No matter how many Hivemind brackets I watch, they still never fail to shock me to my core. They somehow manage to have the best and worst tastes in music, simultaneously. It’s like a toaster strudel. Don’t ask how, it just is.
I get where you're coming from, I fucking love The Strokes, but if they had em on here it probably would've been Last Nite and they would've cut it early
Honourable mentions: The Shins - Australia Arcade Fire - The Suburbs Deerhunter - Desire Lines Santigold - LES Artistes MIA - Paper Planes Bat for Lashes - Daniel Real Estate - It's Real Ariel Pink - Round and Round Best Coast - Boyfriend Maximo Park - Books from boxes Yeasayer - ONE The Horrors - Still life Maccabees - Pelican Klaxons - Golden Skans
A few more that I think should be mentioned: Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps The Postal Service - Such Great Heights and I definitely think *a* Sufjan Stevens song should have been included but I'm too big of a fan to choose just one
@@jiffyviv5341 For sure. I think they set the date limit 2007-2013 which rules out sooo much good early indie like Yeah yeah yeahs, Postal Service etc.
@@jakeozzy4776I wouldn't say theyre the best band but definitely the most interesting band here. I just could never get into that album. I liked bluish but that's about it. It was extremely boring to me honestly. Definitely should've gotten eliminated round one.
Yeah I saw them in Glasgow years ago and they were brilliant. An Awesome Wave was a ridiculously good debut honestly, there's not a bad song on the album. I can see why some people are turned off because they find it pretentious, but they take it so far that it becomes endearing. Combining flamboyantly poetic language with filthy innuendo and metaphors about weird unromantic objects like crisp packets is objectively funny.
The eye-widening hype and excitement you get upon seeing a MASTERPIECE and the deflation that hits when they react mildly is a roller coaster. Dance Yrself Clean is a fucking work of art.
@@SarahC37592 I can see where they're coming from with Lana barely being indie, and to be fair, she has made significantly better music since Videogames
Seeing this made me realise how many English indie songs made it across the Atlantic. The idea of the Kooks being listened to in the States is so strange
Same with arctic monkeys lol! I know they were big but I literally grew up on their full albums being played on a Sunday while dinner was being cooked Feels VERY british core
@@cez_is_typing Yeah definitely, their more popular stuff like AM (that I dislike quite a lot) deffo made it to the US, but weird that their first couple of albums (which are brilliant) are known over there as well!
I was like 15 when I discovered this genre and that was 10 years ago, but here's a some I would've added I got from my playlist from back then: Stolen Dance by Milky Chance, Ribs by Lorde, Cardiac Arrest by Bad Suns, Safe and Sound by Capital Cities, Sweater Weather by the Neighborhood, House of Gold or Car Radio by Twenty One Pilots, Electric Love by Borns, Rollercoaster or I Wanna Get Better by Bleachers, Sihouettes by Colony House, Homewrecker by Marina and the Diamonds, Ready to Start by Arcade Fire, and Gooey by Glass Animals!
Fully agree, for me it's like the criptid of the music world, most one hit wonders have other songs that flopped, but he just dropped the biggest song then left, and it's a song about leaving? It doesn't make sence
Replying with an addendum because mobile UA-cam is ass now; it can definitely go up to round 3 at least, but I just remembered it was going against Somebody That I Used to Know & Gotye so it's definitely stuck at round 2. Still passes that Dance Yrself Clean excerpt though
Somebody that I used to know solos. Such a weird off kilter song with some amazing vocal performances. Reminds me of something Peter Gabriel would have written
I can't believe MGMT got two songs when the bracket is missing The Underdog by Spoon, LES Artistes by Santigold, Sweater Weather by The Neighborhood, Out of My League by Fitz and the Tantrums, etc
Just gonna say: Home by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes singing that song in concert is amazing and a total vibe. A culty, hippie vibe, but it was definitely a transcendent moment and everyone was into it. The album that that song is on is among their best, hands down.
