When doing research for my main assignment in music history January 2009, I noticed that there weren’t really any thorough articles on indie music online. My local library held no books on the subject, and not even the best music encyclopaedias had articles or notes concerning it. I realised that this was due to the novelty that indie really is. Indie as we know it today started about the same time as the new millennium. Actually, it would be fair to call the 2000s the decade of indie, both musically and stylistically.
The lack of previous literature landed me more work but it also provided me with freedom when writing about indie. I could group bands into genres and name them as I pleased. Readers may well disagree with my theories, but I personally think they make sense.
A great year for music has come to an end and, unlike most other people, we’ve managed to wait until the year is actually over to publish our lists of best albums. I mean, what if someone got the crazy idea of releasing an insanely great album a few days before new years eve? Not that it happened, as far as I know, but that’s really not the point.
Ok, so we’re entering a freezing cold season (at least for us Norwegians) and with that I feel there’s kind of a natural urge to put away all that dancy and upbeat summer music and put on some love songs that can keep you warm through the winter. I’ve made you a little spotify playlist to help with the transition.
Since it’s halloween, I thought to myself that we had to post something related to this day. And what better thing to do is there than putting up a questionable, far fetched spotify playlist with indie songs that kind of has a theme that can sort of remind you of halloween?
This is the second part of an article series. The first part can be found here.
Throughout your life there are certain albums and musicians that really strike you as different, special, otherworldly even. They mold and shape you and at the most extreme they might make you reconsider your whole way of life. The albums I’m featuring in this series of articles are the ones that did something like that to me, or at least the most prominent ones.
Being a non-religious person, these albums are probably the closest thing to a religion in my life. Some believe in God, some believe in Buddha, some even believe L. Ron Hubbard. I Believe in Professor Pez.
Throughout your life there are certain albums and musicians that really strike you as different, special, otherworldly even. They mold and shape you and at the most extreme they might make you reconsider your whole way of life. The albums I’m featuring in this series of articles are the ones that did something like that to me, or at least the most prominent ones.
Being a non-religious person, these albums are probably the closest thing to a religion in my life. Some believe in God, some believe in Buddha, some even believe L. Ron Hubbard. I Believe in Magnus Moriarty™.
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