ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2014

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brainiac is def the band i was thinking of listening to that 6fs youtube

call all destroyer, Friday, 30 January 2015 20:20 (nine years ago) link

were there special hugs?

xp

goole, Friday, 30 January 2015 20:20 (nine years ago) link

what do we call this type of music

― lag∞n, Friday, January 30, 2015 3:12 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh early red red meat is part of this scene too I think. I'm not sure what the topic is right now though.

Evan, Friday, 30 January 2015 20:21 (nine years ago) link

remember being really proud i d'led this one brainiac album on napster

languagelessness (mattresslessness), Friday, 30 January 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link

Yeah it wasn't really a sound so much as some aesthetic I know instantly but can't articulate... Like Slint was a part too & they are way different

kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 30 January 2015 20:23 (nine years ago) link

just figured out that Toko Yasuda from the Brainiac spinoff band Enon is playing moog & guitar for St. Vincent

Darin, Friday, 30 January 2015 20:25 (nine years ago) link

it's so great that t&g stuff is on spotify, i am jamming some brainiac rn

call all destroyer, Friday, 30 January 2015 20:26 (nine years ago) link

when i hear 'indie rock' i think of a lot of that stuff in addition to the pavement gbv matador mid 90s indie rock but i guess they really arent related at all

ciderpress, Friday, 30 January 2015 20:27 (nine years ago) link

def strongly overlapping fanbases tho

lag∞n, Friday, 30 January 2015 20:28 (nine years ago) link

indie rock and indie in general was a lot of things not an actual 'sound'. You forget that sometimes in todays climate of all things 'indie'.

Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Friday, 30 January 2015 20:28 (nine years ago) link

xp
even if yes there was overlapping audiences at times. It was a far cry from 90s uk britpop or whatever you would label post millennium indie

Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Friday, 30 January 2015 20:29 (nine years ago) link

yeah, that's why it strikes me as weird when people categorize Haim or whoever as being "indie'. It's as useful of a descriptor as "hipster".

Darin, Friday, 30 January 2015 20:29 (nine years ago) link

iirc the label that was involved also influenced that definition ;)

brain floss mix (sleeve), Friday, 30 January 2015 20:31 (nine years ago) link

im interested in the hipster/indie divide i lived in new york so long i didnt know there were still indies left but then i visited portland and it was full of em i was like wow

lag∞n, Friday, 30 January 2015 20:31 (nine years ago) link

I said upthread somewhere that indie to me just describes a demographic

Evan, Friday, 30 January 2015 20:31 (nine years ago) link

indies buy records, hipsters buy cassettes

brain floss mix (sleeve), Friday, 30 January 2015 20:32 (nine years ago) link

there's plenty of indies in the bullshit college town i live in now but scant dear hipstros

flopson, Friday, 30 January 2015 20:32 (nine years ago) link

sad

lag∞n, Friday, 30 January 2015 20:33 (nine years ago) link

the greatest trick the devil ever played was teaching indies to be sexy (hipsters)

lag∞n, Friday, 30 January 2015 20:34 (nine years ago) link

there's a class element to indie / hipster imo

languagelessness (mattresslessness), Friday, 30 January 2015 20:35 (nine years ago) link

ur a class element

flopson, Friday, 30 January 2015 20:35 (nine years ago) link

i am it's true

languagelessness (mattresslessness), Friday, 30 January 2015 20:36 (nine years ago) link

it def requires less money to be indie than hipster

lag∞n, Friday, 30 January 2015 20:36 (nine years ago) link

indie defensive hipster offensive

languagelessness (mattresslessness), Friday, 30 January 2015 20:38 (nine years ago) link

tru

lag∞n, Friday, 30 January 2015 20:38 (nine years ago) link

just tryin out words

languagelessness (mattresslessness), Friday, 30 January 2015 20:39 (nine years ago) link

I'm very confused. I thought that hipsters could only be defined by what they're not.

