Thanks to all who’ve e-mailed or commented with entries to the list. Because this is a transparent, D.I.Y. blog, I need to clarify a few things and change it a little. These are the amended rules: If you’ve already submitted a list, you don’t have to submit again (but you can if you like).
1. The album must have been released on an indie label. Check the album or label on the RIAA Radar on my sidebar to be certain.
2. You can list up to 25 entries. But the idea here isn’t to drive yourself nuts, it’s to have fun.
3. The order of the entries doesn’t matter. I can’t figure out a good algorithm to make the order of the entries matter.
4. Enter by dropping a comment to this post or by e-mailing me at ekalett@yahoo.com.
5. Get the entries to me ASAP. I’m gonna close the rolls when I feel like I’ve gotten a healthy amount of entries.
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April 27, 2007 at 9:31 am |
Hi,
I’m from Germany and I’m a little bit confused by the findings of the RIAA-Radar – every Sonic Youth-Record is (re)released by Geffen? So Evol and all the earlier stuff is no longer comsidered “Indie”?! And what about all the regular Joy Divison-albums – originally released on Factory, one of the mightiest Indie-Labels of the 8ts … So you*’re plan is to list the 25 best albums, indepently released IN AMERICA? Seems a little bit strange in my eyes (& Ears).
best
n
April 27, 2007 at 9:40 am |
Nemesis: We only blog on independent albums. There’s no real science to this–sorry if it seems offensive to you to only post on American releases, but I’m stuck with the laws as they’re written. If the label goes after bloggers becuase it’s in the American (or international) versions of the record label mafia (RIAA, etc.), I just don’t blog on it.
April 27, 2007 at 9:55 am |
I see the point – no offense, but what a pity … all those fine records, re-released by those bastard-majors… well, I will try to check my faves but at the moment the RIAA-Radar is not available, at least not for me (I tried it with two different browsers but I can’t access the site)…
April 27, 2007 at 10:00 am |
1. Arcade Fire-Funeral
2. Hold Steady-Separation Sunday
3. My Morning Jacket-It Still Moves
4. Bonnie Pince Paul-Letting Go
5. Bloc Party-Weekend in the City
6. Sonic Youth-Sister
7. The Photo Album by Death Cab For Cutie
8. Pink Flag by Wire
9. Bloc Party-Silent Alarm
10. The new Pornographers first one.
April 27, 2007 at 10:01 am |
Nemesis-
If you tell me the original release was indie, I suppose I can research it and that will be good enough. You’re right, it’s not fair for the majors to buy stuff up and steal it from the indie world.
April 27, 2007 at 10:20 am |
1. Sonic Youth:Sister
2. Belle & Sebastian:Life Pursuit
3. The Clientele:God Save The Clientele
4. Bloc Party: Silent Alarm
5. Grizzly Bear: Yellow House
6. Decemberists: Crane Wife
7. Black Keys: Rubber Factory
8. Neutral Milk Hotel:In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
9. Bob Mould:Black Sheets of Rain
10. Postal Service: Give Up
11. Modest Mouse: Lonesome Crowded West
12. Detective Kalita
13. Destroyer: Destroyer’s Rubies
14. Arcade Fire: funeral
15. M. Ward: Post War
16. Grandaddy: Sumday
17. Shins: Cutes Narrow
18. The National: Alligator
19. Broken West: I Can’t Go On
20. Swan Lake: Beast Moans
April 27, 2007 at 12:28 pm |
Husker Du: Zen Arcade
Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Go Betweens : 16 Lovers Lane
Cat Power : The Greatest
Neko Case: Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Wire: 154
Arcade Fire: Neon Bible
Pavement: Brighten The Corners
Belle & Sebastian: If You’re Feeling Sinister
Jim O’Rourke: Eureka
Low: Trust
Pixies: Doolitle
The La’s: S/t
Dinosaur Jr: Bug
Galaxie 500: This is our music
Mogwai: Young team
Interpol: Turn on the bright lights
Gravenhurst :Flashlight seasons
Smog: Dongs of Sevotion
Calexico: Feast of wire
Soft Boys: Underwater moonlight
Billy Bragg: Talking with the taxman about poetry
Sleater Kinney: The woods
Triffids: Born Sandy Devotional
Bettye Lavette: I’ve got my own hell to raise
PS I’d like to add Decemberists’ Crane wife too, but it was released by Capitol…
April 27, 2007 at 1:20 pm |
Is anyone having trouble logging comments? I just got this e-mail:
Ekko-I’ve treid to comment the list but it won’t let me. Here is my list.
