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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: ggw on May 09, 2005, 03:19:00 pm
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According to VH2 (The U.K. version of VH1?)
THE INDIE 500
1 'There Is A Light That Never Goes Out' - The Smiths
2 I Wanna Be Adored - Stone Roses
3 Monkey's Gone To Heaven - The Pixies
4 Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
5 Inbetween Days - The Cure
6 Just - Radiohead
7 Last Night - The Strokes
8 Suedehead - Morrissey
9 Loaded - Primal Scream
10 Cigarettes and Alcohol - Oasis
11 Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes
12 There She Goes - The La's
13 Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
14 Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
15 The Only One I Know - The Charlatans
16 Blue Monday - New Order
17 Animal Nitrate - Suede
18 Enjoy The Silence - Depeche Mode
19 Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
20 How Soon Is Now - The Smiths
21 There's No Other Way - Blur
22 Step On - Happy Mondays
23 Street Spirit - Radiohead
24 Cannonball - The Breeders
25 Fools Gold - The Stone Roses
26 Loser - Beck
27 A Forest - The Cure
28 Live Forever - Oasis
29 Every Day Is Like Sunday - Morrissey
30 Common People - Pulp
31 It's The End Of The World - REM
32 Girl From Mars - Ash
33 Late In The Day - Supergrass
34 Under The Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
35 Here Comes Your Man - The Pixies
36 Clocks - Coldplay
37 Motorcycle Emptiness - Manic Street Preachers
38 Today - Smashing Pumpkins
39 Road To Nowhere - Talking Heads
40 Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve
41 Don't Look Back Into The Sun - The Libertines
42 Don't Look Back In Anger - Oasis
43 Jane Says - Jane's Addiction
44 F.E.A.R. - Ian Brown
45 Creep - Radiohead
46 The Modern Age - The Strokes
47 Mr Brightside - The Killers
48 She Don't Use Jelly - Flaming Lips
49 Give It Away - Red Hot Chili Peppers
50 Buddy Holly - Weezer
51 Movin On Up - Primal Scream
52 She Bangs The Drums - The Stone Roses
53 What Difference Does It Make? - The Smiths
54 The Hardest Button To Button - The White Stripes
55 A Design For Life - Manic Street Preachers
56 Sun Hits The Sky - Supergrass
57 True Faith '94 - New Order
58 Golden Touch - Razorlight
59 Come As You Are - Nirvana
60 A Thousand Trees - Stereophonics
61 Sabotage - Beastie Boys
62 The Love Cats - The Cure
63 Beetlebum - Blur
64 Feel The Pain - Dinosour JR
65 The Last Of The Famous International - Morrissey
66 Trouble - Coldplay
67 North Country Boy - The Charlatans
68 Beautiful Ones - Suede
69 Lucky Man - The Verve
70 Day In Day Out - Feeder
71 Everlong - Foofighters
72 Wonderwall - Oasis
73 This Charming Man - The Smiths
74 Where It's At - Beck
75 Karma Police - Radiohead
76 Hard To Explain - The Strokes
77 Do You Realize? - Flaming Lips
78 Why Does It Always Rain On Me - Travis
79 Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode
80 Molly's Chambers - Kings Of Leon
81 Stand - R.E.M.
82 1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
83 Slight Return - The Blutones
84 Alright - Cast
85 Somewhere Only We Know - Keane
86 The Riverboat Song - Ocean Colour Scene
87 Getting Away With It - Electronic
88 Rise - Public Image Ltd
89 Wide Open Space - Mansun
90 Disco 2000 - Pulp
91 Run - Snow Patrol
92 Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
93 Come Home - James
94 The Drugs Don't Work - The Verve
95 Sweet Jane - Cowboy Junkies
96 Boys Don't Cry - The Cure
97 Matinee - Franz Ferdinand
98 Bohemian Like You - The Dandy Warhols
99 Come Back To What You Know - Embrace
100 Some Might Say - Oasis
Rest of the Top 500 (http://www.vh1.co.uk/shows/indie500.jhtml)
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How Anglo :-)
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Very UK biased list.
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Originally posted by Sir HC:
Very UK biased list.
Well if you don't like it why don't you fuck off back to your own country!!!
Oh, wait a minute....
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Oasis, Smiths, Verve, Radiohead....indie?
Dont really get that.
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or green day...
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Originally posted by beedubyah:
Oasis, Smiths, Verve, Radiohead....indie?
