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

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Believe it or not, for me it was a natural evolution from prog! (this was in what are now termed the 'post punk' years, mind)

And I stopped listening to it because indie stopped being "prog" and went back to the 60s (Beatles, Velvets, N Drake etc) for its inspiration instead. Either that or because of alt-country.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Should add that my relationship with chart pop is very complex and does not fit the simple model implied in the question (i.e. indie supplants chart pop, then chart pop supplants indie again). My interest in chart pop has waxed and waned a little, but if represented graphically the path is definitely not a mirror image of the indie path.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

That wasn't the intended implication, though I guess framing it in the context of NOWs suggests otherwise. Of course the results of a NOW poll would be very different if we were asking "Which of these did you like At The Time".

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I have made sure I have ticked all the songs that I actually bought at the time that I may not like now. I trust my 12-yr-old self's judgement!