Top 10 indie songs of the 90s

[bellenseb]

OK folks, what's your list of favorites? Here's my stab.
 
 10 is tough to narrow down though. Tried to keep it to 10 different bands. Maybe some folks who have more knowledge of earlier 90s indie could chime in.
 
 1) Belle & Sebastian - Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying
 2) Magnetic Fields - Take Ecstacy With Me
 3) Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland 1945
 4) Archers of Loaf - Web in Front
 5) Cat Power - Cross Bones Style
 6) Bonnie "Prince" Billy - A Minor Place
 7) Pernice Brothers - Clear Spot
  Flaming Lips - Waiting for Superman
 9) Yo La Tengo - Sugarcube
 10) Aislers Set - The Red Door

[JohnnyBaconbitz]

You need some Pavement on that list...Gold Soundz, perhaps...
 
 Big Dipper from BTS would be good, too.

[BookerT]

that's a pretty good list to start from. i'd give flaming lips the boot since that was released on warner bros. here's 12 i came up with, off the hop of my head, sticking with one per artist.
 
 shoot the singer -- pavement
 harnessed in slums -- archers of loaf
 motor away -- gbv
 emma blowgun's last stand -- beulah
 holland, 1945 -- neutral milk hotel
 the red door -- the aislers set (great call there)
 car -- built to spill
 she's evil -- guv'ner
 strange powers -- magnetic fields
 the opera house -- olivia tremor control
 how to rent a room -- silver jews
 i wanna be your joey ramone -- sleater-kinney

[BookerT]

oh and it was silly of me not to include "suki" by unrest on there.

[Relaxer]

Not really in order (but close). And probably not all 100% indie either. And I'm sure I'll remember one that I forgot.
 
 Suede - Animal Nitrate
 Palace Brothers - You Will Miss Me When I Burn
 PJ Harvey - O Stella
 Luna - 23 Seconds in Brussells
 Pavement - Elevate Me Later
 Rocket from the Crypt - On a Rope
 Super Furry Animals - The Man Don't Give a Fuck
 Urge Overkill - The Kids are Insane
 Smashing Pumpkins - Siva
 Stereolab - Metronomic Underground

[bearman🐻]

What's your definition of indie?

[tigersscareme]

archers of loaf- web in front
 neutral milk hotel- everything is
 pavement- cut your hair
 lois- strumpet
 yo la tengo- tom courtenay
 hum- stars
 fugazi- bed for the scraping
 teenage fanclub- bandwagonesque
 sebadoh- magnet's coil
 monorchid-distortion

[bearman🐻]

I'm getting a sense of what types of bands here, so here goes:
 
 1) The Pixies -- Planet of Sound (the first version off the 4AD EP)
 2) Heatmiser -- Plainclothes Man
 3) PJ Harvey -- Rub Til It Bleeds
 4) Red House Painters -- Mistress (single edit, which I have only seen once)
 5) Belle and Sebastian -- Sleep the Clock Around
 6) Shellac -- Doris
 7) Air Miami -- Airplane Rider
  Jawbreaker -- Do You Still Hate Me?
 9) The Auteurs -- Buddha
 10) Yo La Tengo -- Sudden Organ

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by bearman:
 4) Red House Painters -- Mistress (single edit, which I have only seen once)

i think we talked about this on a thread a while back, but is this edit not on the "retrospective" collection (either the piano one or the shoegazey one)?

[bellenseb]

I've never been able to tell the difference between the Mistress radio edit from the promo single, and the original.
 
 Or are you talking about the Piano version? Which is a whole different take and not an edit...
 
 I also love the radio session version from Retrospective disc 2.

[bearman🐻]

The edit has a whole different intro (not a fade-in), and the mix isn't as buried in distortion. I guess I much prefer that version since it was the first I had heard. It sounds more haunting and evil than the LP version.
 
 I found it on one of those limited college rock music comps called Hits Postmodern Syndrome, but have never seen it anywhere else (and not on the Retrospective comp).

[Venerable Bede]

Originally posted by bearman:
  The edit has a whole different intro (not a fade-in), and the mix isn't as buried in distortion. I guess I much prefer that version since it was the first I had heard. It sounds more haunting and evil than the LP version.
 
 I found it on one of those limited college rock music comps called Hits Postmodern Syndrome, but have never seen it anywhere else (and not on the Retrospective comp).

hmmm, i'll have to see if that is on my "mistress" promo single i found a long time ago.

[Venerable Bede]

in no particular order (and off the top of my head)-
 
 small factory- last time that we talked
 pavement- here
 guided by voices- official ironman rally song
 lush- desire lines
 red house painters- drop
 blur- the universal
 built to spill- carry the zero
 luna- 23 minutes in brussels
 flaming lips- turn it on
 mercury rev- car wash hair

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Uncle Tupelo-New Madrid
 Old 97's-The Other Shoe
 Backsliders-My Baby's Gone
 Whiskeytown-Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight
 
 
 That be my list so far.

[muke]

archers of loaf - web in front
 pavement - summer babe
 sammy -majik man
 small - toastmaster
 small factory - the bright side
 superchunk - slack motherfucker
 blues explosion - bellbottoms
 mercury rev - carwash hair
 grifters - banjo
 rugburns - dick's automotive