My list in 2010 was terrible.
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
Neutral Milk Hotel - ITAOTS
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Pixies - Doolittle
The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
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Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Elliott Smith - Either/Or
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On
The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand
Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
R.E.M - Murmur
Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
The Strokes - Is This It
Top 20 essential Indie albums, in order (albeit a rough one.)