Indie is usually crap, there is some diamonds among the sea of crap, but basically, its mostly college stoners who cant sing

Madonna is mainstream so I like mainstream

The indie music scene is very diverse though. It has changed a lot over the years as the indie charts used to be for releases on independent record labels. Now it has evolved into a genre of music. I suppose it depends how you classify music. There are artists that you could personally view as good and bad in every genre. It's all down to personal taste.

Yeah, but Indie bands dont make the effort...I mean they seriously look like random jobless stoners

I'm fed up of the Indie Scene.
It was good back in 2004 when there were decent bands and artists, now its all just a string of same sounding bands being like eachother.... boring.

Make an effort with the music....or their appearances? :tongue:

Anything on the shitty Fizz music channel is mainstream.

Both, like Jen said, they all sound the same, apart from the odd few

I like mainstream but I love my indie stuff. Indie isn't just the kooks and Arctic Monkeys (Not really indie but serve my point). It's got different genres and is too vast to be judged.

There are some good indie bands out there. The Last Shadow Puppets are one off the top of my head who have a different sound to the majority of "indie bands" out there.

Thats why I said "odd few" Im not condeming the whole genre as crap :flower:

Just to alliterate my earlier point. There's more types of Indie music then there is in the mainstream.

I think the problem with Indie music is that people are a lot more exposed to all these bands sounding the same thanks to sites such as MySpace, Last.FM... the whole 'indie' scene has increased tenfold in recent years, whereas beforehand you'd only really come across one or two.

I wasn't singling you out lol I was just making a general statement to everyone who thought indie was just stuff like the kooks.

I generally Dislike all indie music.

and everything about it especially the clothes aswell.

Aye its over exposure really, as the saying goes "Too many cooks"

and I was replying to Baz, Muse :tongue: but I get what you mean

Top 30 Independent Label Singles : 15.03.2009

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/indiesingles.shtml

M.I.A. is in there.

Prodigy is there.

Dizzee Rascal.

Ladytron.

Just to clarify, are we talking indie bands or guitar bands?

As I said earlier, it depends on how you perceive indie

I'm don't mind a lot of Mainstream stuff, but it's always good to have bands/singers that no-one else knows. One of my favourite bands ever is Porcelain And The Tramps, and IMO, none of the bands in the chart are anywhere as good as them. Admittedly, they're pretty famous on the myspace circuit but they're unsigned and generally unknown.

What winds me up about mainstream music is people who JUST listen to it. Sure, listen to what you want but it'd be nice if people would open up a bit. Browse around and you could find a singer with Leona's vocal range, or an artist who's music is as catchy as Britney's. Taking Leona as an example, she was unknown once. She has 2 non-mainstream albums, so does that make it bad? or would you not listen to it 'cos it's not in the charts?

If a friend played you a song and you liked it, but it was by someone who's unsigned/not in the chart, would you continue to listen to it or abandon it?