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Entertainment Weekly in Fresh List Outbreak

21st March 2008 | by Ross Riley

Lists, lists, lists. Is there any music fan that can't be placated with a fresh sprinkling of 'The Best ..[insert spurious qualifier here].... Albums of all time'.

Kudos must then be directed to Entertainment Weekly, not one of our usual haunts it must be said, for their 'Indie Rock 25' which lists the essential indie album of each of the past 25 years.

Best of all is that no faux indie bands are allowed, a genuine independent release was needed to qualify. Sounds pretentious we know but a trawl through the list would certainly give you a genuine experience of the best music of the last quarter of a century.

Here's the list:

1984: The Replacements - Let It Be
1985: The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
1986: R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pageant
1987: Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
1988: Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
1989: The Pixies - Doolittle
1990: Fugazi - Repeater
1991: My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
1992: Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
1993: Built To Spill - Ultimate Alternative Wavers
1994: Guided By Voices - Bee Thousand
1995: Archers Of Loaf - Vee Vee
1996: Belle And Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
1997: Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West
1998: Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
1999: Sleater-Kinney - The Hot Rock
2000: Yo La Tengo - And then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
2001: The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
2002: Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights
2003: The White Stripes - Elephant
2004: Arcade Fire - Funeral
2005: Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
2006: The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
2007: Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
2008: Radiohead - In Rainbows

And here's a link to the article.