5 Essential Indie albums

duga · 04-24-2010, 05:47 PM

As has been pointed out...all these lists are different.

There is no way to accurately make a top 5...indie encompasses so many different types of bands you may as well ask "give me a top 5 albums to start out of nowhere". Noble effort, but I doubt this thread would be much use to a newbie.

Unless you guys start giving descriptions of each one. I'm sure someone coming in here would already know the style they are partial to, and that way the lists might be a bit more help.

TheBig3 · 04-24-2010, 10:25 PM

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Originally Posted by duga

Unless you guys start giving descriptions of each one. I'm sure someone coming in here would already know the style they are partial to, and that way the lists might be a bit more help.

Or they could see which ones come up most often and listen to those.

Kamina · 04-25-2010, 02:05 AM

Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
Elliott Smith - Either/Or

TheCunningStunt · 04-25-2010, 02:09 AM

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Originally Posted by gotjuice

I tried to avoid some obvious ones (NMH, Arcade Fire, Bon Iver, etc.)

Pixies-Surfer Rosa
Thom Yorke-The Eraser
The National-Boxer
Sigur Ros-( )
Mew-No More Stories... (might be a bit of a stretch but it's staying)

Leaving out obvious ones isn't really the point of the thread.
If you think
In An Aeroplane Over The Sea
Funeral and
For Emma, Forever Ago
are essential Indie albums, then so be it..

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Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog

Or they could see which ones come up most often and listen to those.

I.E NMH - In An Aeroplane Over The Sea

TheCunningStunt · 04-25-2010, 02:17 AM

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Originally Posted by duga

As has been pointed out...all these lists are different.

There is no way to accurately make a top 5...indie encompasses so many different types of bands you may as well ask "give me a top 5 albums to start out of nowhere". Noble effort, but I doubt this thread would be much use to a newbie.

Unless you guys start giving descriptions of each one. I'm sure someone coming in here would already know the style they are partial to, and that way the lists might be a bit more help.

Even though they could just see what albums come up most and give them a listen. I did actually think people would tag a description along with each album.. Even a line would've been good.

gotjuice · 04-25-2010, 02:28 AM

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Originally Posted by TheCunningStunt

Leaving out obvious ones isn't really the point of the thread.
If you think
In An Aeroplane Over The Sea
Funeral and
For Emma, Forever Ago
are essential Indie albums, then so be it..

Sure, but those albums have already been posted and will more than likely be posted multiple times. I'd consider the 5 I posted just as essential as those, plus then I'm not just reposting something that's already been listed 3-4 times.

TheCunningStunt · 04-25-2010, 02:30 AM

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Originally Posted by gotjuice

Sure, but those albums have already been posted and will more than likely be posted multiple times. I'd consider the 5 I posted just as essential as those, plus then I'm not just reposting something that's already been listed 3-4 times.

Fair enough, I kind of made the thread because I thought people would post why the album they chose is more essential than an 'obvious album'

Say, I want to know why your 5 albums are more essential than NMH (even though they're an obvious one, I don't think you can get more essential than that)

Bulldog · 04-25-2010, 06:02 AM

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Originally Posted by TheCunningStunt

Even though they could just see what albums come up most and give them a listen. I did actually think people would tag a description along with each album.. Even a line would've been good.

Nah, too much like hard work

...I'll probably edit one or two in out of sheer boredom later though.

TheCunningStunt · 04-25-2010, 06:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Bulldog

Nah, too much like hard work

...I'll probably edit one or two in out of sheer boredom later though.

I've seen people on this site go out of their way to write a 5 paragraph rant about certain topics, and when I say 'people' I mean booboo.

Bulldog · 04-25-2010, 06:17 AM

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Originally Posted by TheCunningStunt

I've seen people on this site go out of their way to write a 5 paragraph rant about certain topics, and when I say 'people' I mean booboo.

Don't get wrong, I do that sometimes myself. Just wasn't really feeling the vibes when I posted my list

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