The Strokes - Is This It/ Room On Fire

Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News/ This Is a Long Drive FOr Someone With Nothing To Think About

Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production Of Eggs

Blind Pilot - Three Rounds and a Sound

Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose/ Flaws

There are so many more, but these are at the top of my recent playings.

AND of course both Vampire Weekend - Contra and the self-titled.
I even like Discovery:)

Have you ever heard of a band called the Fall ...? :confused::usehead::D

Yeah, he has. That's why he put it 5 times. Duh

I love BBC. They were recently here on tour-- had tickets, missed the show. Super disappointed.

1. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
2. Wilco - A Ghost is Born
3. Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
4. The Shins - Oh, Inverted World!
5. The Strokes - Is This It

I prefer any other Wilco album to A Ghost Is Born. I wasn't feeling that record.

Yankee Foxtrot Hotel would have made my top 10 albums of the past decade. But I just love the lyrics and more chill vibe of Ghost compared to Foxtrot.

Well, the more I think about it Foxtrot was chill too, just in a different way. I need to listen to the other Wilco albums.

1. The Libertines - Up the bracket
2. The Strokes - Is this it
3. Arctic Monkeys - WPSIATWIN
4. The Libertines - The Libertines
5. Arcade Fire - Funeral

Not in any particular order...

1) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - B.R.M.C
2) Yuck - Yuck
3) Wilco - A Ghost is Born
4) Kasabian - Kasabian
5) The Horrors - Skying

Assuming Radiohead doesn't count as most people know them... =D

1. Is This It - The Strokes
2. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Phoenix
3. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco
4. Funeral - Arcade Fire
5. Vampire Weekend

Honourable Mentions: Teen Dream - Beach House, first two Arctic Monkeys albums

Generic I know, but I'm sure I'm not alone
NOTE: Working under the premise that Radiohead are not an indie group

My Favorites
Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago
Broken Social Scene: You Forgot It In People
Cameron McGill & What Army: Is A Beast
Menomena: I Am The Fun Blame Monster!
The Shins: Wincing The Night Away

1) Jose Gonzalez - Crosses
2) Local Natives - Gorilla Manor
3) Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History
4) The National - High Violet
5) Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

At the moment

1.) Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
2.) Myths Of The Near Future - Klaxons
3.) Sound Of Silver - LCD Soundsystem
4.) The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Self-titled
5.) Six Demon Bag - Man Man

Yuck - Yuck
Dinosaur Jr - Farm
A Place To Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
Deerhoof - Apple 0
Foals - Antidotes

Can't really pick an order, but..

The Shins-Oh, Inverted World (okay, so it's out by a year, but who cares :D )
The Strokes-Room on Fire
The Arctic Monkeys-Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not.
Kasabian-Kasabian
Interpol-Antics

Yuck is fantastic. Haven't heard anything about them recently but I'm hoping they make another great album soon!

WPSIATWIN
Is This It
Silent Alarm
The Libertines
Skying

Radiohead - Kid A
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Bjork - Vespertine
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
The Strokes - Is This It

I guess you could consider it to be a pretty standard list. At first I was considering whether Bjork fit in this genre, but I can't really think of anything else she would be.

thinking rock... some others that come to mind

Shannon Wrgiht - Over the Sun
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
Desert Hearts - Let's Get Worse
Sleater-Kinney - All Hands on the Bad One
Vivian Girls - Everything Goes Wrong

I had forgotten about that album. I love A Place to Bury Strangers. Such a good band.

Clap Your Hand Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
The Decemberist - The King is Dead
Band of Horses - Infinite Arms
Phoenix - United
The National - Boxer

Have had a very quick flick through, may have just missed it, but I haven't seen any Libertines :o

1. Libertines - Up The Bracket
2. The Crookes - Hold Fast
3. Peter Doherty - Grace/Wastelands
4. Baxter Dury - Happy Soup
5. The Maccabees - Colour It In
(I think)

No one ever gives Pete credit for this album, I actually enjoy it

I think its really well put together, and some of his lyrics are incredible. Plus Graham Coxon plays guitar on it ;) . it's got nothing on his unreleased stuff though.

