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[Dav]

Here is my story :

I was quite fan of The Cure and one day i heard this strange cover of Just like heaven on the radio, it was by Dinosaur Jr and i liked it, i never suspected before that guitars can make so much noise ! I can't really tell you what year it was, i guess 1988 maybe....
In 1990 i left my native city and moved to Rennes to "study", and i met this guy in my class called Mickael Gougi, he looked like a total wanker to everyone but i made friend with him on the first day, we talked about music and he also was a Cure fan, he asked me what indie band i listen to, so i blushed and admit that i don't even know what he was talking about, later is figured out that Mickael have this older brother that listened to cool music and teach him all about it.

Mickeal made me a mix tape a few days later.
The opening song was "into the white" by the Pixies, it was a blast !
The second song was "feed me with your kiss" by My bloody valentine, that was so great, i was hooked already !
I can't remember all the songs that were on this tape, there was songs by The Smith, The Pastels, Jesus and Mary Chain, The Fall, The Stone Roses to name a few.....

It was very cool to discover all those great band in 90 minutes !
I used to walk everywhere with my walkman and this green tape inside, it was the kind of walkman that was so heavy that your jacket hang 3 inches on the side of the pocket your walkman was in.....way before Ipod and 2000 songs on it....but hey who need 2000 songs when you can have so much thrills on a 90 minutes cassette?
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[terricloth]

well besides older indie which i think ive been into forever, the way i got into newer stuff and antifolk was at the local borders book store there was this lady that everyone seemed to know and love. i asked who the mysteryt lady was that just seemed to have a positive aura around her, to which my friend replied "jeez thats kimya dawson havent you heard the moldy peaches????!!!!" and i had to say no. so right then and there i bought a cd from her and it opened me up to worlds of new music, since i was really jaded about the current music scene
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[Dav]

ahaha that's a very cool story terricloth !
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[Kieron]

For me it started back in the early nineties, '91 I think. I used to love watching the chart show on ITV on Saturday lunchtimes, and each week they would feature a different specialist chart. I, for some reason, would always look forward to the dance chart -- something to do with peer pressure I think. The rock chart I could tolerate, but the indie chart was awful -- to me it sounded really weak and wet. No bollocks like the rock chart, or headspinningness of the dance chart! But this one week, it happened to be indie. I watched it as I always did, and what's this? Hmmm, I like this one, though I best not mention it to my friends. It was The Only One by the Charlatans, and I have to say, it was and still is the best bit of psychedelic indie I have ever heard. I'm pretty sure the same chart also featured There's No Other Way by Blur... suffice to say those songs changed my life! But it wasn't til many years later that I started buying indie and really getting into it. I moved to Bristol when I was 20, and partly through my cousin's influence, really got into listening to indie, mostly through John Peel, Mark n Lard and Steve Lamacq. Finally two years later I went to uni, with a newly purchased CD player. At this point, I started to actaully buy music, and the whole uni experience quickly allowed me to absorb all the wonderfulness that is indie-culture. It was at uni that I first heard Jeff Lewis, and where I reviewed the Moldy Peaches album for the uni paper!

[Akira1977punk]

hmmm, im kind of unsure about what exactly is indie like what makes a band indie persay because if it is as i see it then i would have to say my cousin hidel got me listening to the classic indie bands, punk, fuck just about anything really worth listening to...pixies, charlatans, blur, stone roses, ....though i must say i did i bit of searching on my own before my cousins influence had met me head on ...i got into radiohead during their bends album, started liking supergrass, got into elliott smith...damn those times were my favorite of my youth bc every day there seemed to be something new and interesting....sigh..
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[fabalbert]

THE STROKES

They are definitely the whole reason I got into music.
When I was about 11 (2001) I saw some of their videos on TV and completely adored the music. After a few weeks my dad bought me Is This It and I completely fell in love with it and The Strokes.
I listened to that album 100 times before staring to discover new bands.
In 2003 I went to my first gig (The Strokes, naturally) and got completely hooked.
After that me and my brother just started listening to loads of different bands and with every month that goes past we love another band.
Adam Green followed quite quickly after that. At the moment my favourites are The Strokes, Adam, Kimya, Jeffrey, Yeah yeah yeahs, arcade fire and so many others.

