The What Are You Listening To Thread

**Never** · 01-13-2007 02:38 PM

Enslaved - Isöders dronning

**Ne-yo** · 01-13-2007 02:42 PM

Sol.illaquists of Sound - Ur Turn

**Unicorn** · 01-13-2007 05:13 PM

The First Song - Band Of Horses

**FreshBrains** · 01-13-2007 10:39 PM

Another Brick In The Wall, Part 1 - Roger Waters
In The Flesh tour, First leg. Camden, New Jersey, 1999.

**Lord Toaster** · 01-14-2007 12:04 AM

Somebody Told Me - The Killers... I love this song!!!
Genre: Indie pop/rock (too mainstream I know, but I love it&#33

**Tsen** · 01-14-2007 12:06 AM

New Day by the Bouncing Souls

**FreshBrains** · 01-14-2007 12:13 AM

What God Wants (Part 1) - Roger Waters
Same bootleg.

**shark!** · 01-14-2007 04:38 AM

Thousands of Dead Gods - The Rita

heaviest song I've ever heard. ever.

**bradybaker** · 01-14-2007 05:26 AM

'Gold Lion' by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

**King and God** · 01-14-2007 08:00 AM

7 Years and 50 Days - Groove Coverage

**Never** · 01-14-2007 11:47 AM

Napalm Death - Ripe for the Breaking

**Ne-yo** · 01-14-2007 02:33 PM

Billy Idol - Eyes without a face

**FreshBrains** · 01-14-2007 02:46 PM

David Gilmour - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Live at the Radio City Music Hall, 2006.

**Unicorn** · 01-14-2007 04:51 PM

Everybody Daylight - Brightblack Morning Light

**Neruo** · 01-14-2007 06:46 PM

Led Zeppelin <3

**FreshBrains** · 01-14-2007 07:00 PM

Originally Posted by Lord

Somebody Told Me - The Killers... I love this song!!!
Genre: Indie pop/rock (too mainstream I know, but I love it&#33

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Wait, aren't indie and pop polar opposites? Indie is obscure (REALLY obscure) music, pop is.... the opposite of music.

David Gilmour - Echoes

**bradybaker** · 01-14-2007 09:31 PM

Originally Posted by FreshBrains

Wait, aren't indie and pop polar opposites? Indie is obscure (REALLY obscure) music, pop is.... the opposite of music.
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No and no. Technically, an "indie" band is a band who is not signed to a major label, though there is a sound associated with it. Today, "indie" encompasses such a massive array of styles that it's basically impossible to define.

As for pop being the opposite of music, The Beatles are a prime of example of pop music at its finest. Heck even Micheal Jackson and Prince deserve respect as pop artists. The designation "pop" can have negative connatations of course, but some of the best music ever written also falls into that category.

As for The Killers....I'd label them as straight up pop/rock these days.

Anyways, I'm listening to "Swans (Life After Death)" by Islands (a great Canadian indie/pop act, formerly The Unicorns).

**Tsen** · 01-14-2007 09:42 PM

Paranoid Android by Radiohead

**FreshBrains** · 01-15-2007 12:51 AM

Bradybaker, I meant MODERN pop, which I hate with every cell of my being. Along with most modern music.

Roger Waters - Sheep (Live)
Mansfield, Massachusetts, September 8th 2006.

**bradybaker** · 01-15-2007 03:09 AM

Originally Posted by FreshBrains

Bradybaker, I meant MODERN pop, which I hate with every cell of my being. Along with most modern music.
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I dunno, the Timberlake album was pretty darn good. And there are a ton of indie/pop artists with incredible talent. You are in serious need of broader horizons....no offense.

"My Love" by Justin Timberlake ft. T.I.

**FreshBrains** · 01-15-2007 03:16 AM

I guess it's because I don't look for more music, for the most part. One thing I hate about pop like that is that there aren't any real instruments. Not on the stuff I have to listen to, anyway. My school bus has a radio. God, I hate that thing. "The BEST variety," they say. On the only station the bus driver ever chooses. The best variety of complete and utter crap. I hate hip-hop and pop, and nobody will be able to convince me otherwise.

Also, I know there is LOTS of good indie out there. You were right about The Decemberists, I think I'll go hunting for some of their CD's tomorrow.

**shark!** · 01-15-2007 03:48 AM

Blessed Be Your Name - idk who wrote it.

"Thats why I find Christian Evangelical pop so powerful, it has the feel of some raincoat trying to lure you into his car to look at his puppies."

The russian decembrists group was better...