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Lawrence

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Edited May 03, 2013, 01:52

Re: When did indie music go tits up?

May 03, 2013, 01:52

Well I go farther to the 80s, and I can tell you here in America, anyways, it started to go tits up around 1986. For awhile College Radio and the live circuit was a place to see cutting-edge music. But then by '86 REM became super-popular at a time when they were becoming a bit annoying (circa Life's Rich Pageant.) So much so every band sounded like REM. And then there was an onslaught of dopey novelty-rock groups like the Dead Milkmen and They Might Be Giants. And what was coming from England, well sorry but I never really cared for the "C86" sound despite a few exceptions. A few years and there would be Techno, which might have been swell on the dancefloor but headache-inducing on the radio -- not that I'm knocking it, I've seen Techno played live and it's brilliant that way. It just seemed by 1983 alot of good indie groups who were on the serious-side now all of the sudden wanted to play disco, except they didn't know what made 70's disco great, so...

Well I could go on. I dunno maybe I'm just bitter and old, and music just changed too fast for me.

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