The reason Blender's lists are better than its actual writing and criticism is that they just cop other critics' opinions and use them to make a list composite of what is supposedly good.

Which leads to errors like "Cooked Rain, Cooked Rain". We know that, at least, the person writing the list out has never heard that album, and maybe even some of the people who made the album. "The Reminder" can't even qualify itself as the rock that this list supposedly compiles.

The most distinguishing feature of the list to me is its copious spelling errors. REM's "Mumu," Joy Division's "Unkwon Pleasures" among others. Blender is too cool to use a spellchecker apparently.

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Originally posted by Commontone:
"Unkwon Pleasures"

Raekwon should definitely consider this for the title of his next album.

Cooked Rain, Cooked Rain...
Unkwon Pleasures ...
Mumu ...

I'm thinking of a possible discussion board, like the Song Tag board, where you alter or invert one or two letters in an album or song title to make something different ...

Did they just post the Dead Kennedys as 'indie-rock'?

Fucking hell.

Ha, this list is as indie as Blender itself. In all seriousness, it's a decent list for more mainstream alternative stuff.

Just found another: The lovely New Oder

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Originally posted by WinnebagoWarrior:
I think its odd that the Lonely Crowded West was on there and not The Moon and Antarctica.... I was much rather have TMA as a rather big Modest Mouse fan myself...

Moon and Antarctica was released on a major label. Thus not indie. Thus not on the list.

Interscope records has Fergie and 50 cent on it. Is that not a major label? and yet there are a number of Interscope artists on the list, and Island is part of a big ol music comglomerate. At the beginning of the Top 100 list they dont make any indication that label size is what defined a record as "indie".

I still think that leaving TMaA off the list was a judement call on their part, and a poor one at that.

I think you are right about that being a judgment call, but wrong about it being a poor one. I too, would pick TM&A over LCW, but think about what this list is trying to represent. In keeping with the theme, it makes sense that Blender would pick a Slanted & Enchanted over Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain; Painful over I Can Hear the Heart...; Unknown Pleasures over Closer; The Smiths over The Queen is Dead; The Velvet Underground over The VU & Nico, etc...

They are looking for grittier, less revered albums that support the notion of an "indie aesthetic". Get the idea?

Or maybe they just think it's a better album?

I tend to agree with that too.

Actually, I had never heard of Blender magazine before, and discovering that they have placed In the aeroplane over the sea in the 32nd spot, I am quite comfortable never reading the magazine again...