Yall, I was searching Amazon.com for snuff films, and then I saw that People who Bought Snuff Films Also Purchased a lot of relevant indie albums. I think that Amazon.com put together this list as a promotion since a lot of people who listen to modern indie music just get their albums from rapidshare instead of amazon.com these days. Think that they are trying 2 sell more albums/mp3s to people who ’shop at amazon’ but still haven’t discovered that u can build a fulfilling online musical existence by visiting 3-7 sites on a monthly basis without spending much money.
Here is the list. Feel like I don’t know who most of these bands are. Maybe I’m not ‘as indie’ as I thought I was.
100 Dangerous Magical Noise – The Dirtbombs /// Never heard of them. might be a 90s band.
99 Passover – The Black Angels /// Think they must be ‘jews’ or something
98 To Survive – Joan As Police Woman /// Not sure who this is. Feel uninformed
97 Ultimate Alternative Wavers – Built To Spill /// Think that this band was big in the early 00s, but sound like they are from the ass crack of the 90s [via Modest Mouse aesthetic]
96 Trans Am – Trans Am /// Think that this band is about a car.
95 The Discovery Of A World Inside… – The Apples In Stereo /// Name sounds familiar. Will probs never listen 2 them.
94 Waiter: ‘You Vultures!’ – Portugal The Man /// Starting 2 feel ‘less indie’ than ever. Not recognizing any of these.
93 Alligator – The National /// Think this is a recent ‘good band.’ Never heard them, though. Will probably release another album that goes even mainstreamer.
92 Horses In The Sky – Silver Mt. Zion /// Sounds like they have beards and sing songs about what it would be like to live in the wilderness and have ‘faith in God’.
91 Gallowsbird’s Bark – The Fiery Furnaces /// Sounds familiar. Have probably heard 1 song by them in a commercial.
90 Louden Up Now – (!!! Chk Chik Chick) /// Think they were only selected because of their interesting name.
89 The Milk-Eyed Mender – Joanna Newsom /// She is pretty ‘popular’ but not sure if she was ever really ‘that good.’ Just had an interesting voice.
88 The Power Out – Electrelane /// Probably only picked this to get ‘more women’ on this list. Don’t want 2 isolate female shoppers.
87 Cure For Pain – Morphine /// Sounds like an ‘emo’ album.
86 Worn Copy – Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti /// Pretty authentic decision not 2 pick his ‘mainstream album.’
85 Vivian Girls – Vivian Girls /// Haven’t they only been around for like 2 weeks. Think amazon.com just has too many copies of this in their warehouse and are looking 2 sell.
84 Hearts Of Oak – Ted Leo/Pharmacists /// Think that this bro will probably ‘be around forever’. Probably has a group of fans who will ‘always love him.’
83 Save Yourself – Make Up /// Never heard of them. Think this was a song by Stabbing Westward [via mainstream rock]
82 The Last Match – The Aislers Set /// Damn. Wish I knew this band. Sound like they really thought about their name.
81 The Sea and the Bells – Rachel’s /// Damn. Sounds like a cafe/diner or something.
80 The Ugly Organ – Cursive /// Isn’t this a ‘hardcore’ band? Confused about this list. What is ‘indie’?
79 De Stijl – The White Stripes /// Not sure if they are ‘indie.’ Feel weird when bands ‘used to be authentic indie’ from the early indie era, but were actually just ‘plugged into the marketing machine.’
78 Nothing Feels Good – The Promise Ring /// Is this an emo band?
77 The Smell Of Our Own – The Hidden Cameras /// Don’t know this band
76 Jane From Occupied Europe – Swell Maps /// Don’t know this band either. Sad.
75 Furnace Room Lullaby – Neko Case /// Think she is ’still around.’ Wonder if she sounds like Feist (the only female solo artist I ever listened to besides Alanis Morisette [via Canada]).
74 The Curtain Hits The Cast – Low /// Feel like bands with 1 name should be ‘hardcore.’
73 The R&B Of Membership – The Delta 72 /// Not sure who this is.
72 II & III – Camper Van Beethoven /// Think this band is like ‘authentic 90s rock’ or something. Not sure. Too young to ‘get’ it.
71 Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating… – Spiritualized /// Sounds like a southern rock indie tribute band that didn’t make the KingsOfLeon decision to ’sell out’ and ‘write arena rock songs’.
