'10 landmark albums that made indie rock'

numbers 1 and 8 should switch places

I'm surprised Meat is Murder is on there and not The Queen is Dead, which is the more influential album, I feel. Lists are ridiculous, of course, but the NME just last year said that Queen is Dead is the most influential British album of all time, past Radiohead and The Beatles!!

what no freakin' Replacements?!?!?!?!?!

Bee Thousand?

Um, no Fugazi? Really? Their ideal system alone is the infrastructure of independent records. Not too mention, Repeater and 13 Songs are amazing.

huh?

I AM OUTRAGED.

hey chuck, calm down...#9

Now I realize why I hate most indie rock.

Now I realize why I hate most indie rock.

Now I realize why I hate most indie rock.

Now I realize why I hate most indie rock.

Now I realize why I hate most indie rock.

Def agree Murmur crushes daydream nation interms of indie importance!

Someone's been leafing through his SPIN Guide to Alternative Music.

i'm with BVmike - for me, meat is murder was not the most influential album. for me it was the eponymous album, but queen is dead is a close second.

Hmmm, rather odd criteria. Nothing from the 70's (Clash, Patti Smith, Ramones, Wire, TV).
What about: Galaxie 500, Beat Happening, Superchunk, Pussy Galore, PiL, Black Flag?
Actually, given the big PiL/Gang of Four influenced indie-dance craze of the past few years, it's a bit surprising not to see either band here.
And yeah, Fugazi! By the way, the acoustic Fugazi tribute band Facoustica was good fun.

Yeah I too can not believe there is no fugazi (13 songs), guided by voices (mag earwhig)and what about the band everyone loved in the 90s but now no one seems to mention but none of the trust fund hipsters are old enough to ever have known them... PAVEMENT!!

List isn't too bad, but the omission of Black Flag and Fugazi is just idiocy. I love the Descendents, but those bands are wayyyy more influential.

not a bad list but pavement slanted and enchanted should definitely be in the top 5.

as much as hipsters love slint and television (bought both records - never got into them), suprised neither are here.

agreed on bee thousand and pavement's exclusions -those oversites are just plain wrong. good to see that dinosaur jr. is in the list, but #2 (?), it's hardly as good as zen arcade or let it be (replacements). and what's with squirel bait over slint?

this list is rubbish.

New Day Rising is the stronger Husker album

Wait. So Ratch you come on a blog almost exclusively dedicated to indie rock to tell us that you hate almost all indie rock? That's like going on gawker and saying, "this is why I can't stand media gossip."

Also, they clearly are sticking to bands that released influential albums up through the mid-80s so that's why there is no Pavement or GBV or any of the bands that released their most important albums in the 90s. But I'm surprised Echo & the Bunnymen didn't even get honorable mention.

uhh... pavement?

Um..."Slanted and Enchanted," "13 Songs," "Mag Earwhig," and "Spiderland" (as well as albums by Yo La Tengo, Superchunk, and a few others mentioned in the comments) are all Indie Rock albums (capitalized because they pretty much are the foundation of the genre) and all are responsible for helping to create the sound of future micro-genres within Indie Rock. The albums on this list are more from the college and alternative rock genres that laid the groundwork for Pavement, Fugazi, et al. Still, I'm really surprised by the lack of 1960s and 1970s bands. How can the influence of Velvet Underground, Television, and Stooges be overlooked? Sure, they're all proto-punk, but they still influenced Indie Rock!

here's what else is missing:

New Order - Power, Corruption, Lies
The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy and the Lash
De La Soul - Three Feet High and Rising

this list is all over the place, not really good......

what's so hard to understand here? no albums from the 70's, because that (including late-70's punk) was before the movement or style or whatever known as 'indie rock' began to crystalize. no albums from the 90's, because that was well after that movement has crystalized. so the list focuses on the formative years of 'indie rock' as we've known it in the last 20-25 years.

This list is a SATAN

FOR IT OMITS WORKS DEAR TO MY HEART.

For instance:

1. Shortbread Nug - Symphony 34 in Nug

2. Forcemeat - Forcemeat says "Forcemeat ..."

3. June Borscht - Love-Maggot

4. FUTURE FACE - The First Indie Album (1958 version, not '62)

& WAY too many others to mention

FUCKING FASCISTS

GET A LIFE

GET EDUCATED

The list is "bands that made indie rock" - meaning those which came first - Pavement, GbV et al are great bands but they came after the first flowering of what you'd call Indie.
But yeah, Replacements 'Let It Be'....

Where's Third Eye Blind and Better Than Ezra?

Of course if you take the histrionic approach

Discounting the garage/pop of the 50s/60s

The Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates was one of the first punk albums

and let us not forget

The Grateful Dead (yes i said it!) were pretty indie back in 1965 as the house band for the Acid tests in cali -- and damn punk at that -- considering every party hosted by Todd P is exactly that except not as many people get laid -- but the music is the same -- noise freak out rock

What about bright eyes and the shins?!?!!!?!?!! How could those seminal artists possibly be forgotten?

Three words:

NEUTRAL

MILK

HOTEL

Some glaring omissions in my opinion...

