A Chronological History Of Epic Indie Angst

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

One for each year pls. I feel this will lead to a socio-cultural roadmap of adolescent alienation from the late twentieth century to the present day, innit. Go back as far as you can. The word "indie" is not as important as the words "epic" or "angst" - bohemian, emo, freak, all these will do fine.

To start with:

1986 - The Smiths - "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out"
1992 - Manic Street Preachers - "Motorcycle Emptiness"
2006 - My Chemical Romance - "Welcome To The Black Parade"

GO!

(Inspired in a roundabout way by the latest Popular entry)

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Something by Muse in 1999.

See my long-standing argument that Tori Amos is Not Indie is totally proven by this b/c nothing she's done would remotely qualify for this compilation. Ditto PJ Harvey!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

ie they are what I put on my pencilcase but no one else really.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Courtney shd probably make an appearance though.

Anyway all you're proving is that they're not epic enough.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Ooh yes prob 'Doll Parts' for 1994 (?) or 'Malibu' for 1998.

Tori Amos is SO MUCH MORE EPIC than anyone thus far listed could dream of. Ten-minute lavishly orchestrated Shostakovich-influenced piano ballads about Anastasia Romanov y'all.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Actually what it does prove is that most of the choices here so far would go on the BOY ANGST disc but that a separate GIRL ANGST disc is u&k.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

tori and pjh are too intimate, and don't do epic though.

i like the idea of a stadium version of "dress" or sheela-na-gig tho :-D

[mooxyjoo.livejournal.com]

tori amos is 'alternative', which is ambiguously equivalent, for many intents and purposes, to 'indie' in the relevant 90s american context amos came out of.