Most respected bands in Alternative & Indie - Nominations

[Sepstrup]

So in this thread you nominate bands that you think might be the most respected by this forum (i.e. the band least people dislike) It's not necessarily restricted to this genre, as people in here generally have a broad taste in music.

Basically I'll run a series of polls where you vote for the bands you don't respect, some will be cut, and we'll continue until there's only one left.

Please don't suggest artists that are too obscure. The nominated artists will be edited into this post. Please restrict your posts to talk about nominations so this doesn't go off-topic.

[The Jungler]

Pixies.

[Sepstrup]

I'll suggest:

David Bowie
Neil Young
Johnny Cash
Tom Waits
Leonard Cohen

All those old farts

[superpeer]

Hüsker Dü
Faith no More
The Clash

EDIT:

Bob Marley

[knox]

My Bloody Valentine
Nick Drake

[Clunge]

65 Days Of Static
The Arcade Fire
The Cure
Jeff Buckley
Talking Heads

[mr_jackalope]

The Kinks
Mission of Burma
Nick Cave

[pixiesfanyo]

Billy Idol
Bruce Springsteen

[ToolBox]

Sonic Youth

[Alf™]

Queens of the Stone Age

[Matt?]

red house painters

[YDload]

The Replacements
Dinosaur Jr.
Wire
Minutemen
Pixies
Melvins
Meat Puppets
Pavement

[team_racket]

tom waits
trail of the dead

[metalicajaymz]

Cocteau Twins
the Beatles

[Zebra]

Nas

[I'm The Face]

Otis Redding

[Eliminator]

DJ Shadow
Talk Talk
Miles Davis

[sketchyjoe]

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Husker Du
The Replacements
Devo
Bob Dylan
Magazine

[Sam]

Sufjan Stevens

[Little Man being Erased]

^ lol


Seeing as no one has nominated them yet, I better do it.

The Smiths

and I'll add:

Gang of Four
Blackalicious
Hot Snakes
NoMeansNo
Radiohead (someone had to)
Television

[Tangy zizzle]

Stooges

[br3ad_man]

Joy Division
The Buzzcocks

[Zmev]

Decemberists

[nutty_bar]

Bob Dylan and Pixies are my two but they have already been said.

[YDload]

I do not respect Radiohead, and I know Zappa doesn't like The Smiths.

[Little Man being Erased]

Well that's what the voting is for sillybum.

[Otherside]

I do not respect Radiohead, and I know Zappa doesn't like The Smiths.

Why's that?

[EightMilesHigh]

Yo La Tengo
Joy Division
Sunny Day Real Estate
R.E.M.
Jeff Buckley
Pavement
Wilco
The Smiths/Morrissey
Brian Eno
Dinosaur Jr.

[llama1600]

Elliott Smith
The Pixies
Bob Dylan

[Scuba_Steve]

Sebadoh






They'll win... or elliott smith


oh, and Jeff Buckley

[Sleeper]

Sigur Ros
American Football
The Smiths

[br3ad_man]

Beck perhaps?

[ChilltowN]

HA. DIXIE CHICKS.

I actually have to say... Led Zeppelin..

[Eliminator]

Yeah dude.

[mr_jackalope]

Guided by Voices
Roxy Music

[Eliminator]

I don't think that many people actually care about Roxy Music. Or at least they just don't discuss them much.

[Sunny Afternoon]

I haven't heard any bad words about The Arcade Fire.

[Eliminator]

I have.

[bleep_bloop]

The Smiths are probably up there.

[Ficus]

husker du
ween
REM

[Quirky Turkey]

The Cure
R.E.M
Beck
Beastie Boys

[rocknrollstar5]

The Beatles
Elvis
The Kinks

[fingis]

nick drake
sufjan stevens
deathcab for cutie
mogwai

[YDload]

The Beatles
Elvis
The Kinks

I don't respect Elvis. He corrupted the youth of America with his lusty swagger and suggestive hip-swayin :mad:

[rocknrollstar5]

And its a much better place because of it

[knox]

Elvis is pretty ****ty imo.

[BringHomeTheBacon]

Fugazi
The Zombies

[Kaden]

mogwai
Definitely not, I always hear people on these boards say they're boring.

In fact, I'd say the people that like them beyond one or two albums are a minority

[sketchyjoe]

deathcab for cutie
No.

[Zmev]

Hating Death Cab is easy, you just have to know who their singer is

[sgrevs]

I definitely do not feel anything for the Pixies, I've never been impressed by them. Elliot Smith is definitely in there. Nick Cave.

Antony and the Johnsons, i've never heard him bashed ever by anyone, and noone ever should.

[stevensonmat2]

Elliot smith is just a whiner. I never could get into his music.
Did anyone nominate grandaddy?

[Sleeper]

At The Drive-In
Minus The Bear
Interpol
Jesu

[Sam]

The Zombies

Yes.

[EightMilesHigh]

Interpol

a lot of alt/indie kids dont like interpol.

i dont like them either.

[knox]

At The Drive-In
Minus The Bear
Interpol
Jesu

I hear bad things about all those bands. ATDI is okay, I've heard really bad things about MTB, I haven't listened to enough Interpol to make a judgement on them but a lot of people don't like them, and I haven't heard Jesu.

[YDload]

Maybe instead of "hearing bad things" about Minus The Bear, you should hear the band itself first?

[Scuba_Steve]

This should be about respect, not personal tastes anyway.


It's going to turn out stupid if people just vote out people cause they don't "get" their music or whatever.

[lilsolsman]

Devendra Banhart
Eels
Damien Rice
Xiu Xiu
Kaizers Orchestra
The National

[JonM]

Maybe instead of "hearing bad things" about Minus The Bear, you should hear the band itself first?Ooooooooooooooooh

[knox]

Maybe instead of "hearing bad things" about Minus The Bear, you should hear the band itself first?

Yeah, I know, but I've seen many people bash them. I wouldn't consider one of the most respected bands regardless of whether or not I like them.

[YDload]

We here at the Alt/Indie forum are all about the Bear. Just because Pitchfork doesn't respect them doesn't mean we can't all agree how awesome they are over here :cool:

[knox]

We here at the Alt/Indie forum are all about the Bear. Just because Pitchfork doesn't respect them doesn't mean we can't all agree how awesome they are over here :cool:

Hehe, I guess I'll have to check em out then. I've heard some good things about them.. but more bad than anything.