots of songs that made me feel awful listening to them. The more I listen to songs the less painful they become. The ones that are or have been most beautiful becoming dull would be heartbreaking though.

― Maria, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'So Said Kay' ~ The Field Mice.
When my goilfriend at the time emigrated, I played this to death. It seemed to say - and mirror - a lot about our relationship and parting.

― DavidM, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"I Know I'll Never" -- Jilted John (NOT THAT I WAS AROUND FOR THAT OR ANYTHING, ahem)
"Teenage Kicks" -- The Undertones

Matt Coastaltown, what were yours, anyway?

― felicity, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

THE JESUS & MARY CHAIN upside down

JULEE CRUISE falling THE WEDDING PRESESNT falling
SNAPPER snapper & the ocean, dead pictures, what are you thinking? + some solo Peter Gutteridge
SUGAR come around, hoover dam, good idea, judas cradle
SUEDE sleeping pills (not really indie I guess) MBV to here knows when, the things i miss
numerous Chills songs, even (at least) one I think is crap (halo fading)
THE BATS nine days THE SUGARCUBES water BAILTER SPACE make GRANT LEE BUFFALO fuzzy, (and later - honey don't think + mockingbirds) some ALASTAIR GALBRAITH/PLAGAL GRIND

earlier = THE CURE the exploding boy, pictures of you
some of DANIEL JOHNSTON's More Songs About Pain, various Chris Knox

― halo halo, Saturday, 13 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

THIS KIND OF PUNISHMENT reaching an end
SWANS the sound of freedom SKIN i'm nothing without you
EINSTÜRZENDE NEAUBAUTEN letztes biest am himmel, der kuss
martin phillipps' gtr sound on his song with chris knox (love song pt 1)
R.E.M. me in honey, you are the everything, hairshirt, "i stayed up late to hear your voice, (....)
some of DINOSAUR JR's where you been album
rhinocerous by SMASHING PUMPKINS SLINT good morning captain
SPIRITUALIZED if i were with her now

― halo halo, Saturday, 13 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

DOUBLEHAPPYS i don't wanna see you again "i don't fuck the dead"
SKEPTICS mamouth, sensible shoes, any any

― halo halo, Saturday, 13 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was unaware that Jilted John had any songs apart from "Jilted John!" (Not counting Gordon the Moron's response, obviously, as that was clearly by Gordon the Moron.)

― nabisco%%, Saturday, 13 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(Tommy Erlewine at allmusic has set me straight: he says True Love Stories is a masterpiece.)

― nabisco%%, Saturday, 13 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

best thread EVAH!

a million miles by the weddoes, despite it's underlying happiness (unusual itself in a gedge song), reminds me of completely failing to get off with this girl who i had been succesfully chatting up all nite, then just lost the plot at the "snog me now big boy" bit and i went home. this thread has reminded me of the blatant carter abuse at glasto though, ptee, alang and tom qoting verbatim huge chucks of sherrif fatman etc *shudders*. also like to second the motorcycle emptiness vote above, how can a song whos lyrics are, on the surface at least, nonsensical mean sosososo much, sniff (i blame that keening guitar line myself)...

oh and yes graham this is pretty sad (not as bad as ooberman though ;))

― CarsmileSteve, Saturday, 13 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ditto re "Mad As Snow". My obligatory Smiths song is "I Know It's Over", natch. The Sundays' "Can't Be Sure" and "Hideous Towns" both touch that joyful/meloncholy spot for me, as does The Blue Nile's "Tinseltown In The Rain". Obligatory big indie anthems: House Of Love's "Yer' Eyes" and Geneva's "Tranquilizer". Oblig. goth anthems: The Cure's "Last Dance" and Depeche Mode's "World Full Of Nothing. Oblig. Australian entries: The Triffids' "Stolen Property" and The Church's "Film". Most indie song: Sparklehorse's "Saturday". There are many other songs that could go here but they're too far away from indie-world.

― Tim, Saturday, 13 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bettie Serveert - "Tomboy" Sonic Youth - "Teenage Riot"

And to concur with Jel and a couple of others, anything by Teenage Fanclub off Bandwagonesque or A Catholic Education.

― D., Saturday, 13 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i am way dorkier than all of you. i don't think i knew what "indie" was until i was 20 or so. my teenage stuff was probably all cure, depeche, pink floyd, smiths and whatnot. i guess i liked some new wavey stuff that was indie, like room nine or maurice and the cliches. oh and i liked the green pajamas and i had the sub pop 100 record.

