The Ultimate Indie Rock Mix.

for me, just one unwound, unrest, and unsane song after another.

Just go buy the latest volume of That's What I Call Indie Rock!.

Close enough is K-Tel's "Gimme Indie Rock" from 2000

Disc One
1. Pink Turns to Blue - Husker Du
2. Little Fury Things - Dinosaur Jr.
3. Too Far Gone - My Dad Is Dead
4. My Favourite Dress - The Wedding Present
5. I Love My Leather Jacket - The Chills
6. Cruisers Creek - The Fall
7. Sweet Little Hi-Fi - Pussy Galore
8. Touch Me I'm Sick - Mudhoney
9. U.S. Teens Are Spoiled Bums - Half Japanese
10. She's Fetching - Big Dipper
11. Jangle Town - Nikki Sudden
12. Watching the Candles Burn - Eleventh Dream Day
13. Black Venetian Blind - Giant Sand
14. Swimming Ground - Meat Puppets
15. I'm Ready - Scrawl

Disc Two
1. Slipping (Into Something) - The Feelies
2. Barnaby, Hardly Working - Yo La Tengo
3. Nothing Left to Lose - Wipers
4. Sun God - Squirrel Bait
5. Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing - Minutemen
6. Andelusia [Instrumental Version] - Savage Republic
7. Ghosts of American Astronauts - The Mekons
8. Blue Thunder [w/Sax] - Galaxie 500
9. Take Me to the Other Side - Spacemen 3
10. Everything's Explodin' - The Flaming Lips
11. Creepy Smell - Melvins
12. Black Coffee - Black Flag
13. Coca-Cola & Licorice - Death of Samantha
14. I'm Alright With You - The Pastels
15. Molly's Lips - The Vaselines

I wonder why the K-Tel comp only went to '92 or so (if even that late).

My ultimate indie rock mixtape would have:

Built to Spill - "In The Morning" or "Virgina Reel..." (live)
Pavement - "Pueblo" or "Grounded"
Modest Mouse - "Edit the Sad Parts"
Guided By Voices - "Motor Away"

connecticuthardcorestillrules: DO YOU POST ON MAKEOUTCLUB???

The songs on the Ktel thing are great, but before my time and not what i think of when i think indie rock. So here goes:
1. "Web in Front"- Archers of Loaf. Quite simply the best indie rock single, in my opinion. Band curiously did not do anything else approaching this. Funny, catchy, short, bouncy, genious.
2. "Ohio River Boat Song"- Palace. The debut and one of Oldham's finest songs.
3. "New Orleans"- Silver Jews. The finest lyric in indie rock: "There is a house in New Orleans/ Not the one you've heard about, I'm talking bout a different house"
4. "Gold Soundz"- Pavement. Really any of the first three Pavement albums could be the mix-tape. Pavement IS Indie Rock. But Gold Soundz has the perfect combination of naivete, intelligence, wit, and irony to be the ultimate example,
5. "Skull"- Sebadoh. Alot of people would probably go for something from the Gafney era, maybe from III. But this is a beautiful song that says to me a lot about what Sebadoh was: sentimental, almost sappy even but good songwriting.
6. "Full Piston Vinegar"- Trumans Water. Why pick a noisy Sebadoh song when you could have the crazy energy of these spazzes.
7. "Doing the Cockroach"- Modest Mouse. Isaac Brock's white trash philospher persona mixed with engaging hard rock.
8. "Car"- Built to Spill.
9. "Tom Boy"- Bettie Serveert. These two are simply really good songs.
10. "Precision Auto"- Superchunk. Loud, fast, melodic. But it doesn't suck.
11. "Superball"- Helium.
12. "Blue Line Swinger"- Yo La Tengo.
13. "Surrender to the Night"- Trans Am. My admittedly controversial post-rock pick, but I think Trans Am are really the best of them. There probably should be a Tortoise song on this.

