It's weird how music can bring some people so close together, and at the same time act as an impenetrable wall that divides others. At most parties I go to with my friends from around my home town, the music of choice for the majority of people there is Indie/Dance/Something I couldn't care less about.
Me and my best friends mostly like hardcore and other 'heavy' bands. We love to commandeer the stereo and put on 'heavy' bands and piss off everyone, because we have to sit there and put up with their bullshit fucking music. They give out to us of course, without realising they have very little consideration for people who don't actually like the fucking Strokes, or some other shitty popular band. Like it's cool if you wanna listen to it and have a dance and stuff, but having that shit on all night is just headwrecking. It's the one thing I hate about going to parties around my area, which sucks because I love all my friends. It's hard to enjoy myself if the music is terrible.
So it's good when you find a medium. Common ground. But those grounds are few and far between. In fact I think there's only been two bands that all of my friends have liked: Weezer and Cursive. And only a few people from the 'easy' listening side like Cursive.
I'm sorry to sound like a ranting sap, but I just don't get how people enjoy indie music so much. It is without a doubt the most boring, repetitive and banal music out there (maybe another contestant for that title is Drum N' Bass. Don't get me fucking started). There's just nothing going on. I cannot connect with that music on an emotional level. And that's the reason I love music.
I love hardcore because it's the perfect music to be angry with. It makes me feel so good if I'm ever angry. It's how you release pent up energy and emotion. I just can't do that with Indie. There's no release. I'd wait for something big and bold to kick in, but nothing.
Of course, anger isn't the only emotion that music brings out in me. Pop punky bands bring out happy, summery, cloudy pillowy marshmallowy cuddly feelings.
And don't get me wrong. Punk based music isn't all I listen to. I love Sigur Rós. I connect with that.
Recently I've also gotten into Nightmare Of You (a new-wave, pop indie band) and Bon Iver (acoustic, slow, sad-but-nice kinda stuff) and I really love listening to both.
But when it comes to the chart topping SHIT like Kings Of Leon, I just feel like getting sick. Ugh. Worst band.
So basically, hardcore good, indie bad.
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You've just kind of hit the nail on the head.
Hardcore good,indie bad...
are you serious Chris?
I reckon it depends on what you're looking for in music. For me, I really enjoy drum and bass because of all the great syncopated rhythmic stuff that goes on. Same reason I like jazz, and Meshuggah etc. Where as the other day I heard Leonard Cohen for the first time and I thought it was the worst music I've ever heard, despite all the bullshit musical genius comments you hear about him! If he's a musical genius, I might as well give up studying music.
There's nothing going on in his music. Hackneyed over used chord progressions, a boring drum machine loop and him mumbling over the top.
oops, kinda turned in to a ramt there. But yeah, it depends on what you're looking for in music in my opinion.
It's Chris btw.
yea definitely, it does depend on what your into, at the same time though you can't just make sweeping generalisations like that. Sure your definition of what you call indie music(which literally means independent music,on independent labels) is The Strokes and Kings of Leon, but thats where your understanding of of it ends. There has been a wealth of fucking unbelievable "indie" bands over the last three decades,but your purely looking at the biggest selling acts like The Kings of Leon who can hardly be called indie as oppose to generic stadium rock for retarded knackers. Indie is far to big a genre for what it covers, there is dozens of sub genres inside it, and in the same way that I know only a handful of hardcore bands that you would like, you only know a handful of bands that I would like if any. The difference is though that I also like bands like Fugazi, Crass, Bad Brains, Black Flag and the Descendants therefore I know that there is probably some "hardcore" bands or whatever the genres called that I would like. I wish you would give some other bands the time of day because your really missing out on some great music and I have a feeling you would really like some of the bands that are around at the minute. Anyway it's always good to talk about music, I'll see you around.
"It is without a doubt the most boring, repetitive and banal music out there (maybe another contestant for that title is Drum N' Bass. Don't get me fucking started). There's just nothing going on"
"For me, I really enjoy drum and bass because of all the great syncopated rhythmic stuff that goes on'
Hang on a minute, am I mental or are you mental? One of us is mental, this doesn't make any sense.
Hahaha, that Chris there is a different Chris, Kev. He probably should have mentioned that.
Don't take this blog seriously, really. It's just a rant. When I say Indie, I mean what I understand to be Indie ie. The Strokes, Kaiser Chiefs or whatever. It's those bands that I mainly have gripes with, more for their unfathomable mega-popularity rather than their music.
It's all opinion blah blah blah.
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