🎸 Indie Rock History 🎸 from 70s Origins to New Classics
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Follow indie rock and indie pop from its sprouting in the late late '60s/70s, its fruition in the '80s, its perfection in the '90s, its wide explosion in the '00s, and finally its retrospection in the '2010s. Tracks are listed in order of their original release dates.
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0 days, 3 hours, 53 minutes
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November 10, 2020
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Deep
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Varied
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2000s
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Rock
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Certainly the UK as a whole had fascination with this style of pop. While many point to American rock bands like The Velvet Underground and The Modern Lovers as those who started subverting the style of rock 'n' roll, it was the UK that really took that torch and ran with it. I think the word I would use to describe this style would be coy. It's certainly mature, adult pop, but it's also not juvenile. It's not aggressive or overly sentimental. It's got a blasé swagger, and that's the style much later indie bands like Vampire Weekend (which OP pointed out) would continue to use. But it's certainly got a lineage. Orange Juice is an important part of that lineage, but they weren't the first link in the chain. I think the earliest band to really pin this style down was [Young Marble Giants](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tboESor89CU), who formed in 1978 in Cardiff, Wales. Certainly they had their influences like The VU/Lou Reed, Brian Eno, Can, and others... but I dunno, Young Marble Giants' style was something else altogether. I'd be curious to hear someone earlier than YMG that was a coy, aloof, and nonchalant. Closest I can think of would be The Slits and The Raincoats, but those bands weren't quite as indifferent. With Orange Juice, I think The Feelies were the next closest in the time/region to what they were doing. And after some time, this "attitude" that would eventually become known as indie pop and indie rock would return to America. The band that I think most directly invokes the lineage of Young Marble Giants in this time period of the late '80s and early '90s is [Beat Happening](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_AG4aIzgj8), by far. While they were a bit louder than YMG, they had coy and indifferent in their bones. I'm really into this topic, if you couldn't tell. I have a Spotify playlist called [Indie Rock History from 70s Origins to New Classics](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0W24FrDt8qP8JDqBRyXsqK?si=og6_cYKzR_uLQKtqzd3PrQ) that follows indie history through a lot of these bands, as well as some other influences that led to indie rock, indie pop, noise rock, lo-fi, etc.
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aleatoric
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