Official Indie Starter Kit Thread (Calling all hipsters... sorry euro)

[CallMeIshmael]

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Shouldn't be discussing Radiohead at all in this thread IMO. They're completely different from all these other bands. If you're taking indie =! Pitchfork-reviewed (which this seems like), might as well add in Kanye West. [/b]

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Meh... I know what I wanted recommended, and I got it. Kanye was not wanted, and radiohead was.

I guess the best way I could have described it was "music reviewed in pitchfork, that is rockesque." I said 'indie' and got the same.

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Wilco and the Flaming Lips are probably "outliers" as well.

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The flaming lips are not.

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The Shins has to be on this list.

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They got cut since he already has shins stuff.

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XO is ES's best album, but I'm kind've a sucker for production. From a Basement I also like more than Either/Or probably, but they're all close.

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ES didnt quite make it [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img], so its all moot.

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Are the Smiths indie? The Pixies? Seem to fit in with the other bands here.

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For some reason or another, it seems no one really considered pre-Pixies. I def. wouldnt mind see TQiD on there.

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Sonic Youth is kinda gay IMO.

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Not a fan either

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Bright Eyes should probably have an album on the list. Maybe they're not top 10 in quality, but they seem kinda quintessential lonely-girl-black-mascara-acoustic-guitar music.

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He already has them, and I dont think they're quite good enough to make it anyway.

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Oh yeah, and Modest Mouse [censored] sucks.

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Nah



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