Comments on: History of Indie Music – 1980’s

By: kev

kev — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:17:47 +0000

Nirvana might never have made it had Mudhoney not turned down Geffen. Mudhoney (according to Sub Pop owners) financially kept the label alive. Geffen wanted Mudhoney to stop their involvement in (rumoured) over a dozen bands. They said no. Geffen went back to Sub Pop and took the next new thing they had…..thus Nirvana.
Someone previously said this commentary doesn’t even scratch the surface……..if you were going to say something then you gotta dig deeper…..there were so many bands during this time period that have become influential and they don’t even get mentioned.
Kim Fowley was one of the most influential men on the US indie scene in the mid to late sixties…..not mentioned…..Billy Chilish is synonymous with british independant music through the late seventies up until today and he doesn’t get mentioned once…..Alan McGee owner of undoubtedly the finest indie label Creation Records….neither mentioned…..

Do you actually know anything about indie music?

By: InBlaze

InBlaze — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:23:00 +0000

This is an article not a full history of all bands. The series is meant to show the evolution of the industry and major bands that made it big pushed indie into the mainstream. Perhaps we’ll take a deeper dive in the future.

By: matt

matt — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:01:27 +0000

most of this is crap it barely scratches the serface of indie music of the 80′s. it only talks about the major bands that made it big.

By: Losille

Losille — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:11:01 +0000

Wow! This article is amazing. I would like permission to put a copy on my website. If not I will put up a note and a link.
Losillë
CFM Music Scene introducing fans to original, new, hot music!

By: Rebel Noise

Rebel Noise — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:03:07 +0000

Great article. Love your take on “Selling out” and “commercialization”.

cheers!

John

By: Maylin

Maylin — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:42:39 +0000

yeah attagirl. music keeps on growing and growing. it is good to see that music is really improving. and i can not also say anything about the old music. and it is great to know that music will still continue to touch people’s lives. and i am also looking forward in seeing what will happen in the next few years with our music.

By: attagirl

attagirl — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:32:46 +0000

You know marc you are very right, there are more hybrid genre’s coming of age. I think that since most music flows in an out over the years, you will see the older genre’s emerge with new style and flair. I would really like to see what happens over the next few years and see where music really goes.

By: marc2002576

marc2002576 — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:37:28 +0000

there are more hybrid genre’s are coming, all the genre’s are just coming back, i mean they are adding some new instrument in a song and they will name it a new genre, i can’t wait too hear what is new this 2008 genre..

By: Attagirl

Attagirl — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:07:17 +0000

You mention commercialization. I think that the 80′s had a way too much of that in all genre’s not just one or the other. I seen a lot of bands move in that direction and that is what allowed the Pop/R&B/Rap scene to open up and therefore pushed other genre’s out.

By: Jeavons

Jeavons — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:09:16 +0000

I was searching for an article about the history of Indie music and found this, some great comment and observations that make it into an all in all good read, well writen by whom so ever wrote it.

I never knew about Kim Gordon, good eye opener that