Violent Femmes, (Violent Femmes, Slash Records 1983)

Camper Van Beethoven (Telephone Free Landslide Victory, Pitch-a-Tent 1985)

Murmur deserves to be higher.

oh, and to not give props to Tom Waits and Lou Reed is almost criminal.

What? What about Walking on Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves?!?!!?

where is the Stone Roses debut album? this is bullshit!!!!

Anything by the Soft Boys

All these lists are stupid really... but it makes sense that all these records are from the 80's because in theory that set up what was known as 90's indie rock : Pavement, Superchunk, Guided By Voices, Built To Spill, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sebadoh, Archers of Loaf, Belle & Sebastian etc and later Modest Mouse, Shins

Slint should probably be there as well

This is abismal. Is there a rule for no 90's albums? 00's albums? At this point I think it's fair to point out things as far reaching as God Speed! You Black Emperor who opened doors for Canadian rock and post rock and even bands like Beirut. And certainly if your billing the list under that general header 'landmark indie rock albums' you'd be crazy to not put Slanted and Enchanted on top of that list for being the moment where everything that came before it crystalized into what is to this day the indie rock standard...

This list has raised my ire.

It's interesting to compare how 'safe' the top 10 choices are to how out there some of the honorable mention picks are.

I think you'd be a fool to not include Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane over the Sea.

That record is arguably more influential than any of the top ten.

What important current and is really out there sounding anything like Daydream Nation?

this list is _SO_ straight outta some 35-year-old publicist's desk in Chicago.

They should shoot for a job writing reviews for the Onion.

Someone's really stuck in the early 90s.

Daydream Nation still owns and deserves the top spot over Murmur. DN still owns regardless of when it was released. I agree, there should be some more recent stuff in the list though, especially Neutral Milk Hotel.

bv just postd this to make yall go comment crazy. who cares.

this is just a question, not a statement. didn't andy warhol help make this indie, avant garde, hipster new york scene with art, movies, fashion and the velvet underground?

this is just a question, not a statement. didn't andy warhol help make this indie, avant garde, hipster new york scene with art, movies, fashion and the velvet underground?

this is just a question, not a statement. didn't andy warhol help make this indie, avant garde, hipster new york scene with art, movies, fashion and the velvet underground?

Ha ha, 'abismal', 'the histrionic approach' sound like things GW Bush would type.
Nothing to add, the list is really a pretty good one - if you accept it doesn't mean 'most awesomest indie records ever of all history'!

Jesus. You dweebs are like flies to shit when these stupid lists come out.

"Dude, what about neutral olivia explosion?"

"OMG what happened to beefheart?"

"Fuck, no Scriabin? Bartok?"

"Where is Beethoven? Dude he OWNED indie with symphony 3"

"Wah! the world won`t validate my favorite record and thefore doesn`t love me!"

wow, what a safe list.

where's neutral milk hotel?
where's the first violent femmes record?

People do seem to get very touchy when these lists come out, personally I see it as a good way that I can get introduced to records that were coming out when I was too young to notice and I may not have picked up yet. At age 5 I wasn't generally listening to The Fall...

And as for the debate around what should / shouldn't be on the list it seems to be the premise that is the problem - if these are records that "generated the right conditions for the rock that would follow" - you need to somehow determine when indie rock started and the people who put this together seem to think that was around 88/89. Based on that it's a pretty strong list.

Stone Roses suck almost as much as Neutral Milk Hotel.
jk about NMH. But, Stone Roses still blow.
Where is the Violent Femmes dammit. It was landmark. Almost all of "Indie" rock owes their first album a debt or at least a nod.

another stupid list.

Look how they picked The Cure's "The Head On The Door" to show how obscurely hip they are, instead of Boys Don't Cry. Get the fuck outta here.

and yeah, NMH spawned a billion bands that suck today, most notably The Decemberists. Everytime I hear that Colin dude sing I think, "woah, is this a lost NMH track I never heard!?"

No Beethoven? This list SUX.

I grow upset at lists!

I agree with what Craig said earlier Murmur>Daydream... easy call in my book. Sonic Youth are great don't get me wrong but Murmur started an indie revolution and many many bands have been influenced by Murmurs...

no silverchair? what the hell? also, no Echo & the Bunnymen due to Jesus and Mary Cain... perhaps? High Fidelity comes rushing to my brain.

not to add the long obvious list of oversights but.... this one is too obvious and indisputable and quite frankly, the phoenix must have just forget existed or some wierd mind fart to have excluded....but Loveless? also for arguments sake, but really its true, not that I put it quite on the level with whats on the list, but soft bulliten is pretty important of a touchstone for the whole baroque pop branch that has been going on for a long time now. Indie rock fans love that stuff, and maybe its not "art" like daydream nation, but its a big part of the whole indie scene

Neutral Milk Hotel and My Bloody Valentine???

where teh fuxk is suf-john? l0lz.

what about sunny day real estate

"10 landmark albums that, IN THE OPINION OF THE PHOENIX STAFF, made indie rock."

Quite aside from the fact that these lists are always, always a matter of opinion and taste, if you think that the Phoenix are the final arbiter in all matters indie, go ahead and get riled up.

I'm with the Spiderland and Loveless suggestions, but In the Aeroplane Over the Sea was released in 1998. "Indie" was already pretty popular then. It's an influential album, but it was more influential to latecomers than it was to the likes of Pavement, Built to Spill, etc.