― Ron, Saturday, 13 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I go through a lot of things fast and don't go back much (I haven't willingly listened to the Smiths since I was about 18, for example). Is this a bad thing, do we think? But the TV Personalities A Sense of Belonging still drove a truck through my heart when I happened on it recently. Probably some early Primal Scream; lots of Yo La Tengo/Fakebook. Good call on Daniel Johnston above; the Whizz Kid is specially sad and broken, hadn't though about that in a long while.

― ellie, Saturday, 13 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Be My Baby.

― chris sallis, Saturday, 13 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Matt Coastaltown, what were yours exactly?

"When we two parted" - Afghan Whigs
"Davy Chase" - The Frank and Walters (hi Jel!)
"Shake" - Kristin Hersh
"Low" - Cracker
and a whole bunch of others. It was more the "Christ, I'd forgotten about that factor which got me. Sorry to go all Nick Hornby but there were breakup songs, getting together songs, songs which reminded me of friends I'd forgotten about...quite an experience.

― Matt, Saturday, 13 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh and "Journal of an airman" by the Blue Aeroplanes, who were a band I'd forgotten about completely.

― Matt, Saturday, 13 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Velocity Girl by Primal Scream, Jacques Derrida by Scritti Politti, Somewhere in China by Shop Assistants, various Smiths, Walk Out To Winter by Aztec Camera, Sunspots by Julian Cope.

― suzy, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Certainly not indie music; but Blue, Tapestry as well as the song Walk On By kill me each time. I have been listening quite a bit to those lately.

― nathalie, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Walk out to Winter, me too. I also think maybe the Go-Betweens Bye Bye Pride; still listening, but it doesn't have the same frisson anymore. And Camper Van Beethoven, June (and All her Favourite Fruit).

― ellie, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Most of Triffids' "Born Sandy Devotional" and heaps of Go Betweens. the Harvest Ministers' singles on Sarah. Another Sunny Day's "Rio" (which I almost can't stand these days). A million others that I can't really bring myself to recall.

― electric sound of jim, Sunday, 14 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Two implicit questions here, in a way:

1) old songs you love, and that thus move you

2) old songs that move you (all the more?) cos you'd FORGOTTEN about them - so you may love them in some sense, but do you love them as much as in 1)? I don't know.

Answers to 1) might be Sundays and, more surprisingly, MBV - sth about the invocation of an era that sort of fell between the cracks of pop history. House of Love come in here too, come to think of it - maybe not so surprisingly.

Answer to 2) is surely, almost by definition: I don't know - I can't remember. I have forgotten. I'll tell you when I heard it, and it reminds me.

Music I really love - Smiths, Lloyd - doesn't necessarily seem to fit into an answer to this question. I wonder why.

― the pinefox, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the issue at stake PF is that when you do hear those songs you've forgotten about, they sound all the more poignant because you instantly remember how they used to make you feel, whereas songs you love over a long time span are perhaps less easily identifiable with a certain time & place.

― Tim, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

there WERE no indie songs when i was a teenager. imagine!

― UOIU, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

& nor did my heart ever get broken. imagine that too!

― UOIU, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Joey by Concrete Blonde

― toraneko, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i didn't listen to indie rock when i was a teenager. i like jels answer the best. umm indie songs that break my heart these days (and i interpret this quite loosely): "so blind" the renderers, "silent all these years" tori amos, "pale blue eyes" velvet underground. but i am recontextualising these songs so that every time i hear them they affect me less and less. these are slightly embarassing things to admit. you guys know more about me than you should.

― di, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"I Wanna Be Adored" by The Stone Roses.

― Lek Dukagjin, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I would think perhaps 'Missing The Moon' by them Field Mice. I wonder if it's still good...

― Ally C, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Doorag: what about Big Star? "kangaroo" or "dream lover" maybe???

― halo halo, Sunday, 21 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Nothing To Be Done" by The Pastels. Just thinking of it makes me want to drink heavily and then google every last one of my exes.

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"drifting in the rainy rain" - Diving Shine

"Nixon Warhol Junkie Psycho" - The Dallesandros

"Jeebus lov America" - Dustbin Syndicate

"I dream a girl who wets my bed" - Secret Orchid

― pulpo, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tail-lights Fade by Buffalo Tom and I'm Losing More than I'll Ever have by Primal Scream.

― ailsa, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

Revive!!

Slowdive "Sing"
most of God Machine's output

― Baaderonixx on a long black leash (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 09:25 (twenty years ago)

"I could never compete with all the hunks and heroes
My name was never traced by schoolgirls' fingers on misty bus windows"

"Is There Anyone Out There?" by Mighty Mighty - I haven't heard it in 15 years

― Adam Faithless (Adam Faithless), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 09:38 (twenty years ago)

Smashing Pumpkins, but i forget the title of the song. is it 'Tonight'?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

ash "oh yeah"

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 09:41 (twenty years ago)

Ooh gosh I must second Spencer's "Nothing to be Done" up there. Lovely track, reminds me of my first b/f... sigh.

