I'm sick of all this Indie/Britpop bull$h!t that is coming out at the moment, all these bands sound the same! I don't give a $h!t if its popular, its bullf***! These bands never have anything worthwhile to sing about, which would be okay if they didn't sound so mediocre. What I don't get about these bands though, is how they always seem to get so popular, even amongst groups who claim to only like heavy music. Now, don't get me wrong, I have no problem with people expanding their musical horizons, but these people still claim not to have done. Indie seems to be accepted universally as the best musical style. All I want to know is: "Why?!"

LMFAO!

I do sort of agree. SO many of the popular Indie bands sound the exact same. Or what's worse is when an Indie anthem actually breaks out - The Kooks, Naive - and then all of that group's follow-ups are bloody awful.

 

Reverand And The Makers are okay though. :kink:

I do sort of agree. SO many of the popular Indie bands sound the exact same. Or what's worse is when an Indie anthem actually breaks out - The Kooks, Naive - and then all of that group's follow-ups are bloody awful.

 

Reverand And The Makers are okay though. :kink:

Neither of those bands are Indie bands though, they're pop bands :huh:

 

Just like what this guy is talking about..

Why should I have to justify the music I like to the likes of you. I tend to prefer guitar bands playing pop songs which is what indie basically amounts to nowadays to other kinds of music. If you don't like it don't listen to it. 99% of dance music sounds the same to me but I don't go into the dance forum and start a thread saying I Hate Dance Music. Just total arrogance.

Edited February 26, 200817 yr by grebo69

I must admit, I thought the same. :lol:

 

But over a while, I've realised the difference between Indie and Pop, Indie being Arctic Monkeys, (which I really like now :lol: ) and Pop, like The Feeling (who I really cannot stand!)

Neither of those bands are Indie bands though, they're pop bands :huh:

Well I guess it's a pretty thin line, but I would call a song like Heavyweight Champion Of The World somewhat indie.

Some people at the moment seem to be calling The Hoosiers and Scouting For Girls 'Indie', that I'll never understand why :mellow:

Surely as 'indie' becomes more popular ... it becomes 'pop' music - its inevitable!

 

Norma

Joker person, what sort of bands are you talking about? You aren't exactly naming any examples. What music/artists do you like?

 

You're a very confusing fellow :(

Surely as 'indie' becomes more popular ... it becomes 'pop' music - its inevitable!

 

Norma

Well yes any popular music is 'pop' but Indie bands are on Indie labels and they sound indie rather than the watered down versions to appeal to people who 'used to' like dance and R&B <_<

 

Arctic Monkeys and The Strokes are Indie but of course they're pop bands too as is someone like Timberland.

 

It annoys me almost as much as people calling Rihanna R&B because she's black :wacko:

Well yes any popular music is 'pop' but Indie bands are on Indie labels and they sound indie rather than the watered down versions to appeal to people who 'used to' like dance and R&B <_<

 

Arctic Monkeys and The Strokes are Indie but of course they're pop bands too as is someone like Timberland.

 

It annoys me almost as much as people calling Rihanna R&B because she's black :wacko:

 

The term 'R&B' puzzles me more than anything! What they call R&B today sounds nothing like stuff that I would have called R&B 20 years ago! I suppose its just one of those 'circle of life' things! :lol:

 

Norma

 

I think I heard modern R n B stands for rhythm n bass which is ironic considering the chief tunes of the genre these days have no discernible bassline and very little rhythm to speak of.

 

As for 'indie' - do we need to have this argument again? I've been arguing about this since 1990 when Erasure used to appear on the chart show indie chart due to being signed to Mute.

 

As far as the indie / pop transition goes, you've pretty much got Kaiser Chiefs on the border keeping everyone apart.

I'm sick of all this Indie/Britpop bull$h!t that is coming out at the moment, all these bands sound the same! I don't give a $h!t if its popular, its bullf***! These bands never have anything worthwhile to sing about, which would be okay if they didn't sound so mediocre. What I don't get about these bands though, is how they always seem to get so popular, even amongst groups who claim to only like heavy music. Now, don't get me wrong, I have no problem with people expanding their musical horizons, but these people still claim not to have done. Indie seems to be accepted universally as the best musical style. All I want to know is: "Why?!"

 

Any genre of music sounds the same like Pop, dance, hip hop etc.

 

Indie bands such as Oasis, Blur, Manic Street preachers etc can make good music, thats why they are accepted universally! You won't see someone like cascada accepted coz they make rubbish music.

I do see your point, and agree in some ways.

 

Scouting For Girls, The Kooks, The Hoosiers and Razorlight - these four bands highlight exactly what is wrong with the current music scene.

I do see your point, and agree in some ways.

 

Scouting For Girls, The Kooks, The Hoosiers and Razorlight - these four bands highlight exactly what is wrong with the current music scene.

Yes but none of them are CLOSE to being Indie bands though!

Yes but none of them are CLOSE to being Indie bands though!

 

I know. What I mean is what the general public seem to class as indie and buy in droves because they want to be 'cool'. Really annoys me.

But how can people think Hoosiers and Scouting For Girls are "Indie"? That is literally driving me insane right now! :wacko:

Its simple, if you hate indie dont psot in the indie forum, surely? :mellow:

But how can people think Hoosiers and Scouting For Girls are "Indie"? That is literally driving me insane right now! :wacko:

 

:lol: Calm down!

 

I don't know what you'd class them bands but I wouldn't class them as pop, same goes for The Feeling and Plain White T's - mainstream???