Band of Horses: Everything All the Time
The Stone Roses
Belle & Sebastian: The Life Pursuit
Smog: Dongs
Pavement: Crooked Pavement
Shins: Cutes Narrow
The National: Alligator
Bonnie Prince Billy: The Letting Go
Superchunk
Inerpol: Antics
Spoon: Kill the Moonlight
Boris: Pink
April 27, 2007 at 2:00 pm |
the stone roses (self-titled)
x – los angeles
x – wild gift
the fall – all up through “shift work”
gun club – fire of love
joy division – closer
joy division – unknown pleasures
the smiths – all up to “meat is murder”
this mortal coil – it will end in tears
dinosaur jr – bug
sonic youth – daydream nation
pixies – surfer rosa;
but let’s shift to best indie record labels:
sst
roughtrade
4AD
factory
slash
stiff
2tone
matador
and others
April 27, 2007 at 3:32 pm |
Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation
Palace – Viva Last Blues
REM – Murmur
The Fall – Hex Enduction Hour
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Raise Yr Skinny Fists
Tortoise – Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Red Red Meat – Bunny Gets Paid
Galaxie 500 – On Fire
Gastr Del Sol – The Serpentine Similiar
The Microphones – The Glow Pt 2
Panda Bear – Person Pitch
Polvo – Today’s Active Lifestyles
The Sea & Cake – Nassau
Belle & Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinister
Sun City Girls – Torch of the Mystics
Animal Collective – Feels
The Books – The Lemon of Pink
Arcade Fire – Funeral
Brightblack – Ali.Cali.Tucky
Deerhoof – The Runners Four
Jim O’Rourke – Bad Timing
Stereolab – Peng!
Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Pere Ubu – The Modern Dance
April 27, 2007 at 3:52 pm |
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
Royal Trux: Twin Infinitives
Husker Du: Zen Arcade
Pere Ubu: The Modern Dance
Shellac: At Action Park
Minutemen: Double Nickels On The Dime
Fugazi: Repeater
Sleater Kinney: The woods
Boris: Pink
Arcade Fire: Funeral
Tortoise: Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Slint: USA
John Fahey: The Legend of Blind Joe Death
Tom Waits: Mule Variations
Red House Painters: Down Colorful Hill
Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Ani DiFranco: Ani DiFranco
Devendra Banhart: Rejoicing in the Hands
Sufjan Stevens: Illinoise
Peter Kruder: DJ-Kicks: Kruder & Dorfmeister
Tosca: Suzuki
Thievery Corporation: Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi
Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works 85-92
The Third Eyes Foundation: Little Lost Soul
Venetian Snares: Rossz csillag alatt született
April 27, 2007 at 4:09 pm |
Tough rules…
Modest Mouse – The Lonesome Crowded West
Belle and Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinister
The Notwist – Neon Golden
Joy Division – Closer
Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Pavement – Slanted and Enchanted
Built to Spill – There’s Nothing Wrong With Love
Madvillain – Madvillainy
The Fall – Hex Enduction Hour
Godspeed You Black Emperor! – Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Explosions in the Sky – The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
Mogwai – Young Team
The Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime
Fugazi – 13 Songs
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention – We’re Only in It for the Money
Sebadoh – Bakesale
The Arcade Fire – Funeral
Wolf Parade – Apologies to the Queen Mary
April 27, 2007 at 4:12 pm |
Alphabetical and only 14:
Braid – Frame & Canvas
Guided By Voices – Bee Thousand
Jawbreaker – 24 Hour Revenge Thearpy
Liz Phair – Exile In Guyville
Modest Mouse – Lonesome Crowded West
Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Operation Ivy – Energy
Sleater-Kinney – The Woods
Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation
Spoon – Kill the Moonlight
The Black Lips – Let It Bloom (In at least five years time this will be a solid classic)
The Get Up Kids – Four Minute Mile
The Thermals – Fuckin’ A
Xiu Xiu – Fabulous Muscles
April 27, 2007 at 5:28 pm |
Anyone who can’t get wordpress to take your comment, just e-mail it to me. ekalett@yahoo.com
Seems there’s been such massive response that we’ve broken it.
April 27, 2007 at 8:40 pm |
very tough, but here are my top 25 in no random order, kind of…
guided by voices.bee thousand
guided by voices.alien lanes
liz phair.exile in guyville
sleater kinney.all hands on the bad one
varnaline.sweet life
califone.quicksand/cradlesnakes
archers of loaf.vee vee
pavement.crooked rain
constantines.shine a light
pixies.doolittle
neutral milk hotel.aeroplane
explosions in the sky.the earth is not a cold dead place
magnetic fields.charm of the highway strip
modest mouse.lonesome crowded west
scud mountain boys.massachusetts
sun kil moon.ghosts of the highway strip
richard buckner.the hill
superchunk.foolish
sunny day real estate.how it feels to be something on
palace.viva last blues
ted leo.tyranny of distance
afghan whigs.congregation
tommy keene.ten years after
uncle tupelo.march 16-20
i know there are a shitload i missed but these were off the top of my heard or in my ipod. in about 3 minutes i am going to want to change this, i just know it.
