Heh - you CAN'T put Lovegod above Copper Blue that's mad.

 

haha - you are right... I have a few guilty pleasures from my teens that I put in there is all... I certainly agree with you that it's not a better album, or really should even be on the list. It's hard making a all time list when you have been listening to music for over 15 years is all... if i made my top 50 albums according to tastes right now it would be pretty different - likely only half would stay on that list...

Heh - you CAN'T put Lovegod above Copper Blue that's mad.

 

its all getting very random now!!!

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fd/Clangers.jpg

39 Toad the Wet Sprocket - Fear

 

by any chance are these from the same scene as hootie and the blowfish? thats a $h!t name for a band!!!

by any chance are these from the same scene as hootie and the blowfish? thats a $h!t name for a band!!!

 

it's light indie but wouldn't associate the two bands... and while the music of Toad the Wet Sprocket (named from a Monty Python Sketch FYI) is very good, Hootie and the Blowfish are $h!te (and a worse name I think) ;)

it's light indie but wouldn't associate the two bands... and while the music of Toad the Wet Sprocket (named from a Monty Python Sketch FYI) is very good, Hootie and the Blowfish are $h!te (and a worse name I think) ;)

 

not like one of those random bands that would turn up at P3 in the second season of charmed?

it's light indie but wouldn't associate the two bands... and while the music of Toad the Wet Sprocket (named from a Monty Python Sketch FYI) is very good, Hootie and the Blowfish are $h!te (and a worse name I think) ;)

 

I would never describe Hootie and the sodding Blowfish as being either Indie or Alternative tbh.... Very commercial-sounding moderate, radio-friendly rock...... -_-

 

i didn't mean to give that impression... just re-read my post and understand the confusion. TTWS are light (acoustic) indie - HATBF are $h!t. That's all :)

that comes in at 50 on my list. I made this list last year and is a pretty good attempt at my top 50... i'd change a few things now but oh well... Slowdive would make my top 100 with Souvlaki, along with Curve etc (showgaze is/was definately one of my fav. genre's).

 

 

24 Tears for Fears - The Hurting

41 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Architecture & Morality

 

So were these indie versions of the acts?

 

well before

 

a.) they became pompus tossers on Gut Records (it is all the same band member is it??? 4 are listed)

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f7/Tears_for_Fears_-_Everybody_Loves_a_Happy_Ending.jpg

 

b.) He invented Atomic Kitten and Abilgail Clancy

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/86/Atomic_Kitten_Its_Ok_Front.jpg

Tears for Fears did get a bit... pedestrian. The Hurting is still a great album stand by that one!

 

OMD is great. I'm not afraid of Pop and they made some of the best... I had no idea they had anything to do with Atomic Kittens tho...

My Indie/Alt-Rock Top10:

 

1. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead

2. Radiohead - OK Computer

3. Pixies - Doolittle

4. Oasis - Definitely Maybe

5. The Clash - London's Calling

6. Radiohead - The Bends

7. Primal Scream - Screamadelica

8. Nirvana - Nevermind

9. Suede - Dog Man Star

10. Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish

 

I have excluded Depeche Mode, REM (post IRS years) & U2 from my definition of Indie/Alt-Rock.