Yes and but... Yes, certainly in the 80s and in the early 90s English indie bands not only featured singers who couldn't sing, but folk who couldn't play their instruments (esp the drummers! oh, the drummers! Boy, were they awful...) BUT: N as V hardens into ideology, and becomes fetishised on the Pastels/Beat Happening axis. At the same time, scorn is heaped on what is perceived as technique-for-technique's sake – say Level 42 or Whitney. David Cavanagh's Creation book is good on all of that... What I still can't get my head around is how Pete Doherty, who embodies all the bad bits and none of the 1980s indie, ends up getting hailed as a genius in the 00s... And finally, I have no idea what, if anything, the Floyd have to do with this.
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Yes, certainly in the 80s and in the early 90s English indie bands not only featured singers who couldn't sing, but folk who couldn't play their instruments (esp the drummers! oh, the drummers! Boy, were they awful...)
BUT: N as V hardens into ideology, and becomes fetishised on the Pastels/Beat Happening axis. At the same time, scorn is heaped on what is perceived as technique-for-technique's sake – say Level 42 or Whitney.
David Cavanagh's Creation book is good on all of that...
What I still can't get my head around is how Pete Doherty, who embodies all the bad bits and none of the 1980s indie, ends up getting hailed as a genius in the 00s...
And finally, I have no idea what, if anything, the Floyd have to do with this.