[Starrstruck]

Hi everyone,

I'm slowly starting to become more interested in indie rock music. So far I really like The Killers, Kings of Leon and Arctic Monkeys

Does anyone have anymore suggestions for anymore songs or bands that are similar to the ones that I've just listed.

Thank you.

EDIT: Why the neg? I'm only asking for suggestions...........

[metalthrashin'mad]

"the killers"

"rather than mainstream"

what?

[fnm]

All of those bands listed are very mainstream indeed, nothing wrong with that, but they are mainstream...try pavement, sebadoh, beck, slint, godspeedyou! sunny day real estate.

[michaelhaych]

Arcade Fire, Babyshambles, The Coral, Cage the Elephant, The Courteeners, The Cribs, The Horrors, Jose Gonzalez, Libertines, Last Shadow Puppets, Sonic Youth, The Smiths, The Stokes, Warpaint.

[The Optimistic Ram]

I have similar taste of music to that what you describe. Look up JET, The Datsuns, The Hives, The Automatic.
Quality bands that I've found through buying cheap CD's in That's Entertainment. When I bought they were all in the 6 for a £5 deal. Then there's the more popular ones like The Fratellis (love their first album!), Razorlight, The Black Keys and Stereophonics.


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*why the negging people? OP asked for suggestions, I gave suggestions. Shall I go negging all your posts?

[Starrstruck]

(Original post by metalthrashin'mad)
"the killers"

"rather than mainstream"

what?

I meant mainstream as in music that is played constantly on Capital FM.

[metalthrashin'mad]

(Original post by Starrstruck)
I meant mainstream as in music that is played constantly on Capital FM.

Well listen to slowdive anyway. Much better than that bland ****e. And I know I'm gonna get negged for that

[FrescoDiMorte]

Arcade Fire, Bombay Bicycle Club, Portugal the man, The temper trap, TV ON THE RADIO (big one) and Zulu Winter.

Negs ?

[Pheylan]

Neutral Milk Hotel

[Endless Blue]

(Original post by Starrstruck)
Hi everyone,

I'm slowly starting to become more interested in indie rock rather than mainstream. So far I really like The Killers, The Kooks, Kings of Leon, Arctic Monkeys and Two Door Cinema Club.

Does anyone have anymore suggestions for anymore songs or bands that are similar to the ones that I've just listed.

Thank you.

I hope you realise that all of the bands you listed there are 'mainstream'. *Sigh* Oh, and not only are they mainstream, they're so ****ing boring and mediocre. You could and should find a lot better. I'd ignore some of the suggestions here if I were you, unless you want more dull ****

This is the problem with the whole 'indie' fad at the minute. People think just because they wear chinos and don't listen to the terrible pop groups in the charts that they're really cool and indie (I hope this is not you OP, but I have my doubts..)

It's hard to put a true label on what Indie really is nowadays since it's been so distorted. However, I will list a few bands that are definitely worth listening to regardless:

- The Smiths
- The Cure
- R.E.M
- The Jesus and Mary Chain
- Sonic Youth
- The Brian Jonestown Massacre
- Spiritualized
- Spacemen 3
- Primal Scream
- Josef K
- SCARS
- Television
- The Chameleons

and those are just a few suggestions, I could give loads more. To be honest most of those bands probably wouldn't even think of categorising themselves as Indie, but they're great nevertheless.

There's good music everywhere, so don't just limit yourself to the Indi wannabes like The Wombats etc

Edit: The Horrors (from few posts above) are a fantastic shout as well. One of my favourite bands, but again are not 'Indie'


I really pity the poor sods who negged this. Just keep telling yourselves that The Kooks & Co are indie and you'll be just fine..

When I become a sub, which I will, I will find all you neggers and destroy you on every music forum you decide to post on.

[Colour Me Pretty]

Wouldn't class them ''Indie'' as such but Canterbury have released a new album ''Heavy In The Day'' and it's soooooo good! Their debut ''Thank You'' is pretty awesome too!

Check out Futures new album as well!

[Starrstruck]

(Original post by benpearson1)
I hope you realise that all of the bands you listed there are 'mainstream'. *Sigh* Oh, and not only are they mainstream, they're so ****ing boring and mediocre. You could and should find a lot better. I'd ignore some of the suggestions here if I were you, unless you want more dull ****

This is the problem with the whole 'indie' fad at the minute. People think just because they wear chinos and don't listen to the terrible pop groups in the charts that they're really cool and indie (I hope this is not you OP, but I have my doubts..)

It's hard to put a true label on what Indie really is nowadays since it's been so distorted. However, I will list a few bands that are definitely worth listening to regardless:

- The Smiths
- The Cure
- R.E.M
- The Jesus and Mary Chain
- Sonic Youth
- The Brian Jonestown Massacre
- Spiritualized
- Spacemen 3
- Primal Scream
- Josef K
- SCARS
- Television
- The Chameleons

and those are just a few suggestions, I could give loads more. To be honest most of those bands probably wouldn't even think of categorising themselves as Indie, but they're great nevertheless.

There's good music everywhere, so don't just limit yourself to the Indi wannabes like The Wombats etc

Edit: The Horrors (from few posts above) are a fantastic shout as well. One of my favourite bands, but again are not 'Indie'

I can assure that's not me but thanks for the suggestions. You called some of the bands I listed mediocre and boring, which ones were you talking about??

[Chillywilly93]

(Original post by benpearson1)
I hope you realise that all of the bands you listed there are 'mainstream'. *Sigh* Oh, and not only are they mainstream, they're so ****ing boring and mediocre. You could and should find a lot better. I'd ignore some of the suggestions here if I were you, unless you want more dull ****

This is the problem with the whole 'indie' fad at the minute. People think just because they wear chinos and don't listen to the terrible pop groups in the charts that they're really cool and indie (I hope this is not you OP, but I have my doubts..)

