Top 100 must have Alternative/Indie Albums.

Chong

Ok it would be great to get boardsies to make suggestions for the boards "Top 100 must have Alternative/Indie" albums.

SprostonGreen

The Stone Roses - first album
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
The Smiths - first album
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Radiohead - The Bends

gary the great

Placebo - Without you im nothing

placebo - Black Market Music

Muse- Origin of Symmetry

Muse - Absoulution

Ash - Meltdown

All the Oasis albums up to Be here Now

Kings of Leon - Aha Shake HEartbreak

kings of Leon - Youth and Young Manhood

Pixies - Sufer Rosa

pixies - Dolittle

Goodshape

Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
Radiohead - OK Computer
Betaband - The 3 EP's

Creamy Goodness

weezer - the blue album
weezer - pinkerton

everyone should have them two

ratboy

Velvet underground lads, how can yous forget?

eclectichoney

Neutral Milk Hotel - In an aeroplane over the sea
Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Modest Mouse - Moon & Antarctica
Elliott Smith - Either/Or
Pink Floyd - DSOTM
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin

and lots more

Fidelista

Indie? Alternative? such vague words. i like to think of it as rock without the glamour, U2 without the 125 foot screen, or Keef without a stupid headband.
Anyway heres my top 5

1 The strokes- Room On Fire.
Bigger, slightly less rough than Is This It( still afantastic album though). great melodies from the uncrowned kings of the world, roll on jan 19.

2 Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Fever to Tell
Great to hear a female voice with a bit of balls.

3 Interpol- Antics

4 Eels- Blinking lights and other revelations
Fantastic, great lyrics, a wide scope, overall a warm feeling inside.

5 Kings of Leon- Aha Shake Heartbreak
this band will fight it out with the strokes over the years to attain the title of worlds greatest band.

Atrocity

• Eels - Daisies of the Galaxy
• The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come
• Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast
• Suede - Suede
• Stereolab - Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night
• Richard Hawley - Late Night Final
• Nick Drake - Pink Moon
• Belle and Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
• Pete Yorn - Musicforthemorningafter
• Nada Surf - Let Go
• The Smoking Popes - Born To Quit
• The Music - The Music
• Ben Kweller - Sha Sha
• Brendan Benson - The Alternative To Love
• Morrissey - Vauxhall and I
• Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
• Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
• The Hidden Cameras - Smell Of Our Own
• Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
• Grandaddy - Under The Western Freeway
• Elliott Smith - Figure 8

John

Ok, here goes, my top 100 (in alphabetical order):