Dont really get that.
Smiths were on Rough Trade there whole career.
Oasis were on Creation
Can't care to vouch for the other two.
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Also very - I dunno - temporal? This list would have been different 3 years ago and will be different in 3 years. I like looking at pitchfork's lists like that - the #1 album of last year is Arcade Fire's Funeral, but it's like 40 on best of 2000-2004. I guess 2004 sucked.
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Originally posted by dfmcpete:
I like looking at pitchfork's lists like that - the #1 album of last year is Arcade Fire's Funeral, but it's like 40 on best of 2000-2004. I guess 2004 sucked.
I also find it funny that Animal Collective, Brian Wilson, and a good 4-5 more 2004 releases are higher then Arcade Fire on the top of 2000-2004 list, even though it came out like 6 weeks after their tops of 2004 list.
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Originally posted by Miss MArKiE?:
Originally posted by Sir HC:
Very UK biased list.
Well if you don't like it why don't you fuck off back to your own country!!!
Oh, wait a minute.... [/b]
Not to dis it but many of the songs on the list of top 500 were pretty much ignored here. The first Radiohead one, is that off the latest or some B side? I wonder how many were import only here in the states thereby reducing their chances of being on an indie greatest here.
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Originally posted by Sir HC:
The first Radiohead one, is that off the latest or some B side?
Just? It was a huge hit off The Bends and has a very popular video.
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Originally posted by Julian, faux celeb-porn CONNOISSEUR:
Originally posted by Sir HC:
The first Radiohead one, is that off the latest or some B side?
Just? It was a huge hit off The Bends and has a very popular video. [/b]
was there ever any answer to why they all fall down / die?
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crikey, 500?
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Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
was there ever any answer to why they all fall down / die?
Nothing conclusive.
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Originally posted by Julian, faux celeb-porn CONNOISSEUR:
Originally posted by Sir HC:
The first Radiohead one, is that off the latest or some B side?
Just? It was a huge hit off The Bends and has a very popular video. [/b]
Just glanced and missed Just.
23 Street Spirit - Radiohead
is the one that has me boggled.
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Originally posted by Julian, faux celeb-porn CONNOISSEUR:
Originally posted by Sir HC:
The first Radiohead one, is that off the latest or some B side?
Just? It was a huge hit off The Bends and has a very popular video. [/b]
What makes you think it was a big hit? It barely scraped the UK top 20, and didn't chart in the U.S. at all. The video was somewhat popular (though not nearly as popular as Fake Plastic Trees). I'm very surprised they picked this one for the top Radiohead song over Street Spirit, Paranoid Android or even Creep.
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Originally posted by Sir HC:
23 Street Spirit - Radiohead
is the one that has me boggled.
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
its the last song on the Bends, the slow one. they have a video for that one too. where they do the tricky camera work...
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Originally posted by Relaxer:
What makes you think it was a big hit?
Of the Bends songs, it's the one I hear played the most often still, although FPT was probably more popular at the time.
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Originally posted by Relaxer:
I'm very surprised they picked this one for the top Radiohead
Idioteque is clearly thier best song....
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Originally posted by sonickteam3:
Originally posted by Sir HC:
23 Street Spirit - Radiohead
is the one that has me boggled.
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
its the last song on the Bends, the slow one. they have a video for that one too. where they do the tricky camera work... [/b]
Okay, my problem is that I don't usually have the cases handy when listening so I am horrible with song titles. Know that song, but I would not put it as better than so many other Radiohead songs. Funny that 2 from The Bends made it first on the list. Maybe their later albums are not indie enough or something.
But then again, VH1(2) and indie are like oil and water.
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Originally posted by sonickteam3:
Idioteque is clearly thier best song....
i'm partial to "black star", but that's just because i like their geee-tar stuff more than the newer stuff ... "idioteque" is awesome though, great party song ...
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Originally posted by Sir HC:
Know that song, but I would not put it as better than so many other Radiohead songs.
no joke. maybe not even top 10.
I didnt even know Radiohead was indie.
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Now I know why you like the Music.....
"y the end of October 1991, "On A Friday" were stalked by various record company people. And by the end of the year, they finally had a their record deal. On December 21, they signed an eight album deal with EMI. They also had a new name. See, "On A Friday" just didn't cut it. But what name should they pick? Being a band full of English majors, someone suggested "Jude The Obscure" from the title of a Thomas Hardy novel-but that was too, well, obscure.
Then there was "music". Thom liked that one, but he was shouted down. Someone suggested "Gravitate," but that didn't have the right ring to it. But then someone dug into Thom's DJ collection and pulled out a 1986 album by the talking heads called true stories. And on that album was a song called "Radio Head"."
http://www.edge.ca/ongoinghistory/sp_radiohead1.cfm (http://www.edge.ca/ongoinghistory/sp_radiohead1.cfm)
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Originally posted by Miss MArKiE?:
Being a band full of English majors, someone suggested "Jude The Obscure" from the title of a Thomas Hardy novel-but that was too, well, obscure.
thank god they didn't pick that. great book, amazing author, horrible band name.
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Didn't know that about radiohead. "Jude the Obscure" was too obscure? Maybe it just sucked as a band name.
There's a band on the Black Cat's schedule called Exit Clov, I think. I thought maybe they ought to go more obscure with their literary references than Beckett. Unless they're, you know, real theatrical or absurd.
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Originally posted by dfmcpete:
Didn't know that about radiohead. "Jude the Obscure" was too obscure? Maybe it just sucked as a band name.
There's a band on the Black Cat's schedule called Exit Clov, I think. I thought maybe they ought to go more obscure with their literary references than Beckett. Unless they're, you know, real theatrical or absurd.
If you are unaware of the humor in your line, congrats, someone associated with Exit Clov hangs here.
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also cue o'mankie
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Originally posted by dfmcpete:
There's a band on the Black Cat's schedule called Exit Clov, I think. I thought maybe they ought to go more obscure with their literary references than Beckett. Unless they're, you know, real theatrical or absurd.
Oooh... my BigYawn sense is tingling...
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Originally posted by Miss MArKiE?:
But then someone dug into Thom's DJ collection and pulled out a 1986 album by the talking heads called true stories. And on that album was a song called "Radio Head"."
funny. the first time i ever heard Creep on the radio back in 1991 (or 1992), the DJ played the song "Radio Head" by Talking Heads before it and said, "from a song called Radio Head to a band called Radiohead" and then played "Creep"
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I don't mean to badmouth the band; they could be fantastic. I have no idea.
Also unfamiliar with this BigYawn you speak of. I don't read here enough. Mainly just days before and after shows I attend.
Back on topic - The La's?
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Originally posted by dfmcpete:
I don't mean to badmouth the band; they could be fantastic. I have no idea.
Also unfamiliar with this BigYawn you speak of. I don't read here enough. Mainly just days before and after shows I attend.
Back on topic - The La's?
It seems that the results suggest that the people voting were some 30 somethings. The La's were huge with that song, still concidered by some critics to be one of the best pop songs ever.
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Originally posted by Sir HC:
The La's were huge with that song, still considered by some critics to be one of the best pop songs ever.
I think that point is evidenced by its continued overuse in commercials, movie trailers, movies, etc. Both the Las version and several cover versions. Must speak well for the endurance of the tune (a bit like "Lust for Life"...)
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Originally posted by dfmcpete:
I don't mean to badmouth the band; they could be fantastic. I have no idea.
Also unfamiliar with this BigYawn you speak of. I don't read here enough. Mainly just days before and after shows I attend.
You're out of your element Donnie.......like a child who wanders into a movie.....
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Originally posted by Bags:
Originally posted by Sir HC:
The La's were huge with that song, still considered by some critics to be one of the best pop songs ever.
I think that point is evidenced by its continued overuse in commercials, movie trailers, movies, etc. Both the Las version and several cover versions. Must speak well for the endurance of the tune (a bit like "Lust for Life"...) [/b]
I love that edited version that cuts the greatest lines. Just because I keep on with the verse as they break it. Makes me want to go on those cruises.
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Best song on that list?
#218
She Smells Sanctuary
The Cult
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Originally posted by Julian, faux celeb-porn CONNOISSEUR:
Originally posted by dfmcpete:
There's a band on the Black Cat's schedule called Exit Clov, I think. I thought maybe they ought to go more obscure with their literary references than Beckett. Unless they're, you know, real theatrical or absurd.
Oooh... my BigYawn sense is tingling... [/b]
Funny. I guess I don't overwhelm anyone with Clov posts anymore. Hard for folks to make any conneections to BY, much less the Clov. Props to catching the Beckett reference though, few do.