by Colin Larkin
“Indie is the hardest category to define. The old definition of being
independently produced and distributed is now outmoded as these days a
major label needs only wave a cheque book and it has its own indie band.
Indie is mainly guitar-based pop, as seen from this list”.
1. Stone Roses - Stone Roses
2. Smiths - Queen is Dead
3. Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
4. Smiths - Smiths
5. Primal Scream - Screamadelica
6. Inspiral Carpets - Life
7. Suede - Suede
8. Joy Division - Closer
9. Pogues - Rum Sodomy & the Lash
10. Sugar - Copper Blue
11. Inspiral Carpets - Beast Inside
12. Bragg, Billy - Talking with the Taxman About Poetry
13. Happy Mondays - Pills Thrills and Bellyaches
14. Smiths - Meat is Murder
15. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
16. Fall - Wonderful and Frightening World of the…
17. Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
18. James - Stutter
19. Shamen - Boss Drum
20. New Order - Low Life
21. Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
22. New Order - Brotherhood
23. Pixies - Bossanova
24. My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
25. Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
26. Josef K - Young & Stupid (1989 compilation of non-album material)
27. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
28. Fall - Shift Work
29. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
30. Morrissey - Your Arsenal
31. Pixies - Doolittle
32. Cure - Pornography
33. Echo & the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
34. Harvey, PJ - Dry
35. Björk - Debut
36. Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro
37. Aztec Camera - High Land Hard Rain
38. Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
39. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
40. Echo & the Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
41. Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good
42. Happy Mondays - Bummed
43. Wonderstuff - Never Loved Elvis
44. Cocteau Twins - Garlands
45. Chameleons - What Does Anything Mean? Basically?
46. Chumbawamba - Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records
47. Smiths - Strangeways Here We Come
48. La's - La's
49. That Petrol Emotion - Chemicrazy
50. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
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