My Complete Review Of Indie Rock

[shade]

All horrible radiohead cover bands.

 

 

 

My only proof so far, feel free to add:

 

 

Radiohead:

 

 

 

Minus the Bear [plus the shit]

 

[Hyphnip]

are you saying that Minus The Bear is a shitty version of Radiohead?

[soundless_space]

Muse perhaps?

Edited June 28, 2007 by soundless_space

[shade]

eh maybe I am crazy....I thought the album covers had a similarity

Edited June 28, 2007 by shade

[soundless_space]

Oh. Ya I guess I see it now.

 

Dude you have to be more clear about stuff. Haha.

[Audio of Being]

Muse perhaps?

What about Muse?

 

 

 

;)

[saturnine]

what, indeed..

[Hyphnip]

eh maybe I am crazy....I thought the album covers had a similarity

i can kind of see it yeah, but soundwise, nothing alike at all!

though I love both.

[Shiri]

The covers indeed resemble each other. But there're plenty of covers that do.

[haircut-rabbit]

This is funny. So before Radiohead there was no such thing as Indie rock?

[Crusader]

radiohead isnt really indie rock either.

[Audio of Being]

Radiohead is really mainstream, I mean selling out 20,000 seat arenas...

[haircut-rabbit]

There are many definitions for indie. Traditionally it's short for independent, obviously... so in that sense I suppose Radiohead isn't (or wasn't rather...they're unsigned at the moment) very independent. But I think the indie rock most people are talking about here is the type of music that encorporates that low-fi, barebones sound that came about from underfunded music projects.

 

In that sense I think Radiohead as a few songs that might fit that catagory, but yeah, I wouldn't go as far as to label them an indie band.

 

Indie and Emo are two terms that get thrown around pretty often without anyone really explaining what they mean by them. Matt Good could be either-or, or both, or none at all given the definitions I've heard.

[Audio of Being]

There are many definitions for indie. Traditionally it's short for independent, obviously... so in that sense I suppose Radiohead isn't (or wasn't rather...they're unsigned at the moment) very independent. But I think the indie rock most people are talking about here is the type of music that encorporates that low-fi, barebones sound that came about from underfunded music projects.

 

In that sense I think Radiohead as a few songs that might fit that catagory, but yeah, I wouldn't go as far as to label them an indie band.

 

Indie and Emo are two terms that get thrown around pretty often without anyone really explaining what they mean by them. Matt Good could be either-or, or both, or none at all given the definitions I've heard.

I agree with you there, for me Indie rock, is the messy noisy garage band rock, where there very limited production, but what I call Indie, and what the mainstream media call Indie are two very different ideals. I think just band get tossed into some kind of genre just so the labels can sell music. All bands that come out today are either Emo or Indie, it seems to me.

 

Indie bands in my opinion are those lesser known bands, who have a cult following, with a limited number of fans, who have not yet been introduced into the mainstream culture.

[shade]

I never said radiohead was indie rock. There are many definitions of indie rock as well.

 

I was talking about a lot of bands today that try to sound like OKComputer by throwing some piss-poor electronics over their guitar chords.

 

 

 

The indie scene has some really shweet stuff. I think Sonic Youth was the first independent group to be widely successful

[Shiri]

Trying to define and catagorize music is lame anyway.

[hum-an-ole]

I agree. LAME.

[shade]

You've both done it. Quit trying to be those lame hipster types.

[no yu begin wher i end]

I never said radiohead was indie rock. There are many definitions of indie rock as well.

 

I was talking about a lot of bands today that try to sound like OKComputer by throwing some piss-poor electronics over their guitar chords.

It seems to me that the vast majority of the Radiohead influences in music today come from 'High and Dry' and a few other songs from The Bends. In mainstream music, anyway.

[soundless_space]

I never understood the thinking of not categorizing music. You have to categorize music.

[sodamntired]

it all started with the upright standing monkey who beat two sticks/rocks together in a rhythmic fashion.

 

he/she/it influenced everyone.

 

no band/artist has ever created something that was 100% original. they were influenced by someone sometime during their musical lives.

 

yes, even Radiohead. as awesomely totally wicked smart and original they are (as most fans would say), i'm sure they heard something somewhere, and decided that he could do that, but change it a little.

 

*as you can probably tell, i'm not such a blind fan of Radiohead and their supposed awesomeness/originality. same goes for the Beatles*

[no yu begin wher i end]

Radiohead has some crazy-obscure influences. Stockhausen, anyone? It's still cool what they do, though.

[shade]

no band/artist has ever created something that was 100% original. they were influenced by someone sometime during their musical lives.

no shit.

 

 

A lot of bands still have tons of creativity...they tend to be the ones with many influences.

[haircut-rabbit]

I think Sonic Youth was the first independent group to be widely successful

During their biggest years they were signed to a major label.

[mrs jesus]

During their biggest years they were signed to a major label.

i do wonder if the level of success they had ALREADY reached had anything to do with being signed, though...