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I don't listen to indie music so I dunno if this is legit, I just thought it was kinda fun.
I never understood what Indie actually means, conceptually. Like, some people only listen to music if the musician depends on someone else, and some people only listen to independent ones.
Don't you guys just listen to shit and decide if you like it?
got my first indi album in 1997(?) when my parents sent me into a radio station to pick up tickets we had won on one of those call in radio contests. while I was in the lobby some Internet walked out with two CDs in her hands. she told me to pick one. and then she handed me that one and walked off.
It ended up being Pavement, brighten the corners. for a kid in highschool it ended up being pretty life changing.
some Internet walked out
I know it's meant to say "intern", but the mental image of the biblically accurate incarnation of the Internet randomly handing you one of two CDs like a red pill/blue pill offer is hilarious.
that may well have been what happened
Not bad. Can top though. I was maybe 6 or 7 and had some birthday money. May have been Kmart or target but my grandparents took me there to spend it on whatever. Being that age I ended up picking out School House Rocks Rocks. Ween, Daniel Johnston, Pavement (who do an amazing cover of No Kings btw), Skeelo, Biz Markie, etc all doing covers of the songs I loved to watch and hear at my babysitter
Needless to say, it took many years for me to actually recognize that the artists I enjoy most were actually there with me at the very start of my personal music journey.
Still have the CD. Even found a cassette copy some years back.
finding ween at any point is life changing
you telling me I'm going to enjoy music again one day? I'm not even mad
my problem is i don't understand how to categorise the music i listen to based on genre labels. Also I don't use a music service that has analytics or listen to playlists so I have no clue how mainstream my tastes in particular artists are
You should try https://everynoise.com/
If you type an artist's name in the search bar it'll give you relevant genres. You can then click one of those genres and you'll get a word cloud of artists. Clicking an artist name gives you a short sample of their music. You can also go back to the home page, do a ctrl+F for a genre, and see similar genres grouped up close by to it
That website was not made for phones at all
Good. grumpy face
It takes effort to make a website that is broken for mobile. The author could save that effort
It's definitely not ideal on phones, but I don't think the intended usage of the main page is to manually scroll around on either phone or PC. The massive word cloud looks exactly the same on a bigger screen. Use a "find in page" to jump to a genre you want to check out and then see what's near it. The audio all works the same as it does on PC (for me, at least)
Wait, cage the elephant is considered indie and obscure? They were the intro to borderlands lol, that's where I heard of them
My att fifty plus year old mom bought their album before I even played borderlands. But she's also cool AF.
Yeah, I've been through a similar journey but with metal.
Starting with pop-punk and nu-metal as a young lad, I went to more and more extreme stuff over the years to reach stuff like Slam Death, Gorenoise, DSBM or drone, that are barely tolerable even for seasoned metal fans.
But when you reach transcendence (or the bottom of the cesspool, in that case...), you go full circle and listen to pop music again.
At that point I'd say I listen equal part of the cutest k-pop stuff you can find and brutal slam or hxc beatdown; which highly confuses recommendation algorithms!
Anyway, there is light at the bottom of the rabbit hole, so go all the way in, you might find interesting stuff along the way!
Even my current playlist ranging from anime OPs to metalcore confuses the algorithm. I can't imagine your situation.
Probably not so different from you situation: the recommendation juste gave up and just serves me on repeat the songs I already listen, being totally incapable to propose anything new.
I’m old enough that my baby shit is now revered as works of absolute genius by the millennial amateur music historians.
We’re all dust in the wind, but if you aren’t a stuck up cunt, you get to have a cool soundtrack you enjoy.
post-ironically
that got a solid chuckle out of me
One of the coolest drummer friends i had, who was punk as all hell used to say he thought the best musician ever was Sara Bareilles (you know her 1 hit, trust me) and was unironically excited to have saved up to see her play.
I still argue its Paul Simon. That afterlife song is still one of the most punk things i have ever heard.
The great thing about music is its about finding someone giving their emotions so strongly it turns into something beautiful that others can empathize with to not feel as alone in our feelings. Its all good as long as someone can connect with it.
Bro, how dare you put snail mail as more popular than ok computer!
Radio head is like THE indie band everyone knows. I'd put it above tame Impala on this list.
Radio head is like THE indie band everyone knows.
Yeah, but everybody only knows "Creep." (Source: I only know "Creep".)
Try out karma police, thats my fav
I took a weird path, starting with death metal as a young teenager and ending up listening to indie music anyways.
Using the "noncommercial"/"non-major label" definition, a lot of death metal is indie anyway! It's pretty absurd that "indie" is just a music genre for most people nowadays.
Same kinda. Reject any music played over the radio and seek my own journey.
I ended up with listening to Lady Gaga, and going "ohh... she's actually got some nice bossy tunes. oh wait this might be why she was popular."
check out the album Absolute Elsewhere by Blood Incantation
oof the fantano line stings but its true
Just listen to what sounds good to you, everyone else can fuck off
I suppose I listen to "Indy" music, more so that I started a few years ago when I started driving and would listen to whatever Spotify autoreccomended to me after a playlist ends and if I like it I'll add it to a playlist or something. YouTube recommendations are good for finding new genres like vocaloid.
I don't really care if a song is popular at all, a song from somebody named "Sophiaaaahjkl;8901" whos pfp is a furry eating a hamburger will be more important to me than something from Grandson.
100 gecs is cool, but idk most of the other shit (Carly Rae Jepsen does have some great tunes, though I know not all). Guess I skipped ahead
Emotion is the best pop album in the last 10 years and it's not even close.
(Lizzo does slap).
I was a fan of the moldy peaches and Frank turner before their big breaks, and that’s my only music cred.
Frank Turner is still alright if not a little more poppy now after the success of the way I tend to be.
That neutral milk hotel album is a bit of an indie meme at this point tbh, especially if you collect vinyl it's basically in everyone's collection.
But at least it's a good album worth listening too. It's good that a meme gets people to listen to new interesting things. Or one of the other big meme albums like in the court of the crimson king, or maggot brain.
Yes indeed scary red face is the other big one. Both excellent albums for sure! I'm personally so past the stage of not allowing myself to like stuff because it's popular so totally agree with you.
I do listen to a lot of independent music, but it's more the 'hobbyist musician posts their stuff on a genre-specific or music software forum and I check out their soundcloud and bandcamp' variant. Most of the stuff is hardly innovative, it's just that certain styles are either really rare in general or were popular like 15 years ago. YouTube can be pretty useful for this kind of stuff, too, for some (micro-)genres.
I suppose I might not be an indie snob. Except maybe for the word definition. Did you know that 'indie' used to describe the material conditions of music creation and distribution instead of being a music genre?
Its always so pathetic meeting someone that needs to have The Correct Opinion on music.
A song is good because I like it and thats always been enough for me, i dont need to prove or gatekeep shit and neither does anyone else.
Xiu Xiu! I suppose I’m jaded adult. I saw Xiu Xiu in the mid 00s and I’ve never cried that much at a concert before or since.
But how about instrumentals??