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Pitchfork releases 100 greatest Indie Rock albums of all time
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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/ (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5920931&forum_id=2#50247377) |
Date: November 10th, 2026 12:45 AM Author: scholarship Weird list (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5920931&forum_id=2#50247385) |
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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? |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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Date: November 10th, 2026 12:15 PM Author: Historical American (SQQQ) It's all acoustic guitar, peppy drums, soft male voices, and weird lyrics. Rinse, repeat. They all do sound alike. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5920931&forum_id=2#50247897) |
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Date: November 10th, 2026 12:20 PM Author: Brother Peter Dimond peppy drums?
agree on the voices at least. imo people(includes you i guess) cant hear past the faggy singing and it makes the whole thing sound similar even when its totally different |
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Date: November 10th, 2026 12:34 PM Author: Historical American (SQQQ) Ith tho different! One has a weird type of acoustic guitar sound, and the next band has a different type of weird acoustic guitar sound! (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5920931&forum_id=2#50247941) |
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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 12:15 PM Author: Brother Peter Dimond 180.
what were odd inclusions to you?
when i think indie rock i dont think of the stone roses so that surprised me a little. but at #49? if youre gonna put that on there its gotta be way higher, like top 5 |
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Date: November 10th, 2026 12:19 PM Author: Historical American (SQQQ) Stone Roses definitely not indie. New Wave, post punk, proto grunge. You can tell by the aesthetic of the top 10 these guys put shit like Neutral Milk Hotel and Wilco above all else. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5920931&forum_id=2#50247909) |
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Date: November 10th, 2026 12:23 PM Author: Judas Jones Yeah, if they include the Stone Roses and Arctic Monkeys as "indie", then there probably needs to be way more British bands from the 80s and 90s (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5920931&forum_id=2#50247914) |
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Date: November 10th, 2026 12:25 PM Author: Brother Peter Dimond (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5920931&forum_id=2#50247918) |
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Date: November 10th, 2026 12:16 PM Author: Historical American (SQQQ) Why do you like this mellow indie folk nonsense? Any band with electric guitars makes this shit more exciting. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5920931&forum_id=2#50247900) |
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Date: November 10th, 2026 12:21 PM Author: Judas Jones Most of what I listen to on here is electric guitar driven (Hold Steady, Walkmen, Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, Dinosaur Jr, etc) (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5920931&forum_id=2#50247911) |
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Date: November 10th, 2026 12:24 PM Author: Brother Peter Dimond (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5920931&forum_id=2#50247915) |
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Date: November 10th, 2026 12:26 PM Author: Historical American (SQQQ) These are like hardcore and grunge bands. The pitchfork aesthetic they're championing the most is stuff like The Shins. (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5920931&forum_id=2#50247922) |
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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 |
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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) |
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Date: November 10th, 2026 12:16 PM Author: Historical American (SQQQ) (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5920931&forum_id=2#50247901) |
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Date: November 10th, 2026 12:15 PM Author: Brother Peter Dimond (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5920931&forum_id=2#50247899) |
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Date: November 10th, 2026 12:16 PM Author: Historical American (SQQQ) They seem to hate electric guitars (https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5920931&forum_id=2#50247902) |
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Date: November 10th, 2026 12:25 PM Author: bigtree saw a tweet somewhere that nailed it. To paraphrase
- Some great albums on the list. However, none of it matters because none of this aesthetic has any relevance, nor ever will again. Kids today may like Nirvana, but then they skip all this shit. Indie rock, in the end, is dadmusic for men who never procreated.
thought that was a brutally murderous phrase at the end |
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Date: November 10th, 2026 12:35 PM Author: Rabbi Levi Coinblatt, CEO of PornHub ((zurich is stained)) i only saw the top 2 because matador put out an ad about it. crooked rain is a great record, but it's not even the best pavement record so LJL at that being the best indie record.
fucking exile in guyville is #2? LMFAO. pitchfork is retarded and gay now. CRCR is top 10, i could see top 5. the liz phair record is maybe top 30. |