Your Top 5 Indie Labels of All Time

[aeon]

Name them - no majors! ;)

For me:


4AD
Creation
Mute
Warp
Rough Trade



cheers,
Ian

[scantilyclad]

Fat Wreck Chords
Vagrant Records
AF Records
Sub Pop
Barsuk Records


Mute would also be one of my favorites, but i didn't wanna list ones that you already had. :)

[booyalab]

is this an INFP thing?

[scantilyclad]

perhaps?

[TenebrousReflection]

From grabbing and looking at a stack of nearby CDs...


I'm pretty sure they are both either major lables or affiliated with them, but most of my music is from Napalm or Nuclear Blast.

I'm not certain if the following are major labels or not, but since you listed the one of these that I have the most CDs from, they probably all are.

Curzweyhl / Rough Trade (some CDs have both names on them)
That label accounts for the majority of my overseas non major label imports.

Projekt
Kalinkaland
Noir Records / Dancing Ferret Discs
Trisol

[EffEmDoubleyou]

Island
Sub Pop
Fat Possum
Philadelphia International
Stax/Volt (I'll concede that their independent status is tenuous)

[pure_mercury]

4AD
Bomp!
Merge
Motown (now part of Universal)
Secretly Canadian

[booyalab]

Sorry to post in this thread again without contributing anything but snark, but I'm more interested in the idea of this thread subject than in actually responding to the question.
To me it is like asking for "your top 5 people in terms of their musical taste." in that it's a uniquely uninformative way of showing how discriminating you are.

But unlike the thread question, I can actually answer that one without doing research, so...

Stuart
Mike
Ben
Sarah
Kurt

[Orangey]

Sorry to post in this thread again without contributing anything but snark, but I'm more interested in the idea of this thread subject than in actually responding to the question.
To me it is like asking for "your top 5 people in terms of their musical taste." in that it's a uniquely uninformative way of showing how discriminating you are.

But unlike the thread question, I can actually answer that one without doing research, so...

Stuart
Mike
Ben
Sarah
Kurt

Hmmm...Top 5 in terms of musical taste?

Dave
Lazar Wolf
Peaches
Yentl
Boomshiqua

[Ivy]

Ninja Tunes
Mo'Wax
SubPop
Asthmatic Kitty
Matador

And to answer booya's question:

Haig
Becky
Charlie
Andrew
Mary

[pure_mercury]

Is it incredibly megalomaniacal that I would put myself at #1 on my list?

[Ivy]

Not at all. I would have done so if I had thought to.

Edit: I guess that's not really proof of it not being megalomaniacal.

[pure_mercury]

Not at all. I would have done so if I had thought to.

Edit: I guess that's not really proof of it not being megalomaniacal.

OK, then:

Me

Stephen
Sean F.
Andrei
Travis

[Orangey]

Is it incredibly megalomaniacal that I would put myself at #1 on my list?

Damn! I didn't even think of that. Now I have to decide whether to bump Boomshiqua or Yentl...

[pure_mercury]

I should add another five: Factory, Postcard, Rough Trade, Twin/Tone, and Yep Roc.

[TenebrousReflection]

Sorry to post in this thread again without contributing anything but snark, but I'm more interested in the idea of this thread subject than in actually responding to the question.
To me it is like asking for "your top 5 people in terms of their musical taste." in that it's a uniquely uninformative way of showing how discriminating you are.


Well, from my point of view, if I see others with labels I'm familiar with mixed in with ones I've not heard of, the next time I'm in a new music buying mood, I can return to this thread, and explore the catalog of the lables those other people listed.

(something I used to do to find new music in the early napster/winmx days was to search for an obscure band I liked (which generaly would be a band on an indie label) and then explore all the other bands listed by people that showed up in that search and I found some good stuff that way that I'd probably have never heard about otherwise).

[aeon]

Sorry to post in this thread again without contributing anything but snark, but I'm more interested in the idea of this thread subject than in actually responding to the question.

Then by all means, please start a thread to discuss it.

To me it is like asking for "your top 5 people in terms of their musical taste." in that it's a uniquely uninformative way of showing how discriminating you are.

Thanks for that feedback. Based on it, I can say I think I was misunderstood.


cheers,
Ian

[aeon]

I should add another five:

Good idea, and I'll raise you one:


Beggars Banquet
Sarah
Domino
Factory
Skam
Too Pure



cheers,
Ian

[anii]

Your Top 5 Indie Labels of All Time

I don't pay attention to labels, just artists.

The only label I'm familiar with is a local one, Sub Pop. They are in the midst of celebrating an anniversary, so I'll go with them.

Sub Pop