Modest Mouse- The Moon & Antarctica
Built to Spill- You In Reverse
Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Wilco - Yankee Foxtrot Hotel
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
Sunset Rubdown- Shut Up I Am Dreaming
Wolf Parade- Apologies to the Queen Mary
Andrew Bird- Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production of Eggs
The Helio Sequence- Love and Distance

Hmm...

Rilo Kiley - The Execution of All Things
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Decemberists - Picaresque
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
Wrens - The Meadowlands
New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Tyranny of Distance

V V V V - Yes, that's what I meant.

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Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Timorous Me

"Tyranny of Distance"?

Unofficially, here are the top vote-getters to date. I have included those releases receiving five votes or more, without taking into account an individual's preferential order, since listing formats were inconsistent (at best). Among those participants listing more than ten choices, I limited it to the first ten.

updated 7.18.07- New entry: Death Cab For Cutie; moved into 2nd place: Wilco-YFH

Death Cab For Cutie- Transatlanticism-5
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah- s/t- 5 votes
Flaming Lips- Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots- 5
Of Montreal- Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?- 5
Unicorns- Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?- 5
The Shins- Chutes Too Narrow- 6
Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Fever To Tell- 6
Spoon- Gimme Fiction- 6
Modest Mouse-The Moon & Antarctica- 8
The New Pornographers- Twin Cinema- 9
Sufjan Stevens- Illinoise- 10
Broken Social Scene-You Forgot It In People- 10
Radiohead- Kid A- 11
Interpol-Turn On The Bright Lights- 13
Wrens –The Meadowlands- 13
Wolf Parade- Apologies To The Queen Mary- 14
Wilco-Yankee Foxtrot Hotel- 16
Arcade fire- Funeral- 22

Observations & arcana:
- I suspect "Kid A" would have ranked higher, but people may have been a bit concerned about having their lists appear a bit more original or unique. Think I'm off base here? edit: Ah, perhaps it is also that people no longer view Radiohead as having indie cred.
- Among the top vote-getters, bands beginning with the letter "W" scored collectively highest by a broad margin.
- An additional 24 records received at least 3 votes.
- Among this year's releases, the most votes were given to "Hissing Fauna..." with 5, followed by Arcade Fire-"Neon Bible", Arctic Monkeys-"Favourite Worst Nightmare", and Blonde Redhead-"23", each with 3 votes.

File this under time-on-my-hands, or, more specifically, avoiding doing things I ought to be doing by compiling & posting silly shit like this.

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In no particular order, the following are my top ten favorite indie albums released since 2000:

Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
The Decemberists - Picaresque
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Built to Spill - You In Reverse
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Arctic Monkeys - What People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

If you want to consider A Perfect Circle an indie band, then Mer de Noms should be included as well...

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Originally posted by m. clayton:
Unofficially, here are the top vote-getters to date. I have included those releases receiving five votes or more, without taking into account an individual's preferential order, since listing formats were inconsistent (at best). Among those participants listing more than ten choices, I limited it to the first ten.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah- s/t- 5 votes
Flaming Lips- Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots- 5
Of Montreal- Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?- 5
Unicorns- Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?- 5
The Shins- Chutes Too Narrow- 6
Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Fever To Tell- 6
Spoon- Gimme Fiction- 6
Modest Mouse-The Moon & Antarctica- 7
The New Pornographers- Twin Cinema- 8
Sufjan Stevens- Illinoise- 9
Broken Social Scene-You Forgot It In People- 10
Radiohead- Kid A- 11
Interpol-Turn On The Bright Lights- 13
Wilco-Yankee Foxtrot Hotel- 13
Wrens –The Meadowlands- 13
Wolf Parade- Apologies To The Queen Mary- 14
Arcade fire- Funeral- 22

Observations & arcana:
- I suspect "Kid A" would have ranked higher, but people may have been a bit concerned about having their lists appear a bit more original or unique. Think I'm off base here?
- Among the top vote-getters, bands beginning with the letter "W" scored collectively highest by a broad margin.
- An additional 24 records received at least 3 votes.
- Among this year's releases, the most votes were given to "Hissing Fauna..." with 5, followed by Arcade Fire-"Neon Bible", Arctic Monkeys-"Favourite Worst Nightmare", and Blonde Redhead-"23", each with 3 votes.

File this under time-on-my-hands, or, more specifically, avoiding doing things I ought to be doing by compiling & posting silly shit like this.

Hey thanks for taking the time to do that. I think that is a pretty solid list of albums. Could I trouble you to post those receiving 3 votes? I'm pleasantly surprised to see My Morning Jacket didn't make the cut.

Umm, some of these I'm sure couldn't be classed as "indie" but...

1. Joanna Newsom - Ys
2. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
3. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
4. Cat Power - The Covers Record
5. Bob Dylan – Love and Theft
6. Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones
8. Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine
9. Beck - Sea Change
10. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP

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9. Beck - Sea Change

One of my favorites, and possibly the for-all-intents-and-purposes last drop from Beck's creative well. For my money, it's the best "slow" album of the century so far.