I kinda get it, it’s not even close to being grizzly bear’s best song. It’s one of those songs that’s overshadowed by how amazing the rest of the album is tbh
There's too much missing from this video for there not to be a round 2. No Bloc Party, The Bravery, Arcade Fire, Hot Hot Heat, The Neighborhood, The Shins, Middle Class Rut, Pinback, Pinegrove, etc. So many other songs from most of the other bands on here. Definitely warrants a part 2.
OH MY GOD BLOC PARTY. The Bravery good too but they only have one song I know. The Shins also just absolutely incredible, I wouldve freaked out more if broken bells wasnt on there at least but still seems weird to pick his like, smaller project to highlight his contribution to indie.
Funfact: Laurent Brancowitz, a member of Phoenix, was originally in a band called Darlin' in the early 90s, but the other 2 members were actually Guy Manuel De Homem Christo and Thomas Bangalter, the gold and silver robots from Daft Punk. Going even further, the name "Daft Punk" actually came from a review someone gave for one of Darlin's singles because he called it "Daft Punky trash".
Classic episode. Pretty thorough coverage of the era's top songs with only a couple notable omissions coming to mind so far. Modest Mouse - Float On Lorde - Royals The Neighborhood- Sweater Weather Anybody else got other big tracks that are missing?
Their timeframe was 2007-2014 so no Modest Mouse. IMO Lorde like Lana del Rey doesn't really class as indie. Here's some influential/popular songs from that era: The Shins - Australia Arcade Fire - The Suburbs Deerhunter - Desire Lines Santigold - LES Artistes MIA - Paper Planes Bat for Lashes - Daniel Real Estate - It's Real Ariel Pink - Round and Round Best Coast - Boyfriend Maximo Park - Books from boxes Yeasayer - ONE
I was literally screaming when riley hated on dance yrself clean. That song is a masterpiece and deserved to atleast get by the first round. Thank you DJ grant for saving it.
Yesss exactly! I usually don't know the music they're talking about that well and I watch them for their humor but this was right up my alley. I totally understand the rage other people feel while watching their brackets now
As someone who did competitive dance around the 2013-2016 tumblr era, these songs had a CHOKEHOLD in both spaces. Also, just had a crystal clear flashback of seeing Dignan rolling around on the ground at Bonnaroo saying 'I'm the mud man!' ...it was beautiful
33:17 I honestly loved Graydon's reaction to Riley's story about the choir singing fleet foxes at a church, and genuinely calling it beautiful :) Felt wholesome.
As a British person who likes Americana music, and indeed kinda likes Mumford and Sons, I really love the description of them as someone who has " seen O Brother Where Art Thou a few too many times". Very accurate.
For the past 4 years my group of friends does "Indie March Madness" where our top 150 indie artists go head to head in bracketed system like this. Loving the energy in the studio
thank you hivemind for always cheering me up and providing a community where i feel like i belong. jokes aside y’all are doing so much for me. it almost redeems dignan for creating the 1918 spanish flu by mixing wolverine piss with lactose and giving it to the innocent spanish children
i’m so happy you guys did this video. the late 2000s-2010s indie scene had such a variety of sound and acts that unfortunately waned out. a lot of fun nostalgia for me!
It’s hard to believe that anyone wouldn’t see Pumped Up Kicks going big but I guess that’s the nostalgia talking. It really is a testament to the talent though, that you could write a song with those lyrics and concept and have it explode like it did. Like I still love it now it hasn’t gotten stale to me or been ruined by what the world became after. It’s just so good. It feels good to listen to but the lyrics aren’t what you’d expect. It’s so bizarre and there will never be another song like it because it’s something that can only be done on accident
When you put Skinny Love and The High Road up against each other I wanted to scream, I was literally listening to both in between watching this and seeing them suddenly go up directly against each other was so tearing to watch. Quite the coincidence but still hard to watch.
I share similar sentiments with Graydon re: feIIatio. I am clawing at the walls in an open field and against all odds they are clawing back. Great video!
Dr.dog was my friend group's "band". we travelled so many times to see them. so nice to see them get love because i feel like often times people never know who they are.
Ill speak a bit of love about The Wombats. I love them. Also, they are actually still making music, and is quite successful. Greek tragedy is made by them and is a well listened song. They are a bit cheesy, but super catchy and I also think well produced. Sad to see them go in the first round.
