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Top 500 Indie Songs

ggw
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Top 500 Indie Songs May 09, 2005 at 07:19 PM UTC #
According to VH2 (The U.K. version of VH1?)

THE INDIE 500

1 'There Is A Light That Never Goes Out' - The Smiths
2 I Wanna Be Adored - Stone Roses
3 Monkey's Gone To Heaven - The Pixies
4 Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
5 Inbetween Days - The Cure
6 Just - Radiohead
7 Last Night - The Strokes
8 Suedehead - Morrissey
9 Loaded - Primal Scream
10 Cigarettes and Alcohol - Oasis
11 Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes
12 There She Goes - The La's
13 Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
14 Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
15 The Only One I Know - The Charlatans
16 Blue Monday - New Order
17 Animal Nitrate - Suede
18 Enjoy The Silence - Depeche Mode
19 Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
20 How Soon Is Now - The Smiths
21 There's No Other Way - Blur
22 Step On - Happy Mondays
23 Street Spirit - Radiohead
24 Cannonball - The Breeders
25 Fools Gold - The Stone Roses

26 Loser - Beck
27 A Forest - The Cure
28 Live Forever - Oasis
29 Every Day Is Like Sunday - Morrissey
30 Common People - Pulp
31 It's The End Of The World - REM
32 Girl From Mars - Ash
33 Late In The Day - Supergrass
34 Under The Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
35 Here Comes Your Man - The Pixies
36 Clocks - Coldplay
37 Motorcycle Emptiness - Manic Street Preachers
38 Today - Smashing Pumpkins
39 Road To Nowhere - Talking Heads
40 Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve
41 Don't Look Back Into The Sun - The Libertines
42 Don't Look Back In Anger - Oasis
43 Jane Says - Jane's Addiction
44 F.E.A.R. - Ian Brown
45 Creep - Radiohead
46 The Modern Age - The Strokes
47 Mr Brightside - The Killers
48 She Don't Use Jelly - Flaming Lips
49 Give It Away - Red Hot Chili Peppers
50 Buddy Holly - Weezer

51 Movin On Up - Primal Scream
52 She Bangs The Drums - The Stone Roses
53 What Difference Does It Make? - The Smiths
54 The Hardest Button To Button - The White Stripes
55 A Design For Life - Manic Street Preachers
56 Sun Hits The Sky - Supergrass
57 True Faith '94 - New Order
58 Golden Touch - Razorlight
59 Come As You Are - Nirvana
60 A Thousand Trees - Stereophonics
61 Sabotage - Beastie Boys
62 The Love Cats - The Cure
63 Beetlebum - Blur
64 Feel The Pain - Dinosour JR
65 The Last Of The Famous International - Morrissey
66 Trouble - Coldplay
67 North Country Boy - The Charlatans
68 Beautiful Ones - Suede
69 Lucky Man - The Verve
70 Day In Day Out - Feeder
71 Everlong - Foofighters
72 Wonderwall - Oasis
73 This Charming Man - The Smiths
74 Where It's At - Beck
75 Karma Police - Radiohead

76 Hard To Explain - The Strokes
77 Do You Realize? - Flaming Lips
78 Why Does It Always Rain On Me - Travis
79 Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode
80 Molly's Chambers - Kings Of Leon
81 Stand - R.E.M.
82 1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
83 Slight Return - The Blutones
84 Alright - Cast
85 Somewhere Only We Know - Keane
86 The Riverboat Song - Ocean Colour Scene
87 Getting Away With It - Electronic
88 Rise - Public Image Ltd
89 Wide Open Space - Mansun
90 Disco 2000 - Pulp
91 Run - Snow Patrol
92 Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
93 Come Home - James
94 The Drugs Don't Work - The Verve
95 Sweet Jane - Cowboy Junkies
96 Boys Don't Cry - The Cure
97 Matinee - Franz Ferdinand
98 Bohemian Like You - The Dandy Warhols
99 Come Back To What You Know - Embrace
100 Some Might Say - Oasis


Rest of the Top 500
bunnyman
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Re: Top 500 Indie Songs May 09, 2005 at 07:21 PM UTC #
How Anglo :-)
Sir HC
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Re: Top 500 Indie Songs May 09, 2005 at 07:23 PM UTC #
Very UK biased list.
markie
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Re: Top 500 Indie Songs May 09, 2005 at 07:49 PM UTC #
Originally posted by Sir HC:
Very UK biased list.
Well if you don't like it why don't you fuck off back to your own country!!!

Oh, wait a minute….
beedubyah
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Re: Top 500 Indie Songs May 09, 2005 at 07:51 PM UTC #
Oasis, Smiths, Verve, Radiohead….indie?

Dont really get that.
HoyaSaxa03
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Re: Top 500 Indie Songs May 09, 2005 at 07:56 PM UTC #
or green day…
markie
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Re: Top 500 Indie Songs May 09, 2005 at 07:58 PM UTC #
Originally posted by beedubyah:
Oasis, Smiths, Verve, Radiohead….indie?

Dont really get that.
Smiths were on Rough Trade there whole career.


Oasis were on Creation


Can't care to vouch for the other two.
dfmcpete
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Re: Top 500 Indie Songs May 09, 2005 at 08:20 PM UTC #
Also very - I dunno - temporal? This list would have been different 3 years ago and will be different in 3 years. I like looking at pitchfork's lists like that - the #1 album of last year is Arcade Fire's Funeral, but it's like 40 on best of 2000-2004. I guess 2004 sucked.
elj
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Re: Top 500 Indie Songs May 09, 2005 at 08:23 PM UTC #
Originally posted by dfmcpete:
I like looking at pitchfork's lists like that - the #1 album of last year is Arcade Fire's Funeral, but it's like 40 on best of 2000-2004. I guess 2004 sucked.
I also find it funny that Animal Collective, Brian Wilson, and a good 4-5 more 2004 releases are higher then Arcade Fire on the top of 2000-2004 list, even though it came out like 6 weeks after their tops of 2004 list.
Sir HC
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Re: Top 500 Indie Songs May 09, 2005 at 08:27 PM UTC #
Originally posted by Miss MArKiE?:
Originally posted by Sir HC:
Very UK biased list.
Well if you don't like it why don't you fuck off back to your own country!!!

Oh, wait a minute….
Not to dis it but many of the songs on the list of top 500 were pretty much ignored here. The first Radiohead one, is that off the latest or some B side? I wonder how many were import only here in the states thereby reducing their chances of being on an indie greatest here.
elj
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Re: Top 500 Indie Songs May 09, 2005 at 08:40 PM UTC #
Originally posted by Sir HC:
The first Radiohead one, is that off the latest or some B side?
Just? It was a huge hit off The Bends and has a very popular video.
HoyaSaxa03
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Re: Top 500 Indie Songs May 09, 2005 at 09:13 PM UTC #
Originally posted by Julian, faux celeb-porn CONNOISSEUR:
Originally posted by Sir HC:
The first Radiohead one, is that off the latest or some B side?
Just? It was a huge hit off The Bends and has a very popular video.
was there ever any answer to why they all fall down / die?
El Tee
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Re: Top 500 Indie Songs May 09, 2005 at 09:19 PM UTC #
crikey, 500?
elj
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Re: Top 500 Indie Songs May 09, 2005 at 09:21 PM UTC #
Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
was there ever any answer to why they all fall down / die?
Nothing conclusive.
Sir HC
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Re: Top 500 Indie Songs May 10, 2005 at 01:04 PM UTC #
Originally posted by Julian, faux celeb-porn CONNOISSEUR:
Originally posted by Sir HC:
The first Radiohead one, is that off the latest or some B side?
Just? It was a huge hit off The Bends and has a very popular video.
Just glanced and missed Just.

23 Street Spirit - Radiohead

is the one that has me boggled.
Relaxer
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Re: Top 500 Indie Songs May 10, 2005 at 01:07 PM UTC #
Originally posted by Julian, faux celeb-porn CONNOISSEUR:
Originally posted by Sir HC:
The first Radiohead one, is that off the latest or some B side?
Just? It was a huge hit off The Bends and has a very popular video.
What makes you think it was a big hit? It barely scraped the UK top 20, and didn't chart in the U.S. at all. The video was somewhat popular (though not nearly as popular as Fake Plastic Trees). I'm very surprised they picked this one for the top Radiohead song over Street Spirit, Paranoid Android or even Creep.
sonickteam2
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Re: Top 500 Indie Songs May 10, 2005 at 01:14 PM UTC #
Originally posted by Sir HC:


23 Street Spirit - Radiohead

is the one that has me boggled.
Street Spirit (Fade Out)

its the last song on the Bends, the slow one. they have a video for that one too. where they do the tricky camera work…
elj
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Re: Top 500 Indie Songs May 10, 2005 at 01:16 PM UTC #
Originally posted by Relaxer:
What makes you think it was a big hit?
Of the Bends songs, it's the one I hear played the most often still, although FPT was probably more popular at the time.
sonickteam2
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Re: Top 500 Indie Songs May 10, 2005 at 01:16 PM UTC #
Originally posted by Relaxer:
I'm very surprised they picked this one for the top Radiohead
Idioteque is clearly thier best song….
Sir HC
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Re: Top 500 Indie Songs May 10, 2005 at 02:22 PM UTC #
Originally posted by sonickteam3:
Originally posted by Sir HC:


23 Street Spirit - Radiohead

is the one that has me boggled.
Street Spirit (Fade Out)

its the last song on the Bends, the slow one. they have a video for that one too. where they do the tricky camera work…
Okay, my problem is that I don't usually have the cases handy when listening so I am horrible with song titles. Know that song, but I would not put it as better than so many other Radiohead songs. Funny that 2 from The Bends made it first on the list. Maybe their later albums are not indie enough or something.

But then again, VH1(2) and indie are like oil and water.
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