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.

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Kat's Listening Habits Timeline

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

1989 - Lap up consistent diet of Kylie, Jason, Yazz, Roxette.
1990 - Acquire tape player. graciousviv starts sending home mixtapes of what she is listening to at uni - soul/ancient classiX0r eg Yakety Yak plus yer grebo Neds/NFADs/PWEI/Wonderstuff/Mock Turtles etc.
1992 - Receive "Rave 92" on birthday. Head explodes. Listen to KissFm.
1993 - Start buying own tapes (Nows, dance-pop compilations and cassingles only). Listen to Capital Fm.
1994 - Start buying CDs despite not having CD player. Purchase of Best Dance Album In The World...Evers = Best decision in the world...ever.
1995 - Hear Elastica for first time, take up guitar, become goth. Disappear into Skunk Anansie/Nirvana-lined hibernation burrow. Listen to Xfm for five years.
2000 - Emerge at uni with extreme specialist knowledge of bands wot have been played on Xfm and not a lot else.
2002 - Realise Reading Festival is utter bobbins after attendance for four years in a row.
2003 - Reluctantly embrace electroclash and rediscover the joys of techno whilst studying for finals (I needed music with little or no vocal). This is most definitely unrelated to first consumption of certain Young Person's Dancing Aid.
2004 - Isolate self from any sort of new music as have no money or radio reception in Bethnal Green; discover ancient ska and dub reggae.
2005 - Rediscover the BOSH (tho it never really went away) plus old/new pop classiXor and denounce most guitar music as insufferably dull apart from guitar music written by self.

Re: Kat's Listening Habits Timeline

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

1994 - Start buying CDs despite not having CD player. Purchase of Best Dance Album In The World...Evers = Best decision in the world...ever.
1995 - Hear Elastica for first time, take up guitar, become goth. Disappear into Skunk Anansie/Nirvana-lined hibernation burrow. Listen to Xfm for five years.

Am curious as to why hearing Best Dance Album... didn't lead you/many others to take up sampler/synth, whereas Elastica had such power! Is interesting I think.

Re: Kat's Listening Habits Timeline

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Oh I already knew how to play the keyboard, and it sucked. My mates (into Metallica and Korn who laughed with withering scorn at my 'Lastica Lovin) were all learning the guitar and writing "Soundgarden Rulez" on their pencil cases in tippex. I learned the guitar too and am now better than them at it. Hah. Although one of them is a music teacher.