Alternative/Indie Rock Poll
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Topic: Alternative/Indie Rock Poll
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Subject: Alternative/Indie Rock Poll
Date Posted: February 15 2020 at 07:05
The one thing all of the bands in the poll have in common is they're all part of my ever-expanding CD collection.  In addition, all of the bands in the poll are British with the exception of The Cardigans (from Sweden), the Killers (from the United States) and U2 (from Ireland).
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Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: February 15 2020 at 07:32
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The Cardigans is the only band I like from those and not a big fan of that (well, U2:s "War" is ok album). Iīve got only "Life" from them, "First Band On the Moon" was ok, but didnīt like at all what came after that. Have to say in nineties the greatest indie rock came from other countries than UK (is Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds UK band?, also, here are bands, but P J Harvey is at the moment my all time fav artist!).
BTW I am glad you didnīt put Oasis into this. When that band started to play in MTV, I just wondered what they saw in that updated poormans Beatles?
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Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: February 15 2020 at 07:35
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Currently, I enjoy listening to Foals, in particular their debut album, Antidotes. As for the poll list, I'm not voting for any of them. As I see it, choosing 25 Alternative/Indie rock bands from the large number that exists seems arbitrary. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 15 2020 at 07:58
Oasis aren't included in the poll simply because I don't have any Oasis albums and I've never liked them anyway. I wouldn't even regard them as good enough to be called a poor man's Beatles.
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Mortte wrote:Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: February 15 2020 at 08:03
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I dont know a lot of bands here but... anyway, I consider U2's discography, since Boy until Achtung Baby a wonderful opera, very high quality. ------------- Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 15 2020 at 08:04
I've never heard any albums by the Foals. My list is purely arbitrary simply because it only consists of artists in my own personal CD collection and there's only room to include a tiny fraction of the total number of Alternative/Indie Rock bands that are out there. At the last count, I had well over 700 artists in my Alternative/Indie Rock database.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 15 2020 at 08:05
U2 are my favourites in the poll too.
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Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: February 15 2020 at 09:12
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The Smiths. Ignoring their singles, a lot of the album tracks are fantastic. The Queen is Dead - best album for me.
I liked the first 2 U2 albums, Boy and October, went off them after that.
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: February 15 2020 at 09:41
I was a relative latecomer when it comes to appreciating the music of the Smiths, but heaven knows, I'm not miserable now since I first "discovered" them. Their music suits me like a hand in a glove. Sandie Shaw likes them too. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: February 17 2020 at 00:37
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From this list, The Smiths. It's a shame Morrissey is such a d!ck these days, but The Smiths were highly original and were excellent songwriters. Muse and Radiohead come in joint close second. Never really liked U2 apart from in the very early days. I stopped listening around the Joshua Tree, when they vanished up their own arses. Overall, there is/was a lot of really good alt rock/indie artists over the years. For me, REM, The Cocteau Twins, Curve, Lush, Slowdive, The Cure, Cranes and all that goth stuff; Sisters of Mercy, Fields of the Nephilim, All about Eve et al, were fantastic. I was a big fan in my youth and still listen to these bands. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |