Indie Rock: What's Going On?

Naah, it's melodically drab too. A good melody is inseparable from a good rhythm anyway, due to the importance of phrasing.

lol curmudgeon we were just c+p'ing shit.

obviously one would need to listen to hours and hours of emo music before deciding it's all rubbish.

are we really going to turn the first ever ilm thread - boring as it generally is - into another Argue-With-Geir-About-Something-He's-Already-Made-His-Mind-Up-About thread.

It's what kept ILM going through the years.

This is really the "first ever ilm thread"?

Songs About Quitting Your Job? is.

I just got fired, what should I listen to?

What are some recent-ish indie rock records that are actually worth hearing for someone who doesn't listen to this stuff anymore? I guess I want more art school kid indie rock (that ISN'T ANNOYING!) rather than indiepop, though tunes are a good thing sometimes too. No gimmicks unless they're really good ones. But not boring either.

I dunno. I mostly listen to astrology records.

Who are they? Do they sound like the pixies?

I was hoping this would be an all-star tribute line-up with Steven Malkmus and Isaac Brock and Doug Martsch trading off verses, all like "Mother, mother..."

I did a search, trying to find the rolling 2k11 thread, and stumbled upon this. I lol'd a bit to find out this is the first ILM thread. I just assumed it was a "Sun Ra - C/D" or a "Steely Dan - S/D" thread that started the madness.

u missed Songs About Quitting Your Job?

the rolling 2k11 thread you were looking for.

but seriously, did anyone see Reynols before they cancelled their tour? If anyone's gonna save indie, it's a band like that.

lol reynols

life goes on

obla-di obla-da

― Tom, Saturday, 26 August 2000 00:00 (10 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Damn!

sadly, nothing has happened in indie rock since 26 august 2000 00:00.

reynols jeez

none more indie. Reynols/No Reynols is the shit

props to Otis breaking down the Five Colleges w/ the old Scooby Doo analogy

emo existed back in 2000?

yes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJzAoxvWizw

^good song but I tend to use EMO to describe nasally, whiny, childish, dramatic and/or flowery vox that really grate on me. And apparently I am more prone to hating these voices as apparent by various indie threads on ILM. Then again, even I like a few singers with nasally, whiny, childish, dramatic and/or flowery vox. Just not as many as everyone else.

Heady days, heady days:
http://www.fourfa.com/

i find that when i speak to younger people (I'm 32) they have a wildly differing idea of what "emo" means than I do.

!: http://xconditionedx.blogspot.com/2008/05/90s-emo.html

tylerw OTM

and then i'm like: "young people! let's get our emo facts right!"

'emo' should remain an insult imo. even in conjunction with music

how in the living hell is rye coaltion emo???

i think i have a braid record on vinyl.

emo changed again after this thread. What generation of emo is it now?

Did we really let the twentieth anniversary of this thread go entirely unmarked? I suppose we were all a little distracted.

There's an analogy between the Five Colleges and Scooby-Doo, with each school a different character. Hampshire is Shaggy. Will Oldham is an alum; he's probably as close to the stereotypical Hampshire student as anyone (hyperintellectual, violently odd, stupidly pretentious).

Sorry to correct 20-yr-old misinfo, but Oldham didn’t go to Hampshire. (He attended Brown, but didn’t graduate)

(Maybe this was pointed out later in the thread, I stopped reading at that point)

Lol

they were probably mixed up with Elliot Smith.

Tom's blog from the first post is still archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20001206155500/http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~tewing/2000_08_20_singlesa.html

Apparently the offending emo bands were Get Up Kids and Samiam.

what is indie rock's "What's Going On"

^"Float On"