1. A Hawk And A Hacksaw Darkness At Noon
2. A Perfect Circle Mer De Noms
3. A Silver Mt. Zion This Is Our Punk Rock
4. Angels Of Light, The Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home
5. Antony and the Johnsons I Am A Bird Now
6. Devendra Banhart Rejoicing In The Hands
7. Birthday Party, The Mutiny/The Bad Seed E.P.
8. Black Flag My War
9. Black Sun Productions Operett Amorale
10. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy I See A Darkness
11. David Bowie Ziggy Stardust
12. Jeff Buckley Grace
13. Can Tago Mago
14. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Tender Pray
15. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Let Love In
16. Coil Horse Rotorvator
17. Coil Astral Disaster
18. Coil Musick To Play In The Dark Volume 2
19. Crime And The City Solution Shine
20. Cure, The Disintegration
21. Current 93 Earth Covers Earth
22. Daft Punk Homework
23. Depeche Mode Violator
24. Dirty Three, The Whatever You Love, You Are
25. Dylan, Bob Blood On The Tracks
26. Einstuerzende Neubauten 1/2 Mensch
27. Einstuerzende Neubauten Silence Is Sexy
28. Einstuerzende Neubauten Grundstueck
29. Fall, The Grotesque
30. Faust IV
31. Fennesz Venice
32. Flaming Lips, The Zaireeka
33. Flaming Lips, The Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
34. Serge Gainsbourg Histoire de Melody Nelson
35. Garbage Garbage
36. Michael Gira and Dan Matz What We Did
37. Godspeed You Black Emperor! Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
38. Hafler Trio, The Kill The King
39. P.J. Harvey To Bring You My Love
40. Jesus And Mary Chain, The Psychocandy
41. Jimmy Cake, The Dublin Gone, Everybody Dead
42. Joy Division Unknown Pleasures
43. Joy Division Closer
44. King Crimson In The Court Of The Crimson King
45. Kraftwerk Autobahn
46. Larsen Play
47. LCD Soundsystem LCD Soundsystem
48. Low and the Dirty Three In The Fishtank 7
49. Low Trust
50. Mars The Complete Studio Recordings: NYC 1977-1978
51. Melvins, The Bullhead
52. Mogwai My Father My King
53. Muse Showbiz
54. My Bloody Valentine Loveless
55. New Order Substance
56. Nine Inch Nails The Fragile
57. Gary Numan The Pleasure Principle
58. Nurse With Wound Soliloquy For Lilith
59. Pitchshifter www.pitchshifter.com
60. Placebo Without You I'm Nothing
61. Presidents Of The United States Of America, The The Presidents Of The United States Of America
62. Primal Scream XTRMNTR
63. Prodigy Music For The Jilted Generation
64. Prodigy The Fat Of The Land
65. Public Image Limited Metal Box
66. Queen Adreena Taxidermy
67. Queens Of The Stone Age Rated R
68. Radiohead Amnesiac
69. Rage Against The Machine Rage Against The Machine
70. Damien Rice O
71. Sigur Rós Agætis Byrjun
72. Sigur Rós ( )
73. Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
74. Smiths, The The Queen Is Dead
75. Sonic Youth Daydream Nation
76. Spiritualized Let It Come Down
77. Swans The Burning World
78. Swans Swans Are Dead
79. Matt Sweeney and Bonnie "Prince" Billy Superwolf
80. The The Dusk
81. Thighpaulsandra I, Thighpaulsandra
82. Throbbing Gristle Throbbing Gristle Bring You 20 Jazz Funk Greats
83. Tindersticks Curtains
84. Tool Ænima
85. Tool Lateralus
86. Tricky Pre-Millennium Tension
87. Velvet Underground, The The Velvet Underground & Nico (Deluxe Edition)
88. Velvet Underground, The White Light/White Heat
89. The Virgin Prunes A New Form Of Beauty
90. Tom Waits Rain Dogs
91. Weezer Weezer
92. White Stripes, The White Blood Cells
93. Brian Wilson Smile
94. Wire 154
95. Wolf Eyes Burned Mind
96. Neil Young After The Gold Rush
97. Neil Young Harvest
98. Neil Young On The Beach
99. Neil Young & Crazy Horse Weld
100. Neil Young & Crazy Horse Greendale

Scratch Acid

Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (Also the best album ever, incidentally.)
Elliot Smith - Elliot Smith

I could go on.

muletide

Anything by the Pixies
James Blunt Back to Bedlam
Definitely QOTSA Sons for the Deaf

Atrocity

muletide wrote:

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

excellent album, never gets old

Scratch Acid

Atrocity wrote:

never gets old

This is true. This is about the only album I've listened to for many years and not gotten sick of, even in the slightest.

Bip

Arcade Fire - Funeral
Antony and the Johnsons - I am a bird now
Devendra Banhart - Nino Rojo
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
Captain Beefheart and his magic band - Safe as Milk
The Coral
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
Leonard Cohen - Greatest Hits
Interpol - turn on the bright lights
Lambchop - Nixon
Modest Mouse - The moon and antartica
Mum - Finally we are no one
Muse - Absolution
Pixies - Doolittle
Radiohead - Kid A / The Bends
Royksopp - Melody A.M
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Rufus Wainwright - Poses
The Libertines
Babyshambles - Down in Albion

MsMolko

Placebo- Either "Placebo" or "Without you I'm Nothing"
QOTSA-Rated R
Regina Spektor-Soviet Kitsch

blu_sonic

the beatles - the white album
the beatles - sgt peppers...
the beatles - rubber soul
the beatles - revolver
bob dylan - blood on the tracks
lou reed - transformer
david bowie - hunky dory
the smiths - meat is murder
the smiths - hatful of hollow
the smiths - strangeways here we come
the smiths - the queen is dead
the jam - all mod cons
the jam - setting sons
the stone roses - the stone roses
Morrissey - Vauxhal and i
morrissey - bona drag
morrissey - you are the quarry
oasis - definitly maybe
oasis - whats the story morning glory
blur - blur
blur - the great escape
pulp - different class

jesus there are millions i just don't have the time to put the in here

Creamy Goodness

damn how could i forget artists like

elliot smith
ben kweller
death cab for cutie

sad_professor

The Afghan Whigs - 'Gentlemen'
The Stooges - 'Funhouse'
American Music Club - 'California'
Sugar - 'Copper Blue'
Fugazi - 'Repeater'
The National - 'Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers'
Deus - 'The Ideal Crash'
Mark Mulcahy - 'Fathering'
Swervedriver - 'Mezcal Head'

PiE

John2 wrote:

Ok, here goes, my top 100 (in alphabetical order):

Please tell me you have a Foobar plugin or something that did that for you, rather than thinking about it

John

PiE wrote:

Please tell me you have a Foobar plugin or something that did that for you, rather than thinking about it

I have no idea what a Foobar is. However I do (rather nerdily) have an excel file of every CD I own and I just went through that.

