What are YOUR top ten INDIE ANTHEMS?

[hans kraay fan club]

Since when was Nirvana indie?

The thing is [oh, and well done for managing a whole sentence without winding anyone up or adding any insults] 'Indie' is a very loose term.

It originally referred to bands on small independant labels, irrespective of the actual style of music.

Because a lot of those bands were guitar bands 'The Smiths' on Rough Trade, 'Stone Roses' on Silvertone, etc, the term became associated with that kind of music. It is certainly used as a catch-all to all of Brit-pop, despite many of those bands being signed to large labels.

In general it seems to now inlcude anything that students like, with the exception of dance and R'n'B!

 

[CHAPPERS]

Since when was Nirvana indie?

Since people decided that the term GRUNGE was ridiculous.

 

[Skaville]

The Charlatans - Sproston Green
Oasis - Columbia
The Stone Roses - I am the Ressurrection
Gorkys Zygoitic Mynci - Patio Song
Happy Mondays - WFL
The Farm - Family of Man (version on double A side with Stepping Stone)
Pulp - Babies
The Smiths - There is a Light That Never Goes Out
Radiohead - Fade Out
Bloc Party - Helicopter

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Novocaine for the Soul: Eels
Nancy Boy: Placebo
There she goes:The La's

 

[Kylies Stunt Arse]

No particular order

Super Furry Animals - The Man Don't Give A f***
The Charlatans - One To Another
Stone Roses - She Bangs The Drums
Happy Mondays - Step On
Oasis - Rock N Roll Star
Shed Seven - Bully Boy
Supergrass - Sun Hits The Sky
Bluetones - If...
Blur - There's No Other Way
Sleeper - Sale Of The Century


Could've put loads more in...

 

[Tesco in Disguise]

i'd like to present a list that shows both my understanding of the genre, my refined taste and with a couple of obscure ones thrown in for a bit of edge. sadly, the horrible term 'anthem' means POP songs. my list (and by no means my favourites) would probably be:

oasis - c & a
suede - animal nitrate
blur - girls and boys
pulp - common people
james - sit down
verve - bittersweet symphony
smiths - how soon is now?
stone roses - i am the resurrection
killers - mr brightside
strokes - last night

yes - i realise that the majority of these songs are utter shite. but then i think that's the point.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

i'd like to present a list that shows both my understanding of the genre, my refined taste and with a couple of obscure ones thrown in for a bit of edge. sadly, the horrible term 'anthem' means POP songs. my list (and by no means my favourites) would probably be:

oasis - c & a
suede - animal nitrate
blur - girls and boys
pulp - common people
james - sit down
verve - bittersweet symphony
smiths - how soon is now?
stone roses - i am the resurrection
killers - mr brightside
strokes - last night

yes - i realise that the majority of these songs are utter shite. but then i think that's the point.

You're actually a COCK, aren't you?

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Decent Days & Nights - The Futureheads
Uncertain Smile - The The
Out of The Blue - The The
Soviet - Electronic
Get The Message - Electronic
Dying - Joy Zipper
Zach & Sarah - Ben Folds
Everybody Knows - Divine Comedy
All These Things That I've Done - Killers
Sally MacLennane - The Pogues

 

[Les Biehn]

You're actually a COCK, aren't you?

 

[Thimble Keegan]

Reading this thread I think some are missing the point of Indie ANTHEMS.

Anyway, I have gone for 15:

This Is The One – The Stone Roses
Rock & Roll Star – Oasis
Sposton Green – The Charlatans
Bitter-Sweet Sympthony - Verve
The Man Don’t Give A f*** – Super Furry Animals
History – Cast
This Is How It Feels – Inspiral Carpets
Bully Boy – Shed 7
Charmless Man – Blur
Oh Yeah – Ash
Going Out – Supergrass
She Said – The Longpigs
From A Window – Northern Uproar
Cut Some Rug – The Bluetones
Creep – Radiohead

Albion & England forever.

Thimble Keegan
Wakefield BHA

 

[chez]

Stone Roses - I wanna Be Adored
The Levellers - One Way
REM - Losing My Religion
PWEI - Wise Up Sucker
Cast - Walkaway
Happy Mondays - Hallelujah
Oasis - Champagne Supernova
Clash - Rock The Kasbah
The Cure - Love Cats
The Farm - All Together Now

 

[Tesco in Disguise]

You're actually a COCK, aren't you?

hmmm. go on...

 

[Les Biehn]

hmmm. go on...

Don't take this the wrong way TiD I just think you kind of didn't gauge the thread. It was a fairly easy going thread about indie music and then you posted what was quite a pretentious post and basically slagged off the music that people posting like.

Although I will say one thing I didn’t really think of it as anthems, more just my indie top 10.

 

[Tesco in Disguise]

The thing with this is I'll do it, but if I did it again in a month's time half of them would have changed.

I'm not actually saying that The Charlatans are better than the Artic Monkeys, or that The Cure are better than the Kaiser Chiefs, but as 'Indie Anthems' these songs are much more important to ME.

not really anthems then, are they? the point is that they are not personal. they're lighter-in-the-air songs that define the age and have mass appeal.

I think your own personal list probaably says more about your age, and where your were in a particular era, than it does about the particular merits of the music.

it surely does, grandad.

 

[Les Biehn]

How old are you TiD?

 

[Tesco in Disguise]

Don't take this the wrong way TiD I just think you kind of didn't gauge the thread. It was a fairly easy going thread about indie music and then you posted what was quite a pretentious post and basically slagged off the music that people posting like.

i hope not. i think most indie fans would agree that often the most popular songs are not the best. i was just saying that that was what i thought too.

indie top 10 and top 10 indie anthems very different things, methinks.

 

[Tesco in Disguise]

How old are you TiD?

that would be telling. i like the warm blanket that is the anonymity nsc provides. (saying that, i'm sure your guess wouldn't be far off!)

 

[Tesco in Disguise]

i'd like to present a list that shows both my understanding of the genre, my refined taste and with a couple of obscure ones thrown in for a bit of edge.

tongue-in-cheek, les.

 

[League1Champions]

Quality tunes

Oasis - Cigarettes and Alcohol
Oasis - Live Forever
Oasis - Whatever
Blur - Girls and Boys
Blur - Coffee and TV
Cast - Walkaway
Pulp - Common People
The Verve - Lucky Man
The Verve - Sonnet
Artic Monkeys - When the Sun Goes Down

 

[Les Biehn]

i hope not. i think most indie fans would agree that often the most popular songs are not the best. i was just saying that that was what i thought too.

indie top 10 and top 10 indie anthems very different things, methinks.

I agree, but I think the thread was just more about the nostalgia of the music than anything else.

With regards to your age I wouold have said mid 20's. But I may be wrong. Just your music selection and you once commented when I mentioned Robinskis.