Independents Hitting the Big Time

[DiabloSammich]

What was the last independent/underground musician that you were a fan of, who then hit the big time?

Were you proud and happy that they found success?

Or were you disappointed that they "sold out"?

[jauble]

Dispatch didnt hit the big time per se but they were on the verge and decided to break up because they didnt want to blow up

[TheMojoPin]

DiabloSammich.

He was so cool when he was kind of the dangerous, unknown, underground act on the board, but now that he's all loved by everyone and shit, his shit's changed, maaaaannnnnn. What a sellout.

[DiabloSammich]

DiabloSammich.

He was so cool when he was kind of the dangerous, unknown, underground act on the board, but now that he's all loved by everyone and shit, his shit's changed, maaaaannnnnn. What a sellout.


You know, you could have just let this thread die a nice, painless death, with dignity.

There was no need to respond.

[TheMojoPin]

LA-LA-LA-LA-LA!!!!

I can't hear you, SUIT.

[PhishHead]

I agree with mojo.

I was happy when DMB originally hit it big but then they got too big.

[TheMojoPin]

I agree with mojo.

I was happy when DMB originally hit it big but then they got too big.

Is it wrong of me to wish they had perished in a frathouse fire back in the day?

My pick would be REM for the indie band that "let me down" the most after getting huge. Getting huge seemed to really fuck them up to the point that the drummer's brain exploded and he left the band. They were pretty aimless from then on (post-New Adventures In Hi-Fi) with only a few scattered bright spots. The new albums is getting some pretty glowing reviews, though I'm not really digging the first single. I'm curious to hear the rest, since bad reviews dogged their last two albums and they pretty much needed to re-earn any kind of cred.

Of course, when you make an album as perfect as Automatic For the People, everything is gonna be kinda downhill from there.

In general, I want any "little band" I listen to to get huge. I love the music, and I want as may people as possible to hear it. Videos, commercials, movies, ALMOST whatever it takes to get them heard.

[PhishHead]

Is it wrong of me to wish they had perished in a frathouse fire back in the day?

My pick would be REM for the indie band that "let me down" the most after getting huge. Getting huge seemed to really fuck them up to the point that the drummer's brain exploded and he left the band. They were pretty aimless from then on (post-New Adventures In Hi-Fi) with only a few scattered bright spots. The new albums is getting some pretty glowing reviews, though I'm not really digging the first single. I'm curious to hear the rest, since bad reviews dogged their last two albums and they pretty much needed to re-earn any kind of cred.

Of course, when you make an album as perfect as Automatic For the People, everything is gonna be kinda downhill from there.

In general, I want any "little band" I listen to to get huge. I love the music, and I want as may people as possible to hear it. Videos, commercials, movies, whatever it takes to get them heard.

No i dont care that you think that.

I agree I like when little bands hit it huge because that is why they are in it. I think there is a difference though if indie artists then switch to major labels and lose all creative control they fucking suck. It is the bands they get big and keep their creative control that are the good ones.

[TheMojoPin]

No i dont care that you think that.

I agree I like when little bands hit it huge because that is why they are in it. I think there is a difference though if indie artists then switch to major labels and lose all creative control they fucking suck. It is the bands they get big and keep their creative control that are the good ones.

Yeah, it's a fine line to walk. The worst outcomes is that a band gentrifies their sound too much to get bigger and then end up losing almost everything that made them so unique ad enjoyable in the first place. The flipside to that is the self-loathing bad that gets big but can deal with it and goes out of their way to make their music as difficult and often unlistenable as possible. Some bands can pull that turn off well...Radiohead, hello...but too many just end up making dreck that makes you wonder why they even bothered at this point.

The last page piece in the new Spin is pretty good as it talk about how cool it could arguably be if all bands or acts just flamed out after making their masterpiece album. The regimen of sticking with artists out of loyality that have lost "it" is something that I know way too well.

[donnie_darko]

um, you gotta define "big time"
i was a fan of jimmy eat world when i was in highschool, then a few years ago the whole sweetness stuff, and that old jew is gone.

but they seem to be gone now too....

oh i got one, modest mouse! old screaming modest mouse seems to be gone now as well...

[TheMojoPin]

um, you gotta define "big time"
i was a fan of jimmy eat world when i was in highschool, then a few years ago the whole sweetness stuff, and that old jew is gone.

but they seem to be gone now too....

oh i got one, modest mouse! old screaming modest mouse seems to be gone now as well...

Good call on both, though I fucking love "Sweetness." That's one of the hookiest, stompingest power pop songs ever.

[marky2bucks]

I'll say Ryan Adams. I listened to him a lot when he was much smaller, 1999 or so. Now he has his songs on cellphone commercials and sells out fair sized venues. I'm not pissed, but I do like his older stuff (isn't that always the case). He did his thing, it picked up and now he's making a lot of money. I don't think he sold old. You gotta feed the monkey.

[epo]

When Grandpaboy sold out it broke my heart.

http://www.glenncase.com/10000/00087.jpg

[donnie_darko]

yeah, i don't hate the newer JEW, its just different, and i've been caught at a few stoplights blasting sweetness.......lame.