RE*AC*TOR

As much as I like Bob Dylan, Neil Young and the Beatles - they're hardly indie / alternative.

Some that come to mind:

At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command - I really mean this - everyone should listen to this album - its among the best ever made.

Beck - Odelay
The Pixies - Come On Pilgrim
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Sugar - Copper Blue
Gomez - Bring It On
Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II
Morrissey - You Are The Quarry
REM - Murmur

John

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command - I really mean this - everyone should listen to this album - its among the best ever made.

I agree with most of your other suggestions but this is band is so overated it's unreal. I cannot see the fascination with them or any of the bands they spawned. Truly mediocre stuff.

And Dylan and Neil Young would be more alternative than the likes of Q would have you believe. They have some mainstream albums but come on, how many people do you know with a copy of Neil Young's Arc or Re*ac*tor on their shelf?

Badly Drunk Boy

I don't want to play this game at the moment, mainly because there are so many good choices to be made and so many bad ones already made...





(Eg. only Goodshape mentioned a Beta Band Album, and nobody at all mention the Swans album Love Of Life...)

RE*AC*TOR

John2 wrote:

I agree with most of your other suggestions but this is band is so overated it's unreal. I cannot see the fascination with them or any of the bands they spawned. Truly mediocre stuff.

And Dylan and Neil Young would be more alternative than the likes of Q would have you believe. They have some mainstream albums but come on, how many people do you know with a copy of Neil Young's Arc or Re*ac*tor on their shelf?

I owuldn't class any of the spin-offs of ATDI as anything truely amazing, nor any of their albums prior to ROC. You need to listen to that album again though, it is perfect and is a peer of other complete albums like OK Computer, or On The Beach.

As for Dylan and Young, perhaps Neil Young has made ventures into indie/alt with the aformentioned albums and some others. So maybe that could be allowed, but Dylan? and someone else mentioned the Beatles...

I think the point of a thread like this, should be for albums that are unamiguously indie/alt.

PiE

John2 wrote:

I have no idea what a Foobar is. However I do (rather nerdily) have an excel file of every CD I own and I just went through that.

That's even worse! ;x

Though I do agree with you on the ATDI front, they never did anything for me.

badly drunk boy wrote:

(Eg. only Goodshape mentioned a Beta Band Album, and nobody at all mention the Swans album Love Of Life...)

Nobody mentioned Dispatch, Menomena or 65daysofstatic either but hey... just because we're all talking "indie/alternative", doesn't mean we all have to agree.

blu_sonic

look at the beatles in relation to their time, the were amazinly alt!! beside the white album is still an alt album there a very few albums that can be near that

Mickah

Beta Band - Three EP's

I fookin love this album. Have been trying to find similar artists without much success. Any ideas?

JC 2K3

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Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II
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Sweet a Meat Puppets fan, lets not forget Up on the Sun also.


Dinosaur Jr - Bug
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
every album from the SST label....

melekalikimaka

operation ivy - operation ivy
bikini kill - cd version of the first two records
dance hall crashers - the old record

eclectichoney

Mickah wrote:

Beta Band - Three EP's

I fookin love this album. Have been trying to find similar artists without much success. Any ideas?

the new king biscuit time album (steve from beta band) is out soon-ish i think...

sad_professor

Explosions in the Sky - 'The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place'
Shellac - 'At Action Park'
The Go-Betweens - '16 Lovers Lane'
The Chills - 'Soft Bomb'

Spicy Lauren

I am quite amazed that no one mentioned any Nirvana album, so I'll propose 'Nevermind'.