April 27, 2007 at 8:43 pm |
Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over the Sea
Spoon – Girls Can Tell
Dismemberment Plan – Emergency & I
The Softies – Holiday In Rhode Island
Elliott Smith – Roman Candle
Elliott Smith – Elliott Smith
Sufjan Stevens – Michigan
Yo La Tengo – And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
Hayden – Skyscraper National Park
Weakerthans – Left and Leaving
Sea Snakes – Clear as Day, the Darkest Tools
The National – Alligator
The One AM Radio – A Name Writ In Water
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – I See A Darkness
Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It In People
Beulah – The Coast Is Never Clear
The Microphones – The Glow, Pt. 2
Belle & Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinister
Jon Brion – Meaningless
Jim O’Rourke – Insignificance
Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights
April 27, 2007 at 11:01 pm |
yeah, i definitely made a mistake by leaving off girls can tell, nothing turned itself…, if youre feeling sinsiter and/or double nickles. i could probably do a top 100 and still leave off something.
April 28, 2007 at 4:13 am |
The Modern Lovers – The Modern Lovers
Brian Eno – Before And After Science
Suicide – Suicide (first album)
Pere Ubu – Modern Dance
Cramps – Bad Music For Bad People
Human Switchboard – Who’s Landing In My Hanger
Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division – Closer
The Durutti Column – The Return Of the Durutti Column
Robert Fripp – Let The Power Fall
In the Studio – The Special AKA
The The – Soul Mining
MDC – Millions of Dead Cops
New Order – Movement
Dream Syndicate – The Days of Wine and Roses
Cocteau Twins – Treasure
Opal – Happy Nightmare Baby
N.W.A. – Straight Outta Compton
Swans – The Burning World
The World of Skin – Ten Songs For Another World
The Feelies- Time For A Witness
Pavement – Slanted & Enchanted
Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 85-92
The Halo Benders – The Rebels Not In
Victoria Williams – Musings Of A Creek Dipper
Neko Case – Furnace Room Lullaby
Aimee Mann – Bachelor No. 2
Devendra Banhart – Oh Me Oh My…
Michael Franti – Songs From The Front Porch
The Decemberists – Castaways And Cutouts
Joanna Newsom – The Milk-Eyed Mender
Jolie Holland – Escondida
Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
April 28, 2007 at 4:20 am |
[...] TOP 25 INDIE ALBUMS OF ALL TIME « Berkeley Place (tags: berkeleyplace indierock records top25) [...]
April 28, 2007 at 4:58 am |
top 5
In the Aeroplane over the Sea-Neutral Milk Hotel
The Glow Pt 2-The Microphones
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain-Pavement
Funeral-Arcade Fire
Lonesome Crowded West-Modest Mouse
April 28, 2007 at 6:48 am |
In no particular order
Arcade Fire – Funeral / Neon Bible
Belle and Sebastian – Sinister
Go-Between – 16 Lover Lane
The Smith – Queen is Dead
Pixies – Surfer Rosa
Interpol – Turn On the Bright Light
Elliott Smith – Either / Or
Nada Surf – Let Go
Cardigans – Long Gone Before Daylight
The National – Alligator
Antony & The Johnsons – I’m A Bird
Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
Sparklehorse – Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
Tindersticks – 1st LP
The Walkabouts – Trail of Stars
The Postal Service – Give Up
Badly Drawn Boy – Hour of Bewilderbeast
The Dears – The Dears
Josh Rouse – 1972
Pulp – This is Hardcore
Papas Fritas – Papas Fritas
The Divine Comedy – Liberation
Jens Lekman – Oh You’re So Silent
The Auteurs – New Wave
Doves – Lost Soul
All these artists should have Live MP3 for download on my blog: superblive.blogspot.com
April 28, 2007 at 6:51 am |
oh…. I forgot the Stone Roses 1st LP… can I get 26 ?
April 28, 2007 at 2:37 pm |
Animal Collective – Sung Tongs
Arcade Fire – Funeral
Belle & Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinister
Bonnie Prince Billy – I See a Darkness
Broken Social Scene – You Forgot it in People
Clinic – Internal Wrangler
De La Soul – 3 Feet High and Rising
Dismemberment Plan – Emergency and I
Elliott Smith – Either/Or
Fugazi – 13 Songs
Madvillain – Madvillainy
Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs
Modest Mouse – Lonesome Crowded West
Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
New Pornographers – Twin Cinema
Old 97s – Wreck Your Life
Pavement – Slanted & Enchanted
Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Pixies – Surfer Rosa
Shins – Oh Inverted World
Sigur Rós – Ágætis Byrjun
Spoon – Girls Can Tell
Spoon – Kill the Moonlight
Sufjan Stevens – Illinoise
Tortoise – Millions Now Living Will Never Die
April 29, 2007 at 12:45 am |
1. Red House Painters – Songs for a Blue Guitar
2. Cake – Fashion Nugget
3. Elliott Smith – Either/Or
4. Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker
5. Fugazi – 13 Songs
6. Pavement – Slanted & Enchanted
7. Smog – Red Apple Falls
8. Elliott Smith – Either/Or
9. The Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
10. Spiritualized – Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
11. Guided by Voices – Bee Thousand
12. Meat Puppets – Meat Puppets II – SST – 1983 13. The Replacements – Let It Be
14. Husker Du – New Day Rising
15. DCFC-Transatlanticism
16. Lucero – Tennessee
17. Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake Its Morning
18. The Stone Roses – Silvertone – 1989 19. Nirvana – Bleach
20. Where Is My Mind – Pixies – SurferRosa
21. JThe Jesus and Mary Chain – Pyschocandy
22. Pixies – Doolittle
23. Dinsosaur Jr. – Bug 24. Drive-By Truckers – Southern Rock Opera
25. The White Stripes – White Blood Cells
April 29, 2007 at 12:58 am |
I don’t envy you adding all these up! Great idea though.
