nic fit got it right, i'm talking about bands that are otherwise "good" within the of what is vaguely recognised as the indie rock scene. what i want to know is why these bands think it's ok to have a dreadful singer when they wouldn't stand for equally inept intrument playing?
corin tucker can't hold a note to save her life, her voice wavers all over the place.
the guy from galaxie 500 sounds like a spastic playing a violin
and the guy from unwound sounds like a bored & whining child
imagine if one of the band members ability with an instrument was markedly worse than the others and yet they were given a prominent role within the band, it would sound preposterous.
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Originally Posted by pbradley
I was replying to "indie" as in independently released and how people use the fact as a distinguisher from major released bands. It's lame.
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stop being hoity-toity and pedantic, the "debate" about what "indie" means is as old as the hills and excruciatingly boring.