Not only is this list chronologically biased (I see NO albums recorded recently listed that helped to influence the sound of albums released recently) it is also biased toward rock music--indie rock specifically. Why is Kanye West not on this list? I have certainly heard of him. I have heard of many other artists who have recorded albums as well, and I am incensed that not all of them were included in this top 10 list:

10,000 Maniacs - Love Among The Ruins
2 Unlimited - Hits Unlimited
311 - 311
311 - Grassroots
311 - Music
311 - Transistor
7 Mary 3 - American Standard
7 Mary 3 - Rock Crown
54-40 - Trusted By Millions

AC/DC - Back In Black
AC/DC - Ballbreaker
AC/DC - Blow Up Your Video
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
AC/DC - Flick Of The Switch
AC/DC - For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)
AC/DC - Highway To Hell
AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
AC/DC - The Razors Edge
AC/DC - TNT
Accept - Predator
Ace Of Base - The Bridge
Ace Of Base - The Sign
Aerosmith - Big Ones
Aerosmith - Get A Grip
Aerosmith - Nine Lives
Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
Agnostic Front - United Blood
Alanis - Alanis
Alanis Morissette - Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
Alice Cooper - Hey Stoopid
Alice Cooper - Trash
Alice In Chains - Alice In Chains
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Alice in Chains - Facelift
Alice in Chains - Jar Of Flies
Alice in Chains - MTV Unplugged
Alice in Chains - Sap
Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes
Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus
Amorphis - Tuonela
Anathema - Pentecost III
Anathema - Serenades
Ani Difranco - Little Plastic Castle
Annihilator - King Of The Kill
Annihilator - Set The World On Fire
Anouk - Together Alone
Anthrax - Among The Living
Anthrax - Persistance Of Time
Anthrax - Sound Of White Noise
Anthrax - Spreading The Disease
Anthrax - State Of Euphoria
Anthrax - Stomp 442
Apollo 440 - Electro Glide In Blue
Apollo 440 - Millennium Fever
Aqua - Aquarium
Ash - 1977
Asian Dub Foundation - Rafi's Revenge
At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

B.B.King - Blues On The Bayou
Bad Religion - Against The Grain
Bad Religion - Generator
Bad Religion - No Control
Bad Religion - Recipe For Hate
Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction
Bad Religion - Suffer
Bad Religion - The Gray Race
Badlees - River Songs
Barbra Streisand - Higher Ground
Bathory - A Black Moon Broods Over Lermuria
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Beatles - Abbey Road
Beatles - For Sale
Beatles - Hard Day
Beatles - Help!
Beatles - Let It Be
Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Beatles - Past Masters 1
Beatles - Past Masters 2
Beatles - Please Please Me
Beatles - Revolver
Beatles - Rubber Soul
Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Beatles - White Album 1
Beatles - White Album 2
Beatles - With The Beatles
Beatles - Yellow Submarine
Beck - Mellow Gold
Beck - Mutations
Beck - Odelay
Ben Folds Five - Whatever And Ever Amen
Benediction - Dark Is The Season
Benediction - The Dreams You Dread
Better Than Ezra - Deluxe
Better Than Ezra - Friction, Baby
Biohazard - Biohazard
Biohazard - State Of The World Address
Biohazard - Urban Discipline
Bittova Iva - Bittova&Fajt
Bittova Iva - Divna Slecinka
Bjork - Debut
Bjork - Homogenic
Bjork - Post
Bjork - Telegram
Black Crowes - Shake Your Moneymaker
Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion
Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell
Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
Black Sabbath - Technical Ecstasy
Black Sabbath - Tyr
Blind Melon - Soup
Blink 182 - Dude Ranch
Bloodhound Gang - One Fierce Beer Coaster
Blue Oyster Cult - Agents Of Fortune
Blur - 13
Blur - Blur
Blur - Leisure
Blur - Parklife
Blur - The Great Escape
Bob Dylan - Down In The Groove
Bob Dylan - Empire Burlesque
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan - Knocked Out Loaded
Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy
Bob Dylan - Time Out Of Mind
Bob Marley - Dreams Of Freedom
Bob Marley - Legend
Bob Marley - Natural Mystic
Body Count - Born Dead
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - The Art Of War - World War 1
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - The Art of War - World War II
Bonnie Raitt - Fundamental
Brandy - Never Say Never
Brooks & Dunn - Greatest Hits
Bruce Dickinson - Accident Of Birth
Bruce Dickinson - Balls To Picasso
Bruce Dickinson - Skunkworks
Bruce Dickinson - Tattooed Millionaire
BuffaloTom - Sleepy Eyed
Bush - Razorblade Suitcase
Bush - Sixteen Stone
Buty - Drevo
Buty - Piskej Si Piskej
Buty - PPOOMMAALLUU
Buty - Rastakayakwanna

