| Kane Knight |
08-11-2009 05:34 PM |
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Originally Posted by Fabien Barthez
(Post 2666188)
I get the feeling you like music based on it being 'nonmainstream'
Which makes you the sort of elitest tool I have spent so long not being.
Clox this is, not KK.
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Ironically, Clox kept calling me an elitist. It's not that I lack diversity in music that bothers him, it's that I don't like exactly what he likes.
But he's NOT AN ELITIST LOL
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Originally Posted by Indifferent Clox
(Post 2666775)
The thing about indie though, is it isn't a genre, it's a spin off of all that DIY Punk stuff, but it's like every genre you'd hear on the radio, without the rules of no songs longer than 4 minutes, you need to be able to know that it's the same song for the most part, it needs to have verse chorus verse, etc.
you know what I'm saying?
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So the term is more or less meaningless. Indie's just a bullshit tack-on that you can apply to anything not top forty and quite a bit that is.
Speaking of which, there's very little in that song that really counts as "non-mainstream." I mean, I suppose you can call the shitty way the vocalist sings "artistic," but that's kind of...Dumb. If you polished it slightly, and replaced the vocals with something that wasn't "shite for the sake of shite," that would be like any non-mainstream mainstream track that's been in heavy rotation in the last five years.
Also, in Nunder's defense, there's little later in the song that merits listening beyond a minute or so.
On the other hand, I love KEXP's "music that matters" Podcast. Not every song is a winner, but they have a shitload of good music on there.
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Originally Posted by Indifferent Clox
(Post 2666911)
Cut Copy was number 2 on the australian charts. they're indie
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Yeah. Australa also brought us Wolfmother. I'm pretty sure we can call their taste "ass."
Right Nunder? ;)
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