As for the Indigo Girls, is it now officially hip to hate them? Or is all the loathing just plain-vanilla misogyny?

 RebDov wrote:They're supposed to be discordant - for Goddess' sake, they're industrial!

As for the Indigo Girls, is it now officially hip to hate them? Or is all the loathing just plain-vanilla misogyny?

I was sitting here at the computer, listening to RP with the browser on another window, and all of a sudden, this song penetrated my consciousness — not a pleasant sensation, I assure you. "Ew," I said to myself, "what he hell is this awful thing?" I clicked over the RP, to find that it was the indescribably vile Indigo Girls, whose phony, cheap, smug, faux-dispossessed, fuck-the-middle-class-oh-I-forgot-I'm-one-of-them-never-mind epater le bourgeoisie act had already gotten old, oh, sometime around the end of the first Bush Administration.

Can whoever is responsible for unleashing these two self-satisfied assholes please atone for the sin she has committed against the world by immediately joining a convent that has taken a vow of silence, but not before throwing Emily and whatever-the-fuck-the-other-one's-name-is into a soundproof cell in a supermax prison somewhere in Montana or North Dakota. Thank you.

I'm cool with that opinion.  I don't agree, but I dig.  I was talking about the fellow who knew they were lebians by how they played their guitars...  admittedly funny, but totally the kind if dismissal I'm talking about.

 

My criticism of them isn't that they're gay or that they're a folk-rock act. My criticism of them is that they're phony and cheap, with musical talents that are slight at best.

Indigo Girls are great.  Its a great disservice to niche them as "those gay folkies".  I don't see anyone "saying" that here, but its so common in the larger world, I suspect it has alot to do with the disrespect they seem to get.  Like most artists, they have both strong and weak periods, but when they are "on" they are awesome.  Strong melodies, strong lyrics, and they consistently take the effort to do the "harmony" thing.  Get past their labels and you'll find they are the whole package.

Edit:  Wait... just as I was typing this, someone actually applied the label... in a cartoonish way no less.  Thanks for making my point.

I find Einstürzende Neubauten neither boring nor discordant. 

You've not heard Einsturzende Neubaten, then. Oh, I do love these moderate, proportionate comments. Perish the thought that someone could elevate their own personal dislike of a song into a general all-encompassing statement about it being, like, the worst song ever in the history of humanity. I'll bet you wouldn't dare say this to the Indigo Girls face to face - they'd eat you alive and spit out the bones.

Most boring, discordant, horrible trash on the face of the planet.

I'm sorry but this has to be one of the most boring bands in the universe. I was the sound man for a band that was playing with them in Santa Fe. We went out for tacos while they were playing and when we returned appx 45 minutes later I swear they were playing the same song.
Thank God the green room had lots of beer!

I have always like Indigo Girls. There, I said it. And Melissa Etheridge, and Two Nice Girls. Maybe I'm a closet lesbian? Maybe I just like folkie pop.

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This song is SO gay.

It's songs like this and artists like this that make me wish for a rating lower than 1.