I could have wriiten that better. It seemed like it happened differently.
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[Will Oldham]

This is to long a story to get into, briefly growing up I ignored all modern music and was really into old rock and roll some skiffle buddy holly, Eddie cockran, etc etc and a lot of 60's music I guess Nirvana where the first band of the time that I started listening to then by about 14 the definately maybe and park life albums came out and 'changed my life' around this time I'd started playing guitar and forming bands with my mates which were all terrible in hindsight and we played loads of covers - I started writing songs which were also terrible ( I have recordings to prove it) and heavily 'brit pop' influenced around this time I discoved bob Dylan and played my parents vinyl to death. I like allsorts os music these days aslong as it does something for me I don't really care about genres be it punk, folk, anti- folk, country,indie phycidelic all genres have they're good stuff and there bad stuff so you can't really write anything off altthough some genres (ie anti-folk) obviously have a lot more things to my liking than others.
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[penny lane]

i cant say that i got into indie music straight off the bat because i like soooo many different types of music its hard to define a genre for them all. i suppose my love of music as a whole started off with my brother making c.d's that we would play in the car, mixed tapes of the music he was into at the time, all classics. a huge fan of rory gallagher and thin lizzy. still to this day "dancing in the moonlight" is my favourite song. so then my distaste from all the "pop" music came about, tisking whenever the spice girls came on the radio . my brother kind of gets me into certain bands. like back when i was 11, on holidays, all he would play was the black album by metallica, so i suppose i had no choice but to like them. . this year i did some work experience at the college radio station and ever since ive been listening in because their general sound is kind of ecletic. first song i heard from jeff lewis was "alphabet" and loved it because it made me smile. because i didnt hear the intro right i was looking for a BAND called alphabet thats what happens when you mumble i suppose! 2 days later my brother comes bursting in forcing me to listen to will oldham horror, and im going "ohhhhhhhhhh i KNOW this sound" and he invites me and my friend to come along to the gig a couple days later. i CERTAINLY dont regret going and a flurry of c.d purchases insued.

right now im also listening to arcade fire, the shins, the decemberists, blance, we are scientists, the new snow patrol album( but i perfered the one previous to it), kings of leon, the pixies and the ever fabulous ok go.
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[terricloth]

i <3 arcade fire
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[penny lane]

theres just something about them! they make me wanna get up and....the only way i can describe it "dance like chris martin from coldplay", with all the running and jumping and everything...and then on other songs they just make me totally relax after ive had one of those days.
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[kevin!gilmartin]

I started listening to Nirvana when I was something like twelve, and got into the Melvins, Mudhoney, and Velvet Underground

And my brother had a huge CD collection with Pixies, Fugazi, Television, Teenage Fanclub, etc., and worked for the Spin Art record label .

And my sister had a couple Sonic Youth CDs.
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[jack fe]

[penny lane]

ohhhhhh the pixies are like SUCH a classic! ive started re-listening to doolittle recently and theyre awsomeness is kind of mind blowing in a way.for me its the difinative pixies album. my brother saw them play last year and i have to say i was pretty jealous!
the moldy peaches i got into because "anyone else but you" was used for a radio commercial over here. and for a while you couldnt walk down the street for people humming it!
i saw the white stripes play 2 years ago, and i have to say it was an unbelieveable show. they had mundy( an irish guy who filled in for jet at short notice), peaches (who i personally hate with a passion because she spat fake blood at a security guard), the new york dolls (who freaked everyone out), and blance (who are this amazing act that the stripes brought with them from detroit) actually little jack lawrence who played with them is now with jack white's new 4 piece, the raconteurs. although the stripes where totally amazing as an act, and really got the crowd going, i cant honestly relate to their newer stuff. the classics are always golden.
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[terricloth]

i saw the white stripes last year, im used to seeing acts like kimya, jeff lewis, basically just much smaller shows, and am usually put off by large crowds, but at that show it didnt matter! jack was taking polaroids of himself and meg and throwing them into the crowd i really wish i couldve grabbed one!
but yeah some of my favorites: pixies,world/inferno friendship society, kimya, mp, jeff lewis(duh), leftover crack, the kinks, arcade fire, gogol bordello, mischief brew, matt & kim, klaus nomi, sparks, tmbg, vaselines,and brook pridemore( if youve never heard of him, check him out www.myspace.com/brookpridemore
very antifolky if you live in ny he plays at sidewalk alot-go see him!)
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[terricloth]

ooh and i left out japanther i love, love, love japanther
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