StuOasis wrote:Yudster wrote:StuOasis wrote:............they just have a unique style, that makes them all sound similar....
Funniest post ever.
Thanks
Sorry. I knew what you meant, I just couldn't resist!
And as to the good indie/bad indie debate, well, lets not get bogged down in defining "indie music" - as far as I am aware "indie" is not so much a musical genre as an indication that the band in question is signed to an independant record label rather than Sony or EMI or one of the other mahoosive ones. I suppose that it is being used more as a musical genre description now because being signed to a massive record label - or any record label at all sometimes - is becoming less and less relevant to the fortunes of bands.
But for me, with a few notable exceptions, go back to whenever you first heard Razorlight, draw a line behind that and you will see a difference in musical quality in this area. A massive generalisation I am aware, but as such I think it holds up. The decline in quality has been relatively recent, and it's clone bands like Pigeon Detectives, Hoosiers, blah blah blah that have dragged it down. They all sound like student bands, and are about as musically competent too.