The Source for All Indie Music (as far as I can tell)

The 90's brought with it some good music, but most of that good music was rap. Most of 90's rock is pretty terrible, and if it wasn't terrible rock, then it was white people that couldn't rap -- the Insane Clown Posse --  or boy bands that consisted of 4 or 5 questionable white guys. Basically the 90's weren't the best for white people in music. However, at the beginning of the 90's was the tail end of the grunge era of the late 80's. Bands like Nirvana and Pearl Jam were the most prominent grunge bands, and influenced a lot of bands that you probably listen to today. What I think is a possible source for where Indie music has gone today, lies in the influencing of said bands on Radiohead. Radiohead's first two CD's really feature a lot of grungy sounding guitar riffs and maybe a few other acoustic sounds that sound like they could be played along with Oasis.

But when OK Computer came out, their third album, Radiohead went in a brand new direction almost out of nowhere.
The grungy Nirvana influence became less apparent and now all new sounding instruments and unconventional noises came into the songs. Some of it sounded like beautifully organized chaos. Some of it sounded like David Bowie and his transitional songs that shifted to different genres. Some of it was robot voices, and some of it was bizarre. Before that CD came out, I really hadn't heard anything like it. It was a new sound with a whiny, angelic voice; and many bands would come out of that sound and try to replicate it. I think from Radiohead's experimental new sound came a lot of experimental Indie bands that featured unorthodox combinations. Coldplay definitely is a popular band that borrowed from Radiohead's mostly piano based songs, the Robot Ate Me, Midlake, Animal Collective, Modest Mouse, and the Flaming Lips are also bands that started emulating the new weird sound. Radiohead is the biggest influence on most bands that I listen to as far as I can tell, and I'll be talking about more of those Radiohead-influenced bands later in my blog. Here's an experimental song on OK Computer, a song by Bowie that I'm comparing it to, and some subsequent weird sounding songs that I think were made in light of Radiohead's new experimentalism.