Introduce me to Alternative/Indie

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You'll be sorry. Or at least you should be.

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[Mondogarage]

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Stereophonics, The Shins, Sparta, Alkaline Trio, Pete Yorn, The Hives, Queens of the Stone Age, the Shins, On Second Thought, Tegan & Sarah, The Hot IQ's, The Vines, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Dropkick Murphy's, Flogging Molly, The Fray.

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BRAG: The bass player from Hot IQs engineered my previous band's last album. His cat is very friendly.

BEAT: There's absolutely nothing indie about The Fray's music.

SADDER BEAT: Hot IQs had to cancel all their SXSW shows, because the drummer's (Elaine Acosta) dad passed away.

Okay, on that note, a few more bands:

Voxtrot, The Rosebuds, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Mission Of Burma, The New Pornographers, The Swayback, Metropolitan, Radio Birdman, Charming, Dressy Bessy, Apples in Stereo, The Minders, The High Water Marks, Of Montreal, Kinski, Supergrass, Service Group, The Coral, Immaculate Machines, Soundtrack of Our Lives, The Jessica Fletchers

Rock on.

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Paging Matty.

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I think he means it's a pretty drastic change from techno trance & rap to indie stuff. I tried to do a similar thing recently and I haven't found a great amount of stuff that I like.

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Stereophonics, The Shins, Sparta, Alkaline Trio, Pete Yorn, The Hives, Queens of the Stone Age, the Shins, On Second Thought, Tegan & Sarah, The Hot IQ's, The Vines, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Dropkick Murphy's, Flogging Molly, The Fray.

a couple of these are more punk than alternative, and a couple are somewhat mainstream.

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you forgot the shins.

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no i didnt

Edit: ah, didnt catch that i put em twice [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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BEAT: There's absolutely nothing indie about The Fray's music.



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no, there's not. Ripped their album off my friends itunes, and ive only listened to a couple songs that are pretty good, so i threw them on there anyways. same for some of the other bands that arent truly indie, but i would still throw in with alternative.

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I think anyone will be delighted to hear the sounds of Pinback.

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Alternative != Indie

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Alternative != Indie

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I think the better question is what does alternative mean? Regardless, you know what the OP is asking, so why question? I really like these threads because I'm opened up to more bands and I think everyone can say the same. You know damn well what is asked.....stop being critical and offer something constructive.

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My Bloody Valentine- Loveless

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Essential


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Obviously, I agree with this, but.....

Built to Spill- Keep it Like a Secret

This album will convert people not in the know.

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Alternative != Indie

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I think the better question is what does alternative mean? Regardless, you know what the OP is asking, so why question? I really like these threads because I'm opened up to more bands and I think everyone can say the same. You know damn well what is asked.....stop being critical and offer something constructive.

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Alternative became a meaningless construct around the time it became a marketing term. When the word first started getting thrown around, it was applied to stuff like the C86 scene, the jangly guitar pop of early REM, Pylon, the dBs, the California paisley underground sound, quirky art pop of stuff like XTC, etc, to the harDCore scene, etc. It really was an alternative to what was playing on the radio back in the day, say, '80-'85.

Popular music was largely dominated by hair metal, singer songwriter, and radio friendly middle of the road pop rock. What made it alternative was that it actually *sounded* different.

But, as was inevitable, once a part of the culture caught on to a couple of bands who'd had that term bandied about them, it was glommed on to by the usual marketing suspects, to the extent that, today, the next million emo bands will still consider themselves "indie" or "alternative", when they sound like the million bands that came before them. The term has become utterly meaningless as a way to actually describe something in a useful fashion.

Okay, rant over. For now.