I truly truly love the Wombat's first and second albums, I still enjoy their new stuff "If you ever leave" is a really great one. But those first two albums, geeeez. Interesting that "Let's Dance to Joy Division" was chosen from 'Guide to love, loss and depression' when "Kill the Director" and "Moving to New York" are far superior.
Oh 100%, Lets dance to Joy Division has some emotional worth to me, but I love kill the director and moving to New York, the latter might be one of their best of all time.
Let's Dance to Joy Division was pretty great during my teenage heartbreak. It's that feeling of being a teenager and finding happiness in the moment despite disappointments AND despite being a bit cringey
LETS GOOOO Animal Collective making a run!!! All of those sweet 16 songs were like my middle school mix. Best bracket yet My Girls one of my favorite songs of all time
This has been an absolutely wild blast from my teens, but I also have to say I saw the Arctic Monkeys *very* early in their career and they were *so godawful* like truly baad. But I saw them again later and they had really found their style and groove.
I know this is such a late reply, but the Arctic Monkeys had no stage presence to begin with. The crowd singing along was what made their live performances, they had the charisma of a wet sock; just kind of standing there - little to no crowd interaction. I always thought Alex Turner just had permanent stage fright. They found something during S.I.A.S and A.M. The music was great, and even though it was a cheesy kind of British Elvis frontman that played songs that reflected working class teenage/young adult angst it worked. Then T.B.H.A.C and T.C arrived and he's morphed into a jazz lounge crooner, which works with those songs but just doesn't quite work with anything before Tranquillity Base.
Fun fact: one of the members of Miike Snow is also a member of the huge mainstream EDM duo Galantis, and the singer of Empire Of The Sun is also a member of PNAU, the DJ trio who remixed that terrible Elton John and Dua Lipa song that became a massive hit.
I think when discussing we are young it is important to look at it in its time. Right now it might sound like pop, but it was doing something that pop just wasn't doing in that time. It with some other songs, kind of changed the most popular music of the time from ultra pop into more indie music being at the forefront of music.
This whole bracket was a trip, I remember this era fondly as a fresh graduate from university from before the recession, the whiplash from hearing trashy EDM pop to early trap to electro clash to indie songs like 1901 in the same night going out, going to grad school in 2010 and having my only outlet being DJing at the student radio station and befriending the younger undergrads and seeing the gradual bubbling of this type of indie music, to leaving the states in early 2012 and seeing those Fun. and Gotye songs being sung by drunken British expats at an expat bar and not realizing that they were genuine billboard chart hits (nor how much of it were used in commercials). Maybe not my favorite kind of music overall, aside from some absolute bops, but really fond memories overall. Also Empire of the Sun is just a Great Value Fischerspooner.
Love the CVRCHES. my dad had the first album on his iPod and i continued listening to their newer sons on my phone. this band has the biggest marketshare in my personal Playlist.
I don’t really watch UA-cam as much anymore since like 2012 but after seeing y’all on TikTok I had to watch and this video is like everything I loved and still love and basically only listen to now. Thank you for the nostalgia.
Wouldn't be hivemind without some horrendous takes, all love fellas
We are young out first round is pure slander
love the pfp dawg 😭
Love fellas? 🤨📸
@@zackanderson9453the song it went again is just better though.
@@zackanderson9453Intro by the xx out in the first is blasphemy
No matter how many Hivemind brackets I watch, they still never fail to shock me to my core.
They somehow manage to have the best and worst tastes in music, simultaneously. It’s like a toaster strudel. Don’t ask how, it just is.
ur so real for this
this makes a lot of sense lol
@@ibproufenrowan1106 Thank you. I promise you, we will get through all of this together.
@@MKSpeakz Some people spit facts. I secrete saliva from my salivary glands and expectorate reality.
I’d argue worse for this one
Walking on a dream loosing so easily is heart-wrenching. I will be taking hivemind hostage within the next 163 days
both of them hating it is insane to me lol
My Girls blows it out of the water lmao
Diggy will be well prepared for you by September 8th.
