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An Adolescence In Corduroy: Jingly Jangly Indie Wank In The 1980s, Part 1 – The Primitives.

Up to about fourteen, I didn’t realise that there was a modern alternative to pop music that got in the charts. That’s not all that surprising really, because I also hadn’t realised that you could go into a record shop and buy whatever records you wanted either. Then I saw The Smiths on Top of…

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Indie Moans And The Raiders Of The Pop Charts. Or, ‘Don’t Pop’: How The Stone Roses Killed Indie And The Problem With Populism.

In my youth, if I was anything, I was an indie kid.   In reality, I probably listened to more music from the 1960s than I did modern (for the time) indie music.  And the reason that, of all the new music that was being released at that time, I chose to listen to indie…

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