THERE'S A NEW MUSIC TAKING OVER THE COUNTRY

O RLY?

I already feel guilty about it.

we need more music made by animals. where's that worm-powered synthesizer? that dude had the right idea

BHAHAHAAHAH INDIE is the NEW music taking over the country? Which country?

Ohio Players to thread. (xp)

wait... it's "indie" because it's not on a major label?

OR IS IT???!!!

xxxp - DID YOU MEAN?

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god i'm tired of things with guitars.

except for Boston. Everyone else gets their guitars taken away.

Because linking to "Funky Worm" is always a good idea, here's your worm-powered synthesizer.

Wait, how are Boston "indie"?

they aren't, but indy's baltimore

Okay that Funky Worm track is insane.

Wait, how are Boston "indie"?

man, if you don't understand how one of the best-selling records of all time can be indie, you are not indie.

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Yeah, whatever dude. They were on a major label, they're played on classic rock stations. We're not talking indie, here. Not by a longshot.

Speaking of this Ohio Players, though:

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good god man, don't you know thick irony when you hear it?

i really do love Boston, though.

I don't get this "all guitar rock ever = indie" thing either.

oh god ok i'm bored, back to my homeland.

bed.

xp it's cuz of british people, i don't really understand it either, or maybe i understand it and it just seems kind of wrong and goofy to me

I don't get this "all guitar rock ever = indie" thing either.

I think it's more "All collegiate/counter-culture music ever" than anything. After alternative, underground, college rock, etc. came "indie." In a few years there will be a new term no doubt. Probably something similar, and I'd bet it'll be something related to the internet (won't everything be!?).

David Reisman covers the topic of "indie" music (relatively speaking of course) in an essay from the 1950s where he talks about a high schoolers love of hot jazz in relation to his peers. "Listening to Popular Music" if I remember right.

"college rock" in the eighties was never vilified as much as stuff that nowadays comes out under the rubric of "indie rock". right? and even early-to-mid nineties stuff labeled as "indie" never carried the same stigma. or am i a crazyman? all i know is, most contemporary indie rock, i.e., pitchforkiana, leaves me cold. but maybe it's cause I'M OLD.

i know there are a billion explanations for all this, like internet, people long weary of guitar rock, etc.

antietam vs clap your hands say yeah. or some such.

do not cry for the electric guitar. it does not ask for your tears.

Everyone else gets their guitars taken away.

Well, if they write the same kind of traditional verse-chorus based songs and back them with synths instead of guitars, no problem for me. :)

Did you see the look on Chris Moyles' face when he heard that? Or anyone's face, for that matter?

she must die

(/lex)

OK for all you lost people here!

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Meet Emily. From Big Brother 8.

I'd hit it.

Could someone who knows about BB8 explain what this was said with reference to etc. etc. so we can have some context?

on her intro video, among all the usual "I'm so opiniated" general stuff, and the likes/dislikes, she came out with a piece of information for the general viewing public about the nature of current fashion in music.

one more time, loud as you can, how does it go?

she also has a crush on pete docherty, despite her Tory beliefs. wtf people, wtf.

Why shouldn't a Tory have a crush on Pete Doherty?

He seems a perfect crush figure for middle class convent girls

Doherty is an Anarcho-syndicalist with Trot leanings, innit? As opposed to middle class kid who read a Wikipedia article about Rimbaud or sump'n.

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, HENRY???!!!

It's the way she made out PD as her perfect man. Somehow, I don't think such a relationship would square with her pretty-as-a-picture Cameronite lifestyle. The first discarded needle and he'd be out the house...

Yeah, trust fund kids are notoriously anti-drugs.

What do you expect, she's, what, 19? 18? (xp)

The full quote as seared into my brain: "I don't know if you've heard, but there's a new music taking over the country and it's called indie. I'm a bit of an indie rock'n'roller."

There was a delightful pause after "it's called.." during which I was desperately willing her to say NU RAVE.

"indie rock'n'roller" = DOES NOT PARSE

I thought it was going to be "Nu Rave" as well.

INDIE ! and I fell off my stool.

unless you're talking about Six.BySeven, and they were hardly 'indie' by today's standards

Basically, she's the sort of girl that are ten-a-penny here at uni (and were so at school); they're UNIVERSALLY awful.

Tsk. Girls, eh?

just some girls. there's a male equivalent, and they're even worse, not even having their occasional good looks to fall back on in the eyes of this stern judge.

Yes, why do they want to sleep with Pete Doherty and not *insert name here*?

but srsly vacuousness is a massive turn-off, so they can all burn as far as i'm concerned

maybe because pete docherty is a stock celebrity name whom they've actually heard of, and a successful recording artist?

