Re: 1966 / 1977/1995 ?????

["Andrew F. Wilson" <a.wilson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 16:45 02/11/98 +0100, you wrote:
>ouch ! surprising to read that, really ! 1995 was already for me the end of
>the indie
>movement, and it was really smelling the death for all these bands ! The
>indie/shoe gazer shit was at the top in the mid-80s I think, with all the
>noisy pop stuff that was sometimes really nice, with bands such as My
>Bloody Valentine, Wedding Present, Jesus & Mary Chains, Sonic Youth, etc...
>it lasted until the early years of the 90s, with nice LPs, such as Ride's
>"Nowhere" and "Going Blank Again", or PJ Harvey's "Dry" ('tho I have to
>admit that I'm listening to these Lps maybe once a year only...)... but in
>1993 it was already something else... Never been able to listen to Oasis ,
>Blur, Verve, Hole, and all the neo-neo-neo "mod" revival of that time...
>nothing but LAME muzac to my ears...

yeah i'd go along with that (but chuck in a spaceman or 3); oasis and all
the tawdry rest are just  an inglorious rebirthing of the stale stadium
rock that all the mid-80s indie seemed like (for me at the time) a reaction
agin; so, having said that, here's hoping.....

andrew


andrew fergus wilson     "we got our headcoats on"
a.wilson@derby.ac.uk    -thee mighty caesars