1. Alejandro Escovedo – A Man Under The Influence (Blooshot Records)
2. Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Nonesuch Records)
3. Hot Hot Heat – Make Up The Breakdown (Sub Pop)
4. Everything by the Drive-By Truckers (New West Records)
5. The Long Winters – When I Pretend To Fall (Barsuk Records)
6. Centro-Matic – Love You Just The Same (Misra)
7. Cat Power – The Greatest (Matador)
8. Arcade Fire – Funeral (Merge)
9. Interpol – Antics (Matador Records)
10. Black Mountain – Druganaut (Jagjaguwar)
11. Decemberists – Picaresque (Kill Rock Stars)
12. Hold Steady – Separation Sunday (French Kiss Records)
13. The National – Alligator (Beggars Banquet)
14. New Pornogrpahers – Twin Cinema (Matador)
15. Feel The Illinoise! – Sufjan Stevens (Asthmatic Kitty)
16. Bloc Party – Silent Alarm (Vice Recording)
17. TV On The Radio – Return To Cookie Mountain (Touch and Go)
18. The Thermals – The Body, The Blood, The Machine (Sub Pop)
19. The Shins – Oh Inverted World (SubPop)
20. Spoon – Girls Can Tell (Merge)
21. Guided By Voices – Bee Thousand (Scat Records)
22. The Mother Hips – Later Days (self released)
23. Postal Service-Give Up (subpop)
24. Modest Mouse-The Lonesome Crowded West (Up, 1997) 25. Band Of Horses – Everything All The Time (SubPop)
April 29, 2007 at 1:06 am |
Here’s my votes….
1. Snow Patrol-Songs for Polar Bears
2. When It’s Over We Still Have to Clean Up-Snow Patrol
3. Modest Mouse-This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
4. Sumday by Grandaddy
5. The Knife: Silent Shout
6. Midlake: Trials of Van Occupanther
7. Neutral Milk Hotel – Planes
8. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan: Ballad of the Broken Seas
9. Neko Case: Fox Confessor Brings the Flood\
10. Chutes Too Narrow ~ The Shins
11. Give Up ~ The Postal Service
12. Lonesome Crowded West by Modest Mouse
13. Transatlanticism ~ Death Cab For Cutie
14. Our Endless Numbered Days ~ Iron & Wine
15. My Morning Jacket – At Dawn 16. Victoria – Old 97’s – Wreck Your Life 17. Belle And Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinister –
18. Death Cab For Cutie – The Photo Album –
19. Jim O’Rourke – Eureka
20. Belle & Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinister
21. Block Party-Plans
22. Postal Service-Give Up
23. Elliot Smith-Ether/or
24. My Brightest Diamond-Tear it Down
25. Pnda Bear-Person Ptich
April 29, 2007 at 11:16 am |
why won’t your blog accept my list?
April 29, 2007 at 11:18 am |
13 Songs-Fugazi Chutes Too Narrow-Shins
Thickfreakness-The Balck Keys Every Planet-Modest Moues
Electric Version-New Pornographers Lack of Communication-Von Bondies
Drive-By Truckers – Southern Rock Opera Strangers Almanac-Whiskeytown
Faithles Street-Whiskeytown Gold-Ryan Adams
Calexico – Feast of Wire Wreck Your Life-Old 97s
Big come-Black Keys Heartbreaker: Ryan Adams
Later Days- Mother Hips Rabbit Fur Coat: Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins
The Black Keys – Thickfreakness Anything by Lucero!!!!
And how come nobody voted for Nirvana’s Bleach yet!