Cake - Fashion Nugget
Cake - Motorcade Of Generosity
Candlebox - Candlebox
Captain Beefheart - Ice Cream For Crow
Cardigans - Emmerdale
Cardigans - First Band On The Moon
Cardigans - Gran Turismo
Cardigans - Life
Carnivore - Carnivore
Carnivore - Retaliation
Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love
Celtic Frost - Into The Pandemonium
Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
Channel Zero - Black Fuel
Channel Zero - Unsafe
Chinaski - Dlouhej Kouo
Chumbawamba - Anarchy
Chumbawamba - Swingin' With Raymond
Chumbawamba - Tubthumper
Clanad - Anam
Clanad - Atlantic Realm
Clanad - Banba
Clanad - Crann Ull
Clanad - Fuaim
Clanad - Legend
Clanad - Lore
Clanad - Macalla
Clanad - Magical Ring
Clanad - Sirius
Clanad - Ultimte Collection
Clawfinger - Deaf Dumb Blind
Clawfinger - Use Your Brain
Coal Chamber - Coal Chamber
Collective Soul - Collective Soul
Collective Soul - Disciplined Breakdown
Collective Soul - Dosage
Collective Soul - Hints, Allegations, And Things Left Unsaid
Coma - Deep Sleep
Coma - Ode To Tzor
Coma - Winkelzondag
Compulsion - Comforter
Compulsion - Hi-Fi
Cornershop - When I Was Born For The 7Th Time
Counting Crows - August And Everything After
Counting Crows - Recovering The Satellites
Coverdal&Page - Coverdal&Page
Cradle Of Filth - Dusk And Her Embrace
Cradle Of Filth - The Principle Of Evil Made Flesh
Cradle Of Filth - Vempire
Cranberries - Burry The Hatchet
Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It So Why Can't We
Cranberries - No Need To Argue
Cranberries - To The Faithful Departed
Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet
Creed - My Own Prison
Cynic - Focus
Cypress Hill - IV
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill

Dance Hall Crashers - Lockjaw
Danzig - Blackacidevil
Danzig - Danzig
Danzig - Danzig II: Lucifuge
Danzig - Danzig III: How the Gods Kill
Danzig - Danzig 4
Danzig - Thrall: Demonsweat Live
Dark Tranquillity - Of Chaos And Eternal Night
Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer
Dark Tranquillity - The Mind's I
Dave Matthews Band - Crash
Dave Matthews Band - Under The Table And Dreaming
David Bowie - 1st Outside
David Bowie - Earthling
Dawn Of Dreams - Amber
De Heideroosjes - Fifi
Death - Human
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Death - Leprosy
Deep Purple - Burn
Deep Purple - Come Taste The Band
Deep Purple - Deep Purple
Deep Purple - Deep Purple In Rock
Deep Purple - Fireball
Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers
Deep Purple - Shades Of Deep Purple
Deep Purple - Slaves And Masters
Deep Purple - Stormbringer
Deep Purple - The Battle Rages On
Deep Purple - The Book Of Taliesyn
Deep Purple - The House Of Blue Light
Deftones - Adrenaline
Deftones - Around The Fur
Depeche Mode - People Are People
Depeche Mode - Songs Of Faith And Devotion
Depeche Mode - Ultra
Depeche Mode - Violator
dEUS - In A Bar Under The Sea
dEUS - The Ideal Crash
dEUS - Worst Case Scenario
Die Krupps - The Final Option
Die Krupps - Odyssey Of The Mind
Dire Straits - Alchemy
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
Dire Straits - Communique
Dire Straits - Dire Straits
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
Dire Straits - Making Movies
Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
Dire Straits - On Every Street
Dire Straits - On The Night
Dishwalla - Pet Your Friends
Dog Eat Dog - All Boro Kings
Dog Eat Dog - Play Games
Downset - Do We Speak A Dead Language
Downset - Downset
Dream Theater - Images & Words
Dream Theater - When Dream And Day Unite
Dunaj - Dudlay
Dunaj - IV
Dunaj - La la lai
Dunaj - Pustit Musis
Dunaj - Rosol

Eagles - Hotel California
Echo And The Bunnymen - Echo And The Bunnymen
Einstürzende Neubauten - Fuenf Auf Der Nach Oben Offenen Richterskala
Einstürzende Neubauten - Tabula Rasa
Enya - Paint The Sky With Stars
Enya - Shepherd Moons
Enya - The Celts
Enya - The Memory Of Trees
Enya - Watermark
Eric Clapton - Pilgrim
Europe - The Final Countdown
Everclear - So Much For The Afterglow
Everclear - Sparkle And Fade
Everclear - World Of Noise
Extreme - III Sides To Every Story
Extreme - Extreme
Extreme - Pornograffiti

Faith No More - Album Of The Year
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Faith No More - Introduce Yourself
Faith No More - King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Faith No More - We Care A Lot
Fastball - All The Pain Money Can Buy
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Fear Factory - Soul Of A New Machine
Fiona Apple - Tidal
Fleetwood Mac - The Dance
Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters - The Color And The Shape
Foreigner - The Very Best Of Foreigner
Fun Lovin' Criminals - 100% Columbian
Fun Lovin Criminals - Come Find Yourself