I like it, but it can't beat My Girls
I have $10 that you’ll do it on day 62. Will you take it or double it and give it to someone else?
The fact people can make an indie bracket without even mentioning The Strokes is insane to me
Genuinely criminal activity that the strokes weren't here. Extremely disappointed.
I get where you're coming from, I fucking love The Strokes, but if they had em on here it probably would've been Last Nite and they would've cut it early
i thought the same thing, but then realised that perhaps The Strokes peak time was a little too early for this "indie radio hit" era
theyre too old compared to the other stuff on this bracket
4:26 here you go
Honourable mentions:
The Shins - Australia
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Deerhunter - Desire Lines
Santigold - LES Artistes
MIA - Paper Planes
Bat for Lashes - Daniel
Real Estate - It's Real
Ariel Pink - Round and Round
Best Coast - Boyfriend
Maximo Park - Books from boxes
Yeasayer - ONE
The Horrors - Still life
Maccabees - Pelican
Klaxons - Golden Skans
A few more that I think should be mentioned:
Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
and I definitely think *a* Sufjan Stevens song should have been included but I'm too big of a fan to choose just one
@@jiffyviv5341 For sure. I think they set the date limit 2007-2013 which rules out sooo much good early indie like Yeah yeah yeahs, Postal Service etc.
Golden Skans is a fire song
The heart and the heads- lost in my mind should have been on there. Maybe some Wilco stuff too but that’s also rather obscure
Yeasayer is slept on
The most consistent bad takes in the game! You guys are doing great work!
Can't deny that they picked the best song to win though.
Anco is by far the best band here. My girls isnt even their best song either
@@aidan8473 dance yrself clean didn’t win tho?
@@jakeozzy4776I wouldn't say theyre the best band but definitely the most interesting band here. I just could never get into that album. I liked bluish but that's about it. It was extremely boring to me honestly. Definitely should've gotten eliminated round one.
I love this show so much because they say stuff that makes me both laugh and shake my head
Funny how they’re called Hivemind but always seem to go against the collective opinion and i love it 💛
spilled
Yeah but sometimes is good to go with the popular opinion because Holy shit man this one was rough
Guapshire reference
This gotta get pinned
gapsrie
what we need next is a 2008-2014 pop punk bracket, would love to see what gets picked and how pissed the people get
yes please. I already know i’ll hate the outcome :)
Yes PLEASE
I would hate love it
I agree with this
i thought i had the best and most original idea when i was about to comment telling them to do this
YES
ALT-J were genuinely so cool performing like the amount of stuff that just 3 people could do blew my mind
Yeah I saw them in Glasgow years ago and they were brilliant. An Awesome Wave was a ridiculously good debut honestly, there's not a bad song on the album. I can see why some people are turned off because they find it pretentious, but they take it so far that it becomes endearing. Combining flamboyantly poetic language with filthy innuendo and metaphors about weird unromantic objects like crisp packets is objectively funny.
they are INCREDIBLE, my jaw DROPPED hearing them slander them
Their live shows are absolutely incredible, no doubt
right?? they're literally my favourite band of all time hive mind just doesn't get it
@@dangeroussecondaccount893 listen to some bladee
Massive props to anyone who publicly admits to liking Pompei
That song goes hard
EEEEE O EO EEEEO EO
its reminds me of fifa 13
The acoustic version is even better
Bro I love that song so much,pure nostalgia, no shame
I wanna see a 90s indie bracket (Cocteau Twins, Radiohead, Portishaed, My Bloody Valentine, Neutral Milk Hotel, Aphex Twin, etc.)
80s indie first! The Wedding Present, Housemartins, Orange Juice, The Smiths, Felt, JAMC, Stone Roses etc.
modest mouse 😭
THIS WOULD GO BRAZY
yes!!
YESSSSS
Surely everyone will agree with the choices in this bracket!
We always do because they are dictators and they give us free content
I don’t listen to this nerd music, so yes
@@zackswitch9656 Oh yeah. I don’t listen to nerd music, but I sure do love watching hour-long videos about it!
