UMT 2012: Genre #6 - Indie

[slick]

Schedule for Tournament:

32 genres of Provisional Round through Mar. 20th
Winners of provisional rounds advance to regionals Mar. 21st - 30th
128 winners of regionals adavance to head-to-head portion starting Apr. 2nd
Championship - Apr. 25th

For the provisional round, rank your top 5 artists from 1-5. The top 8 artists will advance to the next round. Here are the 32 artists in the next genre.... Indie. Enjoy!

Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
Belle and Sebastian
Built To Spill
eels
Elliott Smith
Feist
Fountains Of Wayne
Grandaddy
Grizzly Bear
Interpol
Klaxons
Liz Phair
Modest Mouse
Morrissey
OK Go
Peter, Bjorn & John
PJ Harvey
Spoon
Sufjan Stevens
The Cardigans
The Fratellis
The Hives
The Kooks
The National
The New Pornographers
The Raconteurs
The Shins
The Strokes
They Might Be Giants
Tindersticks
Vampire Weekend

[slick]

1. Arcade Fire
2. Vampire Weekend
3. The Strokes
4. The Cardigans
5. Arctic Monkeys

[Nick]

1. Arcade Fire
2. The Strokes
3. PJ Harvey
4. Sufjan Stevens
5. Vampire Weekend

[Henry]

1. Arcade Fire
2. Sufjan Stevens
3. Belle and Sebastian
4. Arctic Monkeys
5. Morrissey

[Greg]

1. Morrissey
2. PJ Harvey
3. Fountains of Wayne
4. Elliott Smith
5. Belle and Sebastian

[Midaso]

1.Morrissey
2.Elliott Smith
3.Belle And Sebastian
4.Arcade Fire
5.Sufjan Stevens

[John]

1. Elliott Smith
2. Belle and Sebastian
3. Arcade Fire
4. The Shins
5. Vampire Weekend

[Listyguy]

1- The Strokes
2- Vampire Weekend
3- Arcade Fire
4- PJ Harvey
5- Arctic Monkeys

Where are the White Stripes?

[Jirin]

1. The National
2. Sufjan Stevens
3. PJ Harvey
4. Liz Phair
5. Arcade Fire

I'm curious, what genre is TV On The Radio under?

[Nick]

It appears like lots of artists I thought would be here aren't. The aforementioned White Stripes and TV on the Radio for starters, but also LCD Soundsystem, MGMT, Wilco, Pavement, Phoenix, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Franz Ferdinand, and Animal Collective. I understand that you can't have every artist of every genre in the game, but those all seem like pretty big ones to leave out.

[slick]

1- The Strokes
2- Vampire Weekend
3- Arcade Fire
4- PJ Harvey
5- Arctic Monkeys

Where are the White Stripes?

Blues Rock

[slick]

1. The National
2. Sufjan Stevens
3. PJ Harvey
4. Liz Phair
5. Arcade Fire

I'm curious, what genre is TV On The Radio under?

Art Rock

[slick]

It appears like lots of artists I thought would be here aren't. The aforementioned White Stripes and TV on the Radio for starters, but also LCD Soundsystem, MGMT, Wilco, Pavement, Phoenix, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Franz Ferdinand, and Animal Collective. I understand that you can't have every artist of every genre in the game, but those all seem like pretty big ones to leave out.

Realistically there are enough great artists in this genre to have 4 separate ones. A lot of those artists mentioned fell into other categories, Art Rock, Electronic, Country rock, Synth Pop and I did add Pavement into another genre to strengthen it, you will thank me later. This genre was already so loaded, imagine how difficult it would be to chose just 5 adding those 10 to this genre....

[Jackson]

1. PJ Harvey
2. Elliott Smith
3. Built to Spill
4. The Strokes
5. Arcade Fire

[Rodneyontheblock]

1. Belle and Sebastian (I guess we're leaving out TWEE:-()
2. PJ Harvey
3. Arcade Fire
4. Liz Phair (for ALL her work, not just Guyville although she hasn't been indie since spaceegg (my fave))
5. Fountains of Wayne

[Henrik]

1. PJ Harvey
2. Sufjan Stevens
3. Belle and Sebastian
4. Vampire Weekend
5. Built To Spill

[Michel]

1. Tindersticks
2. Sufjan Stevens
3. PJ Harvey
4. Elliott Smith
5. Interpol

[Nassim]

1) Elliott Smith
2) Built to Spill (too bad they don't stand a chance, they are waaaaaay underrated)
3) Arcade Fire
4) Sufjan Stevens
5) Modest Mouse

feels tough leaving Arctic Monkeys and Hives, I wish they were in "00s rock" or something.

[Gillingham]

1. The National
2. Sufjan Stevens
3. PJ Harvey
4. Tindersticks
5. Arcade Fire

[Moonbeam]

1. The Strokes
2. Sufjan Stevens
3. PJ Harvey
4. Morrissey
5. Liz Phair

[nicolas]

1. Sufjan Stevens
2. Elliott Smith
3. Arcade Fire
4. Grandaddy
5. The Strokes

[Romain]

1 Belle and Sebastian
2 Sufjan Stevens
3 Arcade Fire
4 eels
5 Grandaddy

[Brad]

1. Belle & Sebastian
2. Elliott Smith
3. Built To Spill
4. Modest Mouse
5. Sufjan Stevens

Thanks!