Anyway, here's my top 5 alternative / indie album of all time as of today:

Sonic Youth - Experimental Jet Set Trash & No Star
PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Radiohead - Ok Computer
Beck - Odelay

odhran

i'd say:

arcade fire- funeral
p.j. harvey- rid of me
the breeders- the last splash
the pixies- pretty much everything
yeah yeah yeahs- fever to tell
cibo matto- sterotype*A

Miguel_Sanchez

Smog - Knock, Knock
Smog - Dongs of Sevotion
Smog - A River Ain't Too Much to Love
Mercury Rev - Boces (forget their later stuff - this album rocks)
Dinosaur Jr. - Where You Been
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream and Gish
Bonny Prince Billy - I See a Darkness
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Sebadoh - Bakesale + Bubble and Scrape

GreenHell

Arcade Fire
Modest Mouse
The Ark
British Sea Power
Dogs Die in Hot Cars
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Futureheads
SoundGarden

Off the top of my head.

tywy

Arcade Fire - Funeral
Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
Rilo Kiley - Execution of All Things, Take Offs and Landings

Theremin

In no particular order:

1. The Pixies – Surfer Rosa
2. Nirvana – In Utero
3. Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker
4. Elliott Smith – Either/Or
5. Brendan Benson – Lapalco
6. Therapy? – Troublegum
7. Whipping Boy – Whipping Boy
8. My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
9. The Smiths – The Queen is Dead
10. Ben Folds Five – Whatever and Ever Amen
11. The Fall – Perverted By Language
12, Wire – Pink Flag
13. The Replacements – Tim
14. Sonic Youth – Dirty
15. Soundgarden – Badmotorfinger
16. The Auteurs – New Wave
17. The The – Soul Mining
18. The Associates – Sulk
19. Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream
20. Manic Street Preachers – The Holy Bible
21. Husker Du – Candy Apple Grey
22. Sugar – Copper Blue
23. Depeche Mode – Violater
24. Beck – Mutations
25. Black Box Recorder – The Facts of Life
26. Talking Heads – Stop Making Sense
27. Eels – Daisies of the Galaxy
28. The Dandy Warhols – Come Down
29. Interpol – Turn On the Bright Lights
30. giveamanakick – Is it Okay to Be Loud, Jesus?
31. The Lemonheads – It’s a Shame About Ray
32. Mercury Rev – Deserters' Songs
33. Flaming Lips – Clouds Taste Metallic
34. Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
35. Richmond Fontaine – Post to Wire
36. Whiskeytown – Stranger’s Almanac
37. Steve Earle – Copperhead Road
38. The Shins – Oh, Inverted World
39. Spiritualized – Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space
40. Ladytron – 604
41. The Stooges – Funhouse
42. The Wildhearts – PHUQ
43. Weezer – Pinkerton
44. Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
45. The Sleepy Jackson – Lovers
46. The Cure – 17 Seconds
47. Tom Waits – Rain Dogs
48. Belle & Sebastian – The Boy with the Arab Strap
49. Teenage Fanclub – Bandwagonesque
50. Sparklehorse – vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot
51. Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf
52. The Only Ones – The Only Ones
53. The Mars Volta – De-loused in the Comatorium
54. Echo & the Bunnymen – Ocean Rain
55. Alice in Chains – Dirt
56. Sparks – Kimono My House
57. Beth Orton – Trailer Park
58. The Breeders – Pod
59. Kristin Hersh – Hips and Makers
60. Captain Beefheart – Trout Mask Replica
61. Deus – Worst Case Scenario
62. The Clash – The Clash
63. Faith No More – We Care A Lot
64. Rival Schools – United By Fate
65. Gang of Four – Entertainment
66. Public Enemy – Fear of a Black Planet
67. The Grateful Dead – American Beauty
68. The Pogues – If I Should Fall from Grace with God
69. Jane’s Addiction – Ritual de Lo Habitual
70. Jeff Buckley – Grace
71. Jesus and Mary Chain – Psychocandy
72. Kerbdog – Kerbdog
73. Massive Attack – Blue Lines
74. Mazzy Star – She Hangs Brightly
75. Sisters of Mercy – Floodlands
76. Billy Bragg – Don’t Try This at Home
77. Patti Smith – Horses
78. PJ Harvey – Rid of Me
79. Smog – Dongs of Sevotion
80. Stiff Little Fingers – Inflammable Material
81. Stranglers – Rattus Norvegicus
82. Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico
83. New Order – Substance
84. Joy Division – Closer
85. Cat Power – You are Free
86. Big Star – Sister Lovers
87. Beta Band 3 Eps
88. Stone Temple Pilots – Core
89. Guided By Voices – Bee Thousand
90. Apples in Stereo – Tone Soul Evolution
91. American Music Club – Everclear
92. Dinosaur Jr – You’re Living All Over Me
93. The Ramones – Rocket to Russia
94. Super Furry Animals – Fuzzy Logic
95. Throwing Muses – The Real Ramona
96. Primal Scream – Screamadelica
97. Luna – Luna Park
98. P.I.L. – Metal Box
99. Television – Marquee Moon
100. Minor Threat – Out of Step

lordgoat

wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot... amongst others

musing

Little Ed Harcourt - let there be monsters...

