Being a Militant Indie Kid who dismisses all non-Indie music as Meaningless Rubbish, then discovering Hip Hop or Grime or Dancehall and becoming a Militant fan who dismisses all other forms of music,

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No names, no pack-drill.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Saturday, 1 May 2004 12:28 (twenty years ago) link

Puritans: Don'cha just hate 'em?

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Saturday, 1 May 2004 12:29 (twenty years ago) link

Yes.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 1 May 2004 12:29 (twenty years ago) link

The answer is Classic, obviously!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 1 May 2004 12:30 (twenty years ago) link

Oh it's just indie that I dismiss, but it's not meaningful at all!

Classic.

― The Lex (The Lex), Saturday, 1 May 2004 12:35 (twenty years ago) link

Then they get older still and listen to nothing but 60's obscurities and then they get older still and listen to nothing but depression-era jazz, country, and blues dismissing everything else! Classic or Dud?

Oh wait, that's just me.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 1 May 2004 12:58 (twenty years ago) link

Scott how long ago were you only listening to Grime and dancehall? You must have been ahead of us all!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 1 May 2004 13:03 (twenty years ago) link

Substitute "bubblegum" for "Grime" or whatever, and I might be guilty as charged.

― Super-Kate (kate), Saturday, 1 May 2004 13:04 (twenty years ago) link

I think most of us have prob'ly been something like this at some time in our lives. It's the Stalinist purging of previously loved music that particularly amuses me.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Saturday, 1 May 2004 13:07 (twenty years ago) link

I meant the hip hop part of the question. for me personally. although to be fair to myself, i was listening to hip hop as well as indie/punk/hardcore when i was a young fella.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 1 May 2004 13:09 (twenty years ago) link

come to think of it, i was listening to 60's obscurities and old jazz too. never mind. But i have known lots of old bitter hipsters who used to be big punk/post punk/whatever fans who became R.Crumb later in life. I think they just got tired of it all.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 1 May 2004 13:14 (twenty years ago) link

this isn't quite me but you got the basic dynamics in place, so: classic.

― m. (mitchlnw), Saturday, 1 May 2004 13:58 (twenty years ago) link

Hurrah for being a pacifist!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 1 May 2004 14:01 (twenty years ago) link

I am sure the indie kid previously rejected The Presidents of the United States of America and Weird Al and the Waynes World Soundtrack at one point too (assuming such a kid is around my age).

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Saturday, 1 May 2004 14:10 (twenty years ago) link

Not so much dud as laughable.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 1 May 2004 14:11 (twenty years ago) link

versus former indie kids who only listen to Krautrock, free jazz and noise?

Or was krautrock essentially an indie music and liking is merely retro-indie?

omg lolz

― NUMBER 1 TERRY RILEY FAN (ex machina), Saturday, 1 May 2004 14:24 (twenty years ago) link

I think there's a step missing before "dismissing indie music". Like maybe "discuss your newfound love with your indie rock cohorts, who recoil in disgust and ask you why you're not listening to Preston School of Industry instead".

How about the boomerang effect of hating indie rock as a teenager, grudingly growing to like it, then becoming completely jaded with the standard variation of it unless there is some sort of dance-rock thing going on?

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Saturday, 1 May 2004 14:47 (twenty years ago) link

Hey man, don't sweat the system! People like this keep the used record/cd industry in business.

― earlnash, Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:20 (twenty years ago) link

This is me except for the militant dismissal part, I guess.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:22 (twenty years ago) link

A million Areal threads will never hide my secret Von Bondies shame.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:22 (twenty years ago) link

Perhaps you should go to Von Bondies Anonymous, @D.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:24 (twenty years ago) link

I don't have a problem, I'm completely in control.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:25 (twenty years ago) link

Though to be fair, I was as much into Spice 1 and Biggie Smalls in my late teens as I was, I dunno...Prolapse.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:26 (twenty years ago) link

I'll say dud, coz dismissing music purely on genre/cool/lifestyle grounds seems like a counter-productive thing to do. You can like whatever you like.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:31 (twenty years ago) link

I remember being physically dragged to see Carl Cox at Glastonbury, which is very funny in retrospect, especially when you consider that I was probably more keen to see Radial Spangle in the Boddington's tent or whatever.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:31 (twenty years ago) link

Maybe I have issues?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:32 (twenty years ago) link

No one listens to the Preston School of Industry.

― NUMBER 1 TERRY RILEY FAN (ex machina), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:36 (twenty years ago) link

I "got" Acid House as soon as I heard it. John Peel was playing stuff like Larry Heard and Phuture pretty early, and whilst my indie mates were dismissing it as some sort of joke, i fell totally in love. More than anything else, that changed the way I listened to music.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:36 (twenty years ago) link

You guys are all ponces.

― NUMBER 1 TERRY RILEY FAN (ex machina), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:37 (twenty years ago) link

I listen to Preston School of Industry, they're okay.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:38 (twenty years ago) link

The Boredoms are so overrated.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:47 (twenty years ago) link

;)

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:47 (twenty years ago) link

KILLING JOKE IS MEEDIOCRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― NUMBER 1 TERRY RILEY FAN (ex machina), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:48 (twenty years ago) link

SIGHTINGS ARE A BIT DULL!!!!!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:54 (twenty years ago) link

What noodle said. My dismissal of dance music began and ended when I was 13, making fun of my sister liking Chicago house by going "He's just saying 'jack jack jack jack your body' in one ear and then the other! Any idiot could do that!" Then I heard Todd Terry on John Peel and changed my mind.

I don't think I ever dismissed hip-hop. I'm still not sure if I know what grime is.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:58 (twenty years ago) link

I've never met a HUGE Sightings fan.

― NUMBER 1 HANSON RECORDS FAN (ex machina), Saturday, 1 May 2004 15:58 (twenty years ago) link

and then i pet my cat and scratched her underneath her chin and said, "Kitty, do you want to go outside?"

― jack cole (jackcole), Saturday, 1 May 2004 16:02 (twenty years ago) link

Sightings rock my face off.
-- Ian Johnson (orio...), April 8th, 2003.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 May 2004 16:04 (twenty years ago) link

I like them really.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 May 2004 16:05 (twenty years ago) link

Everyone's poncey. Let's fuck.

― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 1 May 2004 16:07 (twenty years ago) link

Well, in any case the former militant indie kid has always dimissed nu-metal as rubbish, so classic.

― dieblucasdie (dieblucasdie), Saturday, 1 May 2004 16:16 (twenty years ago) link

oh wait wait, we did this one already:

Indie Guilt: C/D

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 1 May 2004 16:21 (twenty years ago) link

MY TRUCKER HAT TO THREAD!

― NUMBER 1 TERRY RILEY FAN (ex machina), Saturday, 1 May 2004 16:26 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

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― DAEREST V1CE MAGAZINE!!!!! (ex machina), Friday, 17 June 2005 20:43 (nineteen years ago) link

six years pass...

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I used to beat the shit out of anybody who didn't have a Lois tattoo

― same old song and placenta (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:44 (twelve years ago) link

good revive

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