Other tracks wot instantly put me in teenage lurvstruck memory lane mode:
Ups & Downs "Lit by the Fuse"
Pixies "Hey"
Red House Painters (anything really)
Adorable "A to Fade In"
Bodines "Therese"

too many really.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 09:41 (twenty years ago)

The two Whipping Boy singles, 'Twinkle' and 'We don't need nobody else' are big hard kicks in the gut for me. Related to the end of my first big romance at the age of 16.

― Affectian (Affectian), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:31 (twenty years ago)

I dunno about indie, but I listened to the "After the Goldrush" album the other day, forgetting how it USED to make me feel, and it was like meeting an old mate who you used to adore but now feel meh about. The only on that got to me was "Birds", at which point I had to get up and make a cup of tea to satop me from blubbing.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:34 (twenty years ago)

Having not thought about the song for years, this thread title instantly set Pale Saints' 'Sight of You' playing in my head.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

The Indie Years
Almost Prayed by the Weather Prophets
I Melt with You by Modern English
Underneath the Window by the Orchids

The Goth Years
Catch by the Cure
Some Kind of Stranger by the Sisters of Mercy

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:47 (twenty years ago)

Seal My Fate by Belly.

Now that I'm older and wiser I've moved on to Now They'll Sleep instead.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:51 (twenty years ago)

love song by the cure.
the wild ones bye suede.

sigh!

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

The Sundays - Hideous Towns
Geneva - Tranquilizer
Puressence - It Doesn't Matter Anymore

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

I have just realised that it is actually RIDE's Peel Session cover of 'Sight of You' that is playing on NipperFM.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

I won't be revisiting my indie years anytime soon. all those cds are in a wardrobe and they can stay there.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:57 (twenty years ago)

'while away', madder rose
"i finally know you're not on my side
and i finally know, it's not cuz your shy
that was only half the lie"

OOOOOH!

and i 2nd bettie serveert's 'tomboy', which i have excavated for playing later today...

― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 10:58 (twenty years ago)

Shop Assistants - Somewhere in China

"she lives somewhere in China, I think that I was watching Minder"

something like that.

Silent Spring from the first Primal Scream LP.
Sowing Seeds - Jesus and Mary Chain

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 11:07 (twenty years ago)

I won't be revisiting my indie years anytime soon. all those cds are in a wardrobe and they can stay there.

Ronan I'm sure we all know about you and Ryan Adams.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 11:08 (twenty years ago)

my favourite dress - wedding present
heather - wedding present

basically every other wedding present song. (which i bet someone has already said)

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 11:09 (twenty years ago)

ha ha, what steve said years ago about "a million miles". it's true, the most happy weddoes song also has that "it should always be like this, bah my life is doomed" feeling to it because of all the other songs (which do indeed all sound the same)

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 11:11 (twenty years ago)

"Birthday" by the Sugarcubes. JtN, I'd like to hear that cover.

― youn, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 11:12 (twenty years ago)

buffalo tom - frozen lake

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 11:12 (twenty years ago)

sebadoh - brand new love

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)

Off the top of my head from various stages of my teenage torpor...

Birthday - Sugarcubes
First Picture of You - Lotus Eaters
Love In A Car - House of Love
Away - The Bolshoi
Longest Days - The Sound
Perfume Garden - The Chameleons
Highway 5 - American Music Club
Up To The Fells - King Of The Slums
Moonhead - Thin White Rope
Prize - Kitchens of Distinction
Amnesia - Nice Strong Arm
A Warm Night - Slovenly
Temperature's Rising - Galaxie 500
Everything Flows - Teenage Fanclub

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

hey I did say I won't be revisiting it!

in my really middle teens I'd say Radiohead or something probably broke my heart, it's odd I definitely was indie as hell but I can't remember specific songs really that meant a huge amount to me. I really liked Spiritualized alot.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

Ah, ~~good~~ fucking awful times...

Suede - The 2 of Us
Suede - Stay Together
Blur - To The End
Ash - Oh Yeah
Radiohead - Thinking About You

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

i just realised my song wasn't from my teens.

in that case i retract and i can't remember any indie songs from my teenage life.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

Lemonheads - Drug Buddy
REM - Nightswimming
10,000 Maniacs - how you've grown
Smiths - Asleep and Back to the Old House

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)

Ack yes Nightswimming.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)

THAT DAMN SONG STILL GETS TO ME.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

I was a teen from 11/76 to 10/83. I guess I would say some of the classic disco which I loathed at the time, but which makes me think "why did you have to be such an uptight fucking rockist back then?" now.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

makes me think "why did you have to be such an uptight fucking rockist back then?" now.

