Unpopular Alt/Indie Opinions

SilverScreen · 27-05-2014 09:55PM #1

Submarine is a better Whipping Boy album than Heartworm.

Come at me bro :cool;

BrushyMan · 27-05-2014 10:05PM

Isn't Alt/Indie dead in the traditional sense?

What was the last better than decent alt/indie record, The Postal Service's, 'Give Up'? (2003)

Rothko · 27-05-2014 10:56PM

Neon Bible is better than Funeral

SilverScreen · 27-05-2014 10:58PM

BrushyMan wrote: »

Isn't Alt/Indie dead in the traditional sense?

What was the last better than decent alt/indie record, The Postal Service's, 'Give Up'? (2003)

The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream. A couple of months ago.

Dandelion6 · 28-05-2014 08:34AM

Isn't Anything is better than Loveless

BrushyMan · 28-05-2014 11:35AM

SilverScreen wrote: »

The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream. A couple of months ago.

Ah, come on! It's an OK record. Heaps of 'nothing new'. I'm not sold that it's a gamechanger tho.

seachto7 · 28-05-2014 01:04PM

Slave Ambient is better imo. Still sailing too close to the 80s though, so not exactly ground breaking.

loyatemu · 28-05-2014 02:36PM

SilverScreen wrote: »

Submarine is a better Whipping Boy album than Heartworm.

Come at me bro :cool;

I don't get Whipping Boy at all.

I'm bewildered that it (HW) is consistently voted the best Irish album of all time - there's a reason it didn't do the business anywhere outside of Ireland.

Furthermore Ireland's record of producing great indie bands is terrible compared to (say) Scotland:

Primal Scream, Teenage Fanclub, Beta Band, Belle & Sebastian, Franz Ferdinand, JAMC, Django Django, Big Country - where are the Irish equivalents?

Empty stadium rock & boybands - that's Ireland's musical legacy

The Wild Bunch · 28-05-2014 02:45PM

Chicks in converse/flowers in their hair- does not make them 'indie'

JJ72 were massively under-rated

Birneybau · 28-05-2014 05:35PM

BrushyMan wrote: »

Isn't Alt/Indie dead in the traditional sense?

What was the last better than decent alt/indie record, The Postal Service's, 'Give Up'? (2003)

That is crazy talk. Even regarding The Postal Service/Death Cab for Cutie as decent alt/indie is frankly shocking. There's been a heap of great albums in the last 11 years.

Birneybau · 28-05-2014 05:37PM

I really don't agree with the hype surrounding Future Islands.

Th Horrors should be huge, one stone cold masterpiece in "Primary Colours", one fantastic album in "Skying" and still too early to judge "Luminous" but I'm enjoying it.

karaokeman · 28-05-2014 10:45PM

Radiohead reached their artistic peak with Kid A.

The Second Coming is a fantastic album, not as good as The Stone Roses' debut, but pretty close.

Hotale.com · 28-05-2014 10:46PM

The term "alternative" is in itself extremely pretentious, and the term "indie" has lost it's meaning for the most part.

daUbiq · 29-05-2014 02:04PM

seachto7 wrote: »

Slave Ambient is better imo. Still sailing too close to the 80s though, so not exactly ground breaking.

What's wrong with the eighties?

daUbiq · 29-05-2014 02:05PM

loyatemu wrote: »

I don't get Whipping Boy at all.

I'm bewildered that it (HW) is consistently voted the best Irish album of all time - there's a reason it didn't do the business anywhere outside of Ireland.

Furthermore Ireland's record of producing great indie bands is terrible compared to (say) Scotland:

Primal Scream, Teenage Fanclub, Beta Band, Belle & Sebastian, Franz Ferdinand, JAMC, Django Django, Big Country - where are the Irish equivalents?

Empty stadium rock & boybands - that's Ireland's musical legacy

Rollerskate Skinny were pretty good!

seachto7 · 29-05-2014 02:48PM

daUbiq wrote: »

What's wrong with the eighties?

Nothing, but to call War on Drugs ground breaking would be stretching it seeing as he/they tip their hat to the 80s.

Still very good though.

seachto7 · 29-05-2014 02:50PM

loyatemu wrote: »

I don't get Whipping Boy at all.

I'm bewildered that it (HW) is consistently voted the best Irish album of all time - there's a reason it didn't do the business anywhere outside of Ireland.

Well, they got on Jools Holland, which was a good platform. Who knows? Maybe there were label or management issues too that hindered them?

Add in the fact the singer was nuts,and they fell out with each other in the band, how could this possibly work in terms of furthering their careers.

While the album might not be as good as people say it is, it's still better than a lot of sh*te that did well around the world from the same time period.

The Wild Bunch · 29-05-2014 03:48PM

Why does Glenn Hansard look so tormented, sad and desolate in every bloody picture of him?

fiachr_a · 29-05-2014 05:13PM

The Wild Bunch wrote: »

Why does Glenn Hansard look so tormented, sad and desolate in every bloody picture of him?

Because he grew up in Finglas and got bullied at school?

Birneybau · 29-05-2014 07:13PM

The Wild Bunch wrote: »

Why does Glenn Hansard look so tormented, sad and desolate in every bloody picture of him?

I'd be the same if I was Glen Hansard.

29-05-2014 07:24PM

Interpol's "Antics" is better than "Turn on The Bright Lights".

smokedeels · 29-05-2014 10:13PM

Breeders > Pixies
Sebadoh > Dinosaur Jr

The Wild Bunch · 30-05-2014 08:23AM

Arctic Monkeys are over rated

daUbiq · 30-05-2014 11:01AM

seachto7 wrote: »

Nothing, but to call War on Drugs ground breaking would be stretching it seeing as he/they tip their hat to the 80s.

Still very good though.

I quite like the new War on Drugs album, I find it quite uplifting... you're right though, it's not ground breaking, very little modern popular music is ground breaking!

SilverScreen · 30-05-2014 11:33AM

BrushyMan wrote: »

Ah, come on! It's an OK record. Heaps of 'nothing new'. I'm not sold that it's a gamechanger tho.

Never said it was a game-changer. I just gave it as a recent example of an album that I think is better than decent.

Morgans · 30-05-2014 10:28PM

Promenade by The Divine Comedy is the greatest Irish album of all time.

mosstin · 30-05-2014 10:32PM

Morgans wrote: »

Promenade by The Divine Comedy is the greatest Irish album of all time.

Viva Dead Ponies by Fatima Mansions is the greatest Irish album of all time.

Cathal Coughlan is also the finest lyricist this country has produced.

Dandelion6 · 31-05-2014 08:24AM

Speaking of Cathal Coughlan here's a really unpopular opinion: Microdisney were boring.

mosstin · 31-05-2014 11:10AM

Dandelion6 wrote: »

Speaking of Cathal Coughlan here's a really unpopular opinion: Microdisney were boring.

Apart from a few great songs would not disagree.

iomega · 31-05-2014 12:23PM

smokedeels wrote: »

Breeders > Pixies

Funny.

mosstin · 01-06-2014 12:27PM

The Irish music alternative music scene, such as it is, is almost uniformly dreadful. Too self-celebrating, po-faced and safe.

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