MOJO magazine's 30 greatest U.K. indies records of all time
 

There actually 50 but I don't want to type all that so here's 30

30.The Wedding Present-George Best
29.Young Marble Giants-Colossal Youth
28.New Order-Temptation
27.Franz Ferdinand-Take Me Out
26.The Libertines-What A Waster
25.The Loft-Up the Hill and Down the Slope
24.The Vaselines-Son of a Gun
23.Aztec Camera-High Land Hard Rain
22.Happy Mondays-Lazyitis(one armed boxer)
21.The Pastels-Up for a Bit With the Pastels
20.Spacemen 3-Revolution
19.This Mortal Coil-Song to the Siren
18.Llyod Cole and The Commotions-Rattlesnakes
17.Tennage Fanclub-Everything Flows
16.Wire-Outdoor Miner
15.Echo & the Bunnymen-Crocodiles
14.Belle & Sebastians-Tigermilk
13.The House of Love-Destory the Heart
12.Subway Sect-Ambition.
11.Felt-ForeverBreathes the Lonely Word
10.Primal Scream-Crystal Crescent/Velocity Girl
9.The Stone Roses-The Stone Roses
8.The La's-There She Goes
7.Artic Monkeys-I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
6.Joy Division-Transmission
5.My Bloody Valentine-You Made Me Realise
4.The Fall-How I wrote"Elastic Man"
3.Orange Juice-You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
2.The Jesus and Mary Chain-Psychocandy
1.The Smiths-This Charming Man

Does This Charming Man even count? It's not an album is it? I mean they released it as a single, but I don't think a single plus what? Two b-sides? Counts as a record.

EDIT: What the hell browsing this whole list its a cross between albums/singles...Someone should slap Mojo magazine =|

bell and sebastion,...ha that reminds me of that part of high fidelity when jack black calls it sad bastard music

Seems far to random to be any sort of credible list.
But I don't see anything bad on it. I can't even be bothered to hate on The Wedding Present these days.

I can't believe Lloyd Cole managed a spot in the top 20!

On the cover it says"The 50 greatest UK indie Records of All Time"
By the way I just saved everyone $10 so don't thank me or anything.

Certainly not top 20 but do you not like him? I think he is an underated artist and a great lyricist too.

no thank you's?

Yeah but like half of these aren't records they're singles.

Ethan i'm not the editor I don't decide what they put on the cover.

I know that's why I said someone should slap mojo magazine =|

I'll take that as a "thanks sweet you just saved me $10 for reading this crap for me, and posting it!"

But you only posted 60% of the list, so its more like $6.

50.Huggy Bear-Herjazz
49.The Delgados-The Great Eastern
48.James-Village Fire
47.Swell Maps-Read About Seymour
46.Camera Obscura-Lyod I'm Ready to be Heartbroken
45.Half Man Half Biscuit-The Trumpton Riots EP
44.The Wild Swans-The Revolutionary
43.The Pooh Sticks-On Tape
42.Fire Engines-Candyskin
41.McCarthy-Keep an Open Mind or Else
40.Jane And Barton-It's a Fine Day
39.Josef K-The Missionary
38.Ride-Ride EP
37.The Bodines-Therese
36.Shop Assistants-Safety Net
35.The Primitives-Really Stupid
34.Saint Etienne-So Tough
33.The Sea Urchins-Pristine Christine
32.Elastica-Line Up
31.Stereolab-Peng!

There you go, you now know all 50

Are you 100% sure they said records?

Christ, they do realize This Charming Man is NOT a record right? I'm so glad I never touched this magazine haha.

Kind of wish I did the same...but hey it came with a free CD!

Yeah it was , It was their first top 30 single.

90% of those bands were better than punk was anyway.

But if were going by singles why are Tigermilk, Psychocandy, the Stone Roses on there? I'm seriously lost here =/

i think they meant 'record' to mean just any old indie musical recording. Mojo is such a rip-off these days. To their credit their articles are always immaculately researched...
It's weird how before Q and the like you didn't get all these retrospective musical monthlys... are there any GOOD new music publications?
the list has some great music in it but there's no method to this, it's just a list of names. I mean Huggy Bear aren't very good at all, Arctic Monkeys are in it (?) and Franz Ferdinand are higher than the three post-punk bands they are plagiarizing... you can get most of these from the CD86 compilation aswell - value!

I think that the list was made like this so they could put bands like Huggy Bear on it.
I mean everything they did was utter crap but Her Jazz was a great single.

:rofl:

From what I can see their is alot of singles up there (spacemen 3 - revolution, The Smiths - This Charming Man, Joy Division - Transmission)

It's a crap list. It's missing ALL the Indie heavyweights.

Like who? I think the list is pretty good, granted it doesn't make sense.

Well I would seem to think it's missing
Super Furry Animals - Radiator (or Rings Around The World)
The Coral - The Coral
Band Of Bees - Free The Bees
Muse - Showbiz (It was indie when it first came out)
Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentleman, We Are Floating...
Ride - Nowhere
Beta Band - 3 EPs
Badly Drawn Boy- Hour Of The Bewilderbeast


just at the top of my head...if I researched it I'm sure I could find more