Dok ([info]cyberinsekt) wrote,
@ 2009-10-18 00:43:00
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Bishop Allen - Psycho Killer
I have a question for my older readers. Anyone the right side of 30, look away now; these questions on decrepitude and morbidity are not for you.

Ready? Okay, why do we stop listening to indie rock? What is it, years of accrued disappointments, of new records failing to be as exciting as we remember? Is it actually a very limited musical genre, and we really have heard it all before? I don't have any answers, but then I'm just about the least self-reflexive person out there, so I wouldn't.

Anyway, if their live version of Psycho Killer is anything to go by, Bishop Allen might just be enough to get me liking this stuff again. It is splendidly edgy, played just too fast enough to suggest that the entire band are a bunch of mentalists. It is trebley and skittish and played with real rhythmic idiosyncrasy. Just the thing needed to end this covers week.

Bishop Allen - Psycho Killer
(alternate download)

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[info]movesaround
2009-10-18 05:54 am UTC (link)
I listen to more indie music now that when I was younger. With everything digital, it is more easily accessible. However, among my friends, I am unusual. I think that as you get older, you just don't have the time to listen to it all.

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[info]ankaret
2009-10-18 10:17 am UTC (link)
I don't think I ever listened to indie rock in the first place; when I was a teenager it struck me as annoying whiny guitar music for angsty boys who didn't have much to be angsty about in the first place, and now I'm out of the demographic.

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(Anonymous)
2009-10-18 10:26 am UTC (link)
how do you know how un-self-reflexive you are?

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This is probably not very helpful but since you asked...
[info]lurkingcat
2009-10-18 04:29 pm UTC (link)
I've no idea why I stop listening to indie rock from time to time, but I haven't stopped just because I'm over 30. I seem to go through phases of being really into it in the same way that I go through phases of being really into comics, or Doctor Who, or anime, or whatever. I'm not sure why these phases start and finish either, because if I'm in a phase of liking indie rock I'll quite happily go chasing after stuff that was released while I was busy being heavily into cheesy dance music/goth/Ella Fitzgerald/stuff my nieces are listening to.

Possibly I am just a very simple soul who doesn't mind if we've heard all before as long as it's done well.

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(Anonymous)
2009-10-19 02:40 am UTC (link)
Well, I mostly listened to, well not indy, but punk with or without prefix. Before that it was jazz and 60s rock. Anyways, the change was overwhelmingly social: my best friend had become a bit of a Big Man On Punk Scene, plus it gave me access to a reservoir of potential friends who, unlike nearly all of my classmates, were not pure evil, and it got me in a band that would play these songs I was making up, or at least the lyrics. Also the juvenile aspect of the music was a major cause of attraction; I used to talk a lot about music for "kids," so it makes sense that I'd lose interest eventually, even though I didn't expect to for some reason. After graduation and the purge of my friends, I tried being a jazz purist for a while, but I found I still preferred the company of punk rock people, so I it was there. After those friends were purged I was pretty much on my own in terms of music taste. However, lately last.fm has made me aware that there are a lot of really interesting new bands, plus it's useful for maintaining my denial of the ravages of time, so I'm getting into it a bit again.

But anyway, I think in general it has to do with the fact that your brain changes as you age. I think it's part of the processes that causes you to lose the ability to pick up languages as easily as otherwise-idiotic young children.

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(Anonymous)
2009-10-19 02:41 am UTC (link)
1st sentence should have ended "for a couple years in high school."

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[info]twerpalicious
2009-10-26 02:26 pm UTC (link)
I don't hear much indie-rock any more, just indie-. It's like somebody took Bob Barker's advice to an extreme and had their indie-rockers spayed or neutered. The older I get, the less tolerance I have for rock that doesn't rock. If I don't want rock, there's big band and bossa nova. I'm fine with a guy with a girly voice, but not a guy with a wussy delivery. Of Montreal is the devil.

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