After 16 years, I think it's fair to say that the dust has settled. I'm curious to hear what people thought were the best of that decade in those genres.For me, pic related is still the king.My tastes for that period are very babby's first indie, so more obscure picks are welcome.
To avoid making the OP too long, this was the rest of my list I came up with off the top of my head:Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?Funeral (fight me)Fantasy Black ChannelInternal WranglerThe Dance of the Moon and the SunEmbryonicLast ExitThe Golden River
liars
The Fall
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>>129084075For me, at the time, it was:Broken Social Scene - Self-titledDeerhunter - Microcastle311 - EvolverAnimal Collective - Sung Tongs + FeelsGrizzly Bear - VeckatimestRadiohead - In RainbowsNIN - With Teeth
>>129088974What a shitty taste *crosses myself*
Foooor indie i think Bright Eyes is still goated. Fleet Foxes is probably more timeless than people thought. Honestly King Without a Crown best represents the scene and the decade.
>>129089009Different anon but at least half of those easily rank in top albums of the era. Would love to see what shite you think is better
Broadcast
>>129084177Great run, honestly you could state a case for any of the 7 records being their bestThe whole presentation of picrel, their Berlin album, all with its seemingly unlimited creativity, control, poise, atmosphere, anxiety, and ecstatic energy, was a massive inspiration for me.
>>129084177i could just never get into them and their sound.
>>129084177>>129091864>>129093604they were wrong changed my life in high schooli recently found a minty vinyl copy at a used bookstore with a thrift store tier record selection i know its not particularly rare or valuable but it was one of those unexpected finds that just made my year
Clap Your Hands Say YeahPretty Girls Make Gravesthe "I wanna fucking tear you apart" band
>>129089757my bandmate is from the midwest scene and said Conor Oberst has been hanging around bars skeezing on artsy skinny girls for the last 20 years lmao
Giant Drag, somehow wound up seeing this band like 4 times despite living thousands of miles from L.A. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-lxSGOhQXs&list=RDD-lxSGOhQXs&start_radio=1
>>129093783is that supposed to be surprising?
>>129088974Is industrial rock and Ska punk indie/alternative?
psychic ills are realy good and hold upmirror eye is one of my goat albumsbitchfork gave it a 1.4
>>129094255only one of those albums is good and it's not even the best thing the White Stripes put out. Audioslave was such a fucking copout, that song Cochise came out and all my friends thought we were getting big ass rage against the machine riffs with Chris Cornell screaming random badass shit over it, then it turned out to be the lamest fucking mom rock shit ever. I don't even know why Cake is on here- what was even the song from that album? Short Skirt Long Jacket? irrelevant. The main cultural touchpoint at this point is the Emo Kid song.
Interpol, Deer Tick, Of Montreal, We Are Scientists, Wolf Parade, off the top of my head.
Not to be too mainstream but I think Arcade Fire would win the best indie of the decade award, Funeral was on another level
>>129094923So you liked Cochuse but didn't like gasoline, show me how to live, exploder, or Hypnotize?Ill never understand mu's Audioslave hate, its not like soundgarden never had a slow sad song, and comfort Eagle is just effortlessly good. Did you even listen to the other albums?
>>129084075i'm with you. I was on the younger side back in those days but I was a huge indie dork lol. It's honestly crazy how little of that stuff has passed the test of time for beyond an occasional nostalgia listen. The top BSS albums (YFIIP, bee hives, feel good lost etc) still hit pretty hard. Wolf parade's apologies is still super good imo, especially the EP versions of all those songs before isaac brock ruined the mix. All the OG modest mouse stuff is still good too. Flaming lips run holds up too. The beginning of the end was when fleet foxes won pitchy's album of the year and then everything started sounding like fleet foxes. Once beach house's bloom happened it was over, we're still not entirely passed the wave of young indie kids wanting to make beach house esque bedroom 'dream pop'. No hate on beach house tho, those albums were tight.>>129091864hititng 'drums not dead' on DXM as a teenager is a canon event. I pretty much never feel like putting on liars these days but occasionally it's the only answer.Honestly I think the biggest thing lost from the spirit of those times was that shit became way less psychedelic. There was always the cutesy side of indie bullshit and I liked a lot of that too, but stuff like the mid career flaming lips, sigur ros's agaetis bryjun, dead cities red seas etc, all had this melencholy psychedelia aspect to it that either got lost with time or got tired.