70 The Fawn – The Sea And Cake /// Remember life before the Postal Service? Me neither, yall.
69 Feast of Wire – Calexico /// Sounds familiar but haven’t listened.
68 Oh, Inverted World – The Shins /// Glad that Garden State made sure that I know about this band.
67 Will You Find Me – Ida /// Sounds like something that some1 would recommend.
66 Milk Man – Deerhoof /// Just some band about deers.
65 Coquelicot Asleep In The Poppies… – Of Montreal /// I wonder if this is one of their early albums where they ‘weren’t so zany’
64 Rejoicing in The Hands – Devendra Banhart /// Heard that this bro dated Natalie Portman. Wonder if he is more famous 4 that than this album.
63 Destroyer’s Rubies – Destroyer /// Think that this band is ‘authentic’ and saw them on blogs and sites.
62 TNT – Tortoise /// Need 2 listen 2 more music.
61 Neon Golden – The Notwist /// Reminds me of looking for something that ‘kinda sounds like the postal service’
60 Daddy’s Highway – The Bats /// Sounds like they are probably some ‘bad sounding, overrated’ band.
59 Set Yourself On Fire – Stars /// Glad Broken Social Scene replaced Stars. Back then any 1 would automatically ‘like’ cutesy music
58 Fabulous Muscles – Xiu Xiu /// Think they were the first band to have a name with the ____(x2) structure.
57 Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes – TV On The Radio /// Not even sure what the difference between their albums is.
56 The Decline And Fall Of Heavenly – Heavenly /// Sound like they are not very good based on their name.
55 The Mysterious Production of Eggs – Andrew Bird /// I heard he sold more albums than Animal Collective, and he was in the band ‘Cherry Poppin Daddies’
54 Pussy-Whipped – Bikini Kill /// Think people have tried to get me to listen to them.
53 Sing No Evil – Half Japanese /// Would listen if their name was ‘Half AZN.’
52 Liberty Belle And The Black Diamond Express – The Go Betweens /// Never heard of them.
51 Emperor Tomato Ketchup – Stereolab /// Think they were a progressive electronic band a while ago, but now probably a lot of stuff sounds like them.
50 And Don’t The Kids Just Love It – Television Personalities /// srsly need 2 listen 2 more music. feel ‘dumb and stupid.’
49 Wild Love – Smog /// Think some weird girl sent me this album a while ago, and it was ‘okay.’
48 Agaetis Byrjun – Sigur Ros /// Hard 2 tell the difference between some of their albums.
47 Red House Painters I – Red House Painters /// Sounds like they live on a farm or something.
46 Advisory Committee – Mirah /// Think I listened 2 her. probably has ‘a unique voice’ or something.
45 How Memory Works – Joan Of Arc /// Vaguely remembers when music sounded like this.
44 On Fire – Galaxie 500 /// Sound like a ’sillie’ band. Not even sure. Feel like this post is boring, and proving that I don’t know anything about music. Worried about my future as ‘a music blog.’
43 On – Imperial Teen /// Wish it was ‘imperial tweens’ then I would listen.
42 Mass Romantic [Remastered] – The New Pornographers /// I think people ‘like them’ or something. srsly haven’t listened 2 them.
41 Gulag Orkestar – Beirut /// Think they are recent, and write ‘grandiose’ songs. Probs never gonna listen 2 them.
40 This Nation’s Saving Grace – The Fall /// Sounds like ‘fall out boys’.
39 You Forgot It In People – Broken Social Scene /// This albums was pretty ‘meaningful’, but more importantly ‘approachable.’
38 I Am A Bird Now – Antony & The Johnsons /// Isn’t that the Hercules and Bro Affair bro?
37 When Your Heartstrings Break – Beulah /// This was a band for free-spirited post-teen girls.
36 Our Endless Numbered Days – Iron & Wine /// Heard he covered the Postal Services.
35 Person Pitch – Panda Bear /// Damn. Feel sad that this isn’t higher. Feel like I am supposed 2 think it is the greatest album ever.
34 Let’s Get Out of This Country – Camera Obscura /// I think I read that they are a ‘poor man’s version’ of Belle and Sebby.
