How Indie are you??

i am a mix taper!

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How indie are you? test by ridethefader

You're really enthusiastic about the music that you like. You attempt to discover your new favourite
band every week. You continually try to get your friends into the music you like, which annoys the fuck
out of them, but you don't know it. At least you're not arrogant about it.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 14 September 2002 17:11 (twenty-three years ago)

That's scarily right. Except I haven't got enough patience to make mix tapes. I just copy a shedload of MP3s. Or just copy "Whatever And Ever Amen" and "Electro-Shock Blues" and give it to people.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 14 September 2002 17:13 (twenty-three years ago)

HAHA THANK GOD!!!

center>i am not indie at all!

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Who are you trying to fool? Just because you own a couple of Weezer albums
doesn't mean that you're uberindie. Indie people don't hear about cutting edge
new bands from MTV. At least the ignorant don't know what they're missing...

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 14 September 2002 17:19 (twenty-three years ago)

i am open-minded!

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You're pretty knowledgeable about music in general. You like indie music, sure, but that's only part of it.
You'll listen to any old shit as long as it sounds good to you. You're not snobby about music at all, you
just like what you like. How boring. Curiously, this makes you popular with the opposite sex.

Yay Me!

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 14 September 2002 17:21 (twenty-three years ago)

i am open-minded!

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You're pretty knowledgeable about music in general. You like indie music, sure, but that's only part of it.
You'll listen to any old shit as long as it sounds good to you. You're not snobby about music at all, you
just like what you like. How boring. Curiously, this makes you popular with the opposite sex.

that's me apparently.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 14 September 2002 17:29 (twenty-three years ago)

that's mostly right apart from the last sentence i think.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 14 September 2002 17:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I got the open-minded one too, but it was a struggle to find an answer to which I wasn't entirely opposed in a couple of places (magazines, bands...).

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 14 September 2002 17:38 (twenty-three years ago)

the question about the top40 was weird. it was, like, all the answers were the same - that the top 40 was bad.

brint it on!

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you like to fuck shit up

― gareth (gareth), Saturday, 14 September 2002 17:43 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, the top 40 question was badly optioned!

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 14 September 2002 17:46 (twenty-three years ago)

i am an old indie fart!

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For you, indie music died after "Loveless" came out. None of the bands around today are worthy
of your time. Not that you've heard any of them. It's all been done before. Fuck off back to your
REM albums, you annoying little twat.

Um, I hate REM. And I don't even know who that guy is. I was so hoping I'd be Conor.

― bnw (bnw), Saturday, 14 September 2002 18:12 (twenty-three years ago)

The pic is of top old British DJ John Peel.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 14 September 2002 18:21 (twenty-three years ago)

haha byron they got yr number!!

i refuse to take this test as they haf no "all records in the top 40 must be good by defn or they wouldn't be in the top 40 like duh" option

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 14 September 2002 18:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Same as bnw! Damn!

― Michael Bourke, Saturday, 14 September 2002 18:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I was the 'open-minded' one. Apparently liking music for how it sounds and not the fashion and local culture built around it = boring. Oh well.

― scott pl., Saturday, 14 September 2002 19:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I was "not indie". Then I changed "Pick a band" from the White Stripes to "It generally changes every week" which makes me a mixtaper. I find the onus of nonindielarity being placed so heavily on liking De Stijl somewhat pathetic and snotty. Which, of course, makes it all the more indie, har har!

― Nate Patrin, Saturday, 14 September 2002 19:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Same as Jess.

― sundar subramanian, Saturday, 14 September 2002 19:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Same as Sundar and Jess. Big surprise.

― Arthur (Arthur), Saturday, 14 September 2002 19:59 (twenty-three years ago)

First of all, why the hell does Archie = open mindedness? I'm sure mark s will have some theory on this...

I'm a mixtaper, which is right on.

― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 14 September 2002 20:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the archie picture speaks for itself in terms of open mindedness. Or maybe Archie is hoping that Betty and Veronica will be openminded...

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 14 September 2002 20:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Im Archie. Though i dont know who Archie is. I sure liked to be sorrounded by Betty and Veronica(whom i dont know too)

― vic (vicc13), Saturday, 14 September 2002 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe it means you're open enough to like "Sugar, Sugar".

― Nate Patrin, Saturday, 14 September 2002 20:48 (twenty-three years ago)

i am open-minded!

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How indie are you? test by ridethefader

You're pretty knowledgeable about music in general. You like indie music, sure, but that's only part of it.
You'll listen to any old shit as long as it sounds good to you. You're not snobby about music at all, you
just like what you like. How boring. Curiously, this makes you popular with the same sex.

― anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 14 September 2002 20:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Also:

Freaks and Geeks. Or anything else that's funny in an ironic way.

Wha??? Are they implying that ppl liked "Freaks & Geeks" in an ironic way? Cos my love for the show was 100% sincere...

― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 14 September 2002 21:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, that pissed me off! "Freaks and Geeks" was so entirely unironic -- in fact, didn't some people connect it with the "New Sincerity?"

― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 14 September 2002 21:24 (twenty-three years ago)

i am not indie at all!

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How indie are you? test by ridethefader

Who are you trying to fool? Just because you own a couple of Weezer albums
doesn't mean that you're uberindie. Indie people don't hear about cutting edge
new bands from MTV. At least the ignorant don't know what they're missing...

― Lord Custos Alpha (Lord Custos Alpha), Saturday, 14 September 2002 21:29 (twenty-three years ago)

i am open-minded!

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How indie are you? test by ridethefader

You're pretty knowledgeable about music in general. You like indie music, sure, but that's only part of it.
You'll listen to any old shit as long as it sounds good to you. You're not snobby about music at all, you
just like what you like. How boring. Curiously, this makes you popular with the opposite sex.

I am a snob, just not an *indie* snob. As for the last sentence, it is not true. :-(

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Saturday, 14 September 2002 22:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't need to do this test. I am clearly the indie-est person on ILM.

― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 14 September 2002 22:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Yay! I am not indie at all. I don't like the test though. There needs to be more none of the above. (I don't read more obscure magazines than the ones mentioned, and I don't read the glossies either.) Also I was forced to pick Spacemen 3 out of the choices offered, but I don't care about Spacemen 3. I just heard them a couple times I thought they sounded like something to maybe check out some day.

― DeRayMi, Saturday, 14 September 2002 22:46 (twenty-three years ago)

i am a scenester!

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How indie are you? test by ridethefader

You are so indie it hurts. You hang out with the coolest people in your city. It doesn't even bother
you that none of them know your name. You know lots of bands personally, you know a couple of
guys from We Hate The Mainstream Records, and you blag your way into getting almost
everything for free. That fanzine you write gives you extra kudos. You probably don't
even care that non-scenesters think you're a pretentious fuck.

but change the clothing style question, and I'm a "mix-taper." Eh, it I were truly such a scenester I probably wouldn't even be taking this quiz or posting this at all.

― Stephanie Stleja (Steph), Sunday, 15 September 2002 03:04 (twenty-three years ago)

center>i am not indie at all!

http://home.iprimus.com.au/sparvin/noindie.jpg

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Who are you trying to fool? Just because you own a couple of Weezer albums
doesn't mean that you're uberindie. Indie people don't hear about cutting edge
new bands from MTV. At least the ignorant don't know what they're missing...

B-b-b-but I thought I was an INDIE PUSSY!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 15 September 2002 04:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I got the worst one. Aye, it was the Belle and Sebastina lyric.

― Brian Mowrey (Brian Mowrey), Sunday, 15 September 2002 05:50 (twenty-three years ago)

that was unintentional mispelling by the way. what a tacky thing were it not.

― Brian Mowrey (Brian Mowrey), Sunday, 15 September 2002 05:58 (twenty-three years ago)

the world is not ready to know how extremely fuckin indie i am!!!

― ron (ron), Sunday, 15 September 2002 06:03 (twenty-three years ago)

apparently i'm open minded, but i dunno..

"You'll listen to any old shit as long as it sounds good to you": kinda true
"You're not snobby about music at all, you just like what you like": not very true
"How boring": i'd like to disagree, but maybe..
"Curiously, this makes you popular with the opposite sex": untrue

― mitch lastnamewithheld, Sunday, 15 September 2002 15:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I got the worst one. Aye, it was the Belle and Sebastina lyric.

I picked that, too, but still got Archie.

― scott pl., Sunday, 15 September 2002 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

wait does it count if the snobbery is internal only?

― mitch lastnamewithheld, Sunday, 15 September 2002 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm open-minded too.

― Dan I., Sunday, 15 September 2002 17:22 (twenty-three years ago)

anyone know the dude in the scenester category

― barry berko (bbb), Sunday, 15 September 2002 17:47 (twenty-three years ago)

You know the odd thing about that scarf the guy at the top of the page is wearing: I had a friend who had a scarf that looked pretty much just like that, and I never liked it. Pretty soon I noticed lots and lots of other people wearing scarves just like his. (He was not an indie snob, incidentally.)