>>129095185literally no one cool listened to Arcade Fire in 2007. They might have been on the cool side of normie listening maybe, but I don't know a single person in Athens GA ordering PB&Js and smoking Parliaments that listened to Arcade Fire.
>>129095364Bravo to the Athens Georgia folks, lord knows their scene worked out so well. Oh wait, I forgot, all their best artists died or went into hiding and nobody talks about anything other than Neutral Milk Hotel these days. At least Win Butler stayed in the discourse, albeit for his sex pest history
>>129095364>>129095394I'm just kidding little buddy, my favorite band is Olivia Tremor Control. But that's the 90s. What do you even like from the 00s, Circulatory System? I know you can't possibly like Of Montreal THAT much
>>129095394>no one talks about Athens bands except NMH>literally mention Of Montreal ittwow so you're just fucking stupid. gotcha and moving on.
>>129095880>>129095394for a small college town, that's two pretty big ones idunno
>>129095880Who mentioned Of Montreal? For all I know that was you. I can't imagine who would call them the best band of the 00's other than a dipshit low iq monkey like you
Pic related. Also Shine a Light by Constantines.
>>129096554I don't think it'd be unreasonable to list oM amongst the best indie bands of the era, pretty epic run from Satanic Panic to Hissing Fauna.
>>129098947Few people worked as hard as Barnes, changed their formula up as much, nor had as good a run of albums as he did. a true autist.
Leaves Turn Inside You. Nothing else like it.
Phoenix
Bloc Party- Silent Alarm
tha knifehold steady
The Kooks and the british indie scene that came after the libertines dissolution and lasted until
St.Vincent - ActorSleater-Kinney - The WoodsRilo Kiley - The Execution Of All ThingsPostal Service - Give UpDeath Cab for Cutie - TransatlanticismBroken Social Scene - You Forgot It In PeopleThe Shins - Wincing The Night AwayCamera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This CountryMetric - Fantasies
>>129104781You mean landfill indie. That was a trip.
this whole damn thing on the strongest bud money can buy then a bike ride
Wild Beasts-Two Dancers
this is the good shit>>129091864These guys were the dogs bollocks
>>129084093I love DotMatS but I wouldn't call that indie/alternative>>129090221Broadcast deserves a reply, love all of their albums. If I had to pick a fav maybe it's work/non-work>>129084075Some top ones for me would beBSS - S/TBuilt To Spill - Ultimate Alternative WaversSparklehorse - VivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplotAll Elephant 6 goes here lolThe Microphones - Don't Wake Me Up / IWHWSITWIdaho - Hearts of PalmMew - FrengersClue to Kalo - Come Here When You Sleepwalk
Oh wavers and sparklehorse are both from the 90's fuck me. So is Don't Wake Me Up lol
>>129109123i've got a soft spot for that brief period when 'chillwave' existed and was good. I saw a show in 09 or 10 that was toro, small black, and washed out, on a bunch of dilaudid and that shit was legendary, I'll never forget it. Also will never forget the first time on a blunt ride popping that toro EP on, I had to keep repeating the first track cuz it was so fuckin euphoric. Even tho vaporwave was sort of the spiritual successor to chillwave, all those indie dorks getting copies of cracked DAWs and figuring out what side chain compression was ended up really leading to stuff like starslinger or clams casino, and the whole LA beats thing like teebs or shlohmo. Honestly one of the most exciting periods of new music I'm likely to experience in my lifetime
>>129084177I could only get into their s/t album.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uvcx_SNEuo
save rave
bumping will post tmrw
Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (2000)The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving (2000)12 Rods - Lost Time (2002)Spangle call Lilli line - Nanae (2002)The National - Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers (2003)Lowgold - Welcome to Winners (2003)Early Day Miners - All Harm Ends Here (2005)Band of Horses - Everything All the Time (2006)As Tall as Lions - As Tall as Lions (2006)The Antlers - Hospice (2009)
>>129084075From that era I mainly listen to Funeral. The biggest problem I have with a lot of those albums is how slammed those mixes were due to the loudness wars, it's a pity. I think the indie era just before that was a lot more interesting and the recordings also sounded a lot better.
