Indie Defined At Last!

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We can all go home now.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 08:54 (twenty-four years ago)

Baxendale are included I'm delighted to note.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 09:00 (twenty-four years ago)

very nice set of influences there.

It's the end of history Tom.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 09:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I find the omission of eric's trip a bit hard to believe.

Anyway, yeah lots of bands I like are in that list.

Keith to thread.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 09:16 (twenty-four years ago)

I have 32 of their best release recommendations and something by 71 of the bands listed.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 09:33 (twenty-four years ago)

He says that Ride come from Reading not Oxford..hmm

― Leigh, Tuesday, 27 August 2002 09:34 (twenty-four years ago)

These lists are the culmination of a decade's worth of social retardation courtesy of the interweb. Thank you, Al Gore.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 11:10 (twenty-four years ago)

pretty good effort, only i'm kicking myself i missed the church's "folk" phase...

― angelo (angelo), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 12:03 (twenty-four years ago)

That shoegazer icon fellow is really going at it. Hope he doesn't hurt himself ..

― Dare, Tuesday, 27 August 2002 13:15 (twenty-four years ago)

Gah!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 13:49 (twenty-four years ago)

Hmmmm. An indie taxonomy? Why?
I thought the whole point of indie|alt was that they were all bands that couldn't be categorized properly, because each band was its own category. Or are the ones I don't recognize carbon copies of the innovators? (ie: Dave Matchbox Band / Hootie and the Counting Crowfish theoretically continuing where Murmur R.E.M. left off?)

― Lord Custos Alpha (Lord Custos Alpha), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 14:32 (twenty-four years ago)

The real question (and a more interesting discussion) might be where one sub-sub-sub-genre "ends" and another begins...and why it "ends" there.

― Lord Custos Alpha (Lord Custos Alpha), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 14:34 (twenty-four years ago)

T.Rex == Indie?
And This Mortal Coil is categorized as "Slow" rather than "Goth" or "Darkwave" or "Dark Folk" or somesuch.

― Lord Custos Alpha (Lord Custos Alpha), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 14:36 (twenty-four years ago)

Dammit, jel, you had to make me go and count :-)

I seem to have 37 of the recommendations, and own something (not including compilation tracks, cos I can't remember them all) by 92 of the artists... Ha! I outindie you! Um.

― OleM (OleM), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 15:35 (twenty-four years ago)

Indie top trumps! hehe!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 15:54 (twenty-four years ago)

i recognized the tied and true cookie cutter 'indie' critiques of some bands (answer is: "Highly overrated band from Liverpool.") but I dont quite get their reason. Im guessing this is a Californian thing due to the massive dissmissal of Canada.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 16:53 (twenty-four years ago)

whoa! How did Caught In Flux get in there??

― mike a, Tuesday, 27 August 2002 16:57 (twenty-four years ago)

oh no, i have records my 61 of these bands (and i think 25 of the recommended releases)!

glad to see Sweet Jesus getting a mention somewhere...

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 16:59 (twenty-four years ago)

71 of the bands, 37 of the picks.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 17:14 (twenty-four years ago)

I think I have around 100 records by the A-G bands alone -- and that's possibly underestimating my holdings of Cocteau Twins releases. And yet scrolling down the list it strikes me as a cross-section of indie that's not really one I'm into: leans harder on the shambly traditionalist indie-pop side than the more "progressive" or "experimental" or whatever indie I usually like.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 17:22 (twenty-four years ago)

Yay! Several sad counters! Let's play a game: Name the three recommendations you own that you think most unlikely to be owned by us others... mine are Charlottes: Lovehappy, Martin Stephenson & the Daintees: Boat to Bolivia, Bachelor Pad: Tales of Hoffmann.

― OleM (OleM), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 17:33 (twenty-four years ago)

I'll go for "the magic of sound" by lunchbox (though, I bet someones got it!)

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 17:38 (twenty-four years ago)

They have Indie on the computer! Now I've seen everything!

― lawrence kansas, Tuesday, 27 August 2002 17:39 (twenty-four years ago)

Hehe, lawrence's post made me think of what someone said in a book I read once: "You mean someone's actually written a whole book about chess???" :-)

― OleM (OleM), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 17:43 (twenty-four years ago)

Good grief I have music by over 60 of those listed under A-G and I don't even like indie much so I will stop counting there...

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 18:04 (twenty-four years ago)

They have Indie on the computer! Now I've seen everything!

Wait... is it in de computer or on it?

― Jody Beth Rosen, Tuesday, 27 August 2002 18:18 (twenty-four years ago)

I wonder if the Nommi they mention as having assisted with the list is the same Nommi from Slumberland records.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 21:37 (twenty-four years ago)

38 total...that's A-Z. 19 of those are "roots", however. unsurprisingly, i'm very happy about this.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 August 2002 21:59 (twenty-four years ago)

i've got lovehappy but not the other two.
my friend kate has the lunchbox cd.

― keith, Tuesday, 27 August 2002 23:14 (twenty-four years ago)

41 A-Z, mostly 'roots'. They slag off Lloyd Cole! Oh no! I like how a site devoted to micro-categorising indie has a single entry called 'Girl Groups'.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 08:16 (twenty-four years ago)

I wonder if the Nommi they mention as having assisted with the list is the same Nommi from Slumberland records.

Pretty sure it is, as she also has connections with KALX!

― marianna, Wednesday, 28 August 2002 09:33 (twenty-four years ago)

The Able Tasmans are folk???

― brg30 (brg30), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 15:30 (twenty-four years ago)

That would explain why every single Slumberland band is on the list and gets a glowing writeup.

Not that I necessarily disagree with that.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 21:01 (twenty-four years ago)

Indie is the Steve Forbert of rock.

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Wednesday, 28 August 2002 21:50 (twenty-four years ago)

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