April 29, 2007 at 11:21 am |
I can’t guarantee these are the best 25 EVER, but they’re the most played on my iPod…
1. Pixies – Doolittle
2. Magnolia Electric Co. – Trials & Errors
3. White Stripes-White Stripes (hard to pick just one WS album-except the last one, which clearly sucked)
4. The Black Keys-The Big Come Up
5. Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation
6. The Pixies – Doolittle
7. The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead
8. Bob Mould – Workbook – 1990
9. The High Llamas – Gideon Gaye
10. Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
11. Silver Jews – Starlite Walker: No SJ on your lists yet! For shame, guys!
12. Uncle Tupelo – No Depression
13. Turn on the Bright Lights-Interpol
14. Pawn Shoppe Heart-Von Bondies
15. Yo La Tengo – Fakebook
16. Superchunk – Superchunk
17. Teenage Fanclub – A Catholic Education
18. Arcade Fire-Funeral
19. Sebadoah – Bakesale
20. Antics-Interpol 21. DCFC-Transatlanticisim
22. New Pornographers-Electric Version
23. Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
24. Detective Kalita (on Secret Canadian)
25. Whiskeytown – Strangers Almanac
April 29, 2007 at 3:17 pm |
25 is a lot, so I’ll just do less than that, and in no particular order
Hope you don’t mind
Payola Reserve- One Long Apology
Chad Farran- Another Ride
Jim Greer- Rover Songs
David Daniel- Exit Lights
Cat Power- The Greatest
Arcade Fire- Funeral
Tandemoro- Lock Your Doors EP (because it may be just a lowly EP, but it is still brilliant)
Belle and Sebastian- The Life Pursuit
The Shins- Wincing the Night Away
Broken Social Scene- Broken Social Scene
Starlit Summer- An Imitation of Love
April 29, 2007 at 6:48 pm |
Belle & Sebastian – If You’re Feeling Sinis
Guided By Voices – Bee Thousand
Give Up – The Postal Service Death Cab For Cutie – The Photo Album
Mojave 3 – Ask Me Tomorrow
Ryan Adams-Heartbreaker
Old 97’s – Wreck Your Life
Spoon – Girls Can Tell
Sleater-Kinney – All Hands On The Bad One
Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Calexico – Feast of Wire
The Long Winters – When I Pretend To Fall
Mates of State – Team Boo
Celebration Castle-Ponys
Arcade Fire – Funeral
Mofro – Blackwate
Interpol – Antics
Black Mountain – Druganaut
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday
The National – Alligator
New Pornogrpahers – Twin Cinema
Okkervil River – Black Sheep Boy
Sufjan Stevens – Come on Feel the Illinoise
Helicopter – Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
Midlake – The Trials of Van Occupanther
Modest Mouse-This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About AND The Lonesome Crowded West
Band Of Horses – Everything All The Time
Lonesome Crowded West - Modest Mouse
Transatlanticism – Death Cab For Cutie
April 29, 2007 at 11:35 pm |
I just have a few suggestions:
1. Clem Snide-Your Favorite Music (Spin Art)
2. Frog Eyes – Tears (Absolutely Kosher)
3. CYHSY-CYHSY (on their own label)
4. Belle & Sebastian – The Life Pursuit (Revolution)
5. Sunny Day Real Estate-Eponymous (Sub pop)
6. Jay Farrar – Sebastopol (Artemis)
7. Nirvana-Bleach (Sub Pop)
8. Rock Plaza Central – Are We Not Horses (Yep Roc)
9. Arcade Fire – Funeral (Merge)
10. Neutral Milk Hotel-Airplanes (Merge)
11. POstal Service-Give Up (Sub Pop)
12. Spoon-Girls Can Tell (Merge)
13. Gogol Bordello-East Infection (Rubric)
14. Fruit Bats-Mouthfulls (Sub Pop)
15. Hold Steady-Separation Sunday
16. Long Winters-When I Pretend to FAll (Barsuck)
May 1, 2007 at 12:41 am |
[...] They’ll definitely be part of my pix for the ongoing ballot I’ve got floating out there, to select the best 25 indie albums ever, according to the [...]
May 1, 2007 at 1:12 am |
In no particular order:
Pixies – Doolittle [4AD]
The Jesus and Mary Chain – Psychocandy [Blanco y Negro]
Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures [Factory]
The Cure – Pornography [Fiction]
R.E.M. – Murmur [IRS]
Arcade Fire – Funeral [Merge]
British Sea Power – The Decline Of… [Rough Trade]
The Smiths – s/t [Rough Trade]
Hüsker Dü – Flip Your Wig [SST]
The Shins – Wincing the Night Away [Sub Pop]
The Replacements – Let It Be [Twin/Tone]
The Hold Steady – Separation Sunday [Frenchkiss]
The Feelies – The Good Earth [Coyote]
Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning [Saddle Creek]
Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime [SST]
Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation [Enigma]
Robyn Hitchcock – I Often Dream of Trains [Midnight Music]
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – s/t
The dB’s – Stands for Decibels [IRS]
Cocteau Twins – Blue Bell Knoll [4AD]
The Libertines – Up the Bracket [Rough Trade]
The Soft Boys – Underwater Moonlight [Armageddon]
Jens Lekman – When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog… [Secretly Canadian]
M. Ward – Post-War [Merge]
Ryan Adams – Jacksonville City Nights [Lost Highway]
May 1, 2007 at 5:27 pm |
[...] also: A Brief Guide to Modernism, 25 indie rock albums image: B [...]
