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Old 01-22-2018, 06:50 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Alt/ Indie is a pretty wide net and some of it is commercial. Most of it isn't though. Anyway, this is a rough estimate of my favorite indie songs, at least from the nineties on...

1) Flaming Lips- Do You Realize
2) Radiohead- Karma Police
3) Wilco- Ashes of American Flags
4) Girls- Hellhole Ratrace
5) The Shins- Saint Simon
6) Elliott Smith- Waltz No. 2
7) Sufjan Stevens- John Wayne Gacy
8) Sparklehorse- Babies on the Sun
9) Yo La Tengo- My Little Corner of the World
10) Sam Phillips- Strawberry Road

Honorable Mentions include: PJ Harvey, Suede, Aimee Mann, Gomez, Magnetic Fields, Of Montreal (and the Elephant Six group in general), and, of course, the White Stripes. There are certainly others but I can’ think of them off the top of my head at the moment.


If we're also including the eighties, then the Pixies, Camper Van Beethoven, REM, Depeche Mode, Midnight Oil, and Spacemen 3, among others, have to be mentioned. The last one is certainly the most indie of that group.
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