90s Indie Rock • Page 7

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for me that's Billie, it's like Malkmus's sweetest sounding verse with the most grating chorus of all time.

 

Both are great but Loveless is worthy of every bit of hype its ever received and more

 

most under-rated 90's band: Hefner.

 

The 50 Best Indie Rock Albums of the Pacific Northwest | Pitchfork

feel this fits here to a point

 

what a weird niche for a list

 

thank god pitchfork took the time to canonize death cab, elliot smith, modest mouse, and the microphones again. what a relief!

 

surprised more k records stuff wasn't listed

 

The Glow, pt. 2 was too low

 

Fucking Tortoise, man. Put on TNT this morning, and it will never cease to amaze me. Could every band use this much marimba?

 

band is great.
have you listened to slint or talk talk before? not really in the same realm but two other bands who had a strong influence on post rock

 

Oh yeah, I have listened to a lot of (and love) both. Look at me not needing to do any immediate further digging! lol

Yeah, Spiderland is a huge influence on me as a songwriter (unoriginal), and the last two Talk Talk records obviously have a reputation preceding them (for good reason, since they do pretty much every sound well). Got into both late, but I"m a fan for sure

 

oh yeah nice! yeah spiderland and spirit of eden (which i actually like more than laughing stock!!!) are classics to me

 

When we first started our band, we were like 'covers, what do we work on as we write our own shit? "Breadcrumb Trail" and "Never Meant," obviously.' Then we learned both, played both once, went 'these both sound really bad, right?', and have since sorta sworn off covers, haha

 

Also holy fuck new Jesus and Mary Chain next year on Warner Bros. March 2017 it said. First LP in 18 yeArs

 

I guess they're more alt rock

 

The Breeders are so awesome. Listening to Pod for the first time and I love it. This thing is chock full of hooks, and makes me realize how serendipitous it is that Kim and Frank found each other since they clearly write in such similar manners. Also, lot of Hop Along influence on this thing, way more than I expected.

 

Last Splash is such a killer album

 

i had never thought of this because i always think of Hop Along influences in terms of folk musicians + David Bazan, nice

 

I was listening to Bedhead yesterday and basically the entire time I was thinking of Mineral, so I have to listen to that first album more to see it for its own thing lol. I enjoyed it though, the three guitars is pretty engaging because since they never hammer on the chords, the riffs seem to kind of hang there, suspended in space. Pretty different from Mineral in that regard, but the twinkling sort of guitar work mixed with this penchant for giving everything breathing room is pretty spot on, I think

 

Listened to Mars Audiac Quintet for the first time tonight. Very interesting overall (not sure how quickly it's going to push me towards the rest of their discography). Didn't always excite me (though there were some real emotive and climactic moments, especially in the middle segments; see the closing seconds of "Nihilist Assault Group" & "International Colouring Contest"), but this album is cool as hell. Part elevator music, part 'what if everyone in the band Belle and Sebastian was an alien?'. Kind of admire how they can tuck in such self-assured political statements over top such surely happy music.

 

This is the thread for me!

 

how come we have a 90s indie rock thread and a 00's indie rock thread and technically i can't talk about the Smiths and how they compare to REM in so many ways in either of them? smh

 

have you heard the macha loved bedhead ep? the cher cover is my kind of weird.

 

i haven't, just looked it up and didn't see it on spotify so i'll have to download it when i get home this weekend. how's it compare to the albums? i'm still messing around with the first one, the slowcore stuff really needs me to give it attention for it to click