May 1, 2007 at 7:01 pm |
Ya gotta think farther back for your “favorites”. If PeeWee Herman were my grandfather…
May 3, 2007 at 1:56 pm |
1. The Pillbugs S/T
2. The Pillbugs -The 3-Dimensional In Popcycle Dream
3. The Pillbugs- Happy Birthday
4. The Pillbugs- Buzz For Aldrin
5. Mark Mikel -The Idiot Smiles
6. The Winterpills S/T
7. The Winterpills -The Light Divides
8. The Maggies- Homesick
9. The Maggies -Cryptic Valentine
10. Sufjan Stevens -Seven Swans
11. Sufjan Stevens -Illinois
12. Sufjan Stevens.- Michigan
13. Warm Wires -Servere Comfort
14. Victor Krummenacher Out In The Heat
15. Monks Of Doom- Meridian
16. Daryll Ann-Weeps
18. Jonathan Segel-Storytelling
19. Waz S/T
20. Gus Black -Word Of Mouth Parade
21. Camper Van Beethoven -Third
22. Game Theory-Lolita Nation
23. Victor Krummenacher_Nocturne
24. R. Stevie Moore-Phonography
25. Cerebrial Corps.Attributed to…
i could go on…
May 3, 2007 at 3:07 pm |
Ok, here goes. Pity about the restrictions otherwise I’ll put in the Raveonettes & Wilco…
No particular order…
1. Rilo Kiley – Take Offs And Landings (Barsuk)
2. Rilo Kiley – The Execution Of All Things (Saddle Creek)
3. Casey Dienel – Wind Up Canary (Hush)
4. Interpol – Antics (Matador)
5. Interpol – Turn On The Bright Lights (Matador)
6. The Thermals – More Parts Per Million (Sub Pop)
7. The Jesus & Mary Chain – Psychocandy (Blanco Y Negro)
8. Black Box Recorder – The Facts Of Life (Jetset)
9. Sunny Day Real Estate – Diary (Sub Pop)
10. Camera Obscura – Lets Get Out Of This Country (Merge/Fruit)
11. Camera Obscura – Biggest Bluest Hi Fi (Merge)
12. Monsters Are Waiting – Fascination (Retone)
13. The Watson Twins – Southern Manners (self-released)
14. The Weepies – Say I Am You (Nettwerk)
15. Peter Bjorn & John – Writers Block (Wichita)
16. The Postal Service – Give Up (SubPop)
17. Neko Case – Fox Confessor Brings The Flood (Anti)
18. Tilly & The Wall – Wild Like Children (TeamLove)
19. Tilly & The Wall – Bottoms Of Barrels (TeamLove)
20. Ballboy – A Guide For The Daylight Hours (Manifesto)
21. Petracovich – We Are Wyoming (Red Buttons)
22. Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake Its Morning (Saddle Creek)
23. Jeffrey Lewis – The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane (Rough Trade)
24. Lucy In The Loo – Sugar High (self-released)
25. Franz Ferdinand – You Could Have It So Much Better (Domino)
May 4, 2007 at 2:10 am |
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May 4, 2007 at 5:17 am |
I can’t see the Forbidden List either. It would be a shame to leave any of these out, regardless.
Unwound- Leaves Turn Inside You
The Appleseed Cast- Peregrine
The Cure- Seventeen Seconds
The Replacements- Let it Be
Minutemen- Double Nickels on the the Dime
Giant Sand- Center of the Universe
Andy Partridge- Warblers series
Seefeel- Succour
Camper Van Beethoven II and III
Liz Phair- Exile on Guyville
The Notwist- Neon Golden
Broadcast- The Future Crayon
Dungen- Ta Det Lugnt
Susumu Yokota- Wonder Waltz
Islaja- Palaa Aurinkoon
Th’ Faith Healers- Lido
Swirlies- What to Do About Them
Urge Overkill- The Supersonic Storybook
Pussy Galore- Dial M for Motherfucker
Steve Wynn-Static Transmission
Under Byen- Samme Stof Som Stof
This Mortal Coil- Blood
Mark Hollis- Mark Hollis
Lilys- A Brief History of Amazing Letdowns
Ralf Und Florian
Grandaddy- The Sophtware Slump
Flying Saucer Attack- Distance
Felt- Let The Snakes Crinkle Themselves to Death
Cocteau Twins- Victorialand
Can- Ege Bamyasi
Alex Chilton- Bach’s Bottom
The Wrens- The Meadowlands
May 4, 2007 at 5:20 am |
alicia, db’s- stands for decibels- GREAT pick. Can I add that to my list in retrospect…?
May 4, 2007 at 5:27 am |
EddieC- didn’t vote for Bleach because I think it kinda sucks.
Now, the Sliver/Dive single… are you counting singles? Cause that one fucking changed my life. But Bleach? ….not so much.
In Utero is a great example of an album you absolutely NEED to include in a list of the best indie albums ever… but technically, it ain’t indie…
May 5, 2007 at 11:36 am |
LIST CLOSED–NO MORE ENTRIES WILL BE CONSIDERED, BUT FEEL FREE TO LEAVE SUGGESTIONS HERE ANYWAY.
