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