Jim10000

For Micah who likes the Beta Band.... I think The Earlies have a kind of similar sound.

Miguel_Sanchez

Theremin - Sir, I salute you for your great taste. And for you ability to not get bored while writing out such an extensive list.

Just picked up a CD copy of Candy Apple Grey (only had it on tape before) - got me back into the rockin' sound of Bob Mould. Can't wait to see him live in February.

John

Jeff_Lebowski wrote:

got me back into the rockin' sound of Bob Mould. Can't wait to see him live in February.

He was quite good at Electric Picnic I must say.

Theremin

Jeff_Lebowski wrote:

Theremin - Sir, I salute you for your great taste. And for you ability to not get bored while writing out such an extensive list.

Just picked up a CD copy of Candy Apple Grey (only had it on tape before) - got me back into the rockin' sound of Bob Mould. Can't wait to see him live in February.

Cheers, had a bit of time on my hands and nothing better to do.

Looking forward to Bob Mould as well. Missed the Electric picnic. Can't believe he's playing in Roisin's. Any idea how many tickets have been sold?

JC 2K3

Theremin, you mention Dirty but not Daydream Nation??

Steve_o

Ok here's mine!


1.Mark Geary - 33 & 1/3 Grand Street
2.Mark Geary - Ghosts
3.Damien Rice - O
4.Neil Young - Decades
5.Violent Femmes - Add it Up
6.The Eels - Electro Shock Blues
7.The Frames - Set List
8.The Frames - Fitzcarraldo
9.The Frames - Dance the Devil
10.The Frames - For the Birds
11.The Frames - Breadcrumb Trail
12.The Frames - Burn the Maps
13.Mic Christopher - Skylarkin'
14.Muse - The Origin of Symmetry
15.Muse - Absolution
16.Bob Dylan - The Essential Collection
17.Bell x1 - Neither Am I
18.Bell x1 - Music in Mouth
19.Bell x1 - Flock
20.Snowpatrol - Final Straw
21.Elliot Smith - XO
22.Elliot Smith - Either Or
23.Future Kings of Spain - Future Kings of Spain
24.The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
25.Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
26.Label - Tailspin
27.Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
28.Rodrigo y Gabriela - Live in Dublin & Manchester
29.Rodrigo y Gabriela - Re-fóc
30.Jeff Buckley - Grace
31.Jeff Buckley - Sketches for my Sweetheart the Drunk
32.Jeff Buckley - The Mystery White Boy
33.Pearl Jam - Rear View Mirror
34.Josh Ritter - Hello Starling
35.Josh Ritter - Golden Age of Radio
36.Paddy Casey - Amen (So Be It)
37.Paddy Casey - Livin'
38.Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
39.Kerbdog - Kerbdog
40.Coldplay - A rush of Blood to the Head
41.Sigur Rós - Sigur Rós
42.David Kitt - The Big Romance
43.R.E.M. - In Time
44.The Pixies - Dolittle
45.The Eagles - The Greatest Hits
46.The Reindeer Section - Can't remember the album title
47.Rory Gallagher - Defender
48.Rory Gallagher - Meeting with the G-Man
49.Rory Gallagher - Against the Grain
50.Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
51.Jack Johnson - Inaudible Melodies

Thats all i can think of!!

spiderlegs

Steve_o wrote:

Thats all i can think of!!

You got a goood list there, but I have to disagree with the Paddy Casey. Everyone should really have some Weezer and lots of Pixies. Weezer the blue album and Blur's Parklife are two very good albums everyone should have!! and of course never forgetting!! The Smiths, The Queen Is Dead.

Jimi-Spandex

Good God I've seen some horrible choices by some people so far. Stuff that's not even remotely in the vague category of Indie/Alt

I'm going off in a huff to write my own list. And probably give up.

Chong

I am looking forward to Jimi's list.

John

I'm worried that he thinks MY list is crap!

Miguel_Sanchez

Theremin wrote:

Looking forward to Bob Mould as well. Missed the Electric picnic. Can't believe he's playing in Roisin's. Any idea how many tickets have been sold?

Gugai told me they were selling pretty fast and he was expecting him to sell out alright. Got my ticket online a few days ago.
Bob Mould on the Friday in Galway, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah on the Saturday in Dublin. Gonna be a good weekend.