Evening Standard's 20 Best Indie Rock Bands Ever

peppermint apes

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probably the worst of the genres

Acid jazz.

i stand corrected

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Listen, Kasabian haven’t spent 20years blowing the roof off venues just to be left out of a Best Indie Rock Bands Ever list, pal!

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No one from the maccabees even think the maccabees are better than the bands below them even though they are better than radiohead

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Well, you can’t deny that nearly all these bands are indie rock. That much is true.

scans list
The Cribs?
The Libertines?
Arctic Monkeys?

Season 3 GIF by Parks and Recreation

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Best band on the list

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You Got It Ok GIF

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Turns out that was a draft. They sent me the real list:

The Evening Standard’s 20 best Indie Rock Bands of All Time:

  1. Chiodos

  2. Yellowcard

  3. Sleeping with Sirens

  4. August Burns Red

  5. The Subways

  6. A Day To Remember

  7. HIM

  8. We Came As Romans

  9. PVRIS

  10. Before They Were Stars

  11. Underoath

  12. Foals

  13. Thursday

  14. Bring Me the Horizon

  15. Breaking Benjamin

  16. We Are The In Crowd

  17. Yellowcard

  18. Dizzy Mizz Lizzy

  19. Panic! At the Disco

  20. Bright Eyes


Your picks are in. If you want to participate, please feel free to do so.

  1. The Struts

  2. Protest The Hero

  3. Circa Waves

  4. Haken

  5. Nothing But Thieves

  6. Issues

  7. Architects

  8. Issues

  9. Fall Out Boy

  10. Manchester Orchestra

  11. X Ambassadors

  12. Kaiser Chiefs

  13. Royal Blood

  14. Taking Back Sunday

  15. New Politics

  16. Black Veil Brides

  17. Thrice

  18. Silent Alarm

  19. Matt Hires

  20. Modern Baseball

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  1. Shed Seven
  2. The Beatles
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Here's my opinions on all the bands, nobody asked for it but by god you're getting it
  1. Modest Mouse :dizzy:
  2. LCD Soundsystem :smile_cat:
  3. Spoon :woman_shrugging:
  4. Peppermint Apes🤷‍♀️
  5. The White Stripes🤘
  6. The Jesus & Mary Chain👌
  7. The Maccabees🤷‍♀️
  8. Pavement🤌
  9. Echo and the Bunnymen🤷‍♀️
  10. Pixies😄
  11. Neutral Milk Hotel🤷‍♀️
  12. The Cribs💃
  13. Sonic Youth🤙
  14. R.E.M.:smiling_face_with_three_hearts:
  15. The Libertines🖕
  16. The Stone Roses🤏
  17. The Cure🖤
  18. Arctic Monkeys👍
  19. The Strokes😪
  20. The Smiths🙊
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Peppermint Apes being the 23rd Best Indie Rock Band Ever is now DiS canon.

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You’ve been ma0sm’d !

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Oh are Peppermint Apes not a real band?

Does the same go for Spoon?

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Genuinely thought Peppermint Apes were one of those bands that were nobodies but became popular for ridicule on drownedinsound.com, like Squidpan, Tiger Crew and The Kayas.

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Spoon are apparently but if they cant be arsed to come up with a better name than Spoon, no chance am I going to listen to them

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Spoon are very good

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Replace sonic youth and neutral milk hotel with shed seven and the verve and you’ve a great list there :+1:

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