Best Indie Songs Of All Time?

This. So much.
Also:
Pulp - Common People
The Stone Roses - I am the Resurrection
Arcade Fire - Rebellion (lies)
Damien Rice - Volcano or Cannonball
The Killers - All these things that I've done (anything off Hot Fuss or Sam's Town really)

i recently discovered that sawdust is also a beyond excellent album from the killers (:

so hard to choose my all-time favourites, my taste keeps changing, plus i'm not sure of what you define as indie, so i'm just going to go with my own personal definition

my current/long-standing favourites:
warpaint - undertow
interpol - memory serves
bombay bicycle club - literally anything from "i had the blues", and most of "flaws" too, especially the title track and their rewrite of "dust on the ground"
temper trap - sweet disposition
sonic youth - superstar
the smiths - there is a light that never goes out/bigmouth strikes again
red hot chili peppers - scar tissue
placebo - special needs (but honestly, they're one of my favourite bands so basically everything by them)
arcade fire - the suburbs
crystal castles - untrust us
arctic monkeys - fluorescent adolescent
white rose movement - bones
belle & sebastian - piazza, new york catcher
biffy clyro - machines
caribou - odessa
deerhunter - earthquake
egyptian hip hop - rad pitt
ou est le swimming pool - dance the way i feel

and many more
i think in a sense "indie" and "hipster" are almost synonymous in the sense that hardened indie kids bristle at the thought of "sex on fire" being included in a list of all time favourite "indie" songs...this would also mesh with the idea that indie means "independent artist", which is obvs its original meaning

i think my list and general music taste is kind of a cross between that and the more popular definition of indie, i.e. guitar-based music, often sung by middle-class british teenagers (and even this definition holds true in the sense that if there was a grime artist who hadn't been signed, he wouldn't be indie...he'd just be a grime artist that hadn't been signed)


you know what... i don't even care that much
back to revision

. . Hipster alert.

"Shake It" by Metro Station.

I don't know about calling The Smiths an 'indie' band. :|

Just skipped to the last post in the hopes of seeing some sense on here after three pages of people citing bands like the Smiths as indie..

It'd be great if there was a thread about actual indie bands! And by that I don't mean Arctic Monkeys or whatever other bands came out of the British movement a while back.. I mean real people with real talent making a name for themselves on real independent labels.

And seeing as you have Iron & Wine as your icon, I think we'd get along just fine