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sunchild1
Joined: Aug 24 2005
Location: Florida
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ya'll have to listen to bright eyes, iron and wine, augustana, stereophonics, the shines, sia, dissociatives, reactor...there are so many.. i love indie.
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*We made love on the living room floor
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And in the deafening pleasure I thought I heard someone say
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Dr. Jeebus
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Title: SLF Harbinger of Death
Joined: Sep 03 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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I'm not one to ridicule anyone elses taste in music or anything like that, but for some reason this site doesn't really seem like it would be the center for the indie scene....
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B.B.King
Title: Total Fucking Loser
Joined: Aug 25 2005
Location: Truck stops and gay bars
Posts: 595
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true that. im big on the indie scene and whatever,but then again i listen to everything.
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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Dr. Jeebus wrote: |
I'm not one to ridicule anyone elses taste in music or anything like that, but for some reason this site doesn't really seem like it would be the center for the indie scene.... |
Look, just because I have the music-related articles I have are all on various metal bands doesn't mean that people can't discuss whatever bands they like; they absolutely can. Unless those bands are Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park.
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S. McCracken
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Title: Enforcer
Joined: Aug 22 2005
Location: Massachusetts
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Syd Lexia wrote: |
Look, just because I have the music-related articles I have are all on various metal bands doesn't mean that people can't discuss whatever bands they like; they absolutely can. Unless those bands are Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park. |
omg, like, lol...chocolate starfish is such a like, clever title! get it? choc starfish, like someone's o-ring! omg that's soooooo funny! i wish some other band would name an album after another part of my body that i don't want to think about! lol, that'd be lke, so sweet!
and linkin park! omg, how brilliant are they?! the best way to get people to buy an album is to make every song sound the same! if you like one, you'll like 'em all! lol, why doesn't every band do that?!
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B.B.King
Title: Total Fucking Loser
Joined: Aug 25 2005
Location: Truck stops and gay bars
Posts: 595
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"LINKN PAREK RULESZORS BECAUSE THEY ARE ANGRY AND UNDERSTAND ME. ROCK RAP IS SO AWESOME LEWL! WHAT R AL DESE FAGS WHO LISTEN TEW 'INDEE' MUSAK? IT SOUNDS LIK IT SUKS SO EYE WUNT LISTEN LOL JAJAJAJ"
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Dr. Jeebus
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Title: SLF Harbinger of Death
Joined: Sep 03 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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Hey, I actually do like Linkin Park, and they were damn good when I saw them live, even though Korn made them look like little school girls. Besides, their lyrics are really deep, you know? They're like Third Eye Blind; they just...get me (Sorry, Spanky).
Flacid Bagel, however, does and always will suck.
#edit: And while Limp Bizkit sucks ass, I guess I should give props to Fred Durst for being the most reasonable and most in touch with reality friend of Pauly Shore that appeared on "Minding the Store", though that still isn't saying much.
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Kubo
Joined: Aug 24 2005
Location: Mount Holly, NJ
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sunchild1 wrote: |
ya'll have to listen to bright eyes, iron and wine, augustana, stereophonics, the shines, sia, dissociatives, reactor...there are so many.. i love indie. |
Stereophonics are awesome. Dakota is a great song and it makes me glad that music may be turning a corner toward being good again. Speaking of which, I heard a theory that music is on somewhat of a 15 year loop. It is poppy/not so good at one point, then it becomes good after that. That takes about 15 years to cycle. At the end of those 15 years, it becomes poppy/worthless again.
There might be a little bit of truth in that... depending on your taste in music. I loved Poison in the late 80's, but (in my opinion) they couldn't compare to Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Screaming Trees, Alice in Chains, etc. in the early 90s. So say that Poison was at their peak around what... between 1986-1989 somewhere? 15 years after 1986, what did we have: Justin Timberlake, the onset of a lot of female "songwriters" like Michelle Branch who have talent but are a dime a dozen, Britney Spears, and so on.
Now let's say that the height of Nirvana, Screaming Trees, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, and so on's popularity was somewhere around the 1990-1992 mark. Fifteen years later, in 2005, music seems to be getting a little bit better: which is where the Stereophonics fit.
You could argue against this theory, or say it's totally dependent on music tastes, but it's still pretty interesting.
End disclaimer: I hereby apologize to Bret Micheals, C.C. Deville, Bobby Doll, and Rikki Rocket for comparing them to Justin Timberlake. You guys might have been "glam", but Unskinny Bop was still the shit.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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Kubo wrote: |
End disclaimer: I hereby apologize to Bret Micheals, C.C. Deville, Bobby Doll, and Rikki Rocket for comparing them to Justin Timberlake. You guys might have been "glam", but Unskinny Bop was still the shit. |
Yeah, it's definitely not fair comparing Poison to full-blown pop acts. Justin Timberlake, Britney et al are the second coming of 80s pop acts like Tiffany, New Kids On The Block, Debbie Gibson, The Bangles, and New Edition. If I was going to compare any newer bands to Poison it would probably be Andrew W.K. or The Darkness, neither of whom ever reached a level of popularity anywhere near Poison did in their heyday. A lot of the emo/indie bands tend draw from 80s kitsch, so you could possibly argue that they're the new glam.
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Kubo
Joined: Aug 24 2005
Location: Mount Holly, NJ
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Syd Lexia wrote: |
Kubo wrote: |
End disclaimer: I hereby apologize to Bret Micheals, C.C. Deville, Bobby Doll, and Rikki Rocket for comparing them to Justin Timberlake. You guys might have been "glam", but Unskinny Bop was still the shit. |
Yeah, it's definitely not fair comparing Poison to full-blown pop acts. Justin Timberlake, Britney et al are the second coming of 80s pop acts like Tiffany, New Kids On The Block, Debbie Gibson, The Bangles, and New Edition. If I was going to compare any newer bands to Poison it would probably be Andrew W.K. or The Darkness, neither of whom ever reached a level of popularity anywhere near Poison did in their heyday. A lot of the emo/indie bands tend draw from 80s kitsch, so you could possibly argue that they're the new glam. |
Good point. I never thought Andrew WK or the Darkness got enough credit, coincedentally. From what I've heard so far, the new Darkness album is really good, and I already have two of Andrew WKs. Okay, fair deal, replace the word Poison in my original argument with New Kids on the Block, and the theory still holds up OK. I just had to put in the disclaimer since Poison was probably the first band I actually remember liking.
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Thou, because I am wroth, be not dismayed, for I shall win the strife, whoever circle round within for the defence. This their insolence is not new, for of old they used it at a less secret gate, which still is found without a bolt. Above it thou didst see the dead inscription; and already on this side of it
descends the steep, passing without escort through the circles,
One such that by him the city shall be opened to us. |
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Darklire
Title: I get a Title?
Joined: Oct 14 2005
Location: The Inner Core
Posts: 54
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Good bands = Leningrad, Kaizers Orchestra, GWAR, Skindred, and a bunch of others I can't think of because it's late at night.
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Dr. Jeebus
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Title: SLF Harbinger of Death
Joined: Sep 03 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
Posts: 5228
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