― DeRayMi, Sunday, 15 September 2002 18:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I guess doomie was right...

i am a scenester!

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How indie are you? test by ridethefader

You are so indie it hurts. You hang out with the coolest people in your city. It doesn't even bother
you that none of them know your name. You know lots of bands personally, you know a couple of
guys from We Hate The Mainstream Records, and you blag your way into getting almost
everything for free. That fanzine you write gives you extra kudos. You probably don't
even care that non-scenesters think you're a pretentious fuck.

The only bit that is wrong is that most people DO know my name, because they FEAR me. I haven't paid for a gig in months, come on. Mwah hah hah hah hah!

― kate, Sunday, 15 September 2002 18:31 (twenty-three years ago)

the scarf is the burberry scarf, and I would have thought it to be too fashionable for the indie snob, but maybe not...

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Sunday, 15 September 2002 18:39 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm not indie at all... which is pretty hilarious.

i think the questions don't really represent the ranges possible. i often felt i wanted to click multiple answers or no answers at all.

what can you do though?

amusing,
m.

― msp, Sunday, 15 September 2002 19:37 (twenty-three years ago)

You are open-minded!

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You're pretty knowledgeable about music in general. You like indie music, sure, but that's only part of it. You'll listen to any old shit as long as it sounds good to you. You're not snobby about music at all, you just like what you like. How boring. Curiously, this makes you popular with the opposite sex.

― dleone (dleone), Sunday, 15 September 2002 21:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Why did I even mess with the html?

― dleone (dleone), Sunday, 15 September 2002 21:42 (twenty-three years ago)

i am a mix taper!

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How indie are you? test by ridethefader

You're really enthusiastic about the music that you like. You attempt to discover your new favourite
band every week. You continually try to get your friends into the music you like, which annoys the fuck
out of them, but you don't know it. At least you're not arrogant about it.

they got me. oh dear.

― Charlie (Charlie), Sunday, 15 September 2002 22:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Hmm...first time around I got "open-minded" (which is fine with me, although I too would dispute that last sentence). Then I went back, changed a couple answers and got "indie snob." Say what? I'd have thought I was a scenester in spite of myself!

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 16 September 2002 00:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm an old indie fart, but it turns out I am only one currently active girlfriend away from being an Indie Snob!

― Aaron A., Monday, 16 September 2002 03:35 (twenty-three years ago)

hey...am i the only one who got indie follower? :/

― brian badword (badwords), Monday, 16 September 2002 06:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I made a friend take that test, and she got an "Indie Snob" result.

Her fav bands are Weezer, Veruca Salt, Oasis and The Strokes.

I think that pretty much proves this test is full of shit.

― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 16 September 2002 12:59 (twenty-three years ago)

damn I had actually made a judgement on everyone here based on the results and now I find out it's not watertight!

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 16 September 2002 13:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Indie Snob, I even know where to buy the scarf.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 16 September 2002 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)

i am a mix taper!

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How indie are you? test by ridethefader

You're really enthusiastic about the music that you like. You attempt to discover your new favourite
band every week. You continually try to get your friends into the music you like, which annoys the fuck
out of them, but you don't know it. At least you're not arrogant about it.

Seems about right, curiously enough...

― JM, Monday, 16 September 2002 17:24 (twenty-three years ago)

i never thought i'd have occasion to say this, but i'm with jess and lord custos.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 16 September 2002 18:09 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't know what this means but i recognize the guy in the scenester picture. i'm not sure if i should laugh or cry

― barry berko (bbb), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 01:26 (twenty-three years ago)

isn't it Bobbie Gillespie?!

― Charlie (Charlie), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 01:32 (twenty-three years ago)

i am a mix taper!

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How indie are you? test by ridethefader

You're really enthusiastic about the music that you like. You attempt to discover your new favourite
band every week. You continually try to get your friends into the music you like, which annoys the fuck
out of them, but you don't know it. At least you're not arrogant about it.

I don't know, in some ways I can totally see this as being right, but I don't really try to push music on other people. *quizzical look* These things are kind of dumb I guess, but I just can't resist! lol I don't make mix tapes though! Maybe I'll start. Maybe this is a prophecy or something. (c;

― Erin Caruthers (maneki neko), Tuesday, 17 September 2002 04:54 (twenty-three years ago)

the guy in the scenester picture is Gibby, who runs makeoutclub.com

i can't believe i know this.

― Adrian Langston, Wednesday, 18 September 2002 05:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I got the "indie follower" one too, which seems an unpopular result here. I can appear cool, as long as no one discovers my dark secret!

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Wednesday, 18 September 2002 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)