Signs that someone is still an indie kid, even though they claim to have recovered from it ages ago

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1. Ownership of more than one pair of converse all stars.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:17 (twenty-one years ago)

2. Singing Carter songs when not even slightly inebriated.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:18 (twenty-one years ago)

3. Ownership of Strokes/Darkness records while attempting to pass them off as "pop"

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:20 (twenty-one years ago)

CD-R of every b-side by Blur.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:20 (twenty-one years ago)

5. You think Busted are the best boy band ever, followed by 5ive.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:20 (twenty-one years ago)

6. Posts to I Love Music

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

7. Having a thing about Enid in Ghostworld.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

CD-R of every b-side by Blur.

what does it mean if you have them all in the singles box set?

― purple patch (electricsound), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:22 (twenty-one years ago)

you never recovered.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:23 (twenty-one years ago)

what if you have them all on original vinyl/cd?!

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:23 (twenty-one years ago)

8. Liking a dance record more if the vocals are not delivered by a conventionally competent singer and the words are a bit miserable or ironic.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

9) A cough can knock them over

― Vic (Vic), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

2. Singing Carter songs when not even slightly inebriated.

Nick Carter? Is that ironic love of pop still going? ;-)

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

9. Slight fear that 'Lost in Translation' has made MBV 'mundane'.

― ENRQ (Enrique), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

10. You felt a frisson of excitement at seeing Irish Blood, English Heart get to Number Three, but then added the caveat of preferring the last Sugababes single.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

10. preferring girls in corduroy or denim skirts.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

12) claiming to abhor pitchforkmedia.com whilst reading it 6 days a week

― Vic (Vic), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

13) You think Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is the most evil, pernicious record of the 00s.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

14) Knowing what Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Got over it??

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:30 (twenty-one years ago)

15. Denying that they're an indie kid.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:30 (twenty-one years ago)

14) Knowing what Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is.
-- Alba (alb...), August 10th, 2004.

Yay! I am now an indie-free zone!

― ENRQ (Enrique), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:31 (twenty-one years ago)

15. Denying that they're an indie kid.
-- Markelby (boyincorduro...), August 10th, 2004.

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14) Knowing what Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is.
-- Alba (alb...), August 10th, 2004.
Yay! I am now an indie-free zone!

-- ENRQ (miltonpinsk...), August 10th, 2004.

aw shit

― ENRQ (Enrique), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:32 (twenty-one years ago)

16. pretending to be excited that they are no longer indie.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:32 (twenty-one years ago)

17) the native's hair, despite an attempt to be trimmed a bit shorter and neater, will still swoop over to one side in spots, scraggly and unkempt in an ugly-retro style

― Vic (Vic), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:35 (twenty-one years ago)

18) residual pride in scruffiness

― pete b. (pete b.), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

19) an unconscious predilection towards putting on either blazer or uber-snug children's t-shirt or sweater, and the same pair of tight jeans every morning before remembering they're no longer indie

― Vic (Vic), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)

20) Continued attendance at Glastonbury, combined with insistence that "no, it really isn't about the music!"

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

19) finger smudges still evident on glasses because you never learned not to touch the lenses when pushing them up your nose

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

indie kids try to put glasses up their noses?

― ENRQ (Enrique), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

22) Going overboard defending Rachel Stevens to work colleagues.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

23) lustful hyperventialtion on seeing a girl in riverscuomoesque glasses in public, especially in a "summer dress"....somewhat x-post w/ # 7

― Vic (Vic), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh shit I did 22 to the max about a week back.

― ENRQ (Enrique), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)

24) engaging in embarrassing-to-others, overlong conversations about how thundercats and transformers absolutely "kicked ass" and "ruled" despite never having seen these programmes until they were in syndication on the cartoon network in the 90s, a decade after the peak of their popularity

― Vic (Vic), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I am slowly realising that I never actually was indie to start with. What the fuck am I then?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)

25) dancing using limbs rather than hips

― pete b. (pete b.), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)

25) inordinately focusing on the production in defense of modern day pop-rap

― Dave M. (rotten03), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)

26) liking the streets a lot

― Michael B, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

27) an inability to actually recite any lyrics on demand on all the re-appropriated and supposedly brilliant hip-hop songs that are exalted in one's daily blog, despite an overuse of ironic ebonics in the writing

― Vic (Vic), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:50 (twenty-one years ago)

28) all lower-case, all the time!

― pete b. (pete b.), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

29) Masturbating over a picture of Sice in a see through blouse.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:51 (twenty-one years ago)

30) Playing Ride tracks at Club FT

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

aren't people getting tired of this poking fun at indie types (usualy self dep)? no? oh, carry on then...

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Will that stop this crazy 'recovery' talk, do you think, Steve?

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 11:14 (twenty-one years ago)

31. Owning Sophie Ellis Bextor albums despite being straight.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 11:15 (twenty-one years ago)

31) thinking 80s indie is much better and also a lot indier than all this 90s indie you lot all keep going on about.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 11:15 (twenty-one years ago)

added the caveat of preferring the last Sugababes single.
33 thought the sugababes WERE fantastic but have gone a bit Atomic Kitten

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

34) Having misread Sugababes as Sugarcubes up till the previous post, oops

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 11:38 (twenty-one years ago)

23) lustful hyperventialtion on seeing a girl in riverscuomoesque glasses in public

35) Wearing riverscuomoesque glasses.

― Harold Media (kenan), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

36) Still being mistaken for the bass player from The Chesterfields at your ruby wedding anniversary party.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I am slowly realising that I never actually was indie to start with. What the fuck am I then?
-- Sick Mouthy (sickmouth...), August 10th, 2004.

Human.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Good thing too.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

37) Considering writing for Pitchfork

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)

38) Sometimes agreeing with Caroline Sullivan.

39) Insisting that the first Oasis album 'still holds up'.

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

wow, according to this, I was never indie! YAY!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

39) Insisting that the first Oasis album 'still holds up'.

Haha! I was thinking this very fact today! (Because it's true.) But 'indie,' what is this?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

40) can post a lungfish POX

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think I've ever been indie.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

41) That pile of Select magazines under your bed

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Are ilxors like the only people ever to hate themselves for hating the people they used to be?

(#8 is so totally true)

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

(A test I find works: what sort of person does the sort of person you'd normally date, date?) (It's because of this that I reckon I'm still totally indie/pseudopostindie, despite these days liking board games more than Kanye or B&S)

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

42) Every time your friends find a "new" band you knew about them three years ago

― daria g (daria g), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

43) Searching Soulseek for every indie band you played on college radio (Q: what was that song referencing the Secret Stars? A: Les etoiles secretes)

― daria g (daria g), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

44) call your girlfriend / wife / boyfriend "Laetitia" in the throes of passion...

45) drunkenly defend shawn ryder's vocal style as "perfect for its time" at a party (ok, me last week)

― paulhw (paulhw), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Gregory, you *always* liked board games more than B&S!

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

46) they keep an ear out for the new Embrace single

― de, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Gregory, you *always* liked board games more than B&S!

I beat a seven kyu yesterday! Me! A seven kyu! On EVEN!

My housemates are really into bridge lately and I kinda hate it, though.

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

47) shudders pre-emptively whenever someone says 'Wonder' on the assumption it will be followed by 'Stuff'

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone ever genuinely escaped?

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Like certain illnesses, you never truly recover

― de, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

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