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Tag: indie
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My Bloody Valentine, ‘Soon’ and the ideal song length
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13 min read
Just how long is seven minutes, anyway?
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Oasis’ Definitely Maybe and the end of indie
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11 min read
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times …
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Early-1990s UK indie bands: The definitive list
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13 min read
1990s UK indie bands were the best bands.
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Back in 2011, I took one of my many trips down Amnesia Lane. A little bit like this one, in fact. I decided to create a list of all the great UK indie bands from the early 1990s. The problem was, I wasn’t an expert at all, and I’d never lived in the UK. But…
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Pop lyrics: do they really matter?
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6 min read
Here’s an interesting post by Laurie Duggan on the wall of sound, where he makes the point that the vocal track on My Bloody Valentine’s song ‘Come In Alone’ works because of the wall of sound surrounding it. While I think this is true, a closer inspection of the lyrics to these kinds of songs…
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Swervedriver: the good guys of early-1990s UK indie
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3 min read
As Crowded House said, “Now we’re getting somewhere”. Swervedriver were one of the greatest bands of the early 1990s. Full stop. And you know what? Their early success, like that of Ride, hinged upon a series of phenomenal EPs: Son of Mustang Ford, Rave Down and the incendiary Sandblasted EP, all of whose title tracks…
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Ratcat ain’t that bad (and that ain’t bad)
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3 min read
You may notice a pattern appearing: the last two posts have mentioned the seminal influence of a particular EP—namely, Ride’s Play and MBV’s Glider—on my musical tastes and palette. Well, here we go again. It’s time to talk about Ratcat. I cannot emphasise enough the impact of Ratcat’s Tingles EP on both myself and the…
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My Bloody Valentine: Whatever
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4 min read
I don’t think My Bloody Valentine ever put out a song or album with the word ‘whatever’ in the title but I should be wrong. My Bloody Valentine are the ultimate Whatever Band. If you’re talking nano, they don’t even register. They’re so early 1990s the NME website doesn’t list any of their records for…