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I'd never heard the Diamond Head song either but I wasn't as enthusiastic about it as you, I would have probably rated it a 7-7.5/10 if I'd done the ratings there and then. I think you have good taste (your liking of some of the indie rock from the non-metal game notwithstanding :p) though so I'll give it a closer listen when I next go through the playlist to see if I missed anything.
 
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to be fair i don't think number of picks is necessarily an indicator of obviousness. often the most obvious songs don't get picked at all, if only because people assume others will take it, or just avoid the obvious picks in general. the lack of cirith ungol here is an example.

i agree that song isn't an obvious pick though so i'm just being pedantic
 
Vegard Pompey said:
Modest Mouse > black metal
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Yeah, no.

Anyway I was more talking about Polyrock - Romantic Me which I thought you submitted, but after just checking you didn't. You did rate it an 8 though. I think there's been another similar pick as well but I can't remember what now. I can't stand that sort of stuff at all, I can at least see the appeal is Modest Mouse even if I didn't like it much.

no country for old wainds said:
i picked two out of the four elric listed (i sent 3 alternates in total). if you guess which two you get an e-cookie.
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At the Gates and Sacramentum.
 
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At the Gates and Skelator?

Phylactery said:
Anyway I was more talking about Polyrock - Romantic Me which I thought you submitted, but after just checking you didn't. You did rate it an 8 though. I think there's been another similar pick as well but I can't remember what now. I can't stand that sort of stuff at all, I can at least see the appeal is Modest Mouse even if I didn't like it much.
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That Polyrock song is not really representative of my non-metal tastes at all (and not exactly what I'd call "indie rock" either). I appreciate that kinda idiosyncratic 80s synthy post-punk whatever on a surface level but it's not something I go out of my way to check out. That said I do have plenty of questionable shit I'm waiting on the right theme to submit for. 'Course you fuckers will never hear them unless you actually bloody rate so we can move on to a new round.
 
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What I mean by indie, and I may come across as ignorant here, which I probably am because I'm not enough of a hipster to listen to this shit, is stuff that emerged in the UK in the early 2000s. Shit like Bloc Party, The Kooks, Franz Ferdinand, etc. A lot of my friends listened to that shit when I was in my mid teens and they referred to it as "indie".
 
Mekong Delta - Heroes' Grief: Good but gets overshadowed by a lot of other stuff on this list. 6/10

Skelator - The Dragon Prince: I really liked this. Grew on me quite a bit. 8.5/10

Crypt of Kerebos - Stormbringer: This was pretty average, to be honest. 5.5/10

Wolfbane - Elric of Melnibone: I really liked some parts of this but I still feel it gets overshadowed by a lot of the other picks and a lot of other NWOBHM material. 7/10

Stormbringer - Tales of the White Wolf: This was fucking incredible. Never heard of this band either so it was a good discovery. 9.5/10

At the Gates - City of Screaming Statues: From a band that I feel is really set in its ways now, I really appreciated this song back then and still do. It is exceptional and a truly memorable track. 9/10

Diamond Head - Borrowed Time: This is an awesome song and I actually was listening to it a bit before the list was shown so I was pleased with it. 8/10

Sacramentum - Overlord: I agree with Vegard. In a Moorcock round, this was a perfect track. 10/10

Domine - Freedom Flight: This song was OK but compared to the rest of Champion Eternal? No, man. Just no. 6.5/10

Apollo Ra - Bane of the Black Sword: This is a song I heard back when I was a kid when my uncle bought the album for my birthday. Ra Pariah was a really great album and this song was its crown jewel. Especially with that chorus. Reading the lyrics as a someone who was just discovering Moorcock with Elric was a badass experience. Hell, I still can't help but mouth the lyrics while I'm listening to it. Absolute classic metal song in my book. The rest of the song is great as well. 10/10

@Elric of Melniboné Sorry, I didn't rate sooner. I was pretty busy as of late and didn't get the chance. :p
 
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Phylactery said:
What I mean by indie, and I may come across as ignorant here, which I probably am because I'm not enough of a hipster to listen to this shit, is stuff that emerged in the UK in the early 2000s. Shit like Bloc Party, The Kooks, Franz Ferdinand, etc. A lot of my friends listened to that shit when I was in my mid teens and they referred to it as "indie".
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i doubt even mort likes that shite.

i think the general consensus is that while it had precursors here and there beforehand, 'indie' really kicked off in the '80s with bands like the pixies, sonic youth, dinosaur jr. etc. it's been applied to all kinds of movements since then though (inc. the one you mention), and become more and more divorced from the independent/DIY sensibility it originally stood for. these days it's kind of a vague catch-all genre tag for anything vaguely alternative+hipster-friendly.
 
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