Any or all of the following-
Swervedriver-Mezca l Head
Dinosaur, Jr.-You’re Living All Over Me
The entire Mudhoney catalogue

Modest Mouse- The Moon & Antarctica.

Deadboy & the Elephantmen “We Are Night Sky”

Back Street Boys or NSynch

The Replacements – Let It Be

Gee, I’d love to mention albums by Neutral Milk Hotel or Pavement or even some new indie band no one will give a shit about in a year, like Tapes & Tapes or the Cold War Kids, but that would be falling into Elizabeth Goodman’s trap. Another excuse to dust off her New York indie cred masquerading as a “poll.”

The Giant Drag album isn’t half bad, but “undisputable”? Not surprisingly, I don’t agree.

The Good Life – “Album of the Year”

Why is Rolling Stone pretending to care about indie rock?

RS should stick to covering actors and over-the-hill rappers. Let other outlets cover music.

harvey danger – king james version
american football – s/t
at the drive in – acrobatic tenament
dismemberment plan -emergency & i
jets to brazil – orange ryhming dictionary
jimmy eat world – clarity
koufax – social life
owen – no good for no one now
pedro the lion – it’s hard to find a friend
the snake the cross the crown – mander salis
the velvet teen (pretty much everything theyve done)

Destroyer’s Rubies, or Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.

This is a terrible question; too much is unclear. Does it actually have to be available on Amazon or iTunes? That’s a no-go on The Acorn’s “Blankets EP.” Does it have to be indie ROCK as such? That eliminates “Etiquette” by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.

If neither of those, I say either “Hi, How Are You” or “Fun” by Daniel Johnston? Or if that’s too clichéed at this point, then “Snowball + Singles” by The Field Mice.

well of course myself…jandek….nick drake…and that dan malloy character…

http://www.myspace.com/ danmalloy

well of course myself…jandek….nick drake…and that dan malloy character…

http://www.myspace .com/danmalloy

Hepcat: Scientific

Erics Trip – Forever again
And anything by the Shins

TV On The Radio – Return To Cookie Mountain.

I’m not sure if “indie rock” applies, but “Lula Divinia” and/or “Starless” from the band Shiner

I agree with Londo… RS can’t even offer it’s own insight on the subject. BS.

The Anniversary… any

Mates of State

X — “Los Angeles”

Pulp – Different Class

Giant Drag??? hahahaha. Was that on some major label’s “indie” memo? They suck giant LA balls–nothing more. you know– I’m kind of shocked and saddened how contrived this whole ‘watch out’ buzz is surrounding bands like Giant Drag. ‘oh my god! she’s like totally marketable!’ but then again, it is rolling stone

beware people–they only want your opinion to fill they’re pages because, obviously, their voice sucks

word of advice RS–u guys need to get your heads out of Starbucks ass and back out on the street. seriously.

The Muffs: “Really Really Happy”

BUY IT!

F U C K INDIE ROCK!

“Red Line” – Trans Am

Eisley. Maybe I love those guys!

I do love those guys. No maybe about it. LOL

f’in Mucci

http://saucerecords.com /mucci.htm

GUIDED BY VOICES “BEE THOUSAND”.
Snippets and whole structures of melodic genius from the prolific and ecclectic mind of Robert Pollard.
CHEERS!
STRATCAT

They are band out of maryland that has toured with the likes of 311 and Papa Roach..

Agents of the Sun with their ablum “Therapy”

The Secret Machines-Ten Silver Drops

One of the best live acts and all around best bands out there right now

Waterpistol by Shack

One of the best bands in the last twenty years.

Neutral Milk Hotel’s In The Aeroplane Over The Sea already has indie and non-indie praise so I go with PW Long with Reelfoot’s We Didn’t See You On Sunday. It was PW Long’s first release after Mule ended. Awesome blues rock that would fit in with any “classic” category.

Modest Mouse- The Lonesome Crowded West
its just perfect

i don’t give a flying freak about giant drag and the albums mentioned below by neutral milk hotel and and guided by voices have been written up loads, and deservingly so (someone’s written an entire book about ‘bee thousand’). so have the silver jews by now; how about preston school of industry’s “this sounds gas” and/or “monsoon,” or “new picnic time” by pere ubu – nobody makes music quite like them…

Sonic Youth “Sister” & “Daydream Nation”

The Shins – Chutes too Narrow. Oh Inverted World is really good but Chutes has been growing on me a lot lately

This is easy. The Glands self-titled album from 2000.

The best, catchiest and flat-out coolest indie rock record that nobody’s ever heard. Glands-mania should be sweeping the nation. Instead, they dwell in obscurity.

“let it be” the replacements

The Mountain Goats-tallahassee. The whole record as a story is perfect and john darnielle is a genius who should be reaping the killers fame.

Pavement’s ‘Wowee Zowee’ never got the credit it deserves. It is empirically true that ‘Wowee’ is the greatest Pavement album!!!