33 Merriweather Post Pavilion – Animal Collective /// Not their best album. Shoulda picked a more authentic ‘early’ album. Maybe Sung Tongs or ‘Here Comes the Indian.’
32 Let It Be [Expanded Edition] – The Replacements /// Think that this band was like ‘alternative country’ or some genre like that.
31 Repeater + 3 Songs – Fugazi /// Reminds me of people who wear t-shirts of bands, but I don’t really know what they sound like.
30 Zen Arcade – Hüsker Dü /// I think the Bob Mould guy in this band was authentic, or something. Still haven’t heard them. Heard Ryan Adams talk about how they invented the D-chord or something like that.
29 24 Hour Revenge Therapy – Jawbreaker /// Think there was a movie called ‘Jawbreaker’ once. Also a popular candy in the pre-JollyRancher era.
28 Lift Your Skinny Fists… – godspeed you black emperor! /// I think they were the first band with a “!” in it. Think they are conceptual.
27 Yellow House – Grizzly Bear /// Haven’t heard it. Kinda weird how bands theoretically ‘get better’ but we will hold on to a lasting snapshot of ’simpler times’ when it comes to bands. So while a newer album might be ‘the best thing they have ever written’, we will choose to hold on to something that reminds us of the world/scene we used 2 live in, and how we used 2 perceive the world.
26 The Glow Pt. 2 – The Microphones /// Think that this album is lofi authentic. Kinda deep. Listened 2 it at night once. Thought about life.
25 Black Candy – Beat Happening /// Kinda wish it was Glass Candy
24 Funeral – Arcade Fire /// Should probably be ‘#1′ if they are trying 2 sell some albums.
23 Moon Pix – Cat Power /// Not even sure what to think of her. Wish she was still ‘crazy’ and had meltdowns instead of playing boring-ish, overrated ‘well-written’ songs. Maybe it’s ‘a girl thing.’
22 Diary – Sunny Day Real Estate /// Think that people ‘used to love them’ or something.
21 Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil… – Bright Eyes /// Feel weird when people tell me that they ‘were really into Bright Eyes.’ Feel like it exploited emotional uncertainty for a certain demographic of alts, but completely missed a lot of other demographics.
20 I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One – Yo La Tengo /// Think that they are probably ‘good’ but seem ‘old.’ Was probably ‘cooler’ to like them 8 years ago.
19 Kill the Moonlight – Spoon /// Pretty memorable album. Reminds me of idealizing the concept of growing up into an adult who listens 2 indie music.
18 Give Up – The Postal Service /// Probs needs 2 be top 10. S000 important 2 who I am. This is what <3 sounds like.
17 Dig Me Out – Sleater-Kinney /// Have heard of them, but not sure what they sound like exactly.
16 No Pocky for Kitty – Superchunk /// Probably not good.
15 I See A Darkness – Bonnie “Prince” Billy /// Feel like bros like this bro are pretty replaceable/imitable. Not too special.
14 We Have The Facts and We’re Voting Yes – Death Cab For Cutie /// Couldn’t name more than 2.5 songs off each Deathcab album. Think it is easier to say u ‘like their early albums’ because back then people only owned a few of their best mp3s without listening to the aimless, boring-er tracks.
13 Michigan – Sufjan Stevens /// <3 u Sufjy. All things go, all things go [via Little Miss Sunshine]
12 Daydream Nation – Sonic Youth /// Feel like this is the album that every1 says that they like just to sound authentic. It is ‘good’ but feel questionable about people who ‘talk about it too much.’
11 69 Love Songs Volume 1 – The Magnetic Fields /// Think that this was a ‘gimmick’ that ‘got popular’ since there were so many songs.
10 Bakesale – Sebadoh /// Sounds like it might be a singerbro like IronAndWine
09 Either/Or – Elliott Smith /// Wonder if this would still be #9 if he was still alive, or if he would have written a ‘bad ass-er’ album.
