Your 5 Favorite Indie Rock Albums of the Past Decade
 

This is my first post on here, so I'd like to make it count!

Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
Foals - Antidotes
Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line
The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead
Dredg - El Ceilo

Ok, sorry, nevermind

1.radiohead - in rainbows

2.arcade fire - funeral

3.arctic monkeys - favourite worst nightmare

4.interpol - turn on the bright lights

5.the strokes - is this it / bloc party - silent alarm/ deerhunter - halycon digest

very 'typical' but it is what it is.

Very interesting choice, almost everyone would choose their debut over their sophomore. I'm curious why you chose that one when, as you said it yourself, your list is very typical.

1. The Fall - The Real New Fall LP
2. The Fall - Fall Heads Roll
3. The Fall - Reformation Post TLC
4. The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent
5. The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter

What a great decade it's been.

its just a fairly standard list isnt it?

favourite worst nightmare is incredible, it has the perfect mix in my eyes. short catchy indie pop songs in the first half, perfectly built up songs with crashing guitars in the second half. It also has 'if you were there beware' and '505' two of my favourite songs ever.

f.uck Arctic Monkeys.

Here's my top 10, no particular order.

The Microphones - The Glow, Part II
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong
Purplene - Purplene
The Wrens - The Meadowlands
Paulo Nutini - These Streets
The National - Boxer
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Coldplay - Parachutes
Laura Stevenson & The Cans - Sit & Resist
The Maccabees - Wall of Arms

I dunno, in no particular order:

Rubber Factory by The Black Keys

Let's Stay Friends by Les Savy Fav

Fever To Tell by Yeah Yeah Yeah's

Brothers by The Black Keys

Tyrannosaurus Hives by The Hives

1. Radiohead "In Rainbows"
2. The Antlers "Hospice"
3. Arcade Fire "Funeral"
4. The National "High Violet"
5. We Were Promised Jetpacks "These Four Walls"

I don't consider Radiohead to really be an indie rock band, but they were mentioned so why not...

They aren't indie, but they sort of sounds like an indie rock band.

These Four Walls was okay. Wouldn't say it's in the top 5.
The sound kind of drones on you after a few listens, Quiet Little Voices and Ships With Holes Will Sink are still quality tracks though.

In no particular order

Time Capsules II by Oberhofer
Album by Girls
Father, Son, Holy Ghost by Girls
Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone by The Walkmen
Unknown Mortal Orchestra by Unknown Mortal Orchestra

I think it's an excellent, memorable album throughout. Certainly rough around the edges, but that's part of the appeal for me.

Hospice is a really good choice, a terribly underrated album.

My Top Ten:
Elephant- White Stripes
Funeral- Arcade Fire
Neon Bible- Arcade Fire
Ys- Joanna Newsom
Kid A- Radiohead
Vespertine- Bjork
Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not- Arctic Monkeys
Fever To Tell- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Merriweather Post Pavillion- Animal Collective
Bitte Orca- Dirty Projectors

Honorable Mentions:
Is This It?- The Strokes
Silent Shout- The Knife
Vampire Weekend- Vampire Weekend

Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
The National - High Violet
Lightning Dust - Infinite Light
Radiohead - Kid A
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

YES i feel you on seldom seen kid! elbow is my favorite band.

In no particular order:

Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend & Contra
The Strokes - Is This It?
Fun. - Aim & Ignite
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

At Long Creek by Paper Tigers? That's the one I have, I got it recently actually!
And Into Your Lungs by Hey Rosetta, maybe?

Mr Gnome - Deliver This Creature
Okkervil River- Black Sheep Boy
Final fantasy(Owen Pallet) - He Poos clouds
Murder by Death - Who Will Survive And What Will Be Left Of Them?
Matt Elliott - Howling songs

No particular order:

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
My Morning Jacket - Z
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
Bright Eyes - It's Wide Awake, It's Morning
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica

What, no love for Beach House in this thread?

The Aeroplanes - Broken Hearts & Maladies
DOGS - Tall Stories From Under The Table
Sound Of Guns - What Came From Fire
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Morning Runner - Wilderness Is Paradise Now

Could probably spend more time on this and come up with a definitive list, but these 5 are always there or thereabouts.

The Libertines-Up the Bracket
The Strokes- Is this it
The Sleepy jackson-Lovers
Arctic Monkeys-Humbug
Arctic Monkeys-Whatever people say i am thats what i'm not

two Monkey's album's but they were the band of the 00's for me so far.

Hard to pick, though :)

:thumb:

Shearwater - Rook
The Hidden Cameras - AWOO
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
The Thrills - Lets Battle Bohemia
Fleet Foxes - S/T

(at least this week. Next week might be different)

I JUST got into them, I've listened to Teen Dream and Bloom already a couple times in the past week.

They're a great band :beer:

The Thrill's debut album is excellent but sadly they have become a bit of a laughing stock in ireland.

I love that so much nice to see another of it:yeah:

I taught their second album personality... was a good follow up but lacked the song craft of Lovers. This Day, Good Dancers, Vampire racecourse,Rain falls for wind and Morning rain are just a few of the great songs on the album. Sadly overshadow by Luke steele's side project Empire of the Sun.

125, Rue Montmartre: Safari (emo)
Boris: Boris at Last -Feedbacker- (drone doom metal)
Panda Bear: Person Pitch (psychedelic pop)
James Ferraro: Last American Hero / Adrenaline's End (ambient)
Hunx and His Punx: Gay Singles (garage rock)

though the label is so randomly applied that these might fall outside of what the OP intends

one of the better tried-and-true consistent indie rock loves. always find a way to add them into my year-end lists.

I thought their last one (Suck It and See) was their best album. The other 3 didn't grab me at all.

1. Cold War Kids - Mine is Yours

2. Arcade Fire - Funeral

3. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights

4. The Killers - Sawdust

5. Jupiter Sunrise - Underneath a Killer Blue Sky

Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
So Jealous - Tegan and Sara
Little Hell - City and Colour
Is This It - The Strokes
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning - Bright Eyes

honourable mentions:
Midnight Boom - The Kills
Teen Dream - Beach House
Horehound - The Dead Weather

Favorite band. No second guesses
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Thrice - Vheissu
Brand New - The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me
Starflyer 59 - Old
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Death Cab for Cutie - Plans

Indeed a great album. So is Plans from Death Cab.

1. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I am That's What I'm Not, Favorite Worst Nightmare, Humbug (Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement)
2. The Strokes - Is This It
3. The White Stripes - De Stijl, White Blood Cells
4. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend, Contra
5. Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
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6. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
7. Kings Of Leon - Youth & Young Manhood, Aha Shake Heartbreak
8. The Libertines - Up The Bracket, The Libertines

^sneak them in there too.

Good taste ;)

thank you :p:

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