This is so true (for me, I'm not trying to confirm that you were an uptight fucking rockist!).

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

Nightswimming does seem designed to have that effect, even on first listen.

In ten years time, people will be saying Weak Become Heroes:)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

"Nightswimming" infuckingdeed. Holy shit.

ALSO!: Weezer "Only In Dreams".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

Connells - 74,75

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

74,75 did break my heart up until i saw this amateur vid of a girl getting some finger action to it.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

HMM ALSO:
REM - Half A World Away

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

Soul Coughing "True Dreams of Wichita"
Ween "A Tear For Eddie"
Beck "He's A Mighty Good Leader"

That is probably my other favorite REM song besides "Nightswimming". And maybe "Low".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

Mazzy Star "Fade Into You"!!!!!!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

Greetings to the New Brunette.

I didn't like at first, but now I think it's genius.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

'it'

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

Trashcan Sinatras - Thrupenny Tears

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:35 (twenty years ago)

Ack, "Half a World Away"! A hopeless crush object and I used to busk that song and "Country Feedback" (amongst others) in our teenage years.

God, I feel like such a douche now.

― Sundar (sundar), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

Samples - Nothing Lasts For Long
Samples - Did You Ever Look So Nice
Samples - Feel Us Shaking
Samples - Streets in the Rain

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

last night i dreamt, the smiths.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

Mazzy Star - "Fade Into You" Ha ha. I fell in love to this song.

Greetings to the New Brunette.

OTM.

The Smiths' "These Things Take Time" and "This Night Has Opened My Eyes" spring to mind as well as the English Beat's "The End of The Party" for a very specific reason.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

mazzy star - ride it on
frente - labour of love
the cure - inbetween days
the smiths - just about any of their entire discography but especially this charming man and please let me get what i want
the the - jealous of youth and uncertain smile

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

The Replacements "Achin' to Be"
Trashcan Sinatras "You Made me Feel" (is that what it was called?)
Steve Kilbey "Judgment Day"
The Hummingbirds "Alimony"

and the usual suspects listed upthread.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

If not for the circumstances surrounding "Fade Into You", it's possible Mazzy Star's "Five String Serenade" might figure more prominently into my heartbroken teenage nostalgia jam countdown.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

when did they stop writing songs like these?

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

Now I can remember, now I can remember...

Trashcan Sinatras - "Drunken Chorus"
New Order - "True Faith"

― David Merryweather Goes To Far (scarlet), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

Some great reminders of bygone years there :)

Lover - Perfume
Me in honey - REM
Pictures of you/A Few Hours after this - The Cure
Can't be sure - The Sundays
The Wholeworld Window - Cardiacs

― thr (thr), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

Can't be sure - The Sundays

oh god. i'm in a weepy mood today, but this one sent me over the edge. time to cry in the handicapped bathroom stall.

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Don't know if this qualifies as indie, per se, but "Another Bridge" by Everything But The Girl.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

Also, it breaks my heart that I spent good money on the 12" of Hang 10 by the Soup Dragons and that it still sits there in my record collection like a reproach.

― Adam Faithless (Adam Faithless), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

I FORGET HOW MUCH I LOVE TRASHCAN SINATRAS

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

mazzy star - halah
rem - you are the everything

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

So typical - a battle of wits
And I've come half prepared
I know all the ropes
But haven't a hope
Of pulling you back to me
I'm losing my grip
And sailing this ship
From barstool to Borstal and back
CHORUS
You made me feel I was born again
It's a shame I never grew up again
I'm a boy at sea
And I'm stowaway scared
Scared that my friends see
The man amongst the many
Now bottlescars are all that I have
To show the boys back home
Who'd said that to plead
Was a sign of the weak
And to fight was a sign
Of the strong
Just fairweather words
From four-letter friends
But I found out
The four-letter way
You made me feel I was born again
It's a shame I never grew up again
I'm a boy at sea
And I'm stowaway scared
Scared that my friends see
The man amongst the many
And now I've swallowed my pride
I promise you I
Couldn't eat another word
I'll count to 3 then I sail to sea
I just got to 8
When you started to say
I'll bid you farewell
I'm going, going, gone

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

JtN - I wish I could say that it was I who gave you Ride's 'Sight Of You'. I think it was not; but you will remember that I did play it to you, early in 2004.

PJM, I agree about the Bragg. It's maybe his best.

'A Few Hours After This' is a terrific call. I wouldn't have thought of that.

I was going to say merely 'In A Different Place'.

― the dreamfox, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

REM - Half A World Away

OMG yes.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

Another vote for the Mazzies' "Halah".

