indie-no

Jesus Juice

whos with me when i say indie is shi,t??

Stev_o

Jesus Juice wrote: »

whos with me when i say indie is shi,t??

Well as a musician i TRY not to be ignorant to other genre's i will listen to some indie stuff but ill be quick to press stop if its some crappy generic crap which sounds stupid as hell. There is some decent songs/musicians out there but the genre like everyother genre are filled with generic bands that all sound the same.

rainbow kirby

Most chart "indie" sounds the same and is irritating as hell.

Doctor J

Like any form of music there is far more dross than there is quality, just like Metal. However, there have been some amazing indie bands and some truly exceptional music made, it would be unwise to dismiss it completely.

suckslikeafox

Indie pop, as in the crap thats in the charts is pure sh*te and totally generic but indie rock, the kind of bands you'll never hear unless you go looking for them can be pretty good

Nightwish

I try to see the "talent" in any genre of music, but have yet to find it in indie. It all seems quite generic and bland to me.

Doctor J

You'd be surprised how frequently that's said about Metal by indie fans too

JC 2K3

It depends what you mean by "indie".

If you just mean the "pop with guitars" crap that's become popular over the last 4/5 years, then yes, for the most part, I'd agree. However, the same would apply to 90% of popular rock and metal that has been released over the same time period.

But if you mean any form of music that's ever been described as indie/alternative/alt rock/post punk etc., over the last 30 years or so, then you are very, very wrong.

DenMan

When I lived in the UK I had a few mates who were really into Indie, so (unfortunately) I got dragged to a few gigs. Not my cup of tea that's for sure. Nightwish mentions generic in the above post, which they do fall into that category. It is a hard genre to break into and with so many bands all sounding so similar to each other it puts people off, myself included.

Malice

Jesus Juice wrote: »

whos with me when i say indie is shi,t??

That's a very sweeping statement to make. What exactly do you mean by Indie anyway? JC 2K3 put it very well:

If you just mean the "pop with guitars" crap that's become popular over the last 4/5 years, then yes, for the most part, I'd agree.
But if you mean any form of music that's ever been described as indie/alternative/alt rock/post punk etc., over the last 30 years or so, then you are very, very wrong.

Royale with Cheese

I'm with you Jesus

KnifeWRENCH

As with nearly every other genre some of it's good and some of it's not. Dismissing it entirely is wrong imo.

Besides the term "indie" is essentially worthless these days. Today, pretty much any non-metal band with guitars is being described as indie

Malice

Does anyone want to go to the Alternative & Indie board and ask them if Metal is shit? It would be an interesting experiment.

John

I used to mod alt and indie and I love metal. Indie is as much a single "genre" as metal is. Pop music made with an indie style (Killers, etc.) is, in my opinion, rubbish. Similarly, poppy metal is fairly cat too (Trivium are The Killers of the metal world). However, if you actually look at indie and metal with more than a brush dripping with tar you'll see that there are as many amazing bands that fall under the indie umbrella as under the metal one (and a few that fit under both).

Indie is short for independent and it used to cover all bands on an independent record label. It wasn't a genre as there's no way you could class The Smiths, Nurse With Wound and Sonic Youth as being the same genre yet all could be classed as indie.

In short, there are good artists and bad ones and who gives a **** what label lazy folk put on them.

Undergod

There has recently been a crop of very bland and generic indie bands, particularly in the UK, but there are some truly excellent indie bands out there as well. Bloc Party's first album is a fine example of how good indie can be.

120_Minutes

Jesus Juice wrote: »

whos with me when i say indie is shi,t??

whos with me when i say that people who dismiss entire genres are ****?

The Everlasting

Country, as a genre, is pathetic

Malice

120_Minutes wrote: »

whos with me when i say that people who dismiss entire genres are ****?

Now I'm curious, what do the *s in your post stand for?

The Everlasting wrote: »

Country, as a genre, is pathetic

Why do you think that?

The Everlasting

It's generic, all sounds the same

Stev_o

The Everlasting wrote: »

It's generic, all sounds the same

Well i guess being stuck to only being able to write songs about cowboys and such means that its probably going to sound the same but least you get some decent acoustic guitar parts in the genre

John

The Everlasting wrote: »

It's generic, all sounds the same

So Townes Van Zandt sounds the same as Garth Brooks? Again, this is another case of tar and brush syndrome.