Alternative & Indie

By Fuddy Malentine

Advantages: Excellent music
Disadvantages: A little out there....

...Formed in 1984, Irish/british quartet were in the Indy - kid days of my youth, revered by spotters and the music press. Even now I reckon you'd have to be fairly geeky to have heard of them, although one of their tunes is featured in the Sophia Coppola fi ...

bergmcberg 16.07.2005 · Read full review
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Review of My Bloody Valentine

Music to relax with, or fall in love to.

Advantages: Atmospheric and relaxing music. Excellent live band.
Disadvantages: Perhaps their work all sounds similar, but when it is this good who cares?

Big Eyes' trademark is soaring string glissandos over delicate and beautiful Spanish-influenced acousitc guitar. This is evident on all their work. Their first EP - "Big Eyes Songs" - brings this to the fore, especially in the lovely track "Long Song", ...

drewish 05.12.2004 · Read full review
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Bad Religion - An Overview

Advantages: Great for american punk lovers
Disadvantages: it rarely slows down

OK Well i saw Bad Religion there with reviews of a couple of albums and i thought i would give a brieg overview. First of, Bad Religion are an American Punk Rock Band. They generally get put into similar catagories as The Offspring, Greenday, Blink 18 ...

kipsta 23.06.2004 · Read full review
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The Beta Band-Perrenial Underachievers

Advantages: dreamy groove based sound
Disadvantages: diminishing returns

The Beta-Band started their career by releasing 3-EPs of droning, hypnotic, lo-fi rock that secured them a reputation as rare musical alchemists. The band dislike media attention but that didn't stop them from reaching the ears of discerning music fans an ...

chrischopping 07.05.2004 · Read full review
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Bark Psychosis

Advantages: Completely original
Disadvantages: Never really got the credit they deserved

...Even less people will have heard of this band than some of the others I've reviewed... but they deserve a mention, in fact they deserve more than a mere mention... Bark Psychosis started as a teenage band in the late 80s, who took a number of years to ...

bagoproverbial 07.01.2005 · Read full review
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