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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I guess I’m the only person here who just got his entire music collection called out.

At least I get to keep Danko Jones and Buck 65. They must still be cool.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Sloan is overrated and arcade fire is the nickel back of indie rock. I said what I said.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

"The single Save Your Scissors was even catchy enough to give Dallas Green the opportunity for a breakthrough slot at the Much Music Video Awards, which is a sentence so old-fashioned it may as well have contained the words ‘malt shoppe’ ‘stickball’ or ‘home ownership’."

Amazing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've heard of most of these aside from #1. Who the hell is Broken Social Scene and when exactly was it supposed to define my tastes?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They're essentially a musical collective/supergroup with a rotating membership.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Who the hell is Broken Social Scene

*dies of shock* X-p

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You Forget it in People and their self titled album are pretty great, especially the former. You might know them for having Feist and the singer of Metric as singers, or as Crash and the Boys from Scott Pilgrim (The music, not the actors).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That stung. A lot.

That may not have hit home for everyone, but that definitely hit home for me and exactly my time and place in the world.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I feel you, friend.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hahaha, I’ve never heard of any of these bands, I guess I should feel old.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You should feel utterly disinterested in Canadian indie music. Even Americans know half those names!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think ive heard of Sloan and Arcade Fire, but I wouldn't even be able to name any of their songs or even what genre they do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nothing I listen to made the list. I'm going to eat my Red River cereal and cry.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

TIL Chad VanGaalen is Canadian

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And I thought Rush would be on the list 😆

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hmm probably more prog rock than indie, but what even are genres anyway?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ya for sure. I think my brain refused to recognise "indie" and "classic" in the same sentence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Indie isn't about genre, it's about production status.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Indie rock is most certainly a genre.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're right. Indie being short for independent, e.g. shit some band records on the cheap, typically with little attention paid to production both during recording, and post. I'm not sure why people think it's a genre.