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

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I have never been indie, as we all know.

However, the music I loved in the 90s which wasn't Proper Pop - this was basically trip-hop on the one hand, and female singer-songwriters on the other - I got into via their occasional excursions into the chart: hearing Tori Amos on the top 40 show, finding Massive Attack and Portishead on Now albums. And I think the crucial thing is that I now had the resources (magazines, friends) to dig and find more of this stuff; and I also Used Logic, ie rather than waiting for good music to come to me I went out to look for more trip-hop and female singer-songwriters.

And the reason I always insist that Tori Amos, Portishead et al aren't indie is because they seem completely diametrically opposed to the indie I have always loathed ie Oasis!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

as for the second qn - female singer-songwriters aren't central to my listening now because I am not an angsty closeted teenager, though my old Tori and PJ albums are always there in the rare event that I need them; and I don't listen to trip-hop because It Is Dead.

[juror8.livejournal.com]

But! "Awfully Deep" = Trip Hop is Not Dead!

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Oasis isn't indie, they're on a huge multinational label, Sony.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Apart from dance music I don't pay attention to labels though, it's not v helpful in determining what I like vs what I don't like - indie for me is a purely sonic thing, by which I mean boys wiv guitars doing meat'n'potatoes rock'n'roll, who mostly started out on the indie circuit.

[dorsalstop.livejournal.com]

Portishead were obviously WAY more indie than Oasis.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I thought Noel released stuff on his own one (Brother) nowadays so they wouldn't get hasslebeef for not finishing albums on time?