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alongdrive Wrote:
I'm on some sort of quest to come up with a list of essential indieish albums. It's more of a time-filling hobby. So that the end result, the final list, will read like a textbook introductory guide to the world of indie music.
Of the following 137 albums, place your vote for the albums which you feel can safely be removed from the list. Albums that are by no means essential or simply do not belong high up on a list compared to others. You can choose ten, I guess? And I'll strike off the twenty with the highest votes against them after a period of sufficient voting.
Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
Archers Of Loaf - Icky Mettle
Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
Bats - Daddy's Highway
*Beck - Mellow Gold
! 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
Bjork - Homogenic
! Blur - Parklife
Boo Radleys - Wake Up!
*Bright Eyes - Lifted
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician
! Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
Cap'n Jazz - Analphabetapolothology
Cat Power - Moon Pix
Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
! Clash - London Calling
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
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!
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
! DJ Shadow - Endtroducing…
Dream Syndicate - The Days Of Wine & Roses
Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
Elliott Smith - Either/Or
! Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
Eric's Trip - Forever Again
Fall - The Wonderful And Frightening World Of The Fall
Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Frank Black - Teenager Of The Year
Fugazi - 13 Songs
Galaxie 500 - On Fire
! Gang Of Four - Entertainment!
Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
! Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
House Of Love - House Of Love [1988]
! Husker Du - New Day Rising
! Jam - All Mod Cons
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Juliana Hatfield - Hey Babe
! La's - The La's
Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville
Love - Forever Changes
Lowest Of The Low - Shakespeare My Butt...
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Luna - Bewitched
Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs [Box Set]
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
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
Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff
! My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
! Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
New York Dolls - New York Dolls
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Nirvana - Nevermind
*Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Olivia Tremor Control - Music From The Unrealized Film Script, Dusk At Cubist Castle
! Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
Pedro The Lion - It's Hard To Find A Friend
! Pixies - Doolittle
PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me
Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
Portishead - Dummy
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
! Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions
! Pulp - Different Class
! R.E.M. - Murmur
*Radiohead - OK Computer
Red House Painters - Red House Painters [I]
Refused - Shape Of Punk To Come
! Replacements - Tim
Ride - Nowhere
Seam - The Problem With Me
Sebadoh - Bakesale
*Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Silver Jews - American Water
Sleater-Kinney - Call The Doctor
Slint - Spiderland
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
! Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Spacemen 3 - Playing With Fire
Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
! Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Stooges - Fun House
*Strokes - Is This It?
Suede - Suede
*Sugar - Copper Blue
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
Super Friendz - Slide Show
! Super Furry Animals - Radiator
Superchunk - No Pocky For Kitty
Swervedriver - Mezcal Head
Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
! Television - Marquee Moon
Television Personalities - And Don't The Kids Just Love It
They Might Be Giants - Lincoln
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Triffids - In The Pines
! Uncle Tupelo - No Depression
Undertones - The Undertones
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Unrest - Imperial f.f.r.r.
Vaselines - The Way Of The Vaselines: A Complete History
! Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Verlaines - Bird Dog
! Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
Wedding Present - Watusi
Ween - Pure Guava
White Stripes - De Stijl
Wilco - Being There
! Wire - Pink Flag
X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents
! XTC - Skylarking
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
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Paul Caporino of M.O.T.O. Wrote:
I've recently noticed that all the unfortunate events in the lives of blues singers all seem to rhyme... I think all these tragedies could be avoided with a good rhyming dictionary.
