I thought of something to post in the original thread, but then realized nobody had revived it, so...

Whenever y'all talk about David Byrne my initial thought is "that was the bass player from Sugar, right?"

jason from volo wrote: Sat Jun 26, 2021 8:24 pm Lemme know if I’m doing this wrong.

I was a teenage band nerd living in suburbia in 1993.

I saw my first “indie” band that year: Cracker (yes, I know they were technically on a major label at the time). I bought a t-shirt at the show: black, with the word “CRACKER” in big bold yellow letters.

I of course proudly wore the shirt to school the next school day.

Needless to say, I learned of the other meanings of that word that day.

I was sad.

Nice little anecdote, but yes, doing it wrong.

In fact, that Guilty Displeasures thread is basically how the original Indie Rock Confessions thread was like.

Except this thread is more appropriate for me to confess that 99% of my musical output in the last two years has been programming drum 'n' bass electronic beats and I have fiddled around with my guitar only a handful times and haven't recorded anything guitar related at all since last summer.

chexmixbreath wrote: Sat Jun 26, 2021 11:54 pm

jason from volo wrote: Sat Jun 26, 2021 8:24 pm Lemme know if I’m doing this wrong.

I was a teenage band nerd living in suburbia in 1993.

I saw my first “indie” band that year: Cracker (yes, I know they were technically on a major label at the time). I bought a t-shirt at the show: black, with the word “CRACKER” in big bold yellow letters.

I of course proudly wore the shirt to school the next school day.

Needless to say, I learned of the other meanings of that word that day.

I was sad.

Nice little anecdote, but yes, doing it wrong.

In fact, that Guilty Displeasures thread is basically how the original Indie Rock Confessions thread was like.

Except this thread is more appropriate for me to confess that 99% of my musical output in the last two years has been programming drum 'n' bass electronic beats and I have fiddled around with my guitar only a handful times and haven't recorded anything guitar related at all since last summer.

Yeah, I should have been more clear about the original thread. Edited.

I didn't get into Nirvana or The Pixies until after the millenium.

Curry Pervert wrote: Sun Jun 27, 2021 12:03 pm I didn't get into Nirvana or The Pixies until after the millenium.

I didn't get into SKWM or Lungfish until around the same time...

jason from volo wrote: Sat Jun 26, 2021 8:24 pmI saw my first “indie” band that year: Cracker (yes, I know they were technically on a major label at the time). I bought a t-shirt at the show: black, with the word “CRACKER” in big bold yellow letters.

I want to believe that this is the most elaborate prank ever devised.

I first heard of Husker Du through a Rolling Stone review of Warehouse: Songs And Stories. I bought the album, thought it was OK, and kind of put it aside. About six months later someone asked me if I liked Husker Du and I said all I knew was Warehouse. They put on Zen Arcade and I was completely blown away. I can still recall exactly what the room looked like and the emotions that album stirred in me.

It sounds clichéd but Zen Arcade really changed my life, changed the way I looked at music, changed the way I played music, opened up the possibilities of what a band could accomplish. From that point on I bought everything with Husker Du's name on it.

I didn't listen to a single Joy Division song other than Love Will Tear Us Apart, or a single Psychedelic Furs song other than Pretty In Pink, until I was 29.

I never saw Fugazi even though I totally could have, mostly because I was too busy studying my ass off all the time. Horribly misplaced priorities. Look where that got me: a middle-aged dude who never saw Fugazi.

kicker_of_elves wrote: I didn't listen to a single Joy Division song other than Love Will Tear Us Apart, or a single Psychedelic Furs song other than Pretty In Pink, until I was 29.

Yeah.. I didn't seriously sit down to listen to The Velvet Underground (not counting a scene from a movie or whatever) until I was about 25.