This is my meme, back off.

In all seriousness I'm not try'na rag you, Jgo, but think about how what you're saying could be construed, a little?

maybe because pete docherty is a stock celebrity name meme whom they've actually heard of, and a successful recording artist?

hmm, maybe, NV. any sweeping statements i make aren't to be taken entirely at face value, i'm just letting off steam!

THERE'S A NEW MUSIC TAKING OVER THE COUNTRY AND IT'S CALLED DECENT-DYNAMIC-RANGE-CORE

those were not my exact words :|

A lot of well-heeled young girls at university ARE incredibly proud to be vacuous.

hey i listened to 'Funky Worm' last night.

A lot of well-heeled young girls at university ARE incredibly proud to be vacuous.

Fixed for default ILM position.

why does the indie that has become popular (the OC/garden state stuff) have to be so terribly boring?

that is not the indie that has become popular in the UK (to which this young lady is referring), the popular UK indie is arguably even worse

The Guardian asked its writers to evaluate this new music that's taking over the country.

J Harris: "not Oasis not Heavy Stereo not 18 Wheeler not Biffy Clyro therefore is shit."

A Petridish: "There have been millions of words produced by underemployed, jealous Kid A bloggers tediously delineating this "new" indie music apparently taking over the country. But I ALEXIS know the truth."

<shrieks hysterically for no apparent reason> This "indie" stuff <giggles for no apparent reason> do they do it in pink in a size zero? <giggles again> I want it if it comes in pink in a size zero. <shrieks with laughter as if this was the most poignant, pithy and witty observation that anyone's made since Oscar Wilde>

So, am I celebrity yet <giggles>?

I think she looks nice.

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<i><shrieks hysterically for no apparent reason> This "indie" stuff <giggles for no apparent reason> do they do it in pink in a size zero? <giggles again> I want it if it comes in pink in a size zero. <shrieks with laughter as if this was the most poignant, pithy and witty observation that anyone's made since Oscar Wilde>

So, am I celebrity yet <giggles>?</i>

if indie became at all like this it might end up being...probably not GOOD but definitely better than what it is.

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AAARGH THIS BE IMPORTANT

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No-one else.

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Ok, girls an idiot. I'd still hit it with extreme prejudice.

"I think she looks nice."

You dirty sod! You dirty old man.... You dirty bastard.... You dirty fucker.... What a fucking rotter!

*kicks computer screen*

Your search - "THERE'S A NEW MUSIC TAKING OVER THE COUNTRY" - did not match any documents.

Apparently 20-odd years ago Carole used to sing in a band called Fancy Footwork: I don't imagine she'll have heard of anything as modern and contemporary as this "Indie" 'though.

Did anyone here ever see Fancy Footwork?
Were they any good?
Did they release anything?
If they did, what was it worth on E-bay last week and how much more do we think it's going to be worth (however briefly) on E-Bay in a few weeks time?

Mainstream UK indie is great. It cannot really be called indie anymore, though, which is why Britpop is a better term.

GO AND DIE.

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Dom you ought to check my blog this morning. I have feeling you'd find the latest post amusing.

You wanna take down Playlouder next. These kids don't know who they're testing.

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just be greatful you've got someone lame enough to google "65daysofstatic the destruction of small ideas" and go through all the reviews like a crazed proofreader/manic obsessive

is there a specific playlouder incident to which you're referring, dom?

*grateful, wtf spelling

That really shitty review they published with the horrid colourscheme oh wait.

fair point.

I always wanted a PA.

A padawan, more like, amirite?

Alas, this was probably one-off luck. I'm not going through ALL your reviewed bands hunting for plagiarism. It's a good thing I still had the actual wording of yours fresh in my mind, otherwise it might have passed unchecked and 'Dav1d R3nsh4w' would have been free to commit further acts of grotesque lifting...

is this creepy or cute?

Like I said, lucky. I didn't google 65DOS reviews with the intention of spotting plagiarism!

And 'padawan' is a reference to something I believe you said yesterday :-P

I'd have found it eventually myself, I'd wager; I'm interested in the generally cack-handed critical reaction to the record anyway - part of the interview I did with them was about the reviews they'd received.

It's cute, Paul. You want one too, admit it. (Just joking, Louis!)

new music blah blah indie blah blah country blah pic of Ryan adams.

arrrrrrr!

do you want the picture?

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I'd like to hit her with another one, amirite fellas?

Wouldn't touch her with yours...

welcome back, quitney