99% of indie pop is good- you just havent heard most of it yet

Well i like FLorian a lot have done it for a few years now...

The number one band in the indiepop list poll this year was the Funday Mornings, so me and a few others i know scrabled around to find their records. As Pete H. says on twee.net it's straightforward Fat Tulips esqe fun pop, and it's OK, but it's not mind boggling good. So I'm still waiting for a best new band to come along. And I've been signing on to the tape-swaps just waiting for them to jump out at me.

*drools* what an amazing song that is

I do not care if braindead indiepop fans do that david (free jazz threads only ever get 5-20 replies anyway). I have heard indiepop and most of it has nothing going for it.

Doesn't that approach kind of miss the point? I should really stay out of this.

-fh

I arranged their first live show, they are really nice 15 year olds
you can get their 7" from www.benno.com or maybe www.normanrecords.com
or maybe www.roughtrade.com

You´ll like it if you like the likes of Fat tulips, Talulah gosh, Twa toots...

(Plus i know one of their members so I'm loath to do my usual sight-unseen slagging)

I am curious about the Baskervilles.

It has been a quiet start of 2004 for indiepop.

The Architecture in Helsinki album is coming out in Europe and USA in April. It's really nice.

the magic whispers cd is great, kinda like a modern update of hunky dory but with two girls singing. the pipas ep is fantastic. new brunettes album is out soon.

And Orlando is hot, even though they are only a pretend indie band.

i've heard the lp, courtesy of melbournian friend, and is one of my favourites of last year. and they made it into peel's festive fifty with that song about the owl (or something). remind me a lot of bearsuit and hyper kinako if that helps, like the indiepop version of melt banana - little bitty pop songs.

oh, here we go, festive fifty 2003: (http://infoman16.tripod.com/festive50/festiv03.htm)

5- Bearsuit - Itsuko got married
(A-side of limited edition single)
29- Architecture In Helsinki - The owls go
(from Fingers Crossed)
44- Hyper-Kinako - Tokyo Invention Registration Office
(B-side of Car And Kettle) (Demo)

andy

He was invited to write for the fourth album too, but he neglected to get anything put together. I think the two of them are on a similar wavelength, though, so it shouldn't affect the style much. Besides, it isn't as of non-Bid material has never been featured on a Scarlet's Well album. If Dickon even writes anything, that is.

But at the same time, I can see what you mean. The subject matter is so outlandish that it'd be easy for it to fall into self-parody without some careful rules set into place.

Comes out the middle of the next month, but you can get it early from their website now.

Is that about a certain ringtone on a phone?

I think The Pipettes should do a song called Wing'd Defenestration (Song For Sweety The Chick).

(Do you know, I've never heard the Pipettes, I would have done but I went to see Vichy instead along with a TRAMP and a drunk - oh that drunk was me looking in the mirror, oh well).

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The complementary ILM thread: "99% of indiepop is crap" is where most of the deep thinking that maybe was where Nitsuh's essay developed from, but its tone is a little cantankerous, so I thought I'd bring this one back first.

Anyway, thank god for filesharing networks or else the recommendation to check out Blueboys 'If Wishes Were Horses" would have driven the ebay prices way out of my budget.

(that said, im fairly certain im the guy he's singing about. or at least i was two years ago, im better now. hopefully.)

btw you should have put a My Favorite song on the mix tape!

And that song shows up on this particular comp (amongst others), which I also highly recommend:

https://archive.org/details/10IFellInLoveLastNight

Check this out too, whoever might care:

https://jigsawrecords.bandcamp.com/track/twisted-sister

Obsessed with this song

https://thetestoftime.bandcamp.com/track/girl-daredevil

oh I have that 7"!

Haha me too.

Because it's incredible!

How about the other couple of tracks I'd posted above? Excuse my hunger for engagement, I get a little nuts about this stuff.

I quite liked Panic Pocket tonight. Sassyhiya were more hit and miss. The Jeanines were very charmingly sloppy and I got their last album which I'm a big fan of, they have a new one out but I haven't heard it yet.

Tomorrow is Would-Be-Goods, Orchids, Swansea Sound so should be great

I don't post on insta much anymore, and it didn't occur to me that I could just share the browser version (in my universe ilx is browser-internet, insta is app-internet) of my reel from a little while ago showing off my indie pop haul so far (at the time) this year.

https://www.instagram.com/wrongtube/reel/DJc3y_ettRo/

bloody hell, some of those must've cost a few $$$

I've got several of those records but missing a lot more

Actually no… I didn’t pay more than $50 for any individual one, and only a small amount got as high as that limit. That’s mostly due to a hook up I have for the bulk of them.

Extra special too because I’m in the states and many of these are mighty tough to find over here!

super cool, i would listen to all these 7"s

Would host a listening party