indie/scenester question

[Baliset]

since i am seeing them everywhere on mtv and the radio nowadays, are Modest Mouse going to be labelled as "sell-outs?"

 

[Baliset]

ps. i had never heard them at all until this new single thingy so i am just curious how the indie world will treat one of its own after they achieve some level of mainstream success.

 

[xfer]

modest mouse were sell-outs and hated by the indie scenester community YEARS ago.

also, Isaac Brock is a scene rapist.

 

[xfer]

i got 2000's The Moon and Antarctica and i think it's pretty good, but most indie/scenester types criticize that album and everything after Lonesome Crowded West (1997?).

 

[Baliset]

so the "sell-out" threshold is alot lower then i had at first been imagining.

 

[chupe666]

it appears so. also, i'm about as hip as a broken Huey Lewis record

 

[xfer]

the sell-out bar is lower than the fucking brown note, dude.

 

[chupe666]

i won't ask

 

[Baliset]

chupe: the heart of rock and roll is still beating.

 

[xfer]

am i imagining the broken paperclip?

 

[deadair]

selling out is not measured by success... but rather changing your sound to step out of the indie scene, and using the scene to further your goal of "being big".

some people can go to majors without "selling out".

but modest mouse just sucks... and yes, alex is right, everything thing after Lonesome Crowded West (yes '97) is craptastic.

 

[xfer]

I am right that indie/scenester types think everything after 1997 sucks. I, personally, like M&A(2000). You, sir, are an indie/scenester.

 

[mindspell]

To understand your point:

Has the Flaming Lips sold out?

 

[Baliset]

interesting. thank you for shedding some light on that jake. i needed an expert opinion.

the rules for "selling out" were always a litle hazy to me and now that i am in a position to have seen bands on the undergorund now growing to a more commercial and successful plateu i am curious to see which ones will be called sell-outs.

 

[deadair]

not really, no. they have always stayed true to themselves... however odd that my be.

 

[avi]

those bands aren't good enough to lick my nuts

 

[Baliset]

i am not sure i would say the flaming lips have sold out.

 

[Baliset]

i like avi's response.

 

[minxnim]

that guy has such an annoying lisp.

 

[Baliset]

which guy?