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TwitterThanks 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.
Berkeley Place 
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).
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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.
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)…
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
Ya gotta think farther back for your “favorites”. If PeeWee Herman were my grandfather…
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…
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
alicia, db’s- stands for decibels- GREAT pick. Can I add that to my list in retrospect…?
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…
LIST CLOSED–NO MORE ENTRIES WILL BE CONSIDERED, BUT FEEL FREE TO LEAVE SUGGESTIONS HERE ANYWAY.
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)
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
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
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
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
1) neutral milk hotel- in the aeroplane over the sea
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
8) the shins- chutes too narrow
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
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 :P.
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 :P.
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
Some of you didn’t read the begining on this thread….Major lables can not produce indie rock bands….
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
Was creation not an indie label? MBV loveless and The house of love self titled first album have got to list!
no particular order:
CocoRosie – La Maison de mon reve
Arcade Fire – Funeral
Beachhouse – Devotion
Modern Lovers- Modern Lovers
The Unicorns – Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?
Neutral Milk Hotel – aeroplane
Cat power – what would the community think?
beat happening – you turn me on
the microphones – the glow pt. 2
joanna newsom – the milk-eyed mender
magnolia electric co. – what comes after the blues
magnetic fields – 69 love songs
elliot smith – elliot smith
beirut – gulag orkestrar
wolf parade – apologies to queen mary
beck – one foot in the grave
the gerbils – are you sleepy?
okkervil river – black sheep boy
simon joyner – the cowardly traveller pays his toll
babyshambles – shotter’s nation
mirah – advisory commitee
rock plaza central – are we not horses?
of montreal – the sunlandic twins
the pixies – doolittle
The Stone Roses debut was great
1. Aeroplane over the Sea – Neutral Milk Hotel
2. Gulag Orkerstar – Beirut
3. Rook, by Shearwater
3. Burn Piano Island Burn – Blood Brothers
4. Ameatures and Professionals, by Penfold
5. Our First Taste of Escape, by Penfold
6. Terrorhawk, by Bear vs. Shark
7. Even So -Lewis
8. The Ugly Organ – Cursive
9. Domestica – Cursive
10. Brother Sister, by Mewithoutyou
11. Glasvegas, by Glasvegas
12. Sack Cloth n’ Ashes – 16 Horsepower
13. Fevers and Mirrors – Bright Eyes
14. Every Time a Bell Rings . . ., by Logh
15. Six Demon Bag, by Man Man
16. Fire Theft, by the Fire Theft
17. The Lonesome Crowded West, by Modest Mouse
18. Style No. 6312, by the White Octave
19. In Bocca al Lupo, by Murder By Death
20. Low Level Owl I & II, by the Appleseed Cast
21. Boxer, by the National
22. These Four Walls, by We Were Promised Jetpacks
23. The Protomen, by the Protomen
24. Pinkerton, by Weezer
24. Dear You – Jawbreaker
These are in know particular order and subject to change as I dig through my limited indie collection. So, I might have a part 2!!!
Leatherface-Mush
Godspeed You black Emperor-Lift Your Skinny Fists Like…..
