Okay, we've got 77 albums left on the list. I'm not really happy with how this turned out, I'm just pursuing it because I figure I've come this far.

Any ideas with how to rank the data are welcome.


Archers Of Loaf - Icky Mettle
Beck - Mellow Gold
Belle And Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Beta Band - The 3 EP's
Big Star - #1 Record
Bjork - Homogenic
Boo Radleys - Wake Up!
Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret
Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
Clash - London Calling
Cure - Disintegration
dB's - Stands For Decibels
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Fugazi - 13 Songs
Galaxie 500 - On Fire
Gang Of Four - Entertainment!
Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
Husker Du - New Day Rising
Jam - All Mod Cons
Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Luna - Bewitched
Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs [Box Set]
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II
Minor Threat - Complete Discography
Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime
Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Nirvana - Nevermind
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
Pixies - Doolittle
PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me
Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
Portishead - Dummy
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions
Pulp - Different Class
R.E.M. - Murmur
Radiohead - OK Computer
Refused - Shape Of Punk To Come
Ride - Nowhere
Sebadoh - Bakesale
Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Slint - Spiderland
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Spacemen 3 - Playing With Fire
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Stooges - Fun House
Sugar - Copper Blue
Super Furry Animals - Radiator
Superchunk - No Pocky For Kitty
Swervedriver - Mezcal Head
Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
Television - Marquee Moon
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Uncle Tupelo - No Depression
Undertones - The Undertones
Vaselines - The Way Of The Vaselines: A Complete History
Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
Wedding Present - Watusi
Wilco - Being There
Wire - Pink Flag
X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents

How about everyone picks three albums to stay. An album needs at least two votes to remain.

I agree that the results of this aren't going to be spectacular, but what the hell.

You wanted indie essentials, and thats what you got. You could trim this to 10,20,50, etc. and still some great slbums would be left off and some duds would be on the list. I think its pretty representative of classic indie from the last 25 years, and, as such, fulfills its purpose.

Where did this list of albums come from?

Plus the whole one album per artist rule skews things.
The second or third-best records by The Cure, REM, Radiohead etc. are far better than the best offerings from Luna, the Feelies or the dB's (for example).

I noticed two pavement albums on the list