indie songs that namedrop a million indie bands

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On Tape - the Pooh Sticks
His Indie World - Mary Lou Lord
Gimme Indie Rock - Sebadoh

― babyalive (babyalive), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 05:06 (twenty years ago)

the rakes - i problem

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 05:15 (twenty years ago)

new radicals "you only get what you give" (indieness is debatable)

― danielle the animal steel (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 05:29 (twenty years ago)

Minutemen - History Lesson, Pt. II
LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 05:40 (twenty years ago)

"Goodnight Mr Spaceman" - the Television Personalities

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 07:47 (twenty years ago)

Noise Addict - I Wish I Was Him

― wmlynch (wlynch), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 07:51 (twenty years ago)

Tullycraft - Pop songs your new boyfriend is too stupid to know about

Pretty much every song by Half Man Half Biscuit

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 08:09 (twenty years ago)

daft punk - teachers (dunno if it's indie?)

― Stephen C (ihope), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 08:15 (twenty years ago)

dunno if it's indie?)

Ditto. But anyways, from "I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts" by X: "But what about the Minutemen, Flesheaters, DOA, Big Boys and the Black Flag?"

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 08:25 (twenty years ago)

that heavy vegetable song where rob crow lists what they don't play on the radio but sometimes they will play Devo.

De-Vo.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 08:34 (twenty years ago)

beulah, 'popular mechanics for lovers'

― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 08:37 (twenty years ago)

Brakes - Heard About Your Band (and several more)

― snotty moore, Tuesday, 17 January 2006 10:03 (twenty years ago)

jebediah - jerks of attention

(well it mentions 2 rather than a million)

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 10:09 (twenty years ago)

Pavement - "Range Life" (Stone Temple Pilots and Smashing Pumpkins) and "Unseen Power Of The Picket Fence" (R.E.M.)

― nancyboy (nancyboy), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 10:58 (twenty years ago)

that one song by helen love.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 11:00 (twenty years ago)

spearmint - sweeping the nation

― powpowpow, Tuesday, 17 January 2006 11:11 (twenty years ago)

Sprites - "Wish I Sang a Little Better"

He namedrops a bunch of artists who also don't sing that well but make it work, like Feargal Sharkey & Bernard Sumner.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 14:56 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeah, and Wayne County and the Backstreet Boys on "Max's Kansas City 1976," where he (pre-she) namedrops just about every band that played Max's that year (ok maybe not but it sure seems like it).

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 15:00 (twenty years ago)

spearmint - sweeping the nation
-- powpowpow (spiderspider...) (webmail), Today 11:11 AM. (later) (link)

Well, that took a while!

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 15:16 (twenty years ago)

"Letter To A Fanzine" - Great Plains

Well, not a million, but a couple.

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 15:21 (twenty years ago)

Sonic Youth - Screaming Skull

― ..., Tuesday, 17 January 2006 18:30 (twenty years ago)

destroyer to thread

― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 18:45 (twenty years ago)

Dead Milkmen - You'll Dance to Anything (Instant Club Hit)
Teenage Gang Debs' (US-centric cover of) "On Tape" on that Teenbeat comp

― rentboy (rentboy), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 20:35 (twenty years ago)

There's a Stratford 4 song called Telephone, which I remember because it's eight minutes of monotony, that namechecks a whole bunch of bands.

― Binjominia (Brilhante), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 22:06 (twenty years ago)

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