Yo, I'm making a mix for my university basketball team to play during the warm up and time outs and such and I just wanted to drop some good 'indie' tracks in the mix. I'm trying to break away from the usual songs, such as AC/DC, Guns and Roses, montley crue etc. type of stuff. So far I'm thinking some tracks by Fatboy Slim,Daft Punk,Justice,Wolfmother and the Rapture would be good. But I just wanted your opinion? Let me know.

Band of Horses - Funeral
Battles - Atlas
Bloc Party - Banquet
Kings of Leon - Charmer or On Call
The Go! Team - Grip Like a Vice

just to start

Try some of these:

The Breeders: Cannonball
Bloc Party: Helicopter
Daft Punk: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Interpol: Evil
Sonic Youth: Teen Age Riot
Explosions in the Sky: Welcome, Ghosts
J Dilla: Workinonit
LCD Soundsystem: Tribulations
Pixies: Debaser
Spoon: I Turn My Camera On, The Underdog (if you team is the...underdog)
The Strokes: 12:51
Talking Heads: Born Under the Punches
Television: Marquee Moon
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Gold Lion
TV on the Radio: Staring At the Sun

"You Only Live Once" by the Strokes
"505" by the Arctic Monkeys
"Seven Nation Army" by the White Stripes
"Misfit Love" by Queens of the Stone Age

"Lord Leopard" - Caribou
"Assassins" - Lightning Bolt
"Ride On Shooting Star" - The Pillows
"Five Corporations" - Fugazi
"Mr. Suit" - Wire

Awesome suggestions so far. Thanks. Keep it coming!

The Avalanches - Electricity
The Decemberists - Odalisque
Les Savy Fav - The Sweat Descends
Mastodon - Capillarian Crest
Pixies - River Euphrates
Radiohead - Electioneering
Sleater-Kinney - The Fox
Sonic Youth - Silver Rocket
Yo La Tengo - Sugarcube

I'm keeping my definition of "indie" pretty lax.

Doobie Bros - What a Fool Believes

The first 45 seconds of "Wake Up" by Arcade Fire are pretty awesome.

The Strokes - "Reptilia"
Weezer - "Hash Pipe"
Arctic Monkeys - "The View from the Afternoon"
Modest Mouse - "Float On"
The Killers - "Bones"
Muse - "Take a Bow," "Starlight" (Check this band's catalog, they have a ton of songs that fit the bill)
Radiohead - "Idioteque"

"Rooms and Gardens" - Appleseed Cast
"Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)" - Arcade Fire
"From the Ritz to the Rubble" - Arctic Monkeys
"Sabatoge" - Beastie Boys (hehehe...)
"Helter Skelter" - Beatles
"E-Pro" - Beck
"Pressure Zone" - Beck
"Devil's Haircut" - Beck
"Song 2" - Blur ... obligatory, really
"Crazy Beat" - Blur
"Windsurfing Nation" - Broken Social Scene
"Stars and Sons" - Broken Social Scene
"Arco Arena" - Cake
"I will Survive" - Cake
"Block Rockin Beats" - Chemical Brothers
"Rudie Can't Fail" - The Clash
"Name of the Game" - Crystal Method
"Keep Hope Alive" - Crystal Method
"Alt.End" - the Cure
...
and I'm getting bored / running out of time to go through my hard drive alphabetically to look for stuff. I don't like basketball, but I went to a basketball oriented University (creighton) and would flip shit if I heard those songs at a game and/or practiced to them. However, probably not many other people would...

one more:
"Mr. November" - The National

I was wondering if anyone would say it.

If I were to ever be on a basketball team I would listen to "Mr.November" constantly. It's my theme song during finals week.

No one's said Go! Team yet? Jeez.. Any of their stuff'll get'cha pumped.

I said Grip Like a Vice. I agree they are totally pumpin'!

girl talk: anything at all.
it's like amphetamines for your ears.

m.i.a. gets me pumped as hell. like right now, i'm jumping around the room. you just think i'm sitting down and typing.

Nothing gets me pumped like the new Fall Out Boy.

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Originally posted by ericg75:
Nothing gets me pumped like the new Fall Out Boy.

It. Gets. Me. PUMPED!

Hold on, the old lady is calling.

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Originally posted by Chamberk:

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Originally posted by ericg75:
Nothing gets me pumped like the new Fall Out Boy.

It. Gets. Me. PUMPED!

Hold on, the old lady is calling.

I don't know if this was meant as a joke or not, but I found it hillarious.


Just to stay on Topic I'll add to the list:
On A Rope - Rocket From the Crypt
Basement Jax - Where's Your Head At
Sneaker Pimps - Kiro TV

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I don't know if this was meant as a joke or not, but I found it hillarious.

That was from some totally ridiculous cell phone commercial from a few months back. Good call, eric - I forgot how funny that one was.

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"Sabatoge" - Beastie Boys (hehehe...)

Definitely not "indie", but it gets me about as pumped up as any song around, and has done so for over a decade. Kick-ass song.

It'll be "Wolf Like Me" for me.