The Judybats

Superdrag

Taoist Cowboys

My own would feature:

The Wedding Present "Kennedy"
Pavement "Unfair"
Unrest "Six Layer Cake"
Yo La Tengo "Stockholm Syndrome"
Built to Spill "I Would Hurt a Fly"
Versus "Eskimo"
Neutral Milk Hotel "Holland, 1945"
Go-Betweens "Locust Girls"

except the GBV, which I don't know, Mark's picks (esp. the live "Virginia") are all ace. obviously I'm going to say Lifter Puller--either "To Live and Die in L.B.I." to open it (or jumpstart it again halfway thru) or "Nassau Coliseum" near or at end.

Anybody have an opinion on *This*?

Lonely Moans - "Moans Theme"
Unsane - "Broke"
Phantom Tollbooth - "Landing is Great"
Bongwater - "I Want to Talk About it Now"
Melody Dog - "Tomorrow's World"
Todd Newman and the Leatherwoods - "Downside of an Eightball"
Mecca Normal - "Armchairs Fit"
Slovenly - "Obviousness"
Nice Strong Arm - "Framingham"
Wingtip Sloat - "Turbine Mother"
Eggs - "Ocelot"
Walkabouts - "Linda Evans"
The Shams - "Only A Dream"
The Renderers - "A Million Lights"
Autoclave - "Summer"
Railroad Jerk - "The Ballad of Jim White"
The Nights and Days - "Garbage Can"
Girl Trouble - "Out of Our Tree"
Gibson Bros. - "Dedicated Fool"
King Kong - "Old Man on the Bridge"
Urge Overkill - "Bionic Revolution"
Jean Paul Sartre Experience - "Crush"
The Orchids - "Thaumaturgy"
Franklin Bruno - "Keeping the Weekend Free"
Shrimp Boat - "Free Love Overdrive"
Fish & Roses - "Nothing Thing"
Sylvia Juncosa - "Lick My Pussy, Eddie Van Halen"
Finger - "Ship Full of Holes"
Azalia Snail - "St. Nowhere"
Jasmine Minks - "Another Age"
The Fibbonaccis - "Somnambulist"
Mad Scene - "Falling Over, Spilling Over"
The Individuals - "My Three Sons (Revolve Around the Earth)"
Game Theory - "Erica's Word"
Teenage Fanclub - "Everything Flows"
Brother JT - "This is the Life"
Sebadoh - "Oven is My Friend"

"car" and "to live & die in l.b.i." are essential. i would also add:
"in a jar" - dinosaur jr.
"box elder" - pavement
"teenage riot" - sonic youth
"halah" - mazzy star
"god knows it's true" - teenage fanclub
"brand new love" - sebadoh
"tugboat" or "4th of july" - galaxie 500
"be like that" - tsunami
"insecure" - mambo taxi
"cherry red compilation" - rock-a-teens
"your new friend" - smog
aack. drowning in waves of teenage nostalgia... must... stop...

Ruby Falls - "Let Me Go"

Polvo - "Fast Canoe"
Shellac - "Wingwalker"
Built to Spill - "Twin Falls"

Number One Cup - "Just Let Go"

Peglegasus, "Superdiver"
Creeper Lagoon, "Dreaming Again"
The Apples in Stereo, "Silver Chain"

Jawbreaker - Boxcar
Fugazi - Blueprint
Unwound - Dragnalus

Lightning Bolt - 13 Monsters
6 Finger Satellite - Coke & Mirrors
Boredoms - Voredoms

yes to King Kong, but I'd pick "Dirty City, Rainy Day"

The Moles- Whats The New Mary Jane
Nothing Painted Blue- Swivelchair
Einstein's Day- Mission Of Burma
The Bats- Block of Wood
Smog- I am Star Wars
Camper Van Beetoven- Take The Skinheads Bowling

Ironic hipsters with broken ears!
Where are the Pixies?

y'all are missin' some good uns here
moving targets - less than gravity
die kruezen - among the ruins
meat puppets - teenagers
saccharine trust - yahw on acid