Garbage - Garbage
Garbage - Version 2.0
Garth Brooks - Sevens
Gary Moore - Dark Days In Paradise
George Strait - One Step At A Time
Gina G - Fresh!
Gone Jackals - Blue Pyramid
Gone Jackals - Bone To Pick
Goo Goo Dolls - A Boy Named Goo
Goo Goo Dolls - Superstar Carwash
Green Day - 1039-Smoothed Out, Slappy Hours
Green Day - Dookie
Green Day - Insomniac
Green Day - Kerplunk!
Green Day - Nimrod
Guns'n'Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Guns'n'Roses - Lies
Guns'n'Roses - The Spaghetti Incident
Guns'n'Roses - Use Your Illusion I
Guns'n'Roses - Use Your Illusion II

H-BlockX - Discover My Soul
H-BlockX - Time To Move
Hanson - 3 Car Garage: The Indie Recordings '95-'96
Hanson - Middle Of Nowhere
Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I
Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II
Helloween - Master Of The Rings
Helloween - Pink Bubbles Go Ape
Helloween - Walls Of Jericho
Helmet - Betty
Helmet - Meantime
Hole - Live Through This
Hole - Pretty On The Inside
Hootie And The Blowfish - Cracked Rear View
Hootie And The Blowfish - Fairweather Johnson

INXS - Full Moon Dirty Hearts
INXS - INXS
INXS - Kick
INXS - Listen Like Thieves
INXS - Shabooh Shoobah
INXS - The Swing
INXS - Underneath The Colours
INXS - Welcome To Wherever You Are
INXS - X
Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden - Killers
Iron Maiden - No Prayer For The Dying
Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
Iron Maiden - The X Factor

Jablkon - Pisnicky
Jamiroquai - Synkronized
Jane's Addiction - Jane's Addiction
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
Jaromir Nohavica & Kapela - Koncert
Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers.txt
Jewel - Pieces Of You
Jimi Hendrix - Ultimate Experience
Joan Osborne - Relish
Joe Satriani - Flying In A Blue Dream
Joe Satriani - Joe Satriani
Joe Satriani - Time Machine
John Lennon - Imagine
Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith
Judas Priest - Killing Machine
Judas Priest - Rocka Rolla
Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny
Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
Judas Priest - Sin After Sin
Judas Priest - Stained Class
Judas Priest - Turbo
Julee Cruise - Floating Into The Night
Junkie XL - Saturday Teenage Kick

K's Choice - Cocoon Crash
K's Choice - Paradise In Me
K's Choice - The Great Subconcious Club
Kabat - Cert na koze jel
Karel Kryl - Bratoíeku, zavírej vrátka
Karel Kryl - To Nejlepsi
Kiss - Animalize
Kiss - Asylum
Kiss - Kiss Alive II
KLF - The White Room
Korn - Follow The Leader
Korn - Korn
Korn - Life Is Peachy
Krabathor - Lies
Kraftwerk - Trans Europa Express
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express (English)

Laibach - Opus Dei
Leann Rimes - You Light Up My Life Inspirational Songs
Led Zeppelin - Coda
Led Zeppelin - House Of The Holy
Led Zeppelin - I
Led Zeppelin - II
Led Zeppelin - III
Led Zeppelin - IV
Led Zeppelin - In Through The Out Door
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti - Disc 1
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti - Disc 2
Led Zeppelin - Presence
Led Zeppelin - Remasters
Lenny Kravitz - 5
Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way
Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule
Lenny Kravitz - Mama Said
Leonard Cohen - Death_Of_A_Ladies'_Man.txt
Leonard Cohen - Songs Of Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen - The Future
Life Of Agony - River Runs Red
Life Of Agony - Soul Searching Sun
Life Of Agony - Ugly
Lisa Loeb - Firecracker
Live - Mental Jewelry
Live - Throwing Copper
Living Colour - Stain
Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville
Liz Phair - Whip-Smart
Local H - As Good As Dead
Lords Of Acid - Our Little Secret
Lotion - Full Isaac
Lou Reed - Transformer
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Machine Head - The More Things Change
Madball - Demonstrating My Style
Madball - Set It Off
Madness - 7
Madness - Mad Not Mad
Madness - The Rise And Fall
Madonna - Ray Of Light
Madonna - I'm Breathless
Majerovy brzdové tabulky- Babí Jan
Marcy Playground - Marcy Playground
Mariah Carey - Butterfly
Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar
Marilyn Manson - Portrait Of An American Family
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Massive Attack - Protection
Matchbox 20 - Yourself Or Someone Like You
MC 900 Feet Jesus - Welcome To My Dream
Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction
Megadeth - Cryptic Writings
Megadeth - Hidden Treasures
Megadeth - Peace Sells But Who's Buying
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Megadeth - So Far So Good So What
Megadeth - Youthanasia
Mercyful Fate - In The Shadows
Meredith Brooks - Blurring The Edges
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Metallica - Garage Days Re-Revisited
Metallica - Kill 'em All
Metallica - Load
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Metallica - Metallica
Metallica - Mexico City Live Shit Binge & Purge
Metallica - Reload
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Metallica - Singles
Mike Oldfield - Crisis
Mike Oldfield - Discovery
Mike Oldfield - Islands
Ministry - Filth Pig
Ministry - The Land Of Rape And Honey
Ministry - With Sympathy
Moonspell - Irreligious
Moonspell - Wolfheart
Morcheeba - Big Calm
Morcheeba - Who Can You Trust?
MxPx - Life In General

