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I'm making me a cheeky little playlist on Spotify that i can put on in the background while im studying and pretending to do work that is made up of tasty little tunes of the nice polite and quiet indie variety. In the ilk of the below:

Bruises - Chairlift

Tin Man - Animal Kingdom

Black Heart, Blue Eyes - Tigers That Talked

Orange Shirt - Discovery

All The Kings Men - Wild Beasts

Cystalized - The XX

Heartbreak - Magistrates

Sweet Disposition - The Temper Trap

Evening / Morning - Bombay Bicycle Club

Little Lion Man - Mumford & Sons

The Warning - Hot Chip

Trying to just have the one song from each band. Gimme some ideas please?

Lots of love

Smuts

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Just added:

Dream Come True Girl - Cass McCoombs ft. Karen Black

Lose My Cool - Jeremy Warmsley

Samson - Regina Spektor

In The Waiting Line - Zero 7

24 - Emmy The Great

Fighter Plane - Ellie Goulding

Knife - Grizzly Bear

Hell No - Sondre Lerche ft Regina Spektor

My Girls - Animal Collective

Toothpaste Kisses - Maccabees

Needle In The Hay - Elliott Smith

I'm A Cuckoo - Bellend Sebastian

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I'm making me a cheeky little playlist on Spotify that i can put on in the background while im studying and pretending to do work that is made up of tasty little tunes of the nice polite and quiet indie variety. In the ilk of the below:

Bruises - Chairlift

Tin Man - Animal Kingdom

Black Heart, Blue Eyes - Tigers That Talked

Orange Shirt - Discovery

All The Kings Men - Wild Beasts

Cystalized - The XX

Heartbreak - Magistrates

Sweet Disposition - The Temper Trap

Evening / Morning - Bombay Bicycle Club

Little Lion Man - Mumford & Sons

The Warning - Hot Chip

Trying to just have the one song from each band. Gimme some ideas please?

Lots of love

Smuts

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There all a yes from me Sir Smuts

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Some of these tracks I've already suggested in the "2009" thread, but some are older, some too poppy or folky (eh), some a little bit rock'n'rolly, some rather well-known and others I've never mentioned before, so:

Amazing Baby - Headdress

Analog Bell Service - Railroad

Apollo Sunshine - Happiness

Apostle Of Hustle - Xerses

Archive - System

Arms - Tiger Tamer

Attack In Black - Seeds

Autolux - Blanket

The Avalanches - Since I Left You

B.C. Camplight - The Hip And The Homeless

Bahamas - Already Yours

Band Of Skulls - Fires

The Bees - Left Foot Stepdown

Belleruche - Northern Girls

Ben Folds Five - Jane

Benji Hughes - Neighbor Down The Hall

Bibio - The Palm Of Your Wave

The Bicycles - It's A Good Thing

The Bird And The Bee - Polite Dance Song

The Black Ghosts - It's Your Touch

The Black Heart Procession - The Letter

Blitzen Trapper - God + Suicide

Blonde Redhead - SW

Blue States - Across The Wire

Boards Of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy

Bon Iver - Blood Bank

Broken Social Scene - Swimmers

The Broken West - Hale Sunrise

C-Mon & Kypski - Nike SBCK07

Calexico - Crystal Frontier

Captain - Western High

Cat Power - The Greatest

The Cave Singers - Dancing On Our Graves

Chester French - Not Over You

Cinderpop - Blonder

Clearlake - Widescreen

Cold War Kids - Mexican Dogs

The Cooper Temple Clause - Who Needs Enemies?

Cut Copy - Unforgettable Season

The D'Urbervilles - National Flowers

Datarock - The Pretender

Dave Norris - Under The Water

David Bazan - Backwoods Nation

DD/MM/YYYY - They

The Dears - You And I Are A Gang Of Losers

Death Cab For Cutie - Crooked Teeth

The Decemberists - Sixteen Military Wives

Deerhunter - Neither Of Us Uncertainly

Department Of Eagles - Waves Of Rye

The Depreciation Guild - Dream About Me

Derby - One Reason

Desire - Don't Call

The Dirty Projectors - Useful Chamber

The Dodos - Small Deaths

Dr. Dog - Weekend

Drive-By Truckers - Where The Devil Don't Stay

Electric Soft Parade - Misunderstanding

Elephant Stone - Oh Heartbreaker

Engineers - Nature's Editing

Everything All The Time - Take Stock

Field Music - In Context

Faunts - Feel.Love. Thinking.Of.