@@billycherokee7630 Dignan isnt a nerd
@@zackswitch9656 thats why he isn't in this video
Electric feel getting knocked out first round is dungeon torture level
but fleet foxes go way too hard
They have so many way better songs
@@absolute_divaayeah but there’s so many better fleet foxes songs
The eye-widening hype and excitement you get upon seeing a MASTERPIECE and the deflation that hits when they react mildly is a roller coaster.
Dance Yrself Clean is a fucking work of art.
Agreed
WORD
Me when they talk shit about local natives for...having an intricate drum line and unique sound?
Bastille is my favourite band of all time. Not the most musically adventurous, but lyrically incredible.
Breezeblocks alt j
"pet a snake backwards" is about to enter my daily vocabulary
Absolutely DEPLORABLE bracket. Keep up the good work boys!
finally a bracket where i had to physically pause the video and calm myself down from anger!!!!
video games my love, you deserved better than this
@@SarahC37592 I can see where they're coming from with Lana barely being indie, and to be fair, she has made significantly better music since Videogames
@@SarahC37592I DONT MEEEAN TO SEEM LIKE I CARE ABT MATERIAL THIIINGS LIKEA SOCIAL STAATUS
@@SarahC37592nah
MGMT being the only one with two songs on the bracket and still missing Time to Pretend
That's because that album is a fantastic listen, 4th dimensional transition is up their with the ones spoken about
the best one it’d be too OP
Unreal
Because they would just move it straight to the finals, it's THE indie hit, and it's perfect
@@jhawk889 Nah, electric feel is better. Time to pretend over kids tho
34:46 "Jeans Are On Sale" bit boutta be an all-time Hivemind classic
36:46
Absolutely dying
This was the “Oh that song was in Fifa Bracket” for me. What a trip into my childhood lol
everyone knows the true definition of an indie song is whether it was in a fifa soundtrack
I thought the same thing for some of these for nba 2k
great video, i was a bit confused by dignan's rant about sacrificial animals, but otherwise it was a chuckle fest!
Don't worry you'll get used to it, true fans know.
im ur biggest fan Ro notice me
Woah you’re on UA-cam?
i need you on their channel so bad
you’re friends with them it makes sense pleSe
my favorite indie hit was when dignan planned a hit on the president of the united states, but got caught. better luck next time diggy!
Happened In Indiana btw*
@@karstenbuer1376 ohhh the indiana one, silly me i was thinking of the other 134 attempts
Seeing this made me realise how many English indie songs made it across the Atlantic. The idea of the Kooks being listened to in the States is so strange
Being from Brighton it was crazy to see The Kooks been discussed on Hivemind. I still listen to Inside In/Inside Out all the time.
@@mattc1854 Hahaha I'm from Brighton as well, that's why I mentioned the Kooks specifically. Sussex represent
Same with arctic monkeys lol! I know they were big but I literally grew up on their full albums being played on a Sunday while dinner was being cooked
Feels VERY british core
@@cez_is_typing Yeah definitely, their more popular stuff like AM (that I dislike quite a lot) deffo made it to the US, but weird that their first couple of albums (which are brilliant) are known over there as well!
i was about to comment this😭😭 hivemind british boys up
I was like 15 when I discovered this genre and that was 10 years ago, but here's a some I would've added I got from my playlist from back then: Stolen Dance by Milky Chance, Ribs by Lorde, Cardiac Arrest by Bad Suns, Safe and Sound by Capital Cities, Sweater Weather by the Neighborhood, House of Gold or Car Radio by Twenty One Pilots, Electric Love by Borns, Rollercoaster or I Wanna Get Better by Bleachers, Sihouettes by Colony House, Homewrecker by Marina and the Diamonds, Ready to Start by Arcade Fire, and Gooey by Glass Animals!
everytime i hear gooey i feel so dirty LMAO…icky gooey woooooooobm
Bro silhouette, cardiac arrest and electric love was pretty much all I listened to during my sophomore year of highschool. Such great tracks
totally agree with this take
Somebody That I Used To Know is just pure magic to me, the video Wings of Pegasus posted about it a month ago is really interesting too.