Nada Surf - High / Low
Nailbomb - Piont Blank
Nailbomb - Proud To Commit Commercial Suicide
Napalm Death - Diatribes
Natalie Imbruglia - Left Of The Middle
Natalie Merchant - Ophelia
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - God Fodder
Neil Young & Pearl Jam - Mirror Ball
New Order - Brotherhood
New Order - Low Life
New Order - Movement
New Order - Power, Corruption And Lies
Nick Cave - Henry's Dream
Nick Cave - Murder Ballads
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call
Nine Inch Nails - Broken
Nine Inch Nails - Closer To God
Nine Inch Nails - Down In It
Nine Inch Nails - Fixed
Nine Inch Nails - Further Down The Spiral
Nine Inch Nails - Head Like A Hole
Nine Inch Nails - March Of The Pigs
Nine Inch Nails - Sin
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Nine Inch Nails - Purest Feeling
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Nirvana - Bleach
Nirvana - From The Muddy Banks Of Wishkah
Nirvana - Hormoaning
Nirvana - Incesticide
Nirvana - In Utero
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged In New York
Nirvana - Nevermind
No Doubt - Beacon Street Collection
No Doubt - No Doubt
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
No Fun At All - Out Of Bounds
NOFX - Heavy Petting Zoo
NOFX - Punk In Drublic
NOFX - So Long And Thank You For The Shoes
NOFX - White Trash Two Heebs And A Bean

Oasis - Be Here Now
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory
Obituary - Slowly We Rot
Ocean Colour Scene - Moseley Shoals
Offspring - Americana
Orbital - The Box
Orlik - Oi! Milos Fryba For President!
Osdorp Posse - Afslag Osdorp
OST - Angus
OST - Chef Aid - The South Park Album
OST - Easy Rider
OST - Pulp Fiction
OST - Reservoir Dogs
OST - Romeo And Juliet
OST - Strange Days
Our Lady Peace - Clumsy

Paul Simon - Songs From The Capeman
Paula Cole - This Fire
Pennywise - A Word From The Wise
Pennywise - Pennywise
Pennywise - Unknown Road
Pet Shop Boys - Actually
Pet Shop Boys - Alternative
Pet Shop Boys - Discography
Pet Shop Boys - Nightlife
Phil Collins - Both Sides
PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?
Plastic People Of The Universe - Hovizí Porážka
Pluto - Tri
Pod Eerný Vrch - Michožilovy Písni Lásky
Portishead - Dummy
Portishead - Portishead
Presidents Of The United States Of America - Presidents Of The United States Of America
Presidents Of The United States Of America - Presidents Of The United States Of America II
Priesnitz - Hexe
Prince & New Power Generation - Love Symbol Album
Prodigy - Experience
Prodigy - The Fat of The Land
Project Pitchfork - Entities
Prong - Cleansing
Prong - Rude Awkening
Psí vojáci - Brutální lyrika
Psí vojáci - Leitmotiv
Pulp - Different Class
Pulp - His 'n' Hers

Queen - A Day At The Races
Queen - A Kind Of Magic
Queen - A Night At The Opera
Queen - At The Beeb
Queen - Hot Space
Queen - Innuendo
Queen - Jazz
Queen - Live Killers
Queen - Made In Heaven
Queen - News Of The World
Queen - Queen
Queen - Queen II
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
Queen - The Cross
Queen - The Game
Queen - The Miracle
Queen - The Works
Queensryche - Empire

Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - Pablo Honey
Radiohead - The Bends
Rage Against The Machine - Battle Of Los Angeles
Rage Against The Machine - Evil Empire
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
Rammstein - Herzeleid
Rammstein - Sehnsucht
Rancid - And Out Come The Wolves
R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
R.E.M. - Chronic Town
R.E.M. - Dead Letter Office
R.E.M. - Document
R.E.M. - Fables Of The Reconstruction
R.E.M. - Green
R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Geant
R.E.M. - Monster
R.E.M. - Murmur
R.E.M. - New Adventures In Hi-Fi
R.E.M. - Out Of Time
R.E.M. - Reckoning
R.E.M. - Stockholm 1998.11.09
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik
Red Hot Chili Peppers - One Hot Minute
Reef - Glow
Reef - Replenish
Reel Big Fish - Turn The Radio Off
Republica - Republica
Robyn - Robyn Is Here
Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge
Rolling Stones - Stripped
Rollins Band - Weight
Rotting Christ - Passage To Arcturo
Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract
Roxette - Crash! Boom! Bang!
Roxette - Don't Bore Us - Get To The Chorus
Roxette - Have A Nice Day
Roxette - Joyride
Roxette - Pearls Of Passion
Roxette - Pearls Of Passion-Xtra_Trax
Rush - A Farewell To Kings
Rush - Moving Pictures

