Which do you prefer
I actually prefer both because some mainstream artists sounds good and some dont while some indie artists sounds good and some dont.
Mainstream vs. Indie/Underground
Which do you prefer
I actually prefer both because some mainstream artists sounds good and some dont while some indie artists sounds good and some dont.
I prefer good music. The source is frankly inconsequential.
a compelling argument...Originally Posted by SnoopyG
it reminds me of my soon-to-be sister in law's frequently used phrase:
"It's like...I do, but....then again, I don't. You know what I mean?
Brian: "If I remember correctly, this is the Physics Department."
Chris: "That would explain all the gravity."
Stole the words directly from my mouth.
And what that which is considered good is a highly relative term - what I percieve as good may cause you to cringe, and visa versa.
And as for that of underground, that can be tied in with location. For example, I listen to :Wumpscut:. Some of you may be acquanted with :Wumpscut:, but I can say for certain that over here in where I live, he is a very underground artist. However, when thinking of Germany, he is much more appreciated and much more well known there than over here in Washington of the United States.
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Just like underground rap vs. mainstream, I feel indie bands without the burden of the big record companies judging their sounds are free to more creativity and experimentation with their sounds.
Of course this experimentation doesn't mean indie is always good. Some indie rock is complete garbage and sometimes the mainstream puts out some brilliant stuff.
What I've been listening to:
I have a preference towards neither of them. I like good music whether it be mainstream or underground. Although mainstream music is easy to follow.
Underground bands, at least in the metal scene, tend to have more artistic integrity than mainstream bands.
No matter how much you and Sigmund Freud want it to be, 'mother' is not a curse word.
Yeah, that may be true when you compare underground bands to very large mainstream bands like Metallica. But that's not true for all.
I like what I like, but it does generally happen that mainstream music gets overplayed - hence making me get sick of it a lot quicker than I would usually. Example I got Muse's new album, really liked it, went out one saturday and they played it in literally every shop I went in (well almost). It was like Muse overload after that...
Plus mainstream stuff is pretty much always or almost always going to be the stuff that appeals to...well the mainstream. You're not gonna get much stuff that strays too far away. Obviously right now it's all the indie/guitar bands that seem to be popular, muse, razorlight, the kooks, blah. And while I like some of it a lot, I like variety too. Stuff like the go! team, architecture in helsinki, of montreal, just doesn't get played on radio or put to the mainstream really.
Of Montreal in particular I think are amazing, but I wouldn't have discoverered them was it not for LastFM and I guess the indie music connections on there...
Plus to me I just don't feel there is as much good pop coming out as there was in the 90s... I know I was younger then and into it more but stuff like Backstreet Boys and All Saints were good pop groups...now we have pussycat dolls and umm.. I don't even know. So maybe love songs etc were considered boring and unoriginal but I prefered them to songs about taking your clothes off....
ANYWAY my point is I love how there is SO much music out there that doesn't get into the mainstream but is really good and also different...but I also like some mainstream but really I think these days it is mostly crap =P
And some people think indie just means the typical guitar bands... there's such a variety of music out there and really I just want the chance to hear more of it ^^
I frankly prefer the independant stuff more for the fact that I'm unlikely to hear it/have it ruined on television or radio. I don't watch much TV or listen to the radio often anyway, but hearing a song like "Fix You" by Coldplay over and over during crappy movie ads or while in a bookstore totally killed any meaning it had for me. Same goes for classic rock songs being used for car ads. "Lease a brand new Tahoe at your local Chevy dealer! I call that a bargain, the best I eeeever haaaad!"
I tend to fall the same way, but the problem is that mainstream and "Underground" can be total reverse in some places.
I am glad that I do not watch TV or listen to the radio at all.
Good music!
I try not to, but my mom always has it on loud as hell, so I can't help but hear crappy commercial music.I am glad that I do not watch TV or listen to the radio at all.
i like music that appeals to me and that i hear often...i find that music i consider good usually has to grow on me. rarely do i find that after one listen i can say if i like something or not. this being the case, i would say more 'mainstream' music appeals to me, but probably only because of this odd infatuation i seem to have with melodic familiarity
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