>>129084075Sufan Stevens - Illinoishttps://youtu.be/edpLqHYp4XY
>>129114198Great album.During the press run for their self titled record, liars mentioned Alice In Chains a lot in interviews, you can hear a trace of influence of Them Bones in Plaster Casts Of Everything kicking off the album. Perhaps also Clear Island, and Cycle Time. I think liars were more into AIC's tripod album in terms of grunge atmosphere and song structure, the album is caked in verb, I recall being side-swiped when this record dropped after Drum's Not Dead, really should've been no surprise at the hard turn, as their foundation was built on swerving expectations
>>129098963It’s like he has a new crazy chord progression every time he breathes. A lot of the post-Hissing Fauna stuff is unfairly dismissed. Possibly due to his Georgie fruit persona being “problematic” lol. Skeletal Lamping and Paralytic Stalks in particular are masterpieces.
Picrel was a big record when it dropped. When I bought the CD and LP at Other Music, the cute girl at the register pointed herself out in booklet after being taunted to do so by a co-worker. Her face was flushed and I said wow that's cool there you are lol, surely in one of the neatest CD booklets I've ever seen
>>129114198>>129122033For me it's Protectionhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=tEEdDxo6Er4
>>129084075Joemus
>>129084075Crack dat soluja boy
>>129110808man his pre causers of this shit is so hard to find now it was everywhere.>my face when downloaded the now gone chill wave album dropped two tabs of acid and went through the city on my bike cranking tunes stupid as shit I know
>>129123940the 'my touch' and 'june 2009 comp's are both on soulseek, dunno if there's something else ur lookin for tho
>>129122246def crazy how big no age felt at the time compared to how forgotten they are now. That shit was always kinda mid but they had a couple bangers
>>129084075brother sister by mewithoutyou
>>129124004Post Nouns that's trueBut Nouns and Weirdo Rippers are solidNouns, imho, is a go to record for welcoming in the Spring time I saw them a bunch of times before and during Nouns. The energy was crucial, continually killt it every show, they had IT in that moment, for sure, definitely no denying that, but yeah Nouns post-op the feeling sizzled out fast, bummer
>>129122246post her
underrated
>>129084075Broken Social Scene - Lover's Spit Redux with FeistSia - Breathe MeRachel Yamagata - Reason WhyCat Power - I found a ReasonMichelle Branch - All you WantedNatasha Bedingfield - UnwrittenLifehouse - You and MeThe Script - The Man who can't be MovedTrain - Drop of JupiterThe Fray - How to save a LifeSnow Patrol - Chasing Cars
>>129084075The Black Heart Procession - The SpellPinback - Summer in Abaddon90 Day Men - Panda ParkBurning Airlines - IdentikitJets to Brazil - Four Cornered NightTV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
>>129084075Ladytron was really really good. They took the right cues from Yellow Magic orchestra and managed to craft some real catchy tunes with interesting sonicscapes underneath them with the screaming guitars and all, and their main singer was just fantastic. I'll always hold them in high regard despite their more lackluster efforts in the 2010s.The initial wave of post rock that hadn't folded under the crescendocore trends was also really good. Codename: Dustsucker is an all timer of an album. Movietone and Crescent were very good bands. Do Make Say Think as well.The two Shellac albums of the 2000s are excellent too. As is their ultimate Peel Session.