Sacred Reich - American Way
Sam Phillips - Martinis And Bikinis
Samael - Ceremony Of Opposites
Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing
Scott Weiland - 12 Bar Blues
Semisonic - Feeling Strangely Fine
Sepultura - Arise
Sepultura - Beneath The Remains
Sepultura - Chaos AD
Sepultura - Roots
Sepultura - Schizophrenia
Seven Mary Three- American Standard
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
Shamen - UV
Shania Twain - Come On Over
Shawn Colvin - A Few Small Repairs
Shelter - Mantra
Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club
Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow
Silverchair - Freak Show
Silverchair - Frogstomp
Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon & Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds Of Silence
Simon & Garfunkel - Wednesday Morning 3.a.m.
Sister Hazel - Somewhere More Familiar
Sisters Of Mercy - Floodland
Sisters Of Mercy - Some Girl Wander By Mistake
Sisters Of Mercy - Vision Thing
Skinny Puppy - The Process
Skunk Anansie - Paranoid & Sunburnt
Skunk Anansie - Stoosh
Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss
Slayer - South Of Heaven
Slayer - Undisputed Attitude
Smash Mouth - Fush Yu Mang
Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
Smashing Pumpkins - Pisces Iscariot
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Soundgarden - Batmotorfinger
Soundgarden - Down On The Upside
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Spacehog - Resident Alien
Spice Girls - Spice
Spice Girls - Spiceworld
Sponge - Rotting Pinata
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Hot
Stabbing Westward - Wither, Blister, Burn And Peel
Steve Vai - Flex-able
Steve Vai - Passion And Warfare
Steve Vai - Sex&Religion
Sto Zvíoat - Druhá Brada
Sto Zvíoat - Sto Zvíoat
Stone Roses- Turns Into Stone
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music-Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop
Sublime - 40 oz. To Freedom
Sublime - Secondhand Smoke
Sublime - Sublime
Suede - Dog Man Star
Suede - Suede
Suede - Coming Up
Sugar Ray - Floored
Suicidal Tendencies - The Art Of Rebellion
Suicidal Tendencies - Controlled by HatredxFeel Like Shit...Deja Vu
Superdrag - Regretfully Yours
Supergrass - I Should Coco
Supergrass - In It For The Money
Supertramp - Breakfast In America
Supertramp - Crime Of The Century
Supetramp - Greatest Hits 1
Suzanne Vega - 99.9 F
Suzanne Vega - Days Of Open Hand
Suzanne Vega - Nine Objects Of Desire
Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing
Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega
Švihadlo - Slunce

Talking Heads- Once In A Lifetime
Tatabojs - Ukoncete nas ...
Temple Of The Dog - Temple Of The Dog
Testament - Low
Testament - Practice What You Preach
Testament - Souls Of Black
Testament - The Legacy
Testament - The New Order
Testament - The Ritual
Texas - Southside
Texas - White On Blonde
That Dog - Retreat from The Sun
The Cult - Love
The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
The Cure - Disintegration
The Cure - Faith
The Cure - Head On The Door
The Cure - Japanese Whispers
The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
The Cure - Pornography
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
The Cure - The Top
The Cure - Wild Mood Swings
The Cure - Wish
The Doors - An American Prayer
The Doors - LA Woman
The Doors - Morrison Hotel
The Doors - Strange Days
The Doors - The Doors
The Doors - The Soft Parade
The Doors - Waiting For The Sun
The Gathering - Mandylion
The Mamas & The Papas - 16 Of Their Greatest Hits
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Lets Face It
The Mission - Carved In Sand
The Mission - God's Own Medicine
The Police - Greatest Hits
The Refreshments - Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Undergorund & Nico
The Verve - Urban Hymns
The Verve Pipe - Villains
The Walkabouts - Nighttown
Therapy? - Born In A Crash
Therapy? - Infernal Love
Therapy? - Nurse
Therapy? - Troublegum
Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind
Tiamat - Clouds
Tiamat - Wildhoney
Tim McGraw - Everywhere
Tom Waits - Blue Valentine
Tom Waits - Heartattack And Wine
Tom Waits - Mule Variations
Tom Waits - Nighthawks At The Diner
Tom Waits - Small Change
Tom Waits - The Black Rider
Toni Braxton - Toni Braxton
Toni Braxton - Secrets
Tonic - Lemon Parade
Tool - Aenima
Tool - Opiate
Tool - Undertow
Tori Amos - Boys For Pele
Tori Amos - From The Choirgirl Hotel
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Tori Amos - Under The Pink
Tracy Bonham - The Burdens Of Being Upright
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman - New Beginning
Tripping Daisy - Bill
Tripping Daisy - I Am An Elastic Firecracker
Trisha Yearwood - Songbook
Type-o-Negative - Bloody Kisses
Type-o-Negative - October Rust
Type-o-Negative - Slow, Deep And Hard

U2 - Achtung Baby
U2 - Boy
U2 - Joshua Tree
U2 - October
U2 - Pop
U2 - Rattle And Hum
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
U2 - War
U2 - Zooropa
Ugly Kid Joe - America's Least Wanted
Ugly Kid Joe - As Ugly As They Wanna Be
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Underworld - Second Toughest In The Infants
Underworld - Underneath The Radar

Van Halen - Balance
Van Halen - Van Halen I
Van Halen - Van Halen 3
Vanessa - Flashback
Veruca Salt - Eight Arms To Hold You
Vonda Shepard - Songs From Ally McBeal

Wallflovers - Bringing Down The House
Weezer - Weezer
Weezer - Pinkerton
Weird Al Yankovich - Bad Hair Day
White Town - Women In Technology
White Zombie - Astro-Creep: 2000 -- Songs Of Love, Destruction, And Other Synthetic Delusions Of The Electric Head
White Zombie - La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol 1

