Heroes and Villians of indie 2007

#1 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 11:18 AM

who are your heroes and villians of 2007 indie and alternative-ness (including anything twee, electronica and things you can sometimes dance/get bouncy to)

THE GOOD

THE BAD

THE UGLY

add to these headings below if you want

HEROES:

VILLIANS:

#2 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 11:18 AM

HEROES:
Bloc Party

VILLIANS:
Razor$h!te

#3 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 11:18 AM

Heroes - Gallows, The Horrors, Radiohead, Interpol, Dinosaur Jr (an utterly triumphant return to the fray from J, Lou and Murph....

)

Villains - Razorlight, the NME (for their utterly detestable stitch-up of Morrissey, and just for generally being complete sh!tehawks...)

#4 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 11:18 AM

QUOTE(GRIMLY FIENDISH @ Dec 26 2007, 05:43 AM)

Villains - Razorlight, the NME (for their utterly detestable stitch-up of Morrissey, and just for generally being complete sh!tehawks...)

well the bordom that is Razorlightm like totally!!! but i think the NME is alright (if you keep that thought in the back of your mind that they might over-hype things and in a few years your left with a lot of $h!t) much better than Q magazine which seems to be aimed at clueless American stadium - arena - rock - fans (yeah you - gotta - put - all - those - hypens - in - there - q!!!!????)

#5 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 11:18 AM

On the other hand I'd cite Razorlight as heroes in 2007 for barely doing anything - let's hope they keep it that way.

Heroes - Warp Records, Last.fm, Connect Festival organisers
Villains - The NME, T in the Park organisers

#6 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 11:18 AM

Heroes = CSS

Villains = Hoosiers - nothing more than McFly with a veneer of "credible band" so Radio 1 will play them. Why is the lead singer's face so annoying as well?

#7 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 11:18 AM

Heroes- Laura Marring

Villains- Razorlight, The Kooks, Arctic Monkeys.. Etc.

#8 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 11:18 AM

Pst, her name is Laura Marling. She is quite lovely though. <3 Ghosts is set to spend quite a few weeks as my #1.

#9 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 11:18 AM

Aye Laura Marling impressed me with that single too.

#10 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 11:18 AM

QUOTE(Ashley @ Jan 3 2008, 12:19 AM)

Villains = Hoosiers - nothing more than McFly with a veneer of "credible band" so Radio 1 will play them. Why is the lead singer's face so annoying as well?

Its like a bad Ben Stiller film, over and over again

but at least we hope that the guilty pleasures pop crazy will have f***ed off my 2009