08 Surfer Rosa – Pixies /// Does this have the FIGHT CLUB song on it?
07 If You’re Feeling Sinister – Belle & Sebastian /// Miss the days when simple pop was ‘in.’
06 Slanted & Enchanted – Pavement /// Heard that they are good from some douchebag.
05 Imperial f.f.r.r. (Deluxe Edition) – Unrest /// Sad that I don’t know this.
04 Exile In Guyville – Liz Phair /// Thought she was a mainstream broad.
03 Spiderland – Slint /// sounds like it probably sucks and has ugly cover art.
02 In the Aeroplane Over the Sea – Neutral Milk Hotel /// Pretty sure I tried 2 listen 2 this once but it sucked.
01 Bee Thousand – Guided by Voices /// Haven’t heard them but they sound like they are harmonic.
Yall. I don’t know why, but I just always feel like the best music is the most recent music I listened to. Everything just seems ’so hyped.’ I feel as boring as people who say that their favourite book is ‘the last 1 I read.’
Not sure if I need to explore all of these ‘old-sounding’ albums that I don’t know, or move forward in search of music that is more progressive and conceptual than everything on this list. What do yall think I should do? Feels weird to think about ‘what I wanted out of music’ in the past, and ‘what I want from it now.’ Think I just want good mp3s for free, and don’t really demand an entire album that is asking me to consider it ‘the greatest of all time.’
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jawbreaker
damn
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//////////Reply by tripler
//////////Posted April 8th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
@tao, jesus christ that is a terrible list
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//////////Reply by Heather
//////////Posted April 9th, 2009 at 2:09 am
i have officially lost all respect for this blog. carles…get a clue, “wanna-be alt-bro.”
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cant believe you havent heard half of these bands br0
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted April 9th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
@Zakawee, This was NEVER a music blog.
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Person Pitch was good when I first heard it, now it sounds annoying and kinda nerdy.
<3 Jeff Mangum tho
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i kinda feel bad for you carles
but i do appreciate you putting yourself ‘out there’ like that
dont be afraid of pre-blog music a lot of it is really fun
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heard hilary and the duffers have a good indie aesthetic.
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WTF WHERE IS THE JEWSTEEZ!?
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GbV ftw
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first comment
<3 feeling bad
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i’ve only heard of a few of these, but i dont believe any of this, what did they go by? sales?
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted April 9th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
@Faisal, I’m sure they have some indie music staffer who owns a little too much vinyl to be objective.
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i’ve only heard of a few of these, but i dont believe any of this, what did they go by? sales
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dont know any of these bands. i dont belong here?
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted April 9th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
@yazmin, Do I scorn you or pity you?
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On one level an appropriate mockery of the Pitchfork-worshipping “I need to know about every indie album ever that anyone ever may have liked” mentality, but a lot of the records on this list are actually really good. Shocked, but pleased, to see Unrest that high. They’re better than 90% of the stuff on the list, they deserve it.
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//////////Reply by TSERNU
//////////Posted April 9th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
@maxxx, agreed – that’s a great album. but Perfect Teeth is a ‘perfect’ album.
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//////////Reply by snob-bro
//////////Posted April 11th, 2009 at 3:17 am
@TSERNU, yes yes, i agree. when i am shaving my balls, there is not an album finer than “Perfect Teeth” to trim along to. You could say it gives me, why, the Perfect Trim.
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“Is This It”, CRLS?
No Strokesies?
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//////////Reply by shtfckr
//////////Posted April 8th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
@alt-oid, They were always on a mainstream label
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//////////Reply by alt-oid
//////////Posted April 8th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
@shtfckr, Wrong. They started off very early on with XL/Beggars, then switched to Rough Trade, then RCA.
Know your alt-history, yall!
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted April 9th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
@alt-oid, Does this make Nirvana indie?… they started out on sub-pop before it “got owned”.
Three suggestions:
The guided by voices album kills.
Smog is worth it.
The New Pornographers are fun too.
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Crls ur pretty uninformed musically, and u said NMH sucks, that’s the most authentic album eva
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//////////Reply by Gurkman
//////////Posted April 8th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
@Ja3on, yeah he basically insulted my emo+slowcore tweenhood.
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//////////Reply by anon
//////////Posted April 8th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
@Gurkman, truth
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted April 9th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
@Ja3on, I love whenever people suggest that carles isn’t all that up on music…really? I mean I just couldn’t tell from reading the blog for the last 10 years. I think he has more cred with electro but that’s where it ends.
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when i finally listened to Slint a while ago, they were good. [via listening to music i missed out on]
that’s harsh about Pavement tho, they’re not bad.
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carles, i’m so conflicted…i like your choice to get really vulns here, but it’s not very impressive to boast about one’s own ignorance.
