Date: November 10th, 2026 12:41 PM Author: AubreyMcclendon
It should be illegal to publish this kind of thing under the Pitchfork masthead unless they bring back all the jewish guys with allegations in the editorial team that made these lists carry weight in the first place.
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?
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
Date: November 10th, 2026 12:42 PM Author: Historical American (SQQQ)
The Portland hipster coffee aesthetic died and was replaced by wokeism. The whole college town PNW sensitive white guy who's into books and soft music and wears an ascot tie is dead and gone. They were replaced by Antifa radicals and politicths and Twitter heads. Everyone became political and Online. No way to signal your status by talking about Pavement and Neutral Milk Hotel. It's actually sad and as much as I would never stan for this genre, it's not terrible and I find it kind of tragic that the people who liked this stuff were some of the most mind raped by the algorithm people in the world. Their entire culture was pipe raped by Zuckerberg's algorithm and they did it to themselves instead of perpetuating their faggy subculture they just trooned out and got BLM tattoos and changed their whole personality to reflect the times. This is one you have to blame on the pathetic weakness of the goyim.
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.
Date: November 10th, 2026 12:50 PM Author: richard clock
why is every list of this type forever trying to hype up sleater kinney and liz phair. it's not happening lezbos.
honestly, some decent albums in here. too much post-2010, indie was shit by then. crooked rain is a great album, but how is slanted and enchanted not top 10? should have had another built to spill album too
Date: November 10th, 2026 12:52 PM Author: luis (luis)
Think I'm familiar with at least half of these, but i'm gay.
of the top 50, these were some I listened to regularly (mostly in college): Broken social scene, Silver Jews, Destroyer, TV on the radio, arcade fire, Interpol, the Walkmen, The national, the stone roses.
others i tried to listen to but never became a big fan of (likely because they were just too faggy or weird): Neutral milk hotel, pavement, wilco, sufjan stevens, built to spill, spoon
Date: November 10th, 2026 1:48 PM Author: the wife guy cinematic universe
Btw I listened to High Energy music back then, like lightning bolt and death from above 1979. And if I wanted to be a sensitive guy I could put in some Sigur Ros, cause they still rocked plenty too.
Once, freshman year of college, me and this guy from class both were in love with this little armenian girl we sat by. His name was like Gavin or something. Skater type guy. Nice enough dude.
She'd drive us both to lunch in her lexus, and she had some cable to hook her ipod to the stereo which was a novelty at the time. The other guy hooked his up and played some gay shit like in the OP, I think Arcade Fire maybe, and you could feel the humidity in the car go to zero as her vagina dried up. Then she hooked up my ipod and put it on shuffle and it played that wu tang song with the long intro about heating a wire hanger on the stove and sticking it in a guys asshole. She laughed her cute little armenoid face off. Soon it was just me and her going to lunch as a duo.