There's a new Rhino indie box set:
>> Disc One:
01 R.E.M.: "Radio Free Europe"
02 The Jam: "Going Underground"
03 The Cure: "A Forest"
04 Dead Kennedys: "Holiday in Cambodia"
05 Passions: "I'm in Love With a German Film Star"
06 The Replacements: "I Will Dare"
07 Mission Of Burma: "That's When I Reach for My Revolver"
08 X: "Johnny Hit and Run Pauline"
09 The Jesus And Mary Chain: "Just Like Honey"
10 Depeche Mode: "Black Celebration"
11 The Dream Syndicate: "Tell Me When It's Over"
12 The Red Hot Chili Peppers: "Hollywood (Africa)"
13 New Order: "Temptation"
14 Japan: "Ghosts"
15 Magazine: "A Song From Under the Floorboards"
16 Aztec Camera: "Oblivious"
17 Hüsker Dü: "Don't Want To Know if You Are Lonely"
18 Black Flag: "Rise Above"
19 Wall Of Voodoo: "Back in Flesh"
20 The Go-Betweens: "Cattle and Cane"
>> Disc Two:
01 The Pretenders: "Message of Love"
02 Ultravox: "Vienna"
03 Dinosaur Jr.: "Freak Scene"
04 The Smiths: "This Charming Man"
05 Ministry: "Stigmata"
06 Lone Justice: "Ways To Be Wicked"
07 Killing Joke: "Wardance"
08 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: "Enola Gay"
09 The English Beat: "Mirror in the Bathroom"
10 The Raincoats: "Fairytale in the Supermarket"
11 The Smithereens: "Behind the Wall of Sleep"
12 Minutemen: "Political Song for Michael Jackson To Sing"
13 The Dead Milkmen: "Punk Rock Girl"
14 Concrete Blonde: "Still in Hollywood"
15 Joy Division: "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
16 Violent Femmes: "Blister in the Sun"
17 Meat Puppets: "Lake of Fire"
18 The dB's: "Amplifier"
19 Prefab Sprout: "When Love Breaks Down"
20 The Cramps: "Goo Goo Muck"
21 Sisters of Mercy: "This Corrosion"
22 XTC: "Senses Working Overtime"
>> Disc Three:
01 Echo & The Bunnymen: "The Cutter"
02 Bad Brains: "Pay To Cum!"
03 The Sugarcubes: "Birthday"
04 Robyn Hitchcock 'n' the Egyptians: "Madonna of the Wasps"
05 Faith No More: "We Care a Lot"
06 Sonic Youth: "Teenage Riot"
07 Gang Of Four: "To Hell With Poverty"
08 The Feelies: "Fa Cé-La"
09 They Might Be Giants: "Ana Ng"
10 The Chameleons UK: "Swamp Thing"
11 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: "The Mercy Seat"
12 The Rain Parade: "I Look Around"
13 Psychedelic Furs: "All That Money Wants"
14 The Church: "Under the Milky Way"
15 Public Image Ltd.: "Rise"
16 Love And Rockets: "Kundalini Express"
17 Green On Red: "Gravity Talks"
18 Throbbing Gristle: "Adrenalin"
19 The Stone Roses: "She Bangs the Drums"
>>Disc Four:
01 Pixies: "Monkey Gone to Heaven"
02 The The: "Uncertain Smile (original 7" version)"
03 Bauhaus: "Bela Lugosi's Dead"
04 Siouxsie And The Banshees: "Christine"
05 Minor Threat: "Straight Edge"
06 The Lyres (Boston): "I Want To Help You Ann"
07 Beat Happening: "Our Secret"
08 Jane's Addiction: "Jane Says"
09 Julian Cope: "World Shut Your Mouth"
10 Kate Bush: "Running up That Hill"
11 Gun Club: "Sex Beat"
12 Camper Van Beethoven: "Take the Skinheads Bowling"
13 Suicidal Tendencies: "Institutionalized"
14 Cocteau Twins: "Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops"
15 Happy Mondays: "24 Hour Party People"
16 Hoodoo Gurus: "I Want You Back"
17 Descendents: "Suburban Home"
18 The Pogues: "A Pair of Brown Eyes"
19 The Three O'Clock: "Jet Fighter"
20 Butthole Surfers: "Moving To Florida"
21 Billy Bragg: "A New England"

I love "Web in Front" and hate almost everything else by them.
*raspberry*

And a responding *raspberry* to you, kind sir.

teehee

"Diary" by Saturday Looks Good To Me is the only indie rock song released in 2004 that I have significantly enjoyed, so I'd include that song, it is nice.