Xscape - Traces Of My Lipstick

Yes - 90125
Yes - Big Generator
Yes - Drama
Yes - Fragile
Yes - Going For The One
Yes - Relayer
Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans
Yes - Talk
Yes - The Yes Album
Yes - Time And A Word
Yes - Tormato
Yes - Union
Yes - Yes
Yngwie Malmsteen - Fire&Ice

Frank Zappa - Broadway The Hard Way
ZZ Top - Afterburner
ZZ Top - Antenna
ZZ Top - Deguello
ZZ Top - Eliminator
ZZ Top - Fandango!
ZZ Top - Recycler
ZZ Top - Rio Grande Mud
ZZ Top - Tejas
ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
ZZ Top - ZZ Top's First Album

Yanni, Live at The Acropolis?! Not on there?! Is someone just as pissed off as I am?

mbv- loveless

geez.

minor threat is more influential then fugazi

nice list but forgetting these albums

mbv - loveless
pavement - slanted and enchanted
ride - nowhere
slowdive - souvlaki
the cure - disintegration, or any of their early albums
new order
bauhaus

how the fuck could you forget mbv!!??!?!

The fact that Pavement isn't on this list makes it null and void.

The fact that Pavement isn't on this list makes it null and void.

The fact that Pavement isn't on this list makes it null and void.

yeah, i agree. pavement had the definitive indie rock sound.

U2-October, even War to some extent. Nope, not kidding.

When you have lists that have completely undefined variables, it just becomes offending the least amount of people or promoting records. Arguing this list is like getting mad at Vh1s Top 100 anything.

lists being lists this one is valid - my stamp of approval. I do however disagree with every comment - even the ones i haven't read - except for the ones that mention yes and zz top...

pavement and gbv are influencees, nigh influences youngins'

-pa

jake,

this isn't a list of influences for terrible hair styling choices, that's at barbazonvegan.com. ba dump dump.

and

matty, matt matt,

ever hear of a little band called the fall or a littlier one called the greatful dead - poof, there you have pavement, just like receess cups.

my two cents (or two nickles on the dime as the case may be, harumpf) - might have been to name check 'wake of the flood' and any one of several stooges or mc5 records as in terms of influences they are probably equalish. then there's bowie and sun ra - hey, I mean the top ten should have a list of their own top ten, then we'd be cooking daddy.

pavement and guided by voices wouldn't exist without rem, but that's the real rem, pre political t-shirt switching on mtv, japanese pot bust, brain tumor rem. not the shell they are now of their former selves. the whole tape op movement was self-influential, if that makes sence, as bands recorded more they kept getting better and better until explo/implosion i.e. the aformentioned, grifters, and shutter to think (not the band) sebadoh. nirvanas list of influences besides herion (speaking of which, vu) would include most bands on this list. if that's not a benchmark indie rock success story / barometer thingy air pressure checker, god only knows (beach boys) what is.

no mojo nixon? wtf?

more songs about buildings and food? what would we do without those crazy talking heads?

Big star, I agree we can look at a top ten for each or factorial 40 going back to before sound ever existed. Those were quiet times.

Sebedoh degenerating into one of the most terrible bands that ever existed including each and every Lou Barlow side projects, yuck, it gives me the willies just thinking about it/him/them. How is J going to let him slither back iinto the band and even give him songs??? Any hoo, the Gimme Indie Rock single ('90), has him singing 'started back in '83...', while tounge in cheek, the song is historically accurate. Maybe that is the Rosetta Stone of this list makers plan.

they might be giants...

i think daft punk's homework is as influential towards indie rock as any of the bands mentioned.

also... we can't forget spirit of eden which is pretty much post rock's fountainhead

it's reduntant to say but in the aeroplane is pretty crucial as far as indie rock influence goes. the instrumentation and mangum's voice are things are i hear on soo much new(er) indie rock.

and uh...kid a and tri repetae++...programmed but organic sounding electronica. which reverberates in dntel and the postal service, hot chip, the knife, the bird and the bee, blahlbahlah

actually it's not fair to get so much flak for making a list, becuase it's impossible to be completely comprehensive. there's a lot of ground to cover and you're going to miss something

but it does suck that all the picks are aged, and so safely cannonized with the antiseptic "classic" status

oh and big ups to who mentioned velvets, talking heads and pavement

WHATTTTTT

PUBLIC IMAGE LTD "METAL BOX"
ORANGE JUICE "RIP IT UP"

WITHOUT THESE TWO RECORDS THERE WOULD BE NO DANCE PUNK.

while I see both minor threat, and rites of spring listed, the omission of Fugazi is v. surprising.

wtf no marquee moon?

ok guys, I don't exactly agree with the list, but obviously there are no albums from the 90s or recently because the list is about the music that set the stage FOR the indie rock of 90s. Unless some one in the indie bands of the 90s was a time traveler music from the 90s and recently would not have influenced them. Please at least read an article before getting all up in arms.

but adding to my last post omitting violent femmes or television or.... allot of lesser known stuff is really a huge crime, it seems like the person that wrote this should have actually listened to more music....