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Your Favourite 3 Indie Albums
Posted by walker182 on 11 August 2010 - 4:12pm.
I’ll be spending some of this weekend spotifying the recent Indie Singles thread. Great to have recommendations for some of the more obscure things that I haven’t heard before (though my own selections were admittedly quite mainstream)… I’m wondering if this list will be a bit less varied than the one for singles?
My selection are:
New Order – Technique
The Smiths – Strangeways Here We Come
Primal Scream – Screamadelica
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Great picks, Walker
Again limiting to three is tough - but in no preferential order that all begin with S
Spacemen 3 - Perfect Prescription
Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
Stereolab - Refried Ectoplasm Vol 2
One Two Three
Belle and Sebastian: If You're Feeling Sinister
Camera Obscura: Let's Get Out Of The Country
Hefner: The Fidelity Wars
EatB
Heaven Up Here
Crocs
No ~ Movement
Movement...
...really?
Probably the only NO album I've never sat down and listened to due to the universal derision. What is it you like about it?
Well...
it sounds very fresh, like they really had shaken off the tragedy and moved on, that's not to say it doesn't have it's gloomy moments but Hannet's production makes it shine. I'm not a fan of much else by them so maybe that's why it works for me. I bought the double CD reissue a couple of years back, the one No fans derided but I think it's wonderful, play it regularly and have no niggles with it. Give it a try, what have you got to lose?
http://open.spotify.com/album/4XACt7JMVA0IEsYSepxXOi
Good choices so far
Difficult but -
1 Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
2 The Smiths - The Smiths
3 The Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels
From an earlier age of indie labels
Free - Fire And Water
King Crimson - Red
Grateful Dead - Steal Your Face
not sure if these are really "indie" but I like them
The Charlatans - Some Friendly
The Real People - The Real People
Inspiral Carpets - Revenge of the Goldfish
Any chance you could share that Spotify list, please?
My albums...
"Swagger" by The Blue Aeroplanes (I know they were on a big label at this point, but the spirit is independent!)
"The Queen Is Dead" by The Smiths - I finally 'got' them, and fell head over heels in love.
"Surfer Rosa" by Pixies - I'd never heard anything quite like this before. I still haven't.
God, I could go on and on... 18 in 1988 - off to college in 1989 - so many brilliant records... Halogen days, as Del Boy once said.
I'll go for 'Indie' in its purest
sense and ignoring the big hitters like New Order:
Still play these and they still sound good:
Pale Saints - In Ribbons
The Boo Radleys - Everything's Alright Forever
Broadcast - Ha Ha Sound
Un deux trois
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
Breeders - Last Splash or New Order - Low-Life if Breeders considered not on proper indie label
In spirit, if not label
You Can't Hide Your Love Forever - Orange Juice
Psychocandy - Jesus and Mary Chain
Feeding of the 5,000 - Crass
I really could go, and on, and on. Please change three to 30
Just the one right now for me
HMHB - Back In The DHSS.
1985 - utterly earth shattering for me. At 15 I'd never heard anything like them, and it just fitted. Still love em now; last night's 6music session with Marc R wan't bad at all.
Serious Fun
This was how Sounds reviewed the wonderful
1. Trip to Marineville - Swell Maps
Also:
2. How The West Was Won - Toyan
3. Inflammable Material - Stiff Little Fingers
Harder to pick than indie singles, but Swell Maps were fantastic and deserving of a place on any indie list.
I tried to pick a varied bunch...
The Durutti Column - "LC"
Bhundu Boys - "Shabini"
The Abyssinians - "Forward On To Zion"
Tough but here's three good 'uns
The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
Stereolab - Dots and Loops
Three more at random...
Young Marble Giants - "Colossal Youth"
Monochrome Set - "Strange Boutique"
The Passage - "Degenerates"
What 3 of them said
Surfa Rosa
Screamadelica
Psychocandy