― Baaderonixx on a long black leash (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

Ocean Blue - A Seperate Reality

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

“Stay Together” – Suede
“Badhead” – Blur
“Question of Lust” – Depeche Mode
“greetings from the sugar lick” - the spinanes

Just about any song by Suede makes me feel incredibly weird; I think it’s the only music that really transports me back to age 14; when I listen to them again all I can think about is what being a young person really feels like—how you place all your hopes in the future, in being an adult. I remember being all angsty-like, listening to Suede, thinking that being an adult must be totally romantic and depressing.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Cranes - "Adoration"
The Popinjays - "Fade Away"

And I can no longer get through a listen of House of Love's "Shine On" without coming over a bit glassy-eyed. Bah.

― David Merryweather Goes To Far (scarlet), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

One more big shout for "Almost Prayed" by the Weather Prophets which reminds me of another one: "Ballad of the Band" by Felt.

Also Cud's "I've Had It With Blondes"
"I was a teenaged stamp collector
I'd lay on my back and you'd stamp on my face"

Jonathan Richman: That Summer Feeling, The Morning Of Our Lives, Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste, Not Yet Three, Our Swingin' Pad, I'm Just Beginning To Live, Up In The Sky Sometimes, Back In Your Life, Ancient Long Ago, I'm About Seventeen.........and about 3 dozen others

The Soup Dragons twelve incher of "Hang Ten" is tremendous, by the way.

― everything, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

JtN OTM with Pale Saints. Yesterday I had to have a good lie-down when 'Half-Life, Remembered' popped up on the ipod. I don't think I would've gotten up were it not for the scent of burning scrambled eggs from the kitchen.

― jennpb (jennpb), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

what being a young person really feels like—how you place all your hopes in the future, in being an adult

I wonder if this is true. It is probably at least partially true.

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

I didn't have emotional reactions to music as a teenager. Hmmm.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

Some teenage years sentimental biguns that I couldn't exactly call indie, but felt like posting anyway:

Red Hot Chili Peppers "Breaking The Girl", "I Could've Lied"
Faith No More "Everything's Ruined"
Jane's Addiction "Would For You"
Blind Melon "Change" (this song still brings on a case of the weepies)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

"flowers of guatamala" rem

actually, just name any of the sadder of the rem songs from around then and i probably choked up on them at least once. would i today? dunno. i'll have to check some time.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

i think im going to put together a comp of these. i'll let you know when its done if anyone wants a copy.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

James-Laid
The Cure-Love Song
Tori Amos-Bells for Her & Northern Lad
Wilco & Billy Bragg-Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

Oh shit TORI AMOS! Please let it be known that I am going on the record as saying that "Winter" fucking owned my 15 year old soul.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

Wow, my most successful thread ever.

Also, Whipping Boy! Fucking hell! Perfume!

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

my sister and i were thinking yesterday about how we can't really remember our lives until we started liking music. do you think it makes for better/clearer memories?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

my sister and i were thinking the other day about how we can't really remember our lives until we started liking music. do you think it makes for better/clearer memories?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Yes. Yes.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

you will Yes.

― the finefox, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

okay

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

whoops

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

Liz Phair, "Shane"

AMC, "Help Me"

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

"You Dropped the Bomb on Me," Gap Band
"When Doves Cry," Prince & the Revolution
"Eres Tu," any version of it

okay I'm old

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

by which I mean to say...when I was young, there WAS no indie

I guess "Perfect Circle" by R.E.M. might count though

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

I'm still essentially in my teenage years. These songs have tended to feel practically soul-destroying to me. And because I'm a nutter who tends to think music gets better as it becomes more harrowingly downcast, they're among my absolute favourite songs.

Kitchens of Distinction - "Hammer"
Red House Painters - "Medicine Bottle", "Katy Song", "24", "Strawberry Hill"
The Sound - "We Could Go Far", "Contact the Fact", "Sense of Purpose", "As Feeling Dies"
The Comsat Angels - "Postcard"
Disco Inferno - "A Rock to Cling To"
Throwing Muses - "Vicky's Box", "Delicate Cutters"
The Chameleons - "Monkeyland", "Soul in Isolation"
Slowdive - "Dagger"
Roy Montgomery - "Rain Receding"
Mira - "Hollow", "Plastique"

As for prettier songs... (Some of these are the same groups, of course.)

Kitchens of Distinction - "Drive That Fast"
The Comsat Angels - "After the Rain"
Slowdive - "Souvlaki Space Station"
Disco Inferno - oh, fuck, too many to list!

I have much more than this but I'm hard-pressed to name anything right now.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

I love the love the Trash Can Sinatras are getting on this thread (and also Carter, but that's another story entirely).

