in no order
clap your hands...s/t
bloc party-silent alarm
broken social scene-you forgot it in people
the strokes-is this it
franz ferdinand-franz ferdinand
arctic monkeys-whatever people say...
the arcade fire-funeral
the shins-oh, inverted world
the decenbrists-the crane wife
modest mouse-good news for people that love bad news

2001
Fennesz - Endless Summer

2002
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

2003
The Wrens - The Meadowlands

2004
Arcade Fire - Funeral

2005
The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

2006
The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America

2007
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
New Pornographers - Challengers

As you can see, 2005 was quite a year. I'm also thinking about 2000 and why I can't pick a notable album from that year.

Aaaaand... it's because there are none.

The White Stripes, Queens of the Stone Age, Yo La Tengo, Modest Mouse and The New Pornographers were still considered "indie" back then. Their albums from 2000 are worty albums if you ask me.

1. Radiohead - Kid A
2. Sufjan Stevens - Come On Feel The Illinoise
3. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
4. Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
5. The Strokes - Is This It?
6. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free
7. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
8. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
9. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
10. Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News

I couldn't have ignored Radiohead, that album basically introduced me to the so-called genre. The Streets is an album I'm surprised to not see much on these lists.

I count 2 indie albums among your top 10, Cbank.

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:
I count 2 indie albums among your top 10, Cbank.

Personally, I have no idea what your talking about, but more to the point, this matter has already been discussed. Everyone has a different perception of indie. The trick is to not force your ideas on others.

That's one of the interesting things about this thread: we get to find out a little more about people's definition of "Indie". No point in getting into a discussion about it here, though. One look at someone's list and you probably know how they feel about the subject. -goathouse (I'm not sure how to pull quotes yet)

And for your information all 10 of my choices have appeared on other lists so it's not as though I'm really off the mark with these. I suppose if you wanted to you could create an indie-fundamentalist forum if this isn't really doing it for you.

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6. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free

Yes, this one has been overlooked a little. I think you'll find it's little brother Original Pirate Material appearing more often. Why? Not sure, really.

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Originally posted by Cbankerman:
I suppose if you wanted to you could create an indie-fundamentalist forum if this isn't really doing it for you.

That was great, it reminded me of this: So You Wanna Fake Being An Indie Rock Expert?

I just felt like you completely ignored the indie part of the equation. I mean, the Strokes? Really? Franz Ferdinand? Yeah, that's some hardcore indie right there. Yeah, everyone has their own definition, but you can't just say that all music you like is indie without completely destroying all meaning of the word indie.

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:
I just felt like you completely ignored the indie part of the equation. I mean, the Strokes? Really? Franz Ferdinand? Yeah, that's some hardcore indie right there. Yeah, everyone has their own definition, but you can't just say that all music you like is indie without completely destroying all meaning of the word indie.

I agree with you in spirit. In practice, however, it would be hard to not include some of these - whatever your definition of indie. I'd probably put all Shins' albums on my list, and I know they ceased being indie years ago. But, what else would you call them? Pop/Rock? It just doesn't sound right.

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Originally posted by Maximum Jack: So You Wanna Fake Being An Indie Rock Expert?

I was just thinking about that a few days ago.. I laughed my ass off when I first saw it.

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Originally posted by ezkcdude:
I'd probably put all Shins' albums on my list, and I know they ceased being indie years ago. But, what else would you call them? Pop/Rock? It just doesn't sound right.

Last I heard, the Shins were still on Sub Pop and 97% of the western world still hasn't seen Garden State-- yes, they are indeed "indie."

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Originally posted by Maximum Jack:

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Originally posted by ezkcdude:
I'd probably put all Shins' albums on my list, and I know they ceased being indie years ago. But, what else would you call them? Pop/Rock? It just doesn't sound right.

Last I heard, the Shins were still on Sub Pop and 97% of the western world still hasn't seen Garden State-- yes, they are indeed "indie."

They're still on Sub Pop, sure, but I'm pretty sure that the Garden State phenomenon made them about as mainstream as Interpol, Modest Mouse, and other crossovers like that. Everybody I know has at least HEARD of Garden State, even if they haven't seen it.

You don't know enough OLD people.

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Originally posted by Maximum Jack:
Last I heard, the Shins were still on Sub Pop and 97% of the western world still hasn't seen Garden State-- yes, they are indeed "indie."

Sub Pop may not be considered a major label, but it's got major talent (or "talent"). This year alone new releases from:

The Shins
Blitzen Trapper
Iron and Wine
The Postal Service
LCD Soundsystem
The Go! Team
Wolf Parade
Low

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Originally posted by mark f:
You don't know enough OLD people.

What, you haven't heard of Garden State?

edit: I won't believe that Postal Service rumor until I hold a copy of the albums in my own grubby hands.

Sure, I watched it.

Thanks for the shout out or the slam. You do realize there are other people older than I?

HA!

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Originally posted by Chamberk:
edit: I won't believe that Postal Service rumor until I hold a copy of the albums in my own grubby hands.

Yeah, I give it about a .2% of coming out this year. It won't be out for another year I bet.

Here is THA list :

Interpol - Antics
Wilco - Yankee hotel Foxtrot
Wilco - A ghost is born
The White Stripes - White blood cells
The Notwist - Neon Golden
The Field - from here we go sublime
GYBE - lift your skinny fists like anthennas to heaven
Modest mouse - Good news for people who loves bad news
The strokes - Is this it?
Sigur Ros - Aegetis Byrjun....(something like that)