B's TOP 25 INDIE ALBUMS OF ALL TIME
Perhaps in response to last week's challenge by Passion of the Weiss and his partner in crime in their invitation to music bloggers everywhere to offer up their top 25 favorite hip hop albums, we now come to another.
Berkeley Place has offered to compile a list of the TOP 25 INDIE ALBUMS OF ALL TIME. Could be a beginning of a string of lists by music bloggers everywhere.
I submitted my list as I love lists as most bloggers do. And of course, I always throw out this disclaimer that any list on our site is incomplete.
Berk's laid down some ground rules- as the term "Indie" follows some strict guidelines- thus clearly defining the genre? The whole term "indie music" could be a fierce debate in itself, but for the sake of fun and to set some parameters, we'll just play along with Berks ideas. The restrictions made it quite a challenge, as alot of really great albums "considered" indie or "categorized" as indie were deemed ineligible as they didn't meet the requirements.
So here it is, my incomplete list of the top 25 indie albums of all time- either love it or hate it, agree or disagree with it- but these are my faves, under Berk's rules.
Enjoy.
++UPDATE++ I had mistakenly repeated Broken Social Scene twice, and totally forgotten to add Elliott Smith's album "Either/Or". So that album has been added, thus the discrepancies in number. My bad.
TIE 25.
Cat Power
The Greatest
Matador
2007
Latyrx
Album
2002
Quannum Projects
24.
Interpol
Turn On the Bright Lights
2002
Matador Records
23.
Elliott Smith
Either/Or
Kill Rock Stars
1997
22.
Sufjan Stevens
Illinois
Asthmatic Kitty
2005
21.
Pavement
Slanted & Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe
2002
Matador Records
20.
The White Stripes
White Blood Cells
2002
V2
19.
16 Horsepower
Folklore
2002
Jet Set Records
18.
Belle & Sebastian
The Boy with the Arab Strap
1998
Matador Records
17.
The Decemberists
Castaways and Cutouts
2003
Kill Rock Stars
16.
Broadcast
Haha Sound
2003
Warp Records
15.
Deerhoof
Reveille
2002
Kill Rock Stars
14.
Neutral Milk Hotel
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Merge
1988
13.
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Munki
SubPop
1998
12.
TV on the Radio
Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
2004
Touch & Go Records
11.
Broken Social Scene
2005
Arts & Crafts
10.
Paavoharju
Yha Hamaraa
2005
Fonal
9.
Carissa's Wierd
I Before E
2004
Sad Robot Records
8.
Arcade Fire
“Funeral”
Merge
2004
7.
The National
Alligator
2006
Beggars UK – Ada
6.
Mojave 3
Ask Me Tomorrow
1999
4ad / Ada
5.
Chapterhouse
Whirlpool
Dedicated
1991
4.
Gary Numan
The Pleasure Principle
1979
Beggars UK – Ada
3.
Ride
Nowhere
Reprise/ Wea
1990
2.
Pixies
Surfer Rosa
2003
4ad / Ada
1.
Warsaw
1977
Mpg [Movieplay Gold]
* Warsaw- the early incarnation of Joy Division
My previous entry about Warsaw ovah here.
Berkeley Place has offered to compile a list of the TOP 25 INDIE ALBUMS OF ALL TIME. Could be a beginning of a string of lists by music bloggers everywhere.
I submitted my list as I love lists as most bloggers do. And of course, I always throw out this disclaimer that any list on our site is incomplete.
Berk's laid down some ground rules- as the term "Indie" follows some strict guidelines- thus clearly defining the genre? The whole term "indie music" could be a fierce debate in itself, but for the sake of fun and to set some parameters, we'll just play along with Berks ideas. The restrictions made it quite a challenge, as alot of really great albums "considered" indie or "categorized" as indie were deemed ineligible as they didn't meet the requirements.
So here it is, my incomplete list of the top 25 indie albums of all time- either love it or hate it, agree or disagree with it- but these are my faves, under Berk's rules.
Enjoy.
++UPDATE++ I had mistakenly repeated Broken Social Scene twice, and totally forgotten to add Elliott Smith's album "Either/Or". So that album has been added, thus the discrepancies in number. My bad.
TIE 25.
Cat Power
The Greatest
Matador
2007
Latyrx
Album
2002
Quannum Projects
24.
Interpol
Turn On the Bright Lights
2002
Matador Records
23.
Elliott Smith
Either/Or
Kill Rock Stars
1997
22.
Sufjan Stevens
Illinois
Asthmatic Kitty
2005
21.
Pavement
Slanted & Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe
2002
Matador Records
20.
The White Stripes
White Blood Cells
2002
V2
19.
16 Horsepower
Folklore
2002
Jet Set Records
18.
Belle & Sebastian
The Boy with the Arab Strap
1998
Matador Records
17.
The Decemberists
Castaways and Cutouts
2003
Kill Rock Stars
16.
Broadcast
Haha Sound
2003
Warp Records
15.
Deerhoof
Reveille
2002
Kill Rock Stars
14.
Neutral Milk Hotel
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Merge
1988
13.
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Munki
SubPop
1998
12.
TV on the Radio
Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
2004
Touch & Go Records
11.
Broken Social Scene
2005
Arts & Crafts
10.
Paavoharju
Yha Hamaraa
2005
Fonal
9.
Carissa's Wierd
I Before E
2004
Sad Robot Records
8.
Arcade Fire
“Funeral”
Merge
2004
7.
The National
Alligator
2006
Beggars UK – Ada
6.
Mojave 3
Ask Me Tomorrow
1999
4ad / Ada
5.
Chapterhouse
Whirlpool
Dedicated
1991
4.
Gary Numan
The Pleasure Principle
1979
Beggars UK – Ada
3.
Ride
Nowhere
Reprise/ Wea
1990
2.
Pixies
Surfer Rosa
2003
4ad / Ada
1.
Warsaw
1977
Mpg [Movieplay Gold]
* Warsaw- the early incarnation of Joy Division
My previous entry about Warsaw ovah here.
posted by Coffee Snorter at 6:31 AM
2 Comments:
Don't you hate people who comment just to say, "Hey, you have Broken Social Scene twice."
Thanks! At least people are payin attention. Haha.
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