Some more:

Edwyn Collins - The Wide Eyed Child in Me
Madder Rose - Swim
The Field Mice - Anyone Else Isn't You
Jesus and Mary Chain/Hope Sandoval - Sometimes Always
The Pogues - A Rainy Night In Soho
The Auteurs - Showgirl
The Cure - Catch

These are nearly all after my teenage years, but they made (and make) me feel like a teenager so they still count.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

Ride - Close My Eyes
Slowdive - Catch The Breeze
Boo Radleys - Foster's Van
Teenage Fanclub - Everything Flows

(somebody upthread said Blur - Badhead, I would agree but I was 21 then)

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

Ooh! Charalambides - "Song for Always" and The Names - "Nightshift" for me, too.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

Some more I remembered:
David Sylvian "Red Guitar"
Ryuchi Sakamoto's "Forbidden Colours" soundtrack
(ok these arent "indie" in that sense but you know)
Felt "Primitive Painters"
Hugo Largo "Grow Wild", "Second Skin"

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 25 August 2005 02:12 (twenty years ago)

I was going to say... yeah, I think calling David Sylvian "indie" might be stretching the meaning of that word JUST a bit. If I'm speaking nonsense, though -- "Orpheus", "Let The Happiness In", and "The Ink In The Well" were all songs that started making me swoon when I was in my teens. Everything else I can think of is DEFINITELY NOT "indie", which means this thread has served to make me feel very alien.

― (This Field Left Blank) (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 25 August 2005 02:29 (twenty years ago)

(I know for damn well sure Duran Duran ain't indie. Neither is Kajagoogoo, or Thompson Twins, or Spandau Ballet, or Depeche Mode, or -- you get the picture.)

― (This Field Left Blank) (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 25 August 2005 02:30 (twenty years ago)

off the top of my head..

hummingbirds "blush"
skolars "precious love"
died pretty "dc"
clouds "cloud factory"
tiny town "drop by drop"
the cannanes "broken bottles"
swirl "breathe"

i was very into local bands as a youth.

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Thursday, 25 August 2005 02:32 (twenty years ago)

Heh, I was in my 20s for most of those songs! Feel old now :(

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 25 August 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)

i hit 20 just as britpop started taking hold...

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Thursday, 25 August 2005 02:51 (twenty years ago)

Oh! Does this have to be about songs & artists that were supposed to come from the time we were teens? If so -- I'd be shit out of luck.

― (This Field Left Blank) (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 25 August 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

I'm almost scared to listen to Nightswimming right now...my heart might explode.

Find the River might be even more dangerous, though.

― giboyeux (skowly), Thursday, 25 August 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)

I can remember sitting on my bed, listening to the local AM community radio station late on a sunday night, hearing "Loves Easy Tears" by the Cocteau Twins for the first time and being blown away with happiness. How that tinny little plastic boombox tape player/radio of mine gave me such joy in musical form in year 11 and 12.... sigh.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)

Also, Ian R-M, you're spot on about "Delicate Cutters" oh my. Seeing her do that song live was a high point of my life.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:28 (twenty years ago)

I wish I was 17 again sometimes :/

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:29 (twenty years ago)

oh also: galaxie 500 "fourth of july" (remembered because i heard 'blue thunder' in the video store last night, the non-sax version unfortunately)..

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:33 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah died pretty dc was one of mine too. hummingbirds i had a cassingle of 'if a vow' which was much played too. also the falling joys lock it. and tiddas used to do an acappella version of come inside my kitchen that i taped off the radio and wore out.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)

also nick cave and the bad seeds - the ship song. and that boys don't cry song about the shiver up the spine, whatever that was called? shiver i suppose.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

i loved loved loved the b-sides of "if a vow" - especially "paralysed" which is one of simon's most affecting tunes. i loved "lock it" at the time but i fear it is the most dated track on a very dated album.

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

shivers xpost

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

HAND COPS TO TRASHCAN SINATRA SHAME

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

and the sundays 'here's where the story ends'

i think i liked 2 weeks in niagara falls better than paralysed. i still have that if a vow cassingle. it's a bit battered and wobbly though.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:56 (twenty years ago)

also my friend the chocolate cake i've got a plan.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:59 (twenty years ago)

Again, maybe not indie, but one of my favorite songs and one most like to make me cry is Satie's 5th Gnossienne.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 25 August 2005 05:01 (twenty years ago)

Boys Next Door gem, not Boys Dont Cry! ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 25 August 2005 05:05 (twenty years ago)

ahaha oops. getting all my teenage favourite songs/bands/albums/tshirts mixed up. i might have to have a little nostalgia floorgazing disco at my house tonight as a reminder.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 25 August 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

Hanging out with my best friend when I was a teenager last night, oh it all came back up...