2002-2012, then. I tried to stay true to the "indie rock" sound and ignore any potential favorites that were too punk or hardcore (Dillinger Four, On the Might of Princes), too "alternative" (Radiohead, The Mars Volta), or too pop/electronic (The Knife, Yeasayer, Animal Collective). Sticking to 5 is proving quite difficult...so I'm cheating with 10 (and that's hard too).

WHY? - Alopecia
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes
Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane
Alamo Race Track - Black Cat John Brown
Pinback - Autumn of the Seraphs
Minus the Bear - Highly Refined Pirates
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
Honey for Petzi - General Thoughts and Tastes

5. Crystal Castles (III) - just came out. Bliss.
4. Imaad Wasif - The Voidist - some of the most well-rounded pieces of music from this songwriter
3. Tobacco - Maniac Meat - gets funky. gets my synth on quite nicely
2. Mew - No more stories, are told today... - wow. just, wow.
1. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible - still the most genius and beautiful body of music to come from this very relevant band.

Hop Along - Get Disowned
Why? - Alopecia
Deerhoof - Apple O'
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

Dude I have not listened to Bloc Party in the longest time. I used to love that album.:D

I have listened to many more highly regarded albums, that maybe would make the list had I been listening to them for years, but that album is one that has stayed with me through the years. So many other popular bands have been retrospectively dismissed as below average, but not Bloc Party.

Their quality has decreased after Silent Alarm though.

Yeah, probably should have stated that I was just talking about this specific album. Their second and their weren't all that bad though.

1 Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
2 Joanna Newsom - Ys
3 Blur - Think Tank
4 Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
5 Bloc Party - Intimacy

2003-now? limit one per artist, and looking just at indie rock (so no Animal Collective, Joanna Newsom coming in by association)

1. The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2
2. Arcade Fure - Funeral
3. The Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird's Park
4. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
5. Pinback - Offcell

Looking through RYM, I'm noticing that my preference for indie rock albums drops off dramatically after the mid-nineties. Also, there was a strangely large number of decently rated 2002 indie rock albums that I couldn't include due to timeframe, including: You Forgot It in People, Turn On the Bright Lights, and Songs About Leaving.

The National - Alligator - City Middle
Tame Impala - Lonerism - Why won´t they talk to me
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs - Suburban War
Pyrrhura - Always on my way - Memories
The woods - Woods Family Creeps - Creeps Collage

Arctic Monkeys- Whatever people Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
They are from near me, and seeing them live in a tiny venue was one of the most electrifying, exciting musical experiences I have ever had. They are the band that got me into modern music. I adore everything about this album, the lyrical trickery that reminds me so much of my own thoughts, the meticulous, relentless drums, the crashing guitar and the brash dissent of youthful northerners.
Art Brut- Bang Bang Rock And Roll
Portugal. The Man- The Satanic Satanist
The White Stripes- Elephant
Alabama Shakes- Boys & Girls

That'll do for now.

Arcade Fire- Neon Bible
Best Coast- The Only Place
Beach House- Bloom
Grizzly Bear- Yellow House
The Arctic Monkey's- Favorite Worst Nightmare

Agreeed

Keane - Under The Iron Sea
Keane - Hopes & Fears
Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto
Coldplay - Parachutes
Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Coldplay - X&Y
Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
Travis - The Invisible Band
Travis - The Boy With No Name
Travis - The Man Who?

1: The National - Boxer
2: Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
3: Interpol - TOTBL
4: Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
5: Kent - Du & Jag Döden

I thought the others were pretty average. Not great, not horrible, a few good tracks here and there. Silent Alarm is still the best, though.

You have a very diverse taste in music.

I love that one. I prefer their post-britpop sound, to be honest. :yeah: