Sekrit Origins

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

One of the persistent themes in the Now polls is "wow this is my first NOW album" (frantically ticks everything). Another persistent theme is "OK at this point I'd got into indie" (ashamedly ticks nothing). So in the endless search for shared experience let me ask you this question:

How did you get into indie?

and as a bonus question - let's try not to make this too loaded -

If indie is less central to your music listening now than it once was, why do you think this is?

Define the i-word however you like.

I think I have asked similar qns on ILM, but this is a new kettle and these are new fish.

Comments

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

How did you get into indie?

When 'This Charming Man' and 'How Soon Is Now?' got re-released in the early 80s I found I liked them a lot although the first Morrissey single I really liked was, strangely, 'Pregnant For The Last Time'. Prior to that I instantly loved a lot of the stuff that co-opted indie with dance i.e. Happy Mondays (although oddly I hated 'Fool's Gold' at first) but this seemed to be more for the dance angle as I didn't really go from there into MBV or anything. I bypassed whatever passed for British Indie at this point, going from acid house influenced stuff straight to US Grunge and Metal before ending up at Britpop...missing a lot because I didn't listen to albums much and I hadn't started going to gigs at that point.

In fact I went to V festival before actually seeing an indie band live. I still can't think what my first specific indie gig would've been...will get back to you.

I think all of this means I never really did get into Indie (the genre) properly but I acquired indie/rockist values thru other means.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

obv that should be 'early 90s' re Smiths singles.