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//////////Reply by Gurkman
//////////Posted April 8th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
@dan-onymous, kinda feel like ‘boasting of ur ignorance’ is the new aesthetic.
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//////////Reply by dan-onymous
//////////Posted April 8th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
@Gurkman, Yeah, you seem to be onto something…but vapidity was so overdone in 2k5-2k8.5. I’m just trying to find the meaning in using it as an aesthetic choice…don’t we turn to places like HRO for opinions and for info we use to inform our own opinions? H8 u confusing blogosphere (sometimes).
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted April 9th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
@dan-onymous, better than faking it. If you know all these I’m impressed; if you don’t know ANY I’m disappointed…. I’m not sure arcade fire, the postal service, or of montreal count. Speaking of which Asleep in the Poppies is a fucking awesome Of Montreal album… I haven’t heard anything quite like this since it was done. And Chicago is on Illinois; not Michigan. Illinois is also better than Michigan or edges it out slightly. Or maybe it’s why people pick OK computer over Kid A so they don’t feel like a poser. It’s a solid list but it’s a list none the less and lists suck.
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//////////Reply by sometimesNJ
//////////Posted April 10th, 2009 at 9:57 am
@anony,
kid a was better, poser.
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//////////Reply by snob-bro
//////////Posted April 11th, 2009 at 3:20 am
@anony, chicago is IN illinois bro
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wish there were links to the p4k reviews after every album… fuck.
thought pavement was number one on every indie rock list made no matter what too…. fuuuck.
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted April 9th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
@urbro, I feel compelled to ALWAYS check the pitchfork rating to see if an album is worth my time. It’s better than even checking meta critic and re scoring based on my preferred review sites. But you know what’s even faster than reading 5 reviews (or one pitchfork review?)? Just listening to the album.
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//////////Reply by snob-bro
//////////Posted April 11th, 2009 at 3:21 am
@anony, ur a FGGT
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yeah good mp3s for free, dont want full albums unless every song on it is great, catchy, brilliant, ect
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted April 9th, 2009 at 8:57 pm
@nightheat, The great stuff is only average. The catchy stuff it’s that great (less replay value) and the brilliant is never catchy. Few people will invest the time it take to appreciate a brilliant album but the other problem is brilliant albums are always so subjective.
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//////////Reply by snob-bro
//////////Posted April 11th, 2009 at 3:22 am
@anony, big time FGGT
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dont know what “the best indie album is.” but it is not “bthousand”!
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k so
feel like my personal brand has just been ripped from me
[via this list]
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i think this list was made by ‘ppl 2 old to be authentically alt’ — like the dad in super-indie-flick ‘junobug’
and the ppl young enuf to be ‘auth alts’ who actually kno most of this stuff r prob not the ‘fun’ ones
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//////////Reply by Gurkman
//////////Posted April 8th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
@bbbbb, <3 that ‘juno’ is a genXr who’s 17… so unrealistic yall, if she were a real preggers tween she would b much moar banger.
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//////////Reply by anon
//////////Posted April 8th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
@Gurkman, wow. i didnt even think of that
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miss the old amazon that recommends me black eyed peas ELEPHUNK :(
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thanks crls you just confirmed that i know more about music than you.
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted April 9th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
@sf, That’s not hard to do.
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//////////Reply by snob-bro
//////////Posted April 11th, 2009 at 3:25 am
@sf, s0 many FGGTs coming out of the wood work on this one
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silent alarm by bloc party (would that even be considered indie)
96% of that list sucks btw. Of course I’ve only listened to about 1.5% of it…hm
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//////////Reply by deadsound
//////////Posted April 9th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
@rrrr, you’ve listened to 1 and a half albums on this list?
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted April 9th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
@deadsound, You can turn in your alt card if you have only listened to two of these.
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d00d, Fugazi was my favez in middle school [via xPUNKxROCKx]
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you aren’t very relevant. you suck at music.
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h8 that there was no Codeine or American Football.
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//////////Reply by Paige
//////////Posted April 8th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
@Gurkman, Yes, American Football should be there.
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oh man what if pete wentz (soul & peen baring fall out bro) and mark e. smith (idk some really old alcoholic british bro) teamed up???
broooo that’d be some sick shit. coming 2k10: the fall out boy: infinity on this nation’s high.
