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"How Selling Out Saved Indie Rock"
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thesweetcheat
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Nov 19, 2013, 17:44
Lots to agree with here (I'd love to be able to blame Oasis for everything that's wrong in music from 1994 onwards), but I think it paints something of a picture of halcyon golden age of "indie" from late 70s and 80s.

I remember reading the Indie Charts the NME used to publish in the late 80s, which only featured yer actual "independent" labels, meaning that Black Box, Kylie, Jason and Rick Astley used to feature prominently, but "indie" darlings like Morrissey and Sonic Youth didn't.

Even earlier, for every wondrous Spiral Scratch EP or Unknown Pleasures there was something lumpen by the Exploited. As Mr Treacy so aptly put it:

Then they go to Rough Trade
To buy Siouxsie and the Banshees
They heard John Peel play it
Just the other night
They'd like to buy the O Level single
or Read about Seymour
But they're not pressed in red
So they buy The Lurkers instead
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