Evan, Friday, 30 January 2015 20:39 (nine years ago) link

no u can tell by how the pants are slim cut

lag∞n, Friday, 30 January 2015 20:40 (nine years ago) link

sexy pants

languagelessness (mattresslessness), Friday, 30 January 2015 20:42 (nine years ago) link

major faction of non hipster indies in 2015 is like ppl who got into indie circa cute woodsy bearded lumbersexual picnic in a meadow animal-themed band names circa mid 00's but couldn't get down with the ensuing trends. my roommates bf is like that, all the music he listens to sounds like arcade fire mixd with kind of triumphant lion king soundtrack epic group vocals on the chorus, they play twee songs to each other on guitars in the living room and bake their own bread. glad i made it out of that aesthetic intact

flopson, Friday, 30 January 2015 20:42 (nine years ago) link

indies just wear some like brown pants, theyre not sure where even got them

lag∞n, Friday, 30 January 2015 20:43 (nine years ago) link

If you guys are going to start dissing wearing brown clothes, I'm gonna be mad.

emil.y, Friday, 30 January 2015 20:45 (nine years ago) link

class is a dumb way to talk about something so hairsplitting but plenty of poor hipsters on the grind, asking u for bumps, asking to get onto the guestlist. "indie" is more a college thing atp so it probably correlates more with fam income. also more of a white thing.

flopson, Friday, 30 January 2015 20:46 (nine years ago) link

i have brown cords but i know *exactly* where i got them

flopson, Friday, 30 January 2015 20:46 (nine years ago) link

hahaha I was waiting for you to reply to that. Quick work emil.y

Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Friday, 30 January 2015 20:46 (nine years ago) link

Non-hipster indies are the worst imo. Like the woman I met who named her dog Wilco.

aybaybayfan (The Reverend), Friday, 30 January 2015 20:46 (nine years ago) link

o god

flopson, Friday, 30 January 2015 20:47 (nine years ago) link

the non-hipster indies western us version i'm thinking of are over 40, worked in a record store or were in a industrial / neo folk / post punk band in the 90s, love the stooges and nick cave, opposed to hippies and prob. can now just be described as "conservative, eccentric"

languagelessness (mattresslessness), Friday, 30 January 2015 20:47 (nine years ago) link

Music and cultural "taste" is backed up with correct arguments and facts, not "digging".

― Banaka™ (banaka), Thursday, 16 August 2012 01:09 (2 years ago) Permalink

example (crüt), Friday, 30 January 2015 20:48 (nine years ago) link

working-class parents, may or may not be kinda racist, etc. xp

languagelessness (mattresslessness), Friday, 30 January 2015 20:49 (nine years ago) link

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― flopson, Friday, January 30, 2015 3:42 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Is anyone else seeing this?

Evan, Friday, 30 January 2015 20:49 (nine years ago) link

"indie" is more a college thing atp so it probably correlates more with fam income.

Naw, most of the non-hipster indie types I know are 25-45 well-off post-collegiates. That may be reflective of my own age, iirc you're a bit younger?

aybaybayfan (The Reverend), Friday, 30 January 2015 20:49 (nine years ago) link

I find a lot of people ay they're into "80s indie " or "90s indie" they dont want anyone to think they like "pitchfork or nme music" (depending on whether they are US or UK based.
Pretty sure the whole im into 80s indie was around in 1991 though.

Weirdly I see just as many people posting about being into 80s or 90s rap. That really is a thing ive seen watching the reverend arguing with those people on twitter.

Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Friday, 30 January 2015 20:50 (nine years ago) link

hm so much history how time moves along

languagelessness (mattresslessness), Friday, 30 January 2015 20:52 (nine years ago) link

is emo still a thing with the teenagers?

Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Friday, 30 January 2015 20:53 (nine years ago) link

xp rev- i'm 23. i think we're in agreement though. by "a college thing" i meant something norms get into during college so well off post-collegiates fits that

matt i think we're talking about a different thing. or your example is just getting lil too specif and you're just describing one person you know irl lol. "may or may not be kinda racist" applies to all groups we are talking about evenly. hipsters def less racist than 10 years ago though, reading gawker/jez instead of vice

flopson, Friday, 30 January 2015 20:53 (nine years ago) link

I'm into 80s and 90s rap, especially 90s rap tbrrwu.

aybaybayfan (The Reverend), Friday, 30 January 2015 20:53 (nine years ago) link

im into music

ciderpress, Friday, 30 January 2015 20:55 (nine years ago) link

a few people but indicative of a type i think.

languagelessness (mattresslessness), Friday, 30 January 2015 20:55 (nine years ago) link

maybe more "tru kvlt alt" then "indie"

languagelessness (mattresslessness), Friday, 30 January 2015 20:57 (nine years ago) link


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