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Guh, the fall is indie as fuck. No vaselines, srsly. Aislers set, heavenly, unrest, yet no vaselines. Hate my life.
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thx for the laffs as always carles. it makes me a lil depressed to see commentators taking u seriously
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damn bro
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bee 1000 is great. robert pollard is ADD as fuck tho.
modest mouse is conspicuously missing, and if they were going 2 count emo as indie they should’ve listed that cap’n jazz album with the long-ass title
also listened 2 ‘aeroplane’ today and thought it was r. boring too
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please listen to apples in stereo. whoever told you pavement was something could really help you out maybe?
There is a certain amount of, I suppose, “putting yourself in somone elses shoes” i enjoy when I listen to old music. Not entirely try to be someone, just listen to what was going on. delving into underground 90’s band that now get blatantly ripped off is also fun and rewarding.
Its a moving exoerience to know someone in the 50’s 60’s and all decades gone, who were my age dealing with simular emotion. There is a sort of timeless community there. You dont have many albums you always go back to?
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please listen to apples in stereo. whoever told you pavement was something could really help you out
There is a certain amount of, I suppose, “putting yourself in someone else’s shoes” i enjoy when I listen to old music. Not entirely try to be someone, just listen to what was going on and who was pushing what boundarys etc.. delving into underground 90’s bands that now get blatantly ripped off is also fun and rewarding.
Its a moving experience to know someone in the 50’s 60’s and all decades gone, who were my age dealing with similar emotion. There is a sort of timeless community there. You dont have many albums you always go back to?
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Xiu Xiu wasn’t first. Ever heard of the band so nice they named it twice? Duran Duran?
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do you even listen to music anymore?
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i think my friends mickeys sister made this list.
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glad u also like stabbing westward
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//////////Reply by gds
//////////Posted April 8th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
@ben, my pain my rage my darkest dayz
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wtf since when was amazon more indie than anybody on here
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so hard to pick up on your vibes with big crazy long posts like this.
theres kinda too many bands listed. dunno what your “angle” is.
kinda think you’re making it seem like indie music is ultimately as throw-away as anything in pop culture.
kinda realizing that being a cool dad and listening to 60s/70s music and pretending to be able to tell that i’m listening to chopin when i flip to classical radio might be what i should be working towards. ne1 wants pregger or should i steal a brown child from an aids country?
(went back and modified the comment via removing capital letters/proper grammer/adding lots of hyperbole to make it more relevant/hide the fact that i’m successful in life)
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//////////Reply by h8rbro
//////////Posted April 9th, 2009 at 1:55 am
@Haakon, good self aware post
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The Milk-Eyed Mender – Joanna Newsom /// She is pretty ‘popular’ but not sure if she was ever really ‘that good.’ Just had an interesting voice
die;
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//////////Reply by david
//////////Posted April 9th, 2009 at 12:53 am
@hmm,
yeah, die.
that album is life
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//////////Reply by hey anony anony
//////////Posted April 9th, 2009 at 11:48 am
@hmm, and she dates ‘zany’ andy samberg
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Spiderland is awesome fuk u carles.
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YO HIT ME BACK JUST A CHAT TRULY YOURS YOUR BIGGEST FAN THIS IS STAN.
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indie means the ‘recorded masters are not owned by one of the 4 major label record companies’. If it’s not released by Sony BMG, Universal, Warner or EMI then it’s indie. Only 30% of music sales around the world are indie but over 80% of the different titles are indie. they just don’t sell as much, because being ‘authentic’ they don’t have massive marketing budgets.
Do ya dig yall?
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//////////Reply by bloodkilla
//////////Posted April 9th, 2009 at 2:26 am
@nick,
Truth.
Most of these bands are well marketed/promoted thus probably not as deserving.
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Do I really know more of these bands than you?
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Sufjan’s “Michigan” is now where NEAR “Illinois”, the best album of the decade.
Surprised Pavement wasn’t #1, they are the considered the epitome of the 1990’s “indie rock” by the internet.
Replacements are not really “indie rock”
This list sucks.
Seriously tho, how can you not put older albums on a list like this, you can’t really judge new music on a high level for about a decade.
