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

[steviespitfire.livejournal.com]

Indie, to me, has never been Oasis. Possibly because the indie circles I move in loathe them.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

They always seemed to be held up as Indie aka Proper Music by the boys in my year who bought Select and the NME - this was Proper Music as opposed to a) pop, and b) "that weird shit you like", and they called it Indie.

(I have never bought Select or the NME or listened to the Evening Session! Hurrah for me.)

[dorsalstop.livejournal.com]

Ah, right, I reacted too soon above. See, for me at the time, indie was "that weird shit you like". It was opposed to pop and meat'n'potatoes rock'n'roll (which included hair metal back then).

I suppose UK indie became more of a sonic thing in the '90s - especially with Britpop, as the US pendant 'alternative'/'college rock' did a few years earlier when grunge replaced all heavy rock music, indie or not.