May 16, 2007 at 4:42 am |
What I would have voted for if I found this in time….
25 Minor Threat – Minor Threat (1981)
24 Mission of Burma – Vs. (1982)
23 Dinosaur jr. – Beyond (2007)
22 Big Star – #1 Record (1972)
21 Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One (1997)
20 Rites of Spring – Rites of Spring (1985)
19 Big Black – Songs About Fucking (1987)
18 Husker Du – Zen Arcade (1984)
17 Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (1994)
16 Beefeater – Plays for Lovers (1985)
15 Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures (1979)
14 Guided by Voices – Bee Thousand (1994)
13 Drive Like Jehu – Drive Like Jehu (1991)
12 Hot Snakes – Suicide Invoice (2002)
11 They Might Be Giants – They Might Be Giants (1986)
10 Guided by Voices – Propeller (1992)
9 Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation (1988)
8 Game Theory – Lolita Nation (1987)
7 Mission of Burma – The Obliterati (2006)
6 Game Theory – Two Steps from the Middle Ages (1988)
5 R.E.M. – Fables of the Reconstruction (1985)
4 Pavement – Slanted and Enchanted (1992)
3 The Replacements – Let it Be (1984)
2 R.E.M. – Lifes Rich Pageant (1986)
1 Husker Du – New Day Rising (1985)
July 5, 2007 at 2:15 pm |
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Great book. I just want to say what a fantastic thing you are doing! Good luck!
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July 9, 2007 at 9:50 pm |
The Arcade Fire – Funeral
Wheat – Hope And Adams
Centro-Matic – Fort Recovery
The Polyphonic Spree – The Beginning Stages Of…(Good Records Version)
The Decemberists – Castaways And Cutouts
Some By Sea – Fire/Igloo
Neutral Milk Hotel – Aeorplane Over The Sea
Death Cab For Cutie – The Photo Album
Elliott Smith – Elliott Smith
Iron and Wine – In The Reins
Lou Ford – Sad, But Familiar
Old 97’s – Hitchhike to Rhome
The Promise Ring – Very Emergency
The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow
This Shins – Wincing The Night Away
Summer Lawns – First We Waited, Then It Started
The Weakerthans – Left and Leaving
The Weakerthans – Reconstruction Site
M. Ward – Post War
Aimee Mann – The Forgotten Arm
Guided By Voices – Bee Thousand (Scat Records)
Death Cab For Cutie – We Have The Facts and We’re Voting Yes
July 16, 2007 at 5:38 pm |
These were unfortunately and accidentally deleted from my list. Sorry!!! The Midlake album is one of my favorite albums of all time!!!
Midlake – Trials of Van Occupanther
Richard Buckner – Dents and Shells
Farmer Not So John – Receiver
September 26, 2007 at 8:08 pm |
Best bands/ albums of all time!
1. Modest Mouse- Lonesome Crowded West
2. Cake- Comfort Eagle
3. Ween- Chocolate and Cheese
4. Built to Spill- Ancient Melodies of the future
5. Phish- Billy Breathes
6. Neutral Milk Hotel- Avery Island
7. Interpol- Turn On the Bright Lights
8. Ambulance LTD- Primitive
9. Elliott Smith- Figure 8
10. Unicorns- Who Will Cut Our Hair When We Die
11. Sunset Rubdown- Shut Up I Am Dreaming
12. Ugly Casanova- Sharpen Your Teeth
13. Muse- Absolution
14. The Stills- Logic Will Break Your Heart
15. Spoon- Gimme Fiction
16. Radiohead- Amnesiac
17. Beck- Guero
18. Butthole Surfers- Independent Worm Saloon
19. Flaming Lips- At War With the Mystics
20. Thievery Corporation- The Richest Man in Babylon
October 18, 2007 at 6:57 pm |
here are mine, it’s not 25 though, and definitely not in order of importance.
