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Re: Indie Heros!!



Nate Florin wrote:
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> On Sun, 20 Oct 1996 jsteed@eos.ncsu.edu wrote:
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> The answer is that it is a really stupid thing to worry about.

Yes.  Yes, it's a stupid thing to worry about, but it's even stupider 
to proclaim a band like AOL the grand champions of some meaningless 
notion of indie aestheticism when they clearly don't even fit any of the 
criteria for membership.
 
> The point is, of course, who cares. Good rock = good rock, bad rock = bad
> rock. Am I not correct? Indie labels produced Rex, for chrissakes. Rex,
> the worst band in the history of humanity, an indie band. 

Hi.  I won't argue with you, but the newest rex album, C, is not as bad, 
even though it's just too damn long.  Doug Scharin is a pretty good 
drummer.  Well worth the $2 I spent on it.

> Iron Maiden have spent the last
> few years on an indie label. Does that make them better than a major label
> hack like Beck? No fucking way. 

Hey, it's stupid to say anything else on the whole "indie hero" topic.  
It's funny how you can get a string of posts on this topic, all saying 
"this whole topic is silly."

Now is when I'd like to say I think the songs on the Laughter Guns are 
more fun than most anything on Strings.

jim

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