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Spoon Got Nuffin
I am listening to the band Spoon. They have a new song, and I think that it ’sounds very good’, but I think for the most part they have ‘always sounded very good.’ I feel like Spoon is a band from ‘a long time ago’–like back when teens at the turn of the century were ‘deciding to be indie’, they often used SPOON as a goto band for ‘connecting with 1 another.’
Since then, I think Spoon has ‘consistently released a quality product’, because I think they are ‘good musicians/producers’ and I think that the lead singer bro has ‘an authentic voice.’ For a while, I think I would have called people who like Spoon ‘entry level alts’, or possibly ‘mainstreamers who like maltstream products’, but now I think I will just start listening to songs like this, and reflecting on my past. Just don’t have enough time on this Earth to h8 on people just because they like bands that a product that ‘can appeal 2 any 1.’ [via the MGMT theory]
Think I’ve really grown up a lot, and my taste has really evolved into something very authentic, if I am willing to consider ’shitting upon’ Spoon just bc they have ‘been around for like 100 blog years.’
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Who is yalls fave ‘vintage’ indie band?
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51 Comments
first, yo
i like this ep
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third
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//////////Reply by alttweenbro
//////////Posted July 5th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
@laffy, fail
Third
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4th
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haha
spoon was used in chuck
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does the arcade fire count as vintage?
6th!
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//////////Reply by Mari
//////////Posted July 5th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
@Mari, in my dreams i was 6th
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crles u got 2 promote the <3 more like u did in this postie.
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Spoon is just like The Beatles. They’re great even tho they’ve been around forever and they’re rly important in alt music history
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I <3 Korn
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//////////Reply by alttweenbro
//////////Posted July 5th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
@regina spektor, I <3 ur Korn-hole…. or maybe jus a lil tug?
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//////////Reply by regina spektor
//////////Posted July 5th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
@alttweenbro, please korn-hole me to infinity
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//////////Reply by alttweenbro
//////////Posted July 5th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
@regina spektor, ok, i normally prefer a quick tugjob, but kornhole it is.
<3 u kornhole
the shins is so vintage indie
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interpol’s ep’s and first album
authentic memories waiting for the school bus on the first day of my ‘magnet high school’ listening to the new and feeling like it was so meaningfully titled
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Bloc Party!
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//////////Reply by louis
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 3:13 am
@Meredith,
i like you
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the modest mice yall
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//////////Reply by dogboyvan
//////////Posted July 5th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
@semen mixer, mos def.
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//////////Reply by SilveroTellerson
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
@dogboyvan,
‘i had a blog the other day. memes were like kittens. i was givin them away.’ – CRLS
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//////////Reply by we tigers
//////////Posted July 8th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
@semen mixer,
check plus plus
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“Vintage Indie”…that phrase kills me.
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belle & sebby from when i was “a sensitive tween/teen/twee teen” who “wore cardigans in the summer” and “looked at the floor when talking to others” [via social awkwardness]
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<# spoon [via Josh Schwartz]
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the walkmanz, yo
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flight of the concords
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Stephen Malkmus & The Pavements
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spoon is terrible, sorry carles. every song sounds the same, and most of them are written about an inanimate object. car radio, fitted shirt. I’m waiting for the hit Spoon song ‘Toyota Camry’
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//////////Reply by jackie jormp-jomp
//////////Posted July 5th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
@emanster, RETWEET
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//////////Reply by Yoyoyoyoyoyo
//////////Posted July 5th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
@emanster, what spoon are you listening to? Not gimme fiction
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//////////Reply by brenda
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 1:56 am
@emanster, YES i ‘totes agree’
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that postal service
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really?
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blog about polyvore
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ill say phoenix coz no one said it b4
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BLOC PARTY, they really changed the way I listen to music
The Libertines, I dont know if they count as indie but they were a really exciting band back in the day
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crls, yall prevent me from applying 2 colleges online
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guster, along the same lines as spoon with the entry-level alt-indie whatever the fuck he said. and yo la tengo (back in the day), pavement, etc?
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jesus! bloc party, arcade fire, and interpol are not vintage. seems like everyone who posted on here was born after 1990?????
what about the radioheads? or built to spill? i would consider them “vintage indie.” maybe even the pixies, though i’m not much of a fan.
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//////////Reply by DICKZ
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
@sidewalkspew, doesnt get the joke
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when i started going out i got the opportunity to witness the last days of indie, so at 12 i was twee like someone above, very into b&s, teenage fanclub, catatonia, etc, i even went mod for a sec via the zombies. then irony exploded (via 2001 barcelona) and i went 80s with lene lovich and les rita mitsuoko like everyone else. I ditched that and went 90s coz i felt i’d do better at it… soo afghan wigs, guided by voices and the like. I got tired and decided to listen to favourites only. I’m digging country now tho, feel like its authentic.