Gits – Entering the conquering chicken

or

soft boys – underwater moonlight

SUPERCONDUCTOR “BASTARDSONG”, OR OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL “BLACK FOLIAGE”, BOTH A LITTLE EXPERIMENTAL BUT JUST GREAT SONGS AND PERFECTLY EXECUTED AS ALBUMS FROM BEGINNING TO END.

yeah…the replacements’ ‘let it be’

Libertines-Up the Bracket -big in England sold like 30,000 copies here if more people bought the album they might realize how much most music here in the states sucks.

the new pornographers – mass romantic or electric version or twin cinema (either or)

and if we went way, way back in time i would demand that emmit rhodes, john martyn, shuggie otis, willis alan ramsey and linda perhacs were all at the top of the charts.

kiss my ass.

Micah is right.

if you can’t at least appreciate Lonesome Crowded West, even if you’re not in love with it, then you don’t like rock’n'roll!!!

Antony and The Johnsons, Like A Bird (Now?)

moe.
all the way

Either
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead’s
Source Tags and Codes or
…And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead’s Worlds Apart

Boards of Canada – Music Has The Right To Children

Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One

Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven

The Shins

The Mendoza Line – “Fortune”
Califone – “Quicksand/Cradlesnakes”
Jess e Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter- “Reckless Burning”
Sun Kil Moon – “Ghosts of the Great Highway”
Enon – “High Society”

the Smiths I guess

The Weakerthans – Left & Leaving

I agree with moon and antarctica (pretty much anything modest mouse), but where is Broken Social Scene? Possibly not indie rock but still rather deserving of undying adulation

Cursive – The Ugly Organ

Califone – Every album they’ve produced
World Leader Pretend – Punches
The Velvet Teen – All
Ugly Casanova – Sharpen Your Teeth

any album by Do Make Say Think (on same label as Godspeed you Black Emperor, but better)

okay, yeah, i guess giant drag is pretty okay. but i can’t make my own choice until someone gives me some kind of definition for “indie rock.” independent artists? major label artists pretending to be without representation? boys wearing eyeliner? what is the criteria, here?

Why has no one mentioned Bright Eyes?

PARIS HILTON -PARIS
LINDSAY LOHAN – S/T

Armor For Sleep – What To Do When You Are Dead.

I’m soo mean cause I’m emo.

Brian Jonestown Massacre, “Thank God For Mental Illness”, if Dig! hadn’t already shown the light to the general public.

Neutral Milk Hotel’s “In The Aeroplane Over The Sea” if it weren’t already on a million different required listening CDs.

Therefore, I choose Sole’s “Selling Live Water” because it’s the best hip-hop this century, bar none.

Liars, They Were Wrong So We Drowned

And You Will Know Us By the Trail of the Dead, Source Codes and Tags

Fiery Furnaces, Blueberry Boat

okkervil river – black sheep boy

Leo’s Lantern- Thermosubnuclearpop

If I’m the dictator, I’m pimping my own S*^&.

GRANDADDY-The sophtware slump.Jason Lytle is a genius,it should be acknowledged as the american “OK computer”!

richard buckner: devotion + doubt

i would make muse famous in america because it is rediculous how big they are in europe and how little known they are in america.

but i would like to see “And the Glass Handed Kites” by Mew be famous

Chad Vangaalen – Skelliconnect

Mudhoney-Superfuzz Bigmuff + Early Singles
Grandaddy-The Sophtware Slump
Slumber Party-Psychedelicate
Smog-Kno ck Knock
Throwing Muses-Throwing Muses (1st album)
Comets on Fire-Avatar
The Brian Jonestown Massacre-Take It From the Man!
Love Battery-Dayglo
Sunny Day Real Estate-The Rising Tide

Brian Eno- Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy)

Not really indie, but everyone should own it anyways.

Gnarls Barkley, i don’t think crazy has been played enough yet.

HUM – Downward is Heavenward

Broken Social Scene – You Forgot it In People
or
Olivia Tremor Control – Black Foliage Music
or
The Flaming Lips – Clouds Taste Metallic (but this might not count)

Up The Bracket, which is the finest LP of the decade, no contest. Every song is wonderful, though some are more wonderful than others.

Also though, “Is This It” by the Strokes, “The Smiths,” “The Queen is Dead,” or “Strangeways Here We Come” by the Smiths, “Picaresque” by the Decembrists, the self-titled Libertines LP, “Down in Albion” by Babyshambles or “Waterloo to Anywhere” by Dirty Pretty Things.”

I’m gonna have to say Neutral Milk Hotel’s “In The Aeroplane Over the Sea”, but major, MAJOR props to whoever said the Antony and the Johnsons album.

By the way, Rolling Stone, how come you’ve started sounding really smug recently?

Arctic Monkeys
tad- eight way santa
anything by Fugazi

Wolfmother has a great debut abum of the same name, awesome live shows. Deadboy is cool too.

The Hold Steady:
Boys and Girls in America
Cold War Kids:
Robbers and Cowards
Deadboy and the Elephantmen:
We Are Night Sky
Wolf Parade:
Apologies to the Queen Mary.

You really get to see how bad some people’s tastes really are by reading this poll…With a name like arctic monkeys it would be fit for them to dwell in obscurity. SMOG-ACCUMULATION NONE

The Hold Steady – Boys & Girls In America

The Subways Rock!

Up All Night by The Waifs.

Not only is it a great record, but I saw these guys put on a rockin’ show even when both sisters in the band were very pregnant. Now that’s independent spirit!

These armas are snakes

The Wrens – “The Meadowlands”

or

Plastic Mastery – “In The Fall of Unearthly Angels”

Few bands deserve success more than these two.