[Larry]

1. They Might Be Giants
2. Arcade Fire
3. Sufjan Stevens
4. OK GO
5. Liz Phair

[Zorg]

1. Sufjan Stevens
2. The National
3. Modest Mouse
4. Arcade Fire
5. Belle & Sebastian

what a group!!!

[dr_Robert]

Argggghhhh, this was incredibly difficult:

1. Belle & Sebastian
2. Morrissey
3. PJ Harvey
4. Elliott Smith
5. Arcade Fire

I decided that Arcade Fire with only three albums to show could not be ranked too high.
But their next album potentially might take them to the top of my ranking.

[Rodelero147]

1. Arcade Fire
2. PJ Harvey
3. Sufjan Stevens
4. The National
5. Interpol

[Schwah]

1. PJ Harvey
2. Spoon
3. Elliott Smith
4. Arcade Fire
5. Liz Phair

[slick]

RESULTS: (40) voters...

76 - Arcade Fire
65 - Sufjan Stevens
62 - PJ Harvey
52 - The Strokes
36 - Elliott Smith
35 - Belle and Sebastian
35 - Vampire Weekend
33 - Morrissey
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24 - The National
22 - OK Go
20 - Liz Phair
19 - Modest Mouse
18 - Arctic Monkeys
17 - They Might Be Giants
14 - Spoon
12 - The Hives
11 - Built To Spill
10 - The Raconteurs
9 - Interpol
7 - Tindersticks
5 - Fountains Of Wayne, The Shins
3 - Feist, Grandaddy, Grizzly Bear
2 - eels, The Cardigans
1 - The New Pornographers
0 - Klaxons, Peter Bjorn & John, The Fratellis, The Kooks

[slick]

Other voters...


1. Vampire Weekend 2. Morrissey 3. Spoon 2. Vampire Weekend 1. Elliott Smith
- Sufjan Stevens - The National - The Shins - They Might Be Giants - Belle and Sebastian
1) Arcade Fire 2) Morrissey 3) Arctic Monkeys 2) Modest Mouse 1) PJ Harvey
The Strokes The Raconteurs Arcade Fire Interpol Liz Phair
Vampire Weekend OK Go The Strokes Arctic Monkeys Fountains of Wayne
Vampire Weekend Modest Mouse Grizzly Bear Ok Go Arcade Fire
1. PJ Harvey. 2. The Strokes. 3. Liz Phair. 4. Spoon. 5. Vampire Weekend.
Morrissey, Modest Mouse, OK Go, Arctic Monkeys, Strokes.
The strokes, the hives, modest mouse, arcade, and vampire
Arcade Fire, The Hives, Interpol, Arctic Monkeys, Vampire Weekend
Strokes, OK Go, Liz Phair, Vampire weekend, Feist
PJ Harvey, Arctic Monkeys, The Strokes, The Raconteurs, The Hives
Sufjan, PJ Harvey, The Hives, Interpol, Morrissey
1. Sufjan Stevens 2. The National 3. OK Go 4. Arcade Fire 5. The New Pornographers
Spoon, Raconteurs, Liz Phair, Arcade Fire and Arctic Monkeys!!!
TMBG, Strokes, Liz Phair, Feist, Morrisey
TMBG, OK Go, Arcade Fire, The Strokes, Morrisey

[Midaso]

RESULTS: (40) voters...
33 - Morrissey

The guy that schooled most of these artists only just scrapes in in 8th place. Oh well,at least he's in...

[Jirin]

I'm shocked The National didn't make it. I guess it's because of Vampire Weekend's 7 email votes to their 2.

[Gillingham]

I'm shocked The National didn't make it. I guess it's because of Vampire Weekend's 7 email votes to their 2.

Apart from your and mine number one votes, The National barely received any votes here either. I thought The National was more popular on this board. They don't do bad in the polls, usually.
Really a pity.

[Stephan]

Damn, The National would've been my #1, but I forgot to vote. Wouldn't have made a difference though.

[Nassim]

I'm shocked The National didn't make it. I guess it's because of Vampire Weekend's 7 email votes to their 2.

Apart from you're and mine number one votes, The National barely received any votes here either. I thought The National was more popular on this board. They don't do bad in the polls, usually.
Really a pity.

Well you can't say that the 8 bands/artists that went through usually fared bad on the polls !

[Jackson]

Vampire Weekend, OK Go, and the Hives are all better than Built to Spill?

[Gillingham]

I'm shocked The National didn't make it. I guess it's because of Vampire Weekend's 7 email votes to their 2.

Apart from you're and mine number one votes, The National barely received any votes here either. I thought The National was more popular on this board. They don't do bad in the polls, usually.
Really a pity.

Well you can't say that the 8 bands/artists that went through usually fared bad on the polls !

No, not bad, but still. Here are some results of the 2010 Artists Poll of our forum:

The National 79
Strokes 100
Morrissey 178
Vampire Weekend 212