Comments on: Does The World Need Another Indie Rock Band? Discuss

By: troy

troy — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:03:07 +0000

hmmm, Douglas. i don’t know if you can blame the libertines for inspiring lesser and watered-down versions of their own band, any more than you can blame ANY successful or interesting group for the hopefuls/hopeless which spring up in their wake. as to the bland, uninspiring and uninteresting: it’s omnipresent, because let’s face it — a large percentage of music listeners prefer bland, uninspiring and uninteresting, and really, there’s nothing wrong with that, as there’s plenty to go around.

By: James

James — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:44:35 +0000

Thanks again Dave. Will be pleased to receive it.

Fun fact: All of the people who posed for the original poster were Young Tories (or whatever they call themselves)! I wouldn’t have given any of them a job either! :-)

By: Hugo

Hugo — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:31:51 +0000

Damn…I wanted to win something…

By: douglas martin

douglas martin — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:21:35 +0000

well, since the contest is over, i’ll just point out that “landfill-indie” is a pretty brilliant term. i feel like this is somehow (although indirectly) the libertines’ fault; up the bracket spawned all of these bands that want to be like the libertines, but none of those bands are nearly as clever. or, i dunno; maybe they weren’t inspired by the libertines and just started these bands to get girls and become rock stars. a good portion of this stuff is just a bland retread of something that’s been happening for decades, much like the singer/songwriter genre. as a musician, i’ve always thought that sounding anonymous and boring is a fate far worse than sounding weird or “inaccessible.”

with all of the interesting, progressive bands popping up what seems like every single day, it’s pretty surprising that these bland, anonymous guitar-pop bands can still sell records. i guess that’s what payola can do for you.

By: Dave Allen

Dave Allen — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:51:45 +0000

Ok, Joe and James, let’s call it a tie…send addresses to me at info@pampelmoose.com and a 7″ will wing its way to you both

By: James

James — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:47:11 +0000

I am far more shameless than jwallace! It is a parody of a famous 1970s’ Tory campaign poster which blamed Labour for creating unemployment! The original slogan was “Labour Isn’t Working”!

By: JWallace

JWallace — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:25:49 +0000

Dave–I know the answer, but since I work from my home office and saw this five seconds after you posted it, I will refrain from giving the answer–wouldn’t be fair to snipe it :-) but I must say that’s a funny-as-hell riff on the original.

On the article…a guy I worked with at Gearwire once said “Now that everybody can put out a record, we finally see that sometimes exclusion isn’t such a bad thing.”