Indie
The term ‘indie’ is best known as being an abbreviation for the word ‘independent’. This term was used to differentiate between bands that were on a major record label and those that weren’t. It also differentiates between an ‘independent’ sound and type of music and the more typical top-40 sound that was so prevalent during the 1980s. For example, many of the hair bands and hard rock scene had become very typical in musical composition (melody, chorus, melody, bridge, chorus, etc.
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