-Add It Up - Violent Femmes
-Ocean Rain - Echo & The Bunnymen
-There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths
-Under The Milky Way - The Church
-Beauty Lies - Sonic Youth

― I Dream Of Sleep (kate), Thursday, 25 August 2005 07:01 (twenty years ago)

Sonic Youth "Brother James"
The Cure "A Few Hours After This", "A Thousand Hours"
Current 93 "Passing Horses"

― Baaderonixx on a long black leash (Fabfunk), Thursday, 25 August 2005 07:08 (twenty years ago)

-Too Far Down - Husker Du

― I Dream Of Sleep (kate), Thursday, 25 August 2005 07:09 (twenty years ago)

Total Devastation - Many Clouds of Smoke

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Thursday, 25 August 2005 09:00 (twenty years ago)

Not exactly my teenage years...well when i was 20.

Zumpano - Temptation Summary

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Thursday, 25 August 2005 09:23 (twenty years ago)

ive got more...just reminded of how much of a miserable bastard i was.

cure - letter to elise
red house painters - dragonflies
smashing pumpkins - mayonaise
kitchens of distinction - smiling
drop nineteens - kick the tragedy
seam - decataur

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Thursday, 25 August 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

BILLY BRAGG - TANK PARK SALUTE

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Thursday, 25 August 2005 10:47 (twenty years ago)

NOT SO INDIE BUT BASICALLY ALL OF TRACY CHAPMANS DEBUT.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Thursday, 25 August 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

gene - london can you wait

― jon garvie (jaybob3005), Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

Eep! More I forgot!

For Against - "Shine", "Echelons", "December", and especially "The Effect"
Cocteau Twins - "The Tinderbox (of a Heart)", "Five Ten Fiftyfold", "Carolyn's Fingers", "The Spangle Maker"

Trayce, those Hugo Largo songs are on Drum, right? I've been meaning to get that. I love Mettle very much.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

And The Sundays - "Wild Horses". I've meant to mention them about four times now.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

mmm fingering reese on a rollercoaster. LET ME IN THE FUCKING HOUSE.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

please delete me. sorry im a bit pickled.

― Lupton Pitman (Chris V), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

Chapterhouse "Pearl"

― blue, Friday, 26 August 2005 10:08 (twenty years ago)

Trayce, those Hugo Largo songs are on Drum, right?

Aye, they are indeed. The whole album really is marvellous in a spare, distant kind of manner. Even the little bits where Stipe pipes up and sings work with the rest without being annoying.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 26 August 2005 10:21 (twenty years ago)

somehow I fucking forgot Love Will Tear Us Apart

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Ian, the Stones' original has a better guitar somehow. (/rockist)

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

Billy Bragg – "The Saturday Boy"
Band of Holy Joy – "Baubles, Bangles, Emotional Tangles"

(btw I think a somewhat lax definition of "indie" is good for this thread)

― OleM (OleM), Saturday, 27 August 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

Also I am pleased that The Blue Aeroplanes' "Journal of an Airman" has been mentioned!

― OleM (OleM), Saturday, 27 August 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Finally I get a chance to post on this.

Because of my best friend from university, who died three years ago:
Fish by Throwing Muses
1, 2, 3, 4 by Bauhaus
Together in Electric Dreams by Philip Oakey and Giorgio Moroder
Forbidden Colours by David Sylvian

High school:
Perfect Circle by REM
Stretch Out and Wait by The Smiths
I Often Dream of Trains by Robyn Hitchcock
Just Like Honey by The Jesus and Mary Chain*

*weirdly, one of the women doing backing vocals on this record is now a close friend!

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 27 August 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

I was listening to "Fish" last night Suzy! Had a bit of a nostalgattack and got my old 'Muses CDs out to listen.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 28 August 2005 08:17 (twenty years ago)

what a great fucking thread...

Kitchens Of Distinction - Mad As Snow
Field Mice - So Said Kay, When Morning Comes To Town
Springfields - Are We Gonna Be Alright
Razorcuts - Brighter Now
Heidi Berry - Northshore Train
Durutti Column - Tomorrow
The Orchids - Blue Light
American Music Club - Ex-Girlfriend
Band Of Holy Joy - Bitten Lips
Galaxie 500 - Cold Night
Man From Delmonte - Mathematically Speaking
Smiths - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
TV Personalities - God Snaps His Fingers
Caroline Trettine - Sleep With Me
Wedding Present - Anyone Can Make A Mistake

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Sunday, 28 August 2005 10:32 (twenty years ago)

this mortal coil's versions of Kangaroo and Song to the siren

― Porkpie (porkpie), Sunday, 28 August 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

Oh, snap to the latter, CB, again on the college side of my list.

