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Pitchfork releases 100 greatest Indie Rock albums of all time

https://pitchfork.com/story/the-100-best-indie-rock-albums-o...
Historical American
  11/10/26
Weird list
scholarship
  11/10/26
Yeah they may have called it "low energy songs that suc...
Historical American
  11/10/26
After making this list does everyone at pitchfork just raptu...
scholarship
  11/10/26
Correct. They ascend to the Great Peet's Coffee in the ...
Historical American
  11/10/26
i was curious how they would shoehorn dei into this totally ...
UhOh
  11/10/26
And not even a good white male genre. I can barely sit throu...
Historical American
  11/10/26
glow pt 2 by the microphones and lonesome crowded west by mo...
Brother Peter Dimond
  11/10/26
All these bands sound exactly the same
Historical American
  11/10/26
? theres plenty of variety in sound here maybe the list ...
Brother Peter Dimond
  11/10/26
A lot of good albums in here, some odd inclusions, didn'...
Judas Jones
  11/10/26
No Replacements? No Husker Du? Too punk maybe, but they in...
Goy Debord
  11/10/26
Too much testosterone
Judas Jones
  11/10/26


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Date: November 10th, 2026 12:29 AM
Author: Historical American (SQQQ)

https://pitchfork.com/story/the-100-best-indie-rock-albums-of-all-time/

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Date: November 10th, 2026 12:45 AM
Author: scholarship

Weird list

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Date: November 10th, 2026 12:51 AM
Author: Historical American (SQQQ)

Yeah they may have called it "low energy songs that suck."

It's predictable they put a record at #2 from an artist no one cares about and said yeah it was because of her political impact, i.e. feminism. Wow!

The idea that indie is basically low energy folk music with quirky lyrics is idk an odd definition. I consider, you know, Animal Collective to be indie but they used synthesizers and they weren't from the 90s so I guess it's out?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5920931&forum_id=2#50247392)



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Date: November 10th, 2026 1:08 AM
Author: scholarship

After making this list does everyone at pitchfork just rapture away now and leave a pile of clothes

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5920931&forum_id=2#50247401)



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Date: November 10th, 2026 1:30 AM
Author: Historical American (SQQQ)

Correct. They ascend to the Great Peet's Coffee in the Sky.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5920931&forum_id=2#50247414)



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Date: November 10th, 2026 1:08 AM
Author: UhOh

i was curious how they would shoehorn dei into this totally cishet white male genre, and there it is.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5920931&forum_id=2#50247402)



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Date: November 10th, 2026 1:28 AM
Author: Historical American (SQQQ)

And not even a good white male genre. I can barely sit through Neutral Milk Hotel and Pavement. Did they pen a few decent tunes? Sure. But this stuff is very low T. Outside of Portland, Oregon and college radio who listens to this stuff?

Every alternative band with an ax and and overdrive pedal leapfrogs this entire space. Sure, there's a market for Guided by Voices. There are white dudes who voted for Kamala. Just not very many of them.

Soft rock has always had a Place in rock n roll history, but it's always taken a back seat to the harder stuff.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5920931&forum_id=2#50247413)



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Date: November 10th, 2026 3:46 AM
Author: Brother Peter Dimond

glow pt 2 by the microphones and lonesome crowded west by modest mouse are both 180. probably in my top 10 of any genre, definitely for mm.

nice to see those two in the top 20 but otherwise dont know what to make of this list. cant say ive listened to most of them though

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5920931&forum_id=2#50247489)



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Date: November 10th, 2026 11:22 AM
Author: Historical American (SQQQ)

All these bands sound exactly the same

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5920931&forum_id=2#50247827)



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Date: November 10th, 2026 11:44 AM
Author: Brother Peter Dimond

? theres plenty of variety in sound here

maybe the list sucks but that isnt the issue

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5920931&forum_id=2#50247867)



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Date: November 10th, 2026 11:55 AM
Author: Judas Jones

A lot of good albums in here, some odd inclusions, didn't really pay attention to the order. Probably 20 I've never listened to (stuff from the past 5 years other than Geese and Wednesday, and stuff like Liz Phair). I own about 60 of these in physical or digital download copy.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5920931&forum_id=2#50247881)



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Date: November 10th, 2026 12:09 PM
Author: Goy Debord

No Replacements?

No Husker Du?

Too punk maybe, but they include Minutemen

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5920931&forum_id=2#50247889)



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Date: November 10th, 2026 12:11 PM
Author: Judas Jones

Too much testosterone

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5920931&forum_id=2#50247891)