{"id":228641,"date":"2021-11-04T00:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T04:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/?p=228641"},"modified":"2024-01-24T23:51:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T04:51:40","slug":"how-just-the-way-im-feeling-by-feeder-made-me-an-indie-rock-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2021\/11\/04\/how-just-the-way-im-feeling-by-feeder-made-me-an-indie-rock-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"How “Just The Way I’m Feeling” by Feeder Made Me an Indie Rock Fan"},"content":{"rendered":"
I’m a huge fan of electronic music—I’ve already<\/a> proven this many times<\/a>. In particular, the sound of 80s synth pop has always been important to me, but there was also a time when indie rock ruled my heart. Back in 2003, a single by British trio Feeder called “Just the Way I’m Feeling” sealed the deal.<\/p>\n When I was in junior high, my parents saw pop music as a distraction from homework and tried to limit my exposure to this kind of art. At that time, my musical education consisted only of the tunes I learned in summertime at the discos, from my friends, and sometimes from TV. Thus I’ve been caught between the extremes of nu metal and nu italo<\/a>. But when my parents were away, I started to listen to the radio and began\u00a0 to appreciate more mature music. In retrospect, they probably wouldn’t have minded, as I was already fifteen, but I was too shy to ask.<\/p>\n In the summer of 2002 I visited the Netherlands on a soccer trip. On the way back, we stopped at a shopping mall, and while we were there I heard song for the first time that got me hooked. It was “Stop Cryin’ Your Heart Out<\/a>,” a limpy ballad that brought Oasis to the number 2 spot on the UK charts, purely due to the name recognition. At first I was intrigued by its similarity to Lenny Kravitz’s “Stillness of Heart<\/a>” but I quickly felt that it was romantic in a nice way. At the time, the song was important to me because it showed me there was something more to pop and rock than radio darlings like U2 and Celine Dion.<\/p>\n My quest to find more bands like Oasis continued well into the first year of high school. I was far away from home and busy with my school work but I often talked about music with my friends. As a village boy in a big city I thought I should have stood apart from my peers somehow. Thanks to British press like Q<\/em><\/a> (sold in a Polish equivalent of Virgin Megastore) I became interested in indie rock. This interest was rather shallow because I had no money to buy records and no computer in\u00a0 to download any tracks.<\/p>\n At that time, Polish radio was rather heavily oriented toward Top 40. One of the most notable exceptions to this rule was an indie rock show by Adam Czajkowski on local Radio Plus. Czajkowski was the owner of the biggest record collection in northern Poland and a popular club DJ. I listened to his show regularly, partly because it gave me something to talk about with my best friend Julian. Czajkowski played music by bands I thought were too depressing, like The Flaming Lips or Interpol. After few months I started to wonder whether this whole indie thing was really for me. When I was ready to embrace my poppy inclinations, which my school pals saw as uncool, Feeder entered the stage.<\/p>\nForbidden Fruit<\/h2>\n
Formative Years<\/h2>\n
Fall and Rise<\/h2>\n