Blender's 100 Greatest Indie-Rock Albums Ever

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 Blender's 100 Greatest Indie-Rock Albums Ever
In the December issue of Blender , the magazine's editors have compiled what they see as the "The 100 Greatest Indie-Rock Albums Ever," opening with this little graph: Mumbled lyrics, couldn’t-care-less strumming, white dudes in sweaters—what’s not to love about indie rock? Born 25-odd years ago in suburban garages and spread via college radio, it has made distortion into something hummable, ... [link]

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The 100 Greatest Indie Rock Albums Evar
Published 11/14/2007 by Bol at ByronCrawford.com
... 10 The Smiths - The Smiths 09 Big Star - Third/Sister Lovers 08 My Bloody Valentine - Loveless 07 The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground 06 Arcade Fire - Funeral 05 Pixies - Surfer Rosa 04 R.E.M. - Murmur 03 The Replacements - Let It Be 02 Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation 01 Pavement - Slanted And Enchanted You can check the rest of the list at stereogum (via). ...

it's a list!
Published 11/14/2007 at OH NO!!
... a great record. Also by the numbers: Bands with two albums on the list: 4 (Pavement, Hüsker Dü; Meat Puppets); Hip-hop albums: 1 (De La Soul); 2007 albums: 2 (Feist, Animal Collective). They obviously took care to highlight only early indie releases from some of the major-bound superstars (e.g., Bleach, White Blood Cells) ... so why so much Interscope? OK, what else did Blender get right and/or wrong? We'll start: Where's Jesus Lizard? list by blender commentary from stereogum feel free to tear this one apart

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Published 11/15/2007 by david (boy@largeheartedboy.com) at Largehearted Boy
... Esquire lists the five worst fight scenes ever filmed. The Stereogum community discusses Blender's list of the top 100 indie albums of all time. Publishers Weekly names its best books of the year. Included is ...

Blender Just Loves Lists
Published 11/15/2007 by Anton Djamoos at AbsolutePunk.net - News
... Blender has named the 100 greatest indie rock albums ever. Thoughts? Submitted by xshady121