Modest Mouse-The Moon And Antartica
The Clean-Anthology
Red House Painters-Rollercoaster album
Radiohead-OK Computer
Fleet Foxes-Fleet Foxes
The Velvet Underground-all of thier material
bonnie ‘prince’ billy-i see darkness
Badly Drawn Boy-The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
Nirvana-Live At Reading (bootleg)
Bright Eyes-I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning
Iron & Wine-The Creek drank The Cradle
Fugazi-13 Songs
Flogging Molly-Swagger
The Pogues-Rum Sodomy & the Lash
Yo La Tengo-Prisoners Of Love
M83–Dead Cities & Lost Ghosts
Titus Andronicus-The Airing Of Grievances
Pavement-Quarntine The Past
Guided By Voices-Vampire On Titus
Arcade Fire-Funeral
Pavement-Westing (by Musket and Sextant)
Titus Andronicus-The Monitor
Sonic Youth-Sister
Libertines-Up The Bracket
Well I’m just gonna say beforehand that some of these were probably on majors but are what I’d still call indie based on the sound. Tried to pick only one per band which is hard for me
1. Modest Mouse – The Lonesome Crowded West
2. Pavement – Wowee Zowee
3. Pixies – Dolittle
4. Fugazi – 13 Songs
5. Built To Spill – Keep It Like A Secret
6. Ugly Cassanova – Sharpen Your Teeth
7. The White Stripes – De Stijl
8. The Shins – Oh! Inverted World
9. The Libertines – Up the Bracket
10. Love as Laughter – Holy
11. Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Airplane Over the Sea
13. At the Drive-In – Relationship of Command
14. Wolf Parade – Apologies to the Queen Mary
15. Spoon – Gimme Fiction
16. …Trail of Dead – Source Tags & Codes
17. The Walkmen – You & Me
18. Stephen Malkmus – Stephen Malkmus
19. The Thermals – More Parts Per Million
20. Iron & Wine – The Shepards Dog
21. Clinic – Internal Wrangler
22. Metric – Old World Underground
23. Eagles of Death Metal – Peace Love Death Metal
24. The Pogues – If I Should Fall From Grace With God
25. The Black Keys
This is such a subjective poll and most of these people’s list are so idiotic and have such lame taste in music, it’s starting to become a joke. Some of these lists are ok, but anyone who left The Butthole Surfers’ 1983 Punk Rock Classic – Independent Worm Saloon off their list (including Rolling Stone Magazine) just doesn’t have a well-rounded opinion about music.
If you haven’t heard it, download it. Love it. Spoon with it. “Is there a problem officer?” …”What’cha doin’? …”Chewin’ chocolate” …”Where’d you get it?” …”Doggie dropped it” ………..”Carry on.”
yeah, that’s totally well-rounded to claim that one particular butthole surfers record is the litmus test for whether you have good tast in music. duh.
Here’s my stupid list (no particular order):
1. Moving Targets-Burning in Water
2. Neutral Milk Hotel-Aeroplane…
3. Cramps-Songs the Lord Taught Us
4. X-Los Angeles
5. Liz Phair-Exile…
6. Replacements-Hootenanny (or possibly Sorry Ma…)
7. New Order-Temptation/Hurt ep
8. Dead Kennedys-Plastic Surgery Disasters
9. Vinnie and the Stardusters-Novelty Music for Casual Sex
10. Circle Jerks-Group Sex
11. The Slits-Cut (don’t know if this is technically indie…)
12. The Monochrom Set-Strange Boutique
13. Pavement-Slanted and Enchanted
14. Babes in Toyland-Spanking Machine
15. The Gun Club-Fire of Love
16. Daniel Johnston-Songs of Pain (or Yip Jump Music)
17. Violent Femmes-Violent Femmes
18. Pogues-If I should fall… (again, don’t know if Island records is indie)
19. Mission of Burma-VS
20. Gary Numan-Pleasure Principle
21. Throwing Muses-Throwing Muses
22. Modern lovers-modern lovers
23. Stereolab-Transient random…
24. Dan Deacon-Spiderman of the Rings
25. The Shaggs-Philosopy of the World
1. My bloody valentine-loveless
2. The libertines-up the bracket
3. The strokes-is this it
4. Arcade fire-funeral
5. Jamie t-panic prevention
6. Weezer-pinkerton
7. Bwani junction-fully cooker
8. Arctic monkeys-whatever people say I am that’s what I’m not
9. Yuck-yuck
10. Pavements-Crooked rain, cooked rain
11. The libertines-The libertines
12. The smashing pumpkins-simeas dreams
13. The drums-the drums
14. Jamie t-kings & queens
15. The stone roses-the stone roses
16. The xx-xx
17. The view-hats off to the buskers
18. Bloc party-silent alarm
19. The strokes-room on fire
20. Blur-park life