[RoundTheBend]

From the Siamese Dream remastered edition notes linear notes:

"We started the album out with 'Cherub Rock' which is basically my big F.U. to the indie world. If you read the lyrics, that was basically me railing against the hipper-than-thou NYC mentality."

I liked this statement because it was the first time I have seen someone else talk about how ridiculous the "indie" scene can be.

What do you think? Does the indie scene tend to become so caught up in being indie, instead of appreciating music. Does it create an almost anti-music/true indie scene because they have swung so far away from the corporate music scene that they have almost become the corporate music scene in the sense that it creates stale music that, instead of trying to hard to sell like corporate rock, tries to hard to be "indie" and therefore equally loses value in music/culture.

And, if you are a listener of indie music, and indie music only- what do you think? Please identify yourselves so I can mock you (jk, I respect you and like a lot of indie music myself, but as you can see from my lists I am nowhere near a strict indie listener).

[pearljammer13]

I hate the hipster indie kids that hate anything that is even remotely mainstream simply for that fact alone. It's ok to like music that a lot of other people like. Yes the radio plays a lot of garbage...but every once in a while the radio plays some good songs too.

One of my favorite bands is the indie band Manchester Orchestra. When I was at one of their concerts I was saying to someone how I hope they get more popular because they are a great band and deserve more recognition and fame. One of the people near me immediately said they didn't want them to become famous cause then they wouldn't like them as much. Why the hell should popularity define whether or not you like a band? Last time I checked the music they write should dictate how much you like them. That's the biggest thing that pisses me off about the hipsters. A band or artist can be popular and still be good.

[GeevyDallas]

Death to the Hipster

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Smashing Pumpkins are a joke, in every aspect

[kidamnesiac]

pearl jammer that is the problem, if the radio plays a lot of garbage, then if you listen to it you end up listening to a lot of garbage.
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[Norman Bates]

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Ironically, most of my favorite bands/artists are indie acts that were trying to be commercially successful and simply failed or saw very limited success. Maybe that's where the best music lies...
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