pig bodine wrote:The actual list on the web site link provided says "UK indie."
There are a handful of songs I still like--Ambition is one of the great songs of the past 35 years, Outdoor Miner is great, Elastic Man, of course. Alot of the other ones are collecting dust on my record shelves. i definitely prefer the US music from this era.
Yeah, as far as "indie" is concerned, the UK side of it is far less interesting than the US. If they included post-punk - as their inclusion of Wire, The Fall and so on would suggest - then the UK would perhaps snatch it but the indie records in my own collection are weighed far more towards the other side of the Atlantic. A few undeniable outfits like Stereolab aside, I've never been particularly enamoured of British indie in the post-Smiths era - too much of it fits the 'bed-wetters' stereotype for my liking.
I appreciate that there may be a few things I don't know - and as I said, a lot of the British post-punk stuff is fantastic, so if there'd been a 'Party Fears Two' or 'Song from under the Floorboards' alongside 'Outdoor Miner' and You Can't Hide Your Love Forever it might have been an easier choice - but I'm actually struggling to come up with ten from the list I really like all that much.