Don't know if I was supposed to stick to some schedule or whatever, but anyways...
Indie Pop is characterised by pop melodies and structures, often blended with standard rock instrumentation (guitars and drums) in early examples. The original ethos was influenced by punk's DIY nature, though moving into the mid-90s and onwards, indie pop bands started to implement more influences and a more refined sound.
Early Influences
Many early examples of indie pop was influenced by early post-punk & punk rock and 60s girl groups.
Many of the earliest examples were by post-punk groups that had made a transition into more poppy territory, thus pioneering the indie pop "sound". By the early 1980s, as indie pop started to become a movement, twee pop - a form of indie pop with its cuteness and "quaint" nature turned up to maximum - was also being pioneered.
Towards the mid-80s, a movement of indie pop called C86 - named after the 1986 NME cassette of the same name - came into fruition. This movement was characterised by bands who typically blended indie pop with jangle pop and indie rock, though it is a vague term used to describe bands around the time who were being noticed by NME and placed on its cassette. Not all bands around this time were described as "C86", though.
By late 1988, indie pop started to move away from the "DIY" sound made popular by C86 and into more dreamy, demure, sensitive territory, with more expressive lyrical themes, influenced more by jangle pop and dream pop (amongst a broader range of influences including chamber pop, lounge, electronic, etc.) than of post-punk and indie rock. These bands were often part of the seminal label, Sarah Records.
Towards the late 90s, the term "indie pop" was related less narrowly to C86/jangle pop influenced indie pop, but more to contemporary indie & singer/songwriter music. Though the consideration of these artists as "indie pop" is very arguable, many artists are still considered as such.
Huge thanks to SingingPeasant96, noWaxJim, and BrandonMiaow for endlessly influencing my taste in indie pop and thus basically making this genre extravaganza.
I only covered the 80s/90s stuff, and Precedent will continue in the next part with 21st century indie pop. _________________
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This is one of my favorites. A childhood memory. it goes very slow and soft, very upbeat and jumpy, and keeps the sound of the fun-loving Sia throughout.
[quote="SuedeSwede"]Indie Pop is characterised by pop melodies and structures, often blended with standard rock instrumentation (guitars and drums) in early examples.[/qoute]
Rateyourmusic wrote:
Indie Pop is genre characterized by pop conventions and structure, and a melodic, lighthearted sound. Artists generally use typical rock instrumentation (drums, guitar, bass, vocals), although some artists deviate from this, sometimes including electronics, piano, strings, or even eschewing guitar altogether.
That mostly sounds like Some People Have Real Problems to me. Take it from a man who's had this album for years, it had definite indie pop elements.
Plus, the reason I was interested in these was because these extravaganzas are a place to give off recs. If I think this album is indie pop, I'm going to recommend it. Yes, I read the thread. And I see peope posting recommendations on these. If you don't agree that it's part indie pop, fine. But you don't have to turn it into an argument.
That mostly sounds like Some People Have Real Problems to me. Take it from a man who's had this album for years, it had definite indie pop elements.
First of all the thread currently only covers Indie Pop up to 1999. But the point im making is that if you actually listened to any of the above albums and not just read the description and not just made a blind rec that wasn't even applicable, you'd know that the album in question has nothing to due whatsoever with the music that the OP is discussing, the albums in the OP, or the thread itself. I even kind of like the album.
EDIT: But lets not make this into another "All about Jman thread"
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You don't have to. Posting a 2000s album in reply to a post about 80s/90s albums is very off-topic though, which was Frogger's initial point. _________________
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