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Urban Hat€monger ? · 07-18-2005, 11:46 AM

Indie is a pretty meaningless term now , in fact it`s not really meant anything since the late 80s early 90s.

Back then you had hundreds of great bands all on independent record labels. The Pixies , The Sugarcubes , The Birthday Party , Primal Scream , The Smiths , Jesus & Mary Chain , Spacemen 3 and many many more , none of which sounded anything like each other. They just did what the hell they liked without worrying about things like exposure & airplay.

Then the record companies saw that it sold & ruined it by making up hundreds of new subsiduary labels & tried to pass off stuff as 'indie' when pretty much all it was , was generic white boy guitar rock.And because of that the real independent labels got swamped by it & had little access to get their stuff heard.

So now you have the situation where peoples perception of 'indie' seems to be big selling soundalike flavour of the month stuff like the Killers & Coldplay.

UGH

07-18-2005, 11:46 AM	#7 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,626	Indie is a pretty meaningless term now , in fact it`s not really meant anything since the late 80s early 90s. Back then you had hundreds of great bands all on independent record labels. The Pixies , The Sugarcubes , The Birthday Party , Primal Scream , The Smiths , Jesus & Mary Chain , Spacemen 3 and many many more , none of which sounded anything like each other. They just did what the hell they liked without worrying about things like exposure & airplay. Then the record companies saw that it sold & ruined it by making up hundreds of new subsiduary labels & tried to pass off stuff as 'indie' when pretty much all it was , was generic white boy guitar rock.And because of that the real independent labels got swamped by it & had little access to get their stuff heard. So now you have the situation where peoples perception of 'indie' seems to be big selling soundalike flavour of the month stuff like the Killers & Coldplay. UGH __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.