It's hard to put a true label on what Indie really is nowadays since it's been so distorted. However, I will list a few bands that are definitely worth listening to regardless:

- The Smiths
- The Cure
- R.E.M
- The Jesus and Mary Chain
- Sonic Youth
- The Brian Jonestown Massacre
- Spiritualized
- Spacemen 3
- Primal Scream
- Josef K
- SCARS
- Television
- The Chameleons

and those are just a few suggestions, I could give loads more. To be honest most of those bands probably wouldn't even think of categorising themselves as Indie, but they're great nevertheless.

There's good music everywhere, so don't just limit yourself to the Indi wannabes like The Wombats etc

Edit: The Horrors (from few posts above) are a fantastic shout as well. One of my favourite bands, but again are not 'Indie'

kings of leon first two albums aren't boring- they're genius
arctic monkeys are exciting and (were) very fresh

come on now, there's a reason these bands are considered the best of their kind. coldplay, now there's a boring band

[punkski]

(Original post by metalthrashin'mad)
Well listen to slowdive anyway. Much better than that bland ****e. And I know I'm gonna get negged for that

listen to this fella, slowdive is amazing.

and to chip in, op, try Phoenix, Foals and Air Castles. if you're feeling particularly brave, try Baths.

[Starrstruck]

Thanks for all the suggestions so far, I'll definitely be downloading a lot of songs soon!

[suggsina]

Vaccines. not really indie but seems to be what you're looking for. also Young The Giant.

[Endless Blue]

(Original post by Starrstruck)
I can assure that's not me but thanks for the suggestions. You called some of the bands I listed mediocre and boring, which ones were you talking about??

All of them really. Actually, Arctic Monkeys are alright I suppose as are The Killers.

But The Kooks? The ****ing Kooks? Honestly one of the worst bands around right now IMO, so mediocre and dull. Can't see why anybody would like them, but that's up to them.

Two Door Cinema Club aren't actually mediocre, they're downright awful in my opinion. Find the singer's voice so annoying and don't get me started on the song content

Anyway, I wasn't trying to offend you or anything, but I just think that there is much better music out there that people just turn a blind eye to (again, might not necessarily be you).

Just seek stuff out, admittedly its much more time consuming for me to say, find a punk or shoegaze band I really like, but when I do, I'm pleased to say it's a lot more rewarding than listening to indie wannabe tripe. At least I think so..

[Starrstruck]

(Original post by benpearson1)
All of them really. Actually, Arctic Monkeys are alright I suppose as are The Killers.

But The Kooks? The ****ing Kooks? Honestly one of the worst bands around right now IMO, so mediocre and dull. Can't see why anybody would like them, but that's up to them.

Two Door Cinema Club aren't actually mediocre, they're downright awful in my opinion. Find the singer's voice so annoying and don't get me started on the song content

Anyway, I wasn't trying to offend you or anything, but I just think that there is much better music out there that people just turn a blind eye to (again, might not necessarily be you).

Just seek stuff out, admittedly its much more time consuming for me to say, find a punk or shoegaze band I really like, but when I do, I'm pleased to say it's a lot more rewarding than listening to indie wannabe tripe. At least I think so..

Oh I'm not offended, everyone's entitled to their own opinion. I'll bear what you said in mind next time I listen to something new.

[Endless Blue]

(Original post by Chillywilly93)
kings of leon first two albums aren't boring- they're genius
arctic monkeys are exciting and (were) very fresh

come on now, there's a reason these bands are considered the best of their kind. coldplay, now there's a boring band

No they're not. Only listened to the first album of theirs (I think) and I can tell you it definitely wasn't 'genius'. It was alright I suppose.

See my above post for Arctic Monkeys. They're ok, I just can only listen to Alex Turner yapping on about living above chipshops and sleeping with whores for so long. Gets rather dull.

I love how everyone jumps on the Coldplay hate bandwagon, but then vehemently deny that their 'indie' music isn't boring in the same way. I agree, Coldplay are totally boring. They're just a bit.. out there, aren't they? The very definition of insipid.

But so are a lot of the bands listed in the OP

[Colour Me Pretty]

(Original post by benpearson1)
I hope you realise that all of the bands you listed there are 'mainstream'. *Sigh* Oh, and not only are they mainstream, they're so ****ing boring and mediocre. You could and should find a lot better. I'd ignore some of the suggestions here if I were you, unless you want more dull ****

This is the problem with the whole 'indie' fad at the minute. People think just because they wear chinos and don't listen to the terrible pop groups in the charts that they're really cool and indie (I hope this is not you OP, but I have my doubts..)

It's hard to put a true label on what Indie really is nowadays since it's been so distorted. However, I will list a few bands that are definitely worth listening to regardless:

- The Smiths
- The Cure
- R.E.M
- The Jesus and Mary Chain
- Sonic Youth
- The Brian Jonestown Massacre
- Spiritualized
- Spacemen 3
- Primal Scream
- Josef K
- SCARS
- Television
- The Chameleons

and those are just a few suggestions, I could give loads more. To be honest most of those bands probably wouldn't even think of categorising themselves as Indie, but they're great nevertheless.

There's good music everywhere, so don't just limit yourself to the Indi wannabes like The Wombats etc

Edit: The Horrors (from few posts above) are a fantastic shout as well. One of my favourite bands, but again are not 'Indie'

I loveeeeeee The Smiths! I quite like The Cure as well ^______^
Good shout! Not familiar with the other bands in terms of their music, but I've heard of them.