― suzy (suzy), Sunday, 28 August 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

The Durutti Column! "Sketch for Dawn II", "Never Known", "One Christmas for Yor Thoughts", "Smile in the Crowd", "Tomorrow" -- oh, they make my heart ache.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 28 August 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

bump

I cannot believe only one person has mentioned the Verlaines on this thread. Practically all of Bird-dog still gets me, especially 'Just Mum', 'Slow Sad Love Song' and the title track.

Ditto the Go-betweens: 'Head Full of Steam', 'To Reach Me', 'Bye-bye Pride', although the latter doesn't work as well as it used to.

Best of all though, is the Widdershins' 'Railway'.

― mrlynch, Friday, 20 April 2007 04:18 (nineteen years ago)

Bye bye pride still causes a lump in my throat. Having said that I only heard it for the first time last year.

― badg, Friday, 20 April 2007 05:16 (nineteen years ago)

jesus christ none of them.

i've got enough drama/trauma in my adult life, i don't need to go looking back 20 years to find more.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 20 April 2007 05:19 (nineteen years ago)

i mostly listened to metal/punk as a teen, i didn't have no time for no indie schmindie bollocks

― latebloomer, Friday, 20 April 2007 06:00 (nineteen years ago)

I need to write mine down as they come to me, rather than finish reading the thread first.

Suede - Introducing the Band
Paris Angels - All on You
Throwing Muses - Hate my Way
Dinosaur Jr - Get Me
Huggy bear - Her Jazz
And lots of others that will comes to me in dribs and drabs

There is a subset of songs which I heard on Peel when I first started listening to his show (early 1990 onwards basically) - bands like Sofahead, A Witness, When people were shorter and lived near the water, Thrilled Skinny etc. who I haven't heard for 15 years but, were I to, I would be immediately taken back to the thrilling, naive days of "wow, this music is weird and discordant and fast and it's doing something to my brain". So that sort of counts (and if anyone would like to email me any of this stuff, or point me in its direction, please do!).

Finally - I think Reading, Writing and Arithmetic just may be the finest album ever released.

― Mark C, Friday, 20 April 2007 10:12 (nineteen years ago)

My teenage years weren't filled with indie...
They were filled with Soul, Reggae, Hip Hop and Rave.
Indie was for the white kids.

― Stone Monkey, Friday, 20 April 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Muttered this elsewhere, but the Cure's "Trust," while not indie specifically

huh? they invented indie! [nb do not question this, i will stick my fingers in my ears and go lalalala]

for me:

The Cure - Untitled
The Cure - From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea
The Cure - All Cats Are Grey
The Cure - Trust
The Cure - Like Cockatoos
The Cure - Sinking
The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys

and my gut answer when i saw this thread title:

Buffalo Tom - Taillights Fade
A House - When I First Saw You

Great thread! It's basically Feeling Gloomy's playlist.

― CharlieNo4, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

"Evapor8"

― Noodle Vague, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

dinosaur jr. - everything ever
pitchfork - rana
catherine wheel - car/girl stand still (always together on the mix tape for maximum sensitive-guy impact)

― kenan, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

"Too Drunk to Fuck"

― Noodle Vague, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

and my gut answer when i saw this thread title:

Buffalo Tom - Taillights Fade

Ha, mine too, then I looked upthread and saw I'd posted it already. Even reading my own earlier contributions upthread is making me all misty-eyed and sniffly.

― ailsa, Friday, 20 April 2007 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously, I've seldom felt so indulgent as while reading through this thread and piecing together my list. But I suppose that's the point.

The Cure – Apart
Smashing Pumpkins – Take Me Down
The sound of 16, maybe. Walks to college, headphones on, nails in palms. Both of the above still do for me. I blame them for everything, maybe.
Tindersticks - Mistakes
The Walkabouts – All For This – This more than anything. Journal with “All For This saves me again” scrawled at regular intervals. The epiphany of strings after the middle eight.
Comet Gain – Pier Angeli
Divine Comedy – Someone – Strings again! So loud that they distort, and it’s still not enough.
Morrissey – Late Night Maudlin Street
Lambchop – Theöne – “Gomer Pyle/ Is just a man/ Who served his country/ As best he can”. But it’s all in the squeak of the fretboard really.
Jacques – Somewhere
Field Mice – End Of The Affair – Saying “this is it, isn’t it?” to someone, because there’d never be a better time, and I needed a laugh, and feeling better for the reference and ten times worse. The mawkishness of the shoehorning feeding into the little heartbreak and all of it leaving me shuffling back tears in Shoreditch.
New Model Army – Green & Grey
Spearmint – Start Again – I don’t know how many times I’ve played it – only that it ought to have got tired long ago, and hasn’t.
Webb Brothers – Sleep If You Can

― Nicholas Passant, Friday, 20 April 2007 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

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