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This list was nostalgia for me.<3 neutral milk hotel. cursive isn’t ‘hardcore’). A few of these were pretty good bands that just started to suck after getting recognized. such is life
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indie doesnt really require being in a “independant record label” anymore…its more of a sound style…which is interesting. but it makes me sad when nobody else at school can relate to bon iver or simian mobile disco or whatever
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i sorta like this list. neutral milk hotel, gy!be, a silver mt. zion, tortoise, sonic youth, and elliott smith.
cheers for ignorance, crls. listen to something other than bloghaus.
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Andrew Bird was never a member of the Cherry Poppin’ Daddies. He sat in with the Squirrel Nut Zippers…a very different thing altogether.
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There are some highlights but overall this list seems very arbitrary and the term indie rock, much like the music and people it describes, misunderstood.
Nation of Ulysses 13-Point Program to Destroy America isn’t on the list… I’m sure I must be offended by the oversight. Along with the Slint song “O Captain” (or whatever), that album was like indie rock 101 in the mid 90s, when the words “indie” and “subculture” had relevance. And The Make Up (which never lived up to the Nation dream) is on there which is just weird.
Just one of the so very many Built to Spill albums is, uh, no. 97? I can’t even tell you how many times I saw BTS live – for years it seemed that if you left the house you had about a 5% chance of finding yourself at a BTS show.
Where’s Portastatic? Palace? Gastr del Sol? Beat Happening even?
The only song I really like on Bee Thousand, which I believe I still own on red vinyl, is “I am a Scientist”, which is awesome but not list topping. And fuck Neutral Milk Hotel being number 2. They’re good and everything but very male-oriented – I don’t really like them at all.
My main issue though is that, as a whole, it fails to capture the essence of the post punk, hardcore, emocore, (…)-core, riot grrrrl, garage band, party house, gen x, calvin johnson, k records, up, matador, etc., etc. indie rocker “scene”, which existed in a time before there were hipsters. Separate lists for the 80s 90s and 00s would probably seem less disappointing, but the true indie rock era ended, as any subculture inevitably will do, with the century. Sigh. Thanks for listening.
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//////////Reply by The Citizen Science
//////////Posted April 9th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
@l i z, What the fuck does the ‘male orientation’ of Neutral Milk Hotel have to do with anything???
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i couldnt dissagree with this post more.
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OMG I have just given up on you Carles……This post wasn’t a joke, because none of it was funny. You really need to listen to every last album on that list, you still wont be authentic or anything, just not glaringly irrelevant anymore.
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this list reminds me of 1998 when i was a tween and hung out with other sk8rs and a couple of them listened to ‘pussy music’ and i listened to ‘west coast indie/emo’ [via 764HERBro] and ‘weird black altfolk that p4k found out about six years later’ [via Aeroplane].
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i lol’d in real life to the vivian girls description
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Everyone is suprised that Carles knows very little about music but if they weren’t interepreting everything as irony/sarcasm/satire, they would have realized earlier that he really did have pretty lame taste in music.
Sadly too, his racism is appearing not to be satire either. We got played, ‘yall.’ Pretty ashamed that we wanted him to be so cool, though he is really just a one dimensional, yet talented, hipster.
I’ll still keep reading occaisionally, but I gots to admit to myself. Carles is a douche in real life. Hope he can periodically suspend my reality though.
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//////////Reply by vdieselfor20
//////////Posted July 7th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
@DwayneWayne, u dont ‘get it’
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a lot o’ go betweens is good but havent heard that album
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Pretty sure he’s kidding around, you idiots.
How is he not going to know Devendra Banhart? or The New Pornographers? Commmmeee onnnnn.
I fricken play Linda Ronstadt nonstop and I knew most of the stuff up there.
INTIMATELY.
I have slept with most of those records. I have had grimey sex with most of those records.
…I hope he’s kidding around, anyway.
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//////////Reply by danny
//////////Posted April 9th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
@Lissen Japhy,
I don’t think he is. Music was not his bag in the 90’s. Maybe he was not old enough, or maybe he just isn’t a muso.
More a fashion bro…
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//////////Reply by DragonForce
//////////Posted April 9th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
@Lissen Japhy, Ya. I’m pretty sure he’s kidding (at least I hope so. Otherwise, sad face). This list is obviously filtered through the ignorant, only-care-about-what’s-been-blogged-about-since-yesterday persona that is the Carles character.