Fully agree, for me it's like the criptid of the music world, most one hit wonders have other songs that flopped, but he just dropped the biggest song then left, and it's a song about leaving? It doesn't make sence
A playlist made for every bracket would be amazing…
yes!
Made one, it's called 'hivemind indie bracket' !! :)
they have most of em made
They do that every time
it’s linked in the description
I'm so suprised Graydon saying: "Never could get into CVRCHES" didn't turn into a bit.
same I was so ready for something
FR lol i was waiting for it
Wait a min u got that kid as ur pfp i wish i didn’t reply
@@Jamieconstable lmao all jokes bro he's just very seductive i can't help it. His music? Not very seductive.
@@Jamieconstable 💀
I feel like Sweater Weather by The Neighbourhood would've fit well on this bracket. Great video!
the most normal comment on a modern hivemind video
fucking hate that song
No, it would’ve won
@@fusion_strike_3384 I love both songs but I struggle to picture anything beating My Girls
Would love to see someone who's five years younger than these boys's opinion on this bracket
how old are they lol I cant fuckin pin it, being 20 i am equally distraught and relieved
@@daveprice5911iirc they're around 30
@@daveprice5911rileys 30 graydons 29
Just turned 20 not that long ago, would have at least taken Pompeii & Bastille up to round 3
Replying with an addendum because mobile UA-cam is ass now; it can definitely go up to round 3 at least, but I just remembered it was going against Somebody That I Used to Know & Gotye so it's definitely stuck at round 2. Still passes that Dance Yrself Clean excerpt though
Somebody that I used to know solos. Such a weird off kilter song with some amazing vocal performances. Reminds me of something Peter Gabriel would have written
Wasn’t expecting Born in the USA to win this one
yeah, i have no idea how that beat Free Bird in the final four
Wasn’t expectining dignan to rant about how “short people” by randy newman has relevant lyrics, but I guess he is entitled to his opinion
BOOOOOOON
Just had a crystal clear flashback of seeing Dignan rolling around on the ground at Bonnaroo saying 'I'm the mud man!' ...it was beautiful
I can't believe MGMT got two songs when the bracket is missing The Underdog by Spoon, LES Artistes by Santigold, Sweater Weather by The Neighborhood, Out of My League by Fitz and the Tantrums, etc
Completely agree! Honestly there are almost too many options they could have gone with, it was probably overwhelming to compile
Love Big Fish
omgosh sweater weather altered lives, honestly
Yeah I missed fitz and the tantrums too
Spoon is still one of my all time favorite bands
i'm really loving the stinky takes on this one. just plop down the take on the table and marvel at the sheer stench of it
Just gonna say: Home by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes singing that song in concert is amazing and a total vibe. A culty, hippie vibe, but it was definitely a transcendent moment and everyone was into it. The album that that song is on is among their best, hands down.
where you going
home
wheres home
Home,
A place where i can go
how can you not choose electric feel?? that song makes you feel electric currents flowing through your body as you listen to it?!
Animal Collective sweeps
Kinda mid ngl
Sometimes you'd just rather be slurped
because fleet foxes is better
The demo is way better imo, check it out if you havent
you eliminating two weeks in the first round inspired murderous feelings within me. keep up the good work!
NO FR. Two Weeks is still one of my favorite songs, it's absolutely immaculate.
I kinda get it, it’s not even close to being grizzly bear’s best song. It’s one of those songs that’s overshadowed by how amazing the rest of the album is tbh
Two week is EASILY a final 4 worthy song
I love your content except for when you share opinions ❤👍
honestly bro anthony fantano should do a collab with these dudes
How did Silversun Pickups' 'Lazy Eye' not make this list? A defining Indie Rock song!
love sspu but lazy eyes a little too old for this bracket, this is all like early 2010s
There's too much missing from this video for there not to be a round 2. No Bloc Party, The Bravery, Arcade Fire, Hot Hot Heat, The Neighborhood, The Shins, Middle Class Rut, Pinback, Pinegrove, etc. So many other songs from most of the other bands on here. Definitely warrants a part 2.
OH MY GOD BLOC PARTY. The Bravery good too but they only have one song I know. The Shins also just absolutely incredible, I wouldve freaked out more if broