Whats your top 10 indie pop LPs?
Second Story - The Hang UpsSunlight In A Jar - The LucksmithsTrampoline - Greenberry WoodsPassion Play - Papas FritasTallulah - Allo DarlinMercury Girl - Cleaners From VenusLunar Sea - Camera ObscuraSprocket Dick - Tripmaster MonkeyBlack Cab - Jens LekmanThe Wild Ones - Push Kings
― enochroot, Saturday, 4 March 2023 01:23 (one year ago) link
I still have the Visitors flexidisc!
― everything, Saturday, 4 March 2023 02:12 (one year ago) link
!! A really tiny number of people seem to like it quite a lot.
― Tim, Saturday, 4 March 2023 11:24 (one year ago) link
Not sure if I quite grasp the thread revival, but FWIW I listen to late 1980s UK indie a great deal. In recent weeks I was playing the C87 CDs 2 and 3 over and over and over again.
I also enjoy Tim's old records, but he knows that already.
― the pinefox, Saturday, 4 March 2023 11:49 (one year ago) link
I found 3 great sources for addendum's to "Scared To Get Happy":
From Wilfully Obscure (http://wilfullyobscure.blogspot.com/2013/06/va-scared-to-get-happy-addendum-aka.html):01. Visitors - Goldmining02. Moss Poles - Go Down03. Remember Fun - Train Journeys04. Field Mice - I Thought Wrong (Run away) (demo)05. The Church Grims - Plaster Saint06. Candy Skins - She Blew Me Away07. Outskirts - Blue Line08. Various Artists (the band) - Original Mixed Up Kid09. North of Cornwallis - Billy Liar10. Hellfire Sermons - Rachel Clean11. Potting Sheds - Happy Again12. The Perfect Disaster - Call it a Day13. Hey Paulette - I Really Do Love Penelope14. Jane From Occupied Europe - Ocean Run Dry15. James Dean Driving Experience - Drop Dead Darling16. The Rose Of Avalanche - Always There17. Power of Dreams - The Jokes On Me (demo)18. Palisades - Knight in Gale19. This Scarlet Train - Picture Frame20. St. Christopher - Even The Sky Seems Blue21. Stray Trolleys - Secret Dreams Of A Kitchen Porter22. Sundays - Can't Be Sure (4-track demo)
From Facebook suggestions:Playthings - JuiceThe Times - My Andy Warhol PosterThe Cleaners From Venus - Julie ProfumoAtom Spies - Aliens In Your WardrobeThe Perfect Disaster - TV Girl On FireThe Passmore Sisters - Every Child In HeavenBarbel - InfernoJim Jiminee - I Wanna Work OR +Snap Me UpSt. James Infirmary - Terry MarriageheadEssential Bop - Eloquent Sounds OR +CroakedElectric Guitars - WorkThe Lilac Time - Return To YesterdaySnakes Of Shake - Southern CrossMemphis - You Supply The RosesDislocation Dance - You’ll Never, Never KnowThe Anyways - ConfessionThe Friendly Fires - ArkansasFat Tulips - Where’s Clare Grogan Now?Parachute Men - Leeds StationFizzbombs - SurfaroundMousefolk - Devil in the Deep Blue SeaBaby Lemonade - Real WorldMayfields - World of Your OwnMoss Poles - One SummerThe Bridewell Taxis - Just Good FriendsCandy Darlings - That’s Where Caroline LivesThe Big Paintings - My Minitrend FriendGifted Children - My Favourite FilmsHoneycrash - Kill Someone You Like (aka I Don't Blame You)Fontaines - I Want EverythingCity Giants - Little Next To NothingJazzateers - Wasted OR +Natural Progression (Part 1)
From https://pedaladasabuenritmo.wordpress.com/2013/07/04/scared-to-get-happy-addendum-i/Young Marble Giants - CakewalkingVic Godard - Stop That GirlDirect Hits -Modesty BlaiseEyeless In Gaza - New RisenRinging - CapriceMemphis - You Supply The RosesCocteau Twins - Aikea GuineaBeloved - A Hundred WordsEnormous Room - 100 Different WordsStars Of Heaven - Talk About It NowBridge - Shame Is A GirlWallflowers - Thank YouCleaners From Venus - Living With Victoria GreyJames Dean Driving Experience - World Weary & Wise (new version)Emily - Mad DogsReserve - A Perfect LieThe Man From Delmonte - (Will Nobody Save) LouiseThe Parachute Men - Sometimes In VainMarden Hill - Oh ConstanceRemember Fun - Cold InsidePo! - Appleseed AlleyThe Nivens - YesterdaySt. Christopher - All OF A TrembleThe Ogdens - Rachel Put Your Arms About MeDevine & Statton - Under The WeatherThe Love Parade - Under The WeatherTreebound Story - Swimming In The Heart Of JaneSt. James Infirmary - Terry Marriagehead
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 4 March 2023 19:10 (one year ago) link
Nice! Looks like wilfullyobscure inspired the third one (at least)
Not sure if I quite grasp the thread revival
Sorry, to clarify I was providing a personal status update given my previous revive here.
― Evan, Sunday, 5 March 2023 16:32 (one year ago) link
Well, to answer your previous revive -- yes, I am still very strongly into this music and listen to it frequently.
― the pinefox, Sunday, 5 March 2023 16:46 (one year ago) link
Awesome.
Boy I got so overwhelmed by the innocent top 10 indie pop question, I've been putting it off...
Going to pivot and mention some recent favorite 45s:
Majestic 12 - Lost & FoundMy Favorite - The Informers & UsTizzy - New JerseyMoped - Naked, Sharp & PlasticSnog 6 - Start All Over Again (CD EP)Sammy - Neptune Ave. (Ortho Hi Rise)The Someloves - Know You NowLenola - Oh Yes, Jeep Is Good! (more in the indie-noise-shoegaze camp)Number One Cup - Malcolm's X-Ray Picnic Bubby Girl - Coyote Spindle Solar Coaster - Zero Sum / KarmageddonHopper - WastedLKWRM - Thirty Years Of Concentrated Thought (CD EP)The Pennikurvers - The Pennikurvers Clag - Manufacturing ResentMadison Electric - Heavy Petal The Cherry Smash - West Coast Rip-Off New Sweet Breath - Silka Charlotte Hatherley - SummerBomb Pops – Girl Daredevil + Riverside
― Evan, Monday, 6 March 2023 16:03 (one year ago) link
Long shot - does anyone have digital rips of anything the label Bliss Aquamarine released?
― Evan, Monday, 6 March 2023 16:25 (one year ago) link
It's always seemed to me that there was an "indiepop revival" around say 2008, and indeed that much of the current / subsequent idea of "indiepop" was actually crystallised then, retrospectively streamlining much of what had happened originally.
The prevalence of "popfests" for several years (plus Indietracks) around that period would support this view.
I also have the sense that this then flowed into some kind of dreampop that was possibly 80s-revivalist viz. Wild Nothing (who when I saw them live were not very different from a guitar-based indie band - but this is as long ago as 2010).
Whether there has been yet another wave of indiepop revivalism I don't know - rather, I suspect that C21 culture has "kept everything in play", permanently available.
― the pinefox, Monday, 6 March 2023 18:31 (one year ago) link
Hey check out my stellar thread-relevant haul yesterday at the shop I used to manage (I am in the US):
Hood - I've Forgotten How To LiveJuno - Magnified And Reduced By Inches / Pablo Y ZeldaFertile Virgin - Lucky Day14 Iced Bears - World I LoveTompot Blenny - Thinking Of Ways Of Keeping You WarmTrembling Blue Stars - The RainbowSt. Christopher - All Of A TrembleThe Sweetest Ache - I Remember CarolineStrawberry Story - Small & Slightly Rounded EPVarious - Joe FridayThe Some Loves - It's My TimeThe Melons - Strictly Melonhead EPThe Melons - Fast LaneEye Pilgrims / Choo Choo Train - Wall Of Sand / Many Happy Returns
Not bad for ~$55 total, right?
― Evan, Wednesday, 15 March 2023 15:29 (one year ago) link
Anyway... anyone have any good leads for some obscure "classic" indie cassette compilation uploads? I've been hunting the web and it's tougher than I'd thought! Not to dismiss the great stuff I AM finding but just as often I'll learn of compilations that don't seem to exist digitally on soulseek or blogs or archive.org etc. yet. Or, I'll remain puzzled at the absence of any blogs dedicated to that "scene" of DIY and/or small label cassettes (with downloads). It would seem like one of those things a fan like myself with access would have done by now.
― Evan, Friday, 17 March 2023 16:01 (one year ago) link
Have a gander at the things on here that aren't the NME tapes (actually the NME tapes are largely excellent but they are mostly outside the rubric of this thread): https://pressplayandrecord.wordpress.com/
I found this by searching for two old tapes whose names stuck in my head: Abigail's Birthday Party and Plinky Plonky There's a Donkey. For shame.
― Tim, Friday, 17 March 2023 17:18 (one year ago) link
Ha! I can see why they stuck... thanks!
― Evan, Friday, 17 March 2023 17:24 (one year ago) link
You're welcome. There are some good things on those tapes but if you emerge from listening to them and find yourself agreeing with the thread title, you're made from stronger stuff than I am.
― Tim, Friday, 17 March 2023 17:25 (one year ago) link
I have a high tolerance for messy experimental throwaway if there's at least something to grab onto. Could just be atmosphere, or the extra-musical context of the tape aesthetic. The lows emphasize the highs along the journey, too. It all contributes to an audio ransom note of pop experiments with punk spirit.
― Evan, Friday, 17 March 2023 17:41 (one year ago) link
pinefox I'm sorry to have passed over your post above!
You're probably right. I remember 2004-06 the trend in indie circles was bombast and post-rock/emo melodrama with elaborate post-twee instrumentation. Classic indie-pop was all about the ingredients of punk with a pop approach, so it would make sense that this would come back when there was a need for the pendulum to swing back in the other direction. But the 80s revival was certainly extremely popular too so yeah that focus got mixed in.
― Evan, Friday, 24 March 2023 19:00 (one year ago) link