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What would you put up there? Albums that you feel anyone who claimed they were even remotely into indie music must own. List some other choices.
I'm aiming for one album per artist. So feel free to debate which album is the crucial one to own from an artist. Also, feel free to say if an artist or album really doesn't need to be on the list at all. Such as it's just not that well known or important to warrant it, even if it is a decent album.
The list I've come up with so far looks like:
Beck - Mellow Gold
Bjork - Debut
Blur - Parklife
Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
Clash - London Calling
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing…
Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
Fugazi - 13 Songs
Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
Jam - All Mod Cons
Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Killers - Somebody Told Me [CD-Single]
Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
New York Dolls - New York Dolls
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Pixies - Doolittle
Portishead - Dummy
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions
Pulp - Different Class
R.E.M. - Murmur
Radiohead - OK Computer
Replacements - Tim
Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Suede - Suede
Television - Marquee Moon
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
Ween - Pure Guava
XTC - Skylarking
Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
Archers Of Loaf - Icky Mettle
Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
Bats - Daddy's Highway
Belle And Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Beta Band - The 3 EP's
Bettie Serveert - Palomine
Big Star - #1 Record
Bikini Kill - Pussy Whipped
Boo Radleys - Wake Up!
Bright Eyes - Lifted
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret
Cat Power - Moon Pix
Cure - Disintegration
Daniel Johnston - Hi, How Are You?
dB's - Stands For Decibels
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
Dream Syndicate - The Days Of Wine & Roses
Elliott Smith - Either/Or
Eric's Trip - Forever Again
Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Frank Black - Teenager Of The Year
Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
House Of Love - House Of Love [1988]
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Juliana Hatfield - Hey Babe
Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs [Box Set]
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Pedro The Lion - It's Hard To Find A Friend
PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me
Red House Painters - Red House Painters [I]
Ride - Nowhere
Seam - The Problem With Me
Sebadoh - Bakesale
Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Sleater-Kinney - Call The Doctor
Slint - Spiderland
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Strokes - Is This It?
Sugar - Copper Blue
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
Super Friendz - Slide Show
Super Furry Animals - Radiator
Superchunk - No Pocky For Kitty
Swervedriver - Mezcal Head
Television Personalities - And Don't The Kids Just Love It
They Might Be Giants - Lincoln
Triffids - In The Pines
Undertones - The Undertones
Vaselines - The Way Of The Vaselines: A Complete History
Verlaines - Bird Dog
White Stripes - De Stijl
Wilco - Being There
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
I like this list, and have about 50 of them, but there are some that are missing...
Wire - Pink Flag, being the most glaring, and a few more
Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents
Love - Forever Changes
Luna - Bewitched
The Darling Buds - Erotica
Galaxie 500 - On Fire
The La's
Silver Jews - American Water
Spoon - Girls Can tell
Lucinda Williams