1. tortoise – tnt
2. radiohead – ok computer
3. pavement – crooked rain, crooked rain
4. modest mouse – moon and antartica
5. the black keys – the big come up
6. the arcade fire – funeral
7. the decemberists – her majesty
8. islands – return to the sea
9. TV on the radio – desperate youth and bloodthirsty babes
10. neutral milk hotel – aeroplane over the sea
11. the fucking champs – IV
12. R.E.M. – lifes rich pageant
13. dungen – ta det lugnt
14. wilco – yankee hotel foxtrot
15. silver jews – american water
16. my morning jacket – at dawn
17. guided by voices – alien lanes
18. sonic youth – daydream nation
19. devendra banhart – rejoicing in the hands
20. animal collective – feels
21. yo la tengo – fakebook
May 11, 2008 at 5:11 pm |
idk about 25, but here’s my top 5:
1)Neutral Milk Hotel- Aeroplane
2)Built to Spill- There’s nothing wrong w/ love
3)Cassino- Sounds of Salvation
4)Dear and the Headlights- Small Steps, Heavy Hooves
5)Bright Eyes- I’m Wide Awake, Its Morning
May 31, 2008 at 11:42 am |
1. Sunset Rubdown – Shut Up, I Am Dreaming
2. Television – Marquee Moon
3. Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
4. Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over The Sea; On Avery Island
5. Radiohead – O.K. Computer
6. TV On The Radio – Return To Cookie Mountain
7. Wire – Pink Flag
8. Interpol – Turn On The Bright Lights
9. Arcade Fire – Funeral
10. Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
June 29, 2008 at 3:48 am |
1) neutral milk hotel- in the aeroplane over the sea
the shins- chutes too narrow
2) minutemen- double nickels on the dime
3) husker du- zen arcade
4) sonic youth- daydream nation
5) pixies- surfer rosa
6) fugazi- red medicine
7) elliott smith- elliott smith
9) modest mouse- the lonesome crowded west
10) the mountain goats- tallahassee
11) violent femmes- violent femmes
12) neutral milk hotel- on avery island
13) man man- six demon bag
14) the decemberists- picaresque
15) fugazi- repeater
16) the olivia tremor control- black foliage
17) dinosaur jr- you’re living all over me
18) elliott smith- either/or
19) kimya dawson- remember that i love you
20) bad religion- against the grain
21) slint- spiderland
22) built to spill- there’s nothing wrong with love
23) andrew bird- and the mysterious production of eggs
24) joanna newsom- ys
25) murder city devils- in name and blood
June 30, 2008 at 10:04 am |
Hopefully this isn’t too late, I spent a ton of time on this. I’d say it was more agonizing than I should have made it
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25. Boredoms – Super ae
24. Cat Power – what would the community think
23. Sleater Kinney – The Woods
22. Mission of Burma – Vs.
21. The New Pornographers – Mass Romantic
20. Bonnie “Prince” Billy – I See a Darkness
19. The Fall – This Nation’s Saving Grace
18. The Dismemberment Plan – Emergency & I
17. Fugazi – Repeater
16. The Wipers – Youth of America
15. The Microphones – It was hot, we stayed in the water
14. Madvillain – Madvillainy
13. Marnie Stern – In Advance of the Broken Arm
12. Silver Jews – American Water
11. Sonic Youth – EVOL
10. Elliott Smith – Elliott Smith
9. Slint – Spiderland
8. Television – Marquee Moon
7. Pixies – Surfer Rosa
6. Liz Phair – Exile In Guyville
5. The Replacements – let it be
4. Joanna Newsom – The Milk Eyed Mender
3. Joanna Newsom – Ys
2. Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation
1. Pavement – Slanted and Enchanted
Loveless by My Bloody valentine would be #1 if I could put it on… They had it released on an independent label in the UK, but a major in the US, which is weird considering they were a UK band. If they are acceptable, change that to my #1
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July 31, 2008 at 7:33 pm |
honestly, why have none of you guys put interpol down, have you ever heard it?
if you have, and you’re not to keen on it get into it, cause once your are nothing beats it. They are amazing live.
All their 3 albums should be up on all of yours
Anyways,
my favourite indie albums:
INTERPOL – turn on the bright lights
INTERPOL – antics
INTERPOL – our love to admire
The killers – Hot fuss
The shins – Wincing the night away
Joy division – Closer
Editors – The back room
Foals – Antidotes
The libertines – Up the bracket
Franz ferdinand – Franz ferdinand
Built to spill – You in reverse
Bloc party – A weekend in the city
Editors – An end has a start
The stone roses – The stone roses
August 20, 2008 at 9:28 pm |
Some of you didn’t read the begining on this thread….Major lables can not produce indie rock bands….
June 18, 2009 at 7:41 pm |
25. the replacements – let it be
24. grizzly bear – yellow house
23. fugazi – repeater
22. animal collective – strawberry jam
21. pixies -surfer rosa
20. husker du – zen arcade
19. camper van beethoven – ll &lll
18. red house painters – red house painters 1
17. belle ic and sebastion – the life pursuit
16. liz phair – white chocolate space egg
15. pavement – crooked rain crooked rain
14. dinosaur jr. where have you been?
13. swervedriver – raise
12. ride – nowhere
11. slowdive slouvaki
1o. the feelies – crazy rhythms
9. sonic youth – daydream nation
8. the meat puppets ll
7. the minutemen – double nickels on the dime
6. the archers of loaf – ickey mettle
5. sebadoh -lll
4. radiohead – ok computer
3. pavement – slanted and enchanted
2. the mountain goats – all hail west texas
and finally the best indie disc of all time is “drumroll please” – the dead kennedies – frsh fruit for rotting vegetables
yes i give some honorable mentions to built to spill, the fiery furnaces, cat power, they might might be giants, arcade fire, superchunk, flipper, X, neutral milk hotel, and death cab for cutie as well as the early modest mouse discs.
and a special shout out to UNcle Tupelo for no depression