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//////////Reply by anon
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
@fernando, wow thnx for that, i take u vry srsly now
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//////////Reply by SilveroTellerson
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
@fernando, growing up in a small town of less than 1k whites, i always associated country with alcoholism, nascar, racism, sexism, trailer parks, divorce, loneliness, economic decline, poverty, tractors, cows, faux cowboys, and short fat men line dancing. then when my bathroom stereo died, the one that used to blare my vintage indie mix cds while i showered, I bought a 5 dollar waterproof, shower radio and listened to my lil hamlet’s country radio station.
there’s no irony. there’s lots of heartbreak, horny hicks, gawd, and redemption. it’s soo authentic.
kinda think the modest mice might be ntry lvl country for entitled, privileged, narcissistic, self-loathing millennials like me born after or during the fall of communism.
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Technotronic <3
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//////////Reply by the lab
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 10:25 am
@juice, holy shit thank you
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What about every band recorded over at Elephant 6? I once heard there was some label called Saddle Creek, too. The Orange Peels – “Something Strange Happens” Who, for crying out loud, remembers that shit and such?
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//////////Reply by SilveroTellerson
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
@shadowy figure, i don’t remember the orange peels. i just remember owning a cd from that label. it somehow came into my possession around 2k1 b4 i knew p4k ruled the world.
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//////////Reply by iioupiou
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
@shadowy figure,
Orange Peels made good music to jump up and down to
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//////////Reply by Funky Rutabaga
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
@shadowy figure, Circulatory System and Olivia Tremor Control (Elephant 6) are definitely authentic vintage indie rock.
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maximo park
futureheads
death cab for cutie
sufjan stevens
broken social scene
metric
ben folds
grandaddy
elf power
elliott smith
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//////////Reply by DICKZ
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
@baberaham linkin, im gonna haffta agree on the BSS
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//////////Reply by Funky Rutabaga
//////////Posted July 7th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
@baberaham linkin, Ben Folds was never indie; Folds is “alternative” (mainstream), a place indie rockers never want to go (unless if they think selling out is authentic). The other choices are accurate, though some today would be considered entry-level alt.
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The guiding voices yall
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Built2Spill.Built2Spill.Built2Spill.Built2Spill.Built2Spill.Built2Spill.Built2Spill.Built2Spill.Modest Mouse.Built2Spill.Built2Spill.Built2Spill.Built2Spill.Built2Spill.
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totez the datsuns/wolfmother, also leslee feist
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my favorite vintage indie band is joy division.
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Sonic Youth. not so indie anymore, but still.
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Vintage Indie (in chronological order).
The Modern Lovers
Galaxie 500
The Vaselines
Luna (Dean Wareham was the definitive late 80s/90s altBro)
Yo La Tengo
Beck
Elliot Smith
Fleet Foxes
Listening to 70s pop music (Boz Scaggs, Bee Gees, Cheap Trick) is an immensely authentic experience (given it is intertwined with indie rock).
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i don’t know spoon, but they’re name sounds familiar. i think my older brother used to listen to them before he went to work the mornings. dude, you’re soooooo played!
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you know who else were good was Ultra Vivid Scene. And that Magnetic Fields guy. Is he dead?
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//////////Reply by ||
//////////Posted July 7th, 2009 at 1:20 am
@pre-cambrian,
magfieldsbro is the very picture of “deadpan post-ironic sarcastic douche with a soft side”
he had a new album ca. 200N where N=8
brief foray into “noise pop” or something
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damn, fishkind
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fuck the arcade fire.
and Elephant 6 is the most unauthentic bullshit ever. oh yeah probably because they ripped off everybody else, they just did it in such shitty style that nobody knew they were completely uninspired.
go back to brooklyn vegan you fucktards
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Wavves
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//////////Reply by brobro
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
@Roman, Dammit you beat me to it.
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I’m certain ‘Entry-level indie’ for most ‘alt-bros’/'alt-chicks’ was The O.C. Mix 1 ‘c.d.’ [via The O.C.] Spoon were on it [via The Way We Get By]. As were The Dandy Warhols [via 'We Used To Be Friends']. You can act like you are ‘too cool to admit you watched The O.C.’ but all of us listen to ‘indie bands’ because of it.
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//////////Reply by imnoturdaddyimurbro
//////////Posted July 7th, 2009 at 3:00 am
TONY HAWK SOUNDTRACKS
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//////////Reply by imnoturdaddyimurbro
//////////Posted July 7th, 2009 at 3:00 am
@imnoturdaddyimurbro, oh sry i didnt mean to rply
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brightest eyes~~
fo’ realz yall. ive been reppin’ that shit before i could moan about ‘being on my rag’ or ‘h88n mom coz she wouldnt buy me sparks’. now thatz vintage
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Volcano, I’m still Excited!
Pavementz
the old ben gibbard, <3 mizz yew
bright eyes
cake
clap yous hands say yeah
murder by death
neutral milk
teh shins
oh good nostalgia post crls <333
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built to spill
modest mouse
pavement
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superchunk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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duh, radiohead…. and neutral milk hotel
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“vintage indie”
radiohead
elliott smith
pavement
ladytron
broken social scene
mirah
stars
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IS ANYONE ELSE CRINGING WHILE YOU READ THIS BLOG???
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//////////Reply by kada
//////////Posted October 26th, 2009 at 4:43 am
@Jake, yes i feel really fucking old now…
except when that person mentioned technotronic above <3
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RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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