In the December issue of Blender, the magazine's editors have compiled what they see as the "The 100 Greatest Indie-Rock Albums Ever," opening with this little graph:

 

Mumbled lyrics, couldn’t-care-less strumming, white dudes in sweaters—what’s not to love about indie rock? Born 25-odd years ago in suburban garages and spread via college radio, it has made distortion into something hummable, boredom into something thrilling and aimlessness into a raison d'être—and these days, thanks to blogs and the fine people at Grey’s Anatomy, it’s more popular than ever.

Grey's Anatomy and blogs? Cute. Let's take a look at 100-50 here and then round it up post-jump. There are a lot of classic albums on this thing ... and a lot that aren't.

100 The Shaggs - Philosophy Of The World

99 Dream Syndicate - The Days Of Wine And Roses

98 Palace Music - Viva Last Blues

97 The Mekons - Rock 'N' Roll

96 TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain :D

95 The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I

94 Half Japanese - Greatest Hits

93 Big Black - Atomizer

92 Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables

91 The Chills - Kaleidoscope World

90 Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam :D

89 Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll

88 Daniel Johnston - Yip/Jump Music

87 Wolf Parade - Apologies To The Queen Mary

86 Flipper - Album - Generic Flipper

85 The Clean - Anthology

84 Beat Happening - You Turn Me On

83 The Misfits - Walk Among Us

82 The Embarrassment - Heyday 1979-83

81 The Vaselines - The Way Of The Vaselines

80 Feist - The Reminder :wub: :wub: :wub:

79 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah :dance: :dance:

78 The 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators :D

77 Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not :D :D

76 Le Tigre - Le Tigre :D

75 Galaxie 500 - Today

74 The Fall - 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong :wub: :wub: :wub:

73 Meat Puppets - Up On The Sun

72 The Mountain Goats - We Shall All Be Healed

71 Stereolab - Refried Ectoplasm

70 Mudhoney - Superfruzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles

69 Nick Drake - Pink Moon

68 Descendents - Milo Goes To College

67 Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising

66 Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth

65 Various Artists - No New York

64 Cat Power - The Greatest :wub: :wub:

63 Nirvana - Bleach :D :D

62 The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms

61 LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem :wub: :wub:

60 Sufjan Stevens - Illinois :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub:

59 Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine :wub: :wub:

58 Built To Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love

57 Bikini Kill - p*ssy Whipped

56 Archers Of Loaf - Icky Mettle

55 Bad Brains - Bad Brains

54 Unrest - Imperial F.F.R.R.

53 Smashing Pumpkins - Gish :D :D :D

52 Bright Eyes - Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground

51 Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights :wub: :wub:

50 Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous :D :D

49 Spoon - Kill The Moonlight :wub:

48 Mission Of Burma - Vs.

47 Green Day - Kerplunk :wub: :wub:

46 Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand :D :D

45 Fugazi - Repeater

44 Various Artists - Wanna Buy A Bridge?

43 Black Flag - Damaged

42 Brian Eno - Another Green World

41 Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West :wub: :wub: :wub:

40 New Order - Power Corruption & Lies :wub: :wub: :wub:

39 Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

38 The Strokes - Is This It :D :D :D

37 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell :wub: :wub:

36 Elliott Smith - Either/Or

35 Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville :wub: :wub: :wub:

34 Superchunk - On The Mouth

33 The Shins - Oh, Inverted World :D :D

32 Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

31 Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand

30 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

29 Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes

28 The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs

27 M.I.A. - Arular :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub:

26 Belle And Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister :D :D

25 Sebadoh - III

24 The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic :wub: :wub:

23 Yo La Tengo - Painful :D

22 Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II

21 The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers

20 The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday

19 Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out

18 Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures :wub: :wub: :wub:

17 The White Stripes - White Blood Cells :cheer:

16 Slint - Spiderland

15 X - Wild Gift

14 De La Soul - 3 Feet High And Rising

13 Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade

12 Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me

11 Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime

10 The Smiths - The Smiths :wub: :wub: :wub:

09 Big Star - Third/Sister Lovers

08 My Bloody Valentine - Loveless :wub:

07 The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground

06 Arcade Fire - Funeral :wub: :wub: :wub:

05 Pixies - Surfer Rosa :wub: :wub: :wub:

04 R.E.M. - Murmur :wub: :wub: :wub:

03 The Replacements - Let It Be :wub: :wub: :wub:

02 Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation :wub: :wub: :wub:

01 Pavement - Slanted And Enchanted

 

Great, great list. Of course most would call it snobby but I love it regardless.

Nice post, thanks! For the record, Blender can't be like Q or NME because they didn't put Radiohead or The Libertines at number one.

The Smiths debut the only Smiths appearance? Nonsense list if you ask me... the debut Smiths album was their weakest by miles - by their own admission, too.

Meat Is Murder is their weakest, imo. Good list.

Nice post, thanks! For the record, Blender can't be like Q or NME because they didn't put Radiohead or The Libertines at number one.

 

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so dude you dont know blender mag then. for the record its an offshoot of felix dennis's us maxim magazine.

 

so obv you gotta realize that theres gonna be a bit of variation to what is indie and alt rock over there than here (if youve seen any really really really old american movies and seen the "scary" alternative youth culture movement that was "heavy" metal :lol: :lol: in pre-nirvana big hair days :lol:) tho yeah its a good list tho slightly different to a uk list

 

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if it was paste magazine nick drake would be at number one, and if it was relix, the greatful dead or phish, think rolling stone would put an al gore mixtape at number one (those cassette thingys are like so recyclable :lol: )

 

btw no other magazine can be as awful as q mag, there list would be full of the usual boring dadrock that they would still think is cool and those obv records that they would alway put. i guess even top gear mag would have a better list, only because they would have to have the aphex twin in their list :lol: