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Date: 16 June 2011 15:20:01
So this weeks greatest indie album of all time - according to the NME - is apparently the Smiths The Queen is Dead - which happens to be 25 years old.
I was wondering about the validity of this claim.
Doolittle by the Pixies is another one which might well claim the accolade, and might Definately Maybe by Oasis.
Having listened to two of the three, whilst marking today, I don't think you can judge and this is why I think there are lies, damn lies and retro nostalgia. It's art and it's subjective. However, we live in an age where people will try and make judgements for the purposes of selling magazines and newspapers.
Anyway, that's my bit. But I was wondering if anybody might want to chip in not with the best indie album of all time in the comments but with a memory of their favourite indie album or maybe concert memory of an indie band - preferably in a dingy venue, or maybe of the indie club they inhabited as a youth.
My fave indie band memory probably relates to the House of Love at the Carribean Centre in Ipswich. A major indie band of the time and most of the audience just stayed sitting on the floor during the whole thing. I remember the way the locals got told off for it by a local journalist in his column of the newspaper the next week. Thing was though, that was Ipswich. We did that - sitting down. The indy kids spent their time sitting on the floor of a local hotel - The White Horse, which has since been cleared up. Then we would wander to a little dive called Cindy's which in the end got pulled down when a church bought the site and found out the club didn't have planning permission.
Those were the days, when I was Third Party's age.
Anyway enough rememberings from me - leaving it open to you now.