Top 5 Indie Songs
 

Post your top 5 Indie songs below!!!

Mine are:
1. Mr Brightside - The Killers
2. Chocolate - The 1975
3. When The Sun Goes Down - Arctic Monkeys
4. Use Somebody - Kings Of Leon
5. Crystalised - The XX

You've got pretty nice favorites, I must say!
At the moment I can't listen to music due to an injury on my left ear,
that's why I'm not up to date, and choosing favorites isn't easy, but mine were:

1. The Last Dinosaurs - Time&Place
2. The Neighborhood - Sweater Weather
3. Local Natives - Sun Hands
4. Yo La Tengo - I'll be around
5. Catastrophe & Cure - Quite Alright

What's the point? Indie is emo, folk, alternative, garage rock, black metal, you name it.

Oh My Gawd, you like The NBHD!?!?!? I LOVE THEM!
Tbh I haven't heard the others, but I'll give them a listen cos I know you've got a music taste judging by Sweater Weather.

The Verve: Lucky Man
The Verve: Bittersweet Symphony
The Verve: Velvet Morning
The Verve: Weeping Willow
The Verve: The Drugs Don't Work

How dull is that list? Very.

Best indie black metal songs. GO!

:) Thanks, chris_mills. The others are a bit different compared to The NBHD though, but I hope you'll enjoy the songs.
Catastrophe & Cure is an Austrian Indie Band so the accent may be funny.

Maybe if you take it just to mean independently produced music but indie rock seems to be defined as clearly as say punk or metal. Obviously a lot of variety but generally understood as something in relatively the same bracket.

Top 5 for me is mostly 80s and 90s stuff, I don't like a lot of newer indie it's a little boring. No particular order, just some faves:


Add it Up- Violent Femmes

Talking **** about a Pretty Sunset- Modest Mouse

Nosferatu Man- Slint (the album is amazing but the rest of the songs don't sound as good on their own as this one does, they need each others' company)

When You Sleep- My Bloody Valentine

On Fire- Sebadoh

Xasthur (from southern california, lol) and Mallisa Nadler (indie-folk from DC) collaborated on an album back in 2010 called Portal of Sorrow. She sang background vocals.


I must be mentally gay because I just blew your mind.

Haha nope :p: already a big fan of Xasthur soo..

I listened to all the songs. They're all pretty good. I love Time and Place! I heard it ages ago and didn't know what it was called so thank you. Reminds me of TDCC a lot which I like. And I like the Austrian guys, his accent is cool!

^Great to hear you enjoyed the songs! :)
Oh yes, Time and Place is a really awesome song, very energetic!

This is my top 5 right now (my other one was of all time):
1. Don't Swallow The Cap - The National
2. Girls - The 1975
3. Female Robbery - The Neighbourhood
4. Knee Socks - Arctic Monkeys
5. Sex - The 1975

In no order

"Let Me See the Colts" by Smog
"The Warming Sun" by Grandaddy
"Mornings Eleven" by The Magic Numbers
"Armchairs" by Andrew Bird
The entire album Hysterical by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. If I had to choose a song; "In a Motel"

kings of leon and the killers arent really indie bands but

1) Air review "Young"
2) Big Tree "Time"
3) The Chain Gang of 1974 "Devil is a Lady"
4) Chew Lips "Slick"
5) Diamond Rings "You & Me"

great list Chris_Mills

1. Pink Bullets-The Shins
2. Dramamine-Modest Mouse
3. Nantes-Beirut
4. Tiger Mountain Peasant Song-Fleet Foxes
5. Lake Michigan-Rogue Wave

Edit the sad parts- modest mouse
Nosferatu man- slint
Nail- asbestos death
Druid- sleep
Going against your mind-built to spill

"Indie" is a certain sound for me and it sounds at its best when:

1. Sebadoh plays Skull
2. or Liz Phair does **** and Run
3. or Silver Jews plays almost anything
4. or Retribution Gospel Choir does Hide It Away
5. or like The Breeders does something off of Last Splash

I love the silver Jews, I wanted to put them in my top five, as well as godhead silo, camper van Beethoven, halo benders, and the list goes on.

Yeah!

Wonder when David Berman is publishing his first novel. Isn't he a full time writer now?

Idk, last I heard was he was smoking crack pretty heavy. That was ten years ago so maybe he quit...... I did :)

Meh, why not?

Marissa Nadler - I've got your name. Dan Croll - From Nowhere. Dan Croll - Compliment Your Soul (beautiful song, really). Cold War Kids - Water & Power. Middle Class Rut - Take A Shot. Those are my top five right now