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Originally posted by Corey:
In no particular order, the following are my top ten favorite indie albums released since 2000:

Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
The Decemberists - Picaresque
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Built to Spill - You In Reverse
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Arctic Monkeys - What People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

If you want to consider A Perfect Circle an indie band, then Mer de Noms should be included as well...

Nice list, and welcome to the forums. I don't think most people around here would class Perfect Circle as Indie, but that term is hard to nail down.

In no particular order...

Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
The Format - Dog Problems
The Notwist - Neon Golden
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
The Postal Service - Give Up
Pete Yorn - musicforthemorningafter
Starlight Mints - Built on Squares

Honorable mentions:
Beck - Midnite Vultures (released in late 1999 or it would have made it!)
Beulah - The Coast is Never Clear
Cursive - The Ugly Organ
Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
Hot Hot Heat - Make Up the Breakdown
The Jealous Sound - Kill Them With Kindness
Modest Mouse - Good News...
Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That
Rogue Wave - Descended Like Vultures
Stairwell - The Sounds of Change
The Strokes - Is This It?
Thunderbirds are Now! - justamustache

I would have voted for "Kid A" but I don't really think it counts as indie. That's also why I didn't vote for Wilco.

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Hey thanks for taking the time to do that. I think that is a pretty solid list of albums. Could I trouble you to post those receiving 3 votes? I'm pleasantly surprised to see My Morning Jacket didn't make the cut.

Not a problem (note original list has been updated).
Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production Of Eggs; Bright Eyes- I'm Wide Awake, Iron & Wine-Our Endless Numbered Days, Strokes-Is This It?, TVOTR- Return To Cookie Mountain, and White Stripes- White Blood Cells all received four votes.

The following all received three votes: A.C. Newman- The Slow Wonder, Animal Collective- Feels, Arcade Fire- Neon Bible, Arctic Monkeys- Favorite Worst Nightmare, Bloc party-Silent Alarm, Blonde Redhead-23, Decemberists- Picaresque, Destroyer- Destroyer's Rubies, Fountains of Wayne- Welcome Interstate Managers, Fugazi- Th Argument, Grandaddy- The Sophtware slump, Hold Steady- B&G in A, Liars- Drum's Not Dead, LCD Soundsystem- s/t, Microphones- The Glow Pt. II, New Porno's- Mass Romantic, Notwist- Neon Golden, Postal Service- Give Up, Sleater-Kinney- The Woods, Spoon- Kill The Moonlight, Spoon- Girls Can Tell, Ted Leo- Tyranny Of Distance, Thee More Shallows- More Deep Cuts, Walkmen- Bows & Arrows, and White Stripes- Elephant.

In No Order:
Godspeed You! Black Emperor- Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Xiu Xiu- Fabulous Muscles
Lambchop- Nixon
Blonde Redhead- Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
Caribou/Manitoba- Start Breaking My Heart
Caribou/Manitoba- Up In Flames
Low- Things We Lost in the Fire
Fog- Ether Teeth
The Boredoms- Vision Creation Newsun
Fugazi- The Argument

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Originally posted by Everyoneanindividual:
Xiu Xiu- Fabulous Muscles

This album almost made me puke.

All of the top picks so far i feel are completely deserving, however i prefer Neon Bible to Arcade Fire's Funeral.

Here's mine. Some of the genres may stretch a little you decide

In no order,

Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People
Menomena - I am the Fun Blame Monster
Lilys - Everything Wrong is Imaginary
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Scribble Mural Comic Journal
Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
Helen Stellar - Im Naut What I Seem
Kunek - Flight of the Flynns
Halloween, Alaska - s/t
Destroyer - Destroyers' Rubies

coolio

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Originally posted by Everyoneanindividual:
Xiu Xiu- Fabulous Muscles

This album almost made me puke.

That album is amazing.

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Originally posted by Everyoneanindividual:

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Originally posted by Jglass:

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Originally posted by Everyoneanindividual:
Xiu Xiu- Fabulous Muscles

This album almost made me puke.

That album is amazing.

Xiu Xiu is a love it or want to destroy all copies of its album kind of band.

I'm somewhere in the middle on that particuluar Xiu Xiu album

I'm in the middle on pretty much all Xiu Xiu records. I don't think it's necessarily fair to say they're a love 'em or hate 'em kind of group. My favorites are definitely Knife Play and Fabulous Muscles, but they have yet to release an album that doesn't feature at least a few duds.

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Originally posted by jonathanbrisby:
I'm in the middle on pretty much all Xiu Xiu records. I don't think it's necessarily fair to say they're a love 'em or hate 'em kind of group. My favorites are definitely Knife Play and Fabulous Muscles, but they have yet to release an album that doesn't feature at least a few duds.

While at the same time there are always at least two really interesting tracks on each of their releases. I'll second Knife Play as a fave.