I mean c’mon, dude lives in Austin. People’s freaking grandmas are intimately familiar with the Black Angels down here.
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//////////Reply by ////
//////////Posted April 9th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
@DragonForce, anyone who highly ranks The Postal Service must be joking
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luv the post-ironic questioning of carles’ jokes yalls
“02 In the Aeroplane Over the Sea – Neutral Milk Hotel /// Pretty sure I tried 2 listen 2 this once but it sucked.”
–my thoughts exactly, <3 u carles
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//////////Reply by The Citizen Science
//////////Posted April 9th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
@authentanick,
And so passes the golden age of indie.
(you like fish dicks?)
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//////////Reply by authentanick
//////////Posted April 9th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
@The Citizen Science, (Yeah)
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IN DIE
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//////////Reply by h8rbro
//////////Posted April 9th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
@DICKS DICKS DICKS, say cheese in die
by RL Stine
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This is for the Millennials liike mii
Discovery by Daft Punk
Transparent Things by Fujiya & Miyagi
Yearbook 1 by Studio
LCD Soundsystem by James Murphy
Sound of Silver by James Murphy
Friendly Fires by Friendly Fires
Myth Takes by !!!
In Ghost Colours by Cut Copy
myspace tunes by We Have Band
myspace tunes by The Twelves
Dreams by The Whitest Boy Alive
Professor Murder Rides the Subway by Professor Murder
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Silent Alarm by Bloc Party
Turn on the Bright Lights by Interpol
“Hounds of Love” by The Futureheads
DJ Kicks by Erlend Øye
etc
Do you like to shake your tail feather/dance to the underground/break yo f*ckin neck/do your thing/funk soul brother/clap your hands and say yeah over and over and over again like a monkey with a miniature symbol? Does repetition kill you? Is Daft Punk just another buzz band like TV on the Radio? Who r the Twelves?
b honest
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just read all of these comments…
:( :( :(
where have all the “good commenters” gone?
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Carlos, you really should know the fiery furnaces. Bitter Tea and Widow City were better albums though.
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Hundo-post!/maybe I messed up via an unspoken collective rule about ‘keeping it 99.’
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Jeezus H, Carles – You don’t know who The Hidden Cameras, Unrest & Iron & Wine are? Please go out back and shoot yourself now!!!
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//////////Reply by Isabel
//////////Posted April 11th, 2009 at 3:46 am
@mave, word.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLwEuk8DNuo
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Not to mention Guided By Voices!!! *sigh* This makes me really, really sad…
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WHERE ARE THE DEAD MILKMENS
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2 vulz bro, all teh FGGTs are pouncing. they want 2 grab ur mic frm ur h4ndz
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blitzen trapper.
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//////////Reply by obliviouslo
//////////Posted April 13th, 2009 at 12:30 am
@matgamel, <3 love them
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i feel like Smash Mouth’s Astrolounge is incredibly underrated as one of the greatest albums of all time. listen to it all the way through, and then just try to tell me i’m wrong.
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//////////Reply by LBuddy
//////////Posted April 15th, 2009 at 2:19 am
@kittentits,
yr wrong kittenbro : (
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//////////Reply by anonomiss
//////////Posted June 13th, 2009 at 11:05 am
@kittentits, seconded. not ‘indie’ though
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carles you obviously little to nothing about indie music which brings your credibility way down.
I don’t take anyone seriously who doesn’t like NMH.
Jeff Mangum is the Ultamate alt.
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Carles, U wr nvr indie. U r alt. Srry bro. Indie is ’sorta authentic’ and alt is ‘lookin for tugz.’ The 1 thing they bth hv in common is AZNs r hott. Allso Yr fugazi jk made me lolz.
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Carles, dunno if u herd it since you posted it, but that of Montreal album is THE zaniest album they made before they sold out, srsly
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“19 Kill the Moonlight – Spoon /// Pretty memorable album. Reminds me of idealizing the concept of growing up into an adult who listens 2 indie music.”
Ouch. Truth.
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This just made me decide to never take advice from you on anything.
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its so cool that we have the facts by dcfc made the top 15
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you’re obviously “indie” for the fashion of it, can’t believe you’ve never even heard of neutral milk hotel. you’re fucking stupid, stop this blog please.
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ITT: Carles reveals his horrible taste
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