Foreign Born - Blood Oranges

Four Tet - She Moves She

Fredo Viola - The Turn (A Pagan Lament)

Free Blood - Never Hear Surf Music

Freeland - Do You

Friendly Fires - Ex Lover

Fruit Bats - Lives Of Crime

fun. - All The Pretty Girls

The Go! Team - The Power Is On

The Golden Dogs - Yeah!

Golden Silvers - Here Comes The King

Gonzales - Take Me To Broadway

The Got To Get Got - Gettin' Dirty In The Afterlife

Gravity Wave - Yo-Yo

Handsome Furs - Dead + Rural

Harlem Shakes - TFO

Headlights - Market Girl

The Helio Sequence - Hallelujah

Here We Go Magic - Fangela

Hexes & Ohs - Little Bird

Hooded Fang - Land Of Giants

The Hylozoists - The Island Of Seven Cities

I Was A King - Stay Warm

Interpol - Rest My Chemistry

J. Tillman - James Blues

Jets Overhead - No Nations

Jim Noir - Computer Song

John Southworth - First Of May

Johnossi - There's A Lot Of Things To Do Before You Die

Josh Reichmann Oracle Band - Believe In Souls

Josh Ritter - Mind's Eye

Julian Plenti - Fun That We Have

Junior Bloomsday - Swans To Greet You

Junior Boys - Bits & Pieces

Kinski - Passwords & Alcohol

The La's - I Can't Sleep

Land Of Talk - Summer Special

Late Of The Pier - Space And The Woods

Liam Finn - I'll Be Lightning

Limblifter - Tinfoil

Little Dragon - Constant Surprises

Little Joy - No One's Better Sake

The Little Ones - Face The Facts

Lotus Plaza - A Threaded Needle

Malakai - Snowflake

Manitoba - Hendrix With Ko

Max Tundra - Will Get Fooled Again

Menahan Street Band - Tired Of Fighting

Metric - Raw Sugar

MGMT - Electric Feel

Midlake - Young Bride

Miike Snow - Song For No One

Miniature Tigers - Cannibal Queen

Mother Mother - Hayloft

Music Go Music - Reach Out

My Morning Jacket - Wordless Chorus

Nada Surf - 80 Windows

The National - Mistaken For Strangers

Neon Indian - Deadbeat Summer

Nickel Eye - Brandy Of The Damned

OK Go - Oh Lately It's So Quiet

Oldfolks Home - I Hate Dell

Papercuts - Dear Employee

Passion Pit - Eyes As Candles

Pepper's Ghost - Sad, Sad Song

Pete & The Pirates - Moving

The Phantom Band - Crocodile

Plants And Animals - Good Friend

Poni Hoax - Pretty Tall Girls

Portico - Two Killers

Portugal, The Man - Sugar Cinnamon

The Postmarks - Such Great Heights

The Postmarks - OX4

Psapp - Needle And Thread

Ra Ra Riot - Too Too Too Fast

Radio 4 - Struggle

Ratatat - Wildcat

The Raveonettes - Love In A Thrashcan

The Republic Tigers - Buildings And Mountains

Reverie Sound Revue - Arrows

Rogue Wave - Bird On A Wire

Roofwalkers - Port Of Call

The Rosebuds - Boxcar

Said The Whale - Plans For The Future

Sam Roberts - Them Kids

School Of Seven Bells - Iamundernodisguise

Sea Wolf - You're A Wolf

Share - Silhouette

Sholi - Spy In The House Of Memories

Simple Kid - Lil' King Kong

Skeletons - The Things

So Many Dynamos - Friendarmy

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Oregon Girl

Sonny & The Sunsets - Too Young To Burn

The Soundcarriers - Time Will Come

Spirits - Black Swan

Spoon - Chicago At Night

Star****er - Dance Face 2000

Stars - The Ghost Of Genova Heights

Still Life Still - Kid

The Stills - Snow In California

Suckers - Beach Queen

Sunset Rubdown - Idiot Heart

Surfer Blood - Swim

Sweet Thing - Change Of Seasons

The Swimmers - Save Me (From The Brightness)

Tacks, The Boy Disaster - Frozen Feet

The Telepathic Butterflies - The Cutting Elm

Thievery Corporation - Lebanese Blonde

Thieves Like Us - Miss You

Throw Me The Statue - Hi-Fi Goon

Two Hours Traffic - Painted Halo

The Uglysuit - Brad's House

The Week That Was - Airport Line

Washed Out - New Theory

WhoMadeWho - Small Town City

Wintersleep - Archaeologists

Wolf Parade - Fine Young Cannibals

Women - Black Rice

The XYZ Affair - Sock You In The Face With Love

(Let's see what Smuts makes of all these - will probably keep him busy until early 2010 lol )

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(Let's see what Smuts makes of all these - will probably keep him busy until early 2010 lol )

I'm gonna be busy tommorrow!

There's some i can see that'll go straight in and some i'll leave out i.e MGMT that doesn't really fit the playlist but i'll check them all out. Cheers Alexei!

And Nationwider too. Love me some twee. 2nd person to mention The Sundays. Must check them out too. As good as the Saturdays?

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I'm gonna be busy tommorrow!

There's some i can see that'll go straight in and some i'll leave out i.e MGMT that doesn't really fit the playlist but i'll check them all out. Cheers Alexei!

And Nationwider too. Love me some twee. 2nd person to mention The Sundays. Must check them out too. As good as the Saturdays?

Dint know they sang 'Heres Where Te Story Ends' classic.

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Amazing Baby - Headdress - Loved it. Straight in the playlist.

Analog Bell Service - Railroad - Wasn't on Spotify will google it after this lot.

Apollo Sunshine - Happiness - Added 'Today Is The Day' as 'Happiness' wasn't on Spotify

Apostle Of Hustle - Xerses - Hooked me in with the first 2 lines. Very 'Smiths' Love it.

Archive - System - 'System' wasn't on Spotify but i liked 'Junkie Shuffle' and i put that in instead

Arms - Tiger Tamer - As above went with 'Jon The Escalator'

Attack In Black - Seeds - Straight in

Autolux - Blanket - Ditto

The Avalanches - Since I Left You - Perfick

B.C. Camplight - The Hip And The Homeless - I know this song so it goes straight in.

Bahamas - Already Yours - Wasn't on Spotify will google it after this lot.

Band Of Skulls - Fires - In.

The Bees - Left Foot Stepdown - Is that the Mystery Jets? Had Chicken Payback on my iPod for a while.

Belleruche - Northern Girls - Wasn't on Spotify will google it after this lot.

Ben Folds Five - Jane - Don't like BFF sorry!

Benji Hughes - Neighbor Down The Hall - Wasn't on Spotify will google it after this lot.

Bibio - The Palm Of Your Wave - Wasn't on Spotify will google it after this lot.

The Bicycles - It's A Good Thing - Wasn't on Spotify will google it after this lot.

The Bird And The Bee - Polite Dance Song - Love thier Take That cover even if it was in Sex and the City. Love this.

The Black Ghosts - It's Your Touch - Like it but tis too dancey for this playlist judging by the other songs on Spotify there my kinda bag though.

The Black Heart Procession - The Letter - The few songs they have on Spotify were a bit too loud for this playlist but i like them

Blitzen Trapper - God + Suicide - Barely any on Spotify but picked up a brilliant indie Christmas album thier on called 'I'll Stay Till After Christmas'

Blonde Redhead - SW - In

Blue States - Across The Wire - Is nice

Boards Of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy - Looked at putting this in before your list but I didn't quite get into it. It;s on the maybe list.

Bon Iver - Blood Bank - Haven't yet got into this fella bar 'Skinny Love' will give him a bigger try i think.

Broken Social Scene - Swimmers - 7/4 (Shoreline) is a classic. I like this too.

The Broken West - Hale Sunrise - Wasn't on Spotify will google it after this lot.

C-Mon & Kypski - Nike SBCK07 - This song wasn't on Spotify but 'Shitty Bum' did catch my eye lol Fez would love this!

Calexico - Crystal Frontier - Seen Calexico live at Summer Sundae enjoyed them this songs not on there but i banged in 'Dark Eyes'

Captain - Western High - Nice.

Cat Power - The Greatest - Massive tune

The Cave Singers - Dancing On Our Graves - In

Chester French - Not Over You - I like it.

Cinderpop - Blonder - Bit rocky for this playlist methinks. Like it though.

Clearlake - Widescreen - Big tune

Cold War Kids - Mexican Dogs - Love it. Hospital Beds is a tune

The Cooper Temple Clause - Who Needs Enemies? - No.

Cut Copy - Unforgettable Season - Too dancey for this

The D'Urbervilles - National Flowers - Wasn't on Spotify will google it after this lot.

Datarock - The Pretender - Same as Cut Copy

A morning's work already lol

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  • 4 weeks later...

you absolutely have to have some:

Kings of convenience

&

Loney dear (try loney noir album)

and also try:

Kathryn williams

nick drake

carpenters

John Phillips

gorkys zygotic mynki

jim noir

The pastels

vashti bunyan

jimmy webb

Raymond & maria

carla bruni

mi and l'au

the explorers club

heavy blinkers

thom hell

oh and there's some perfect stuff on rings around the world by super furry animals

you probably know most of these, and some aren't exactly indie :whistle: , i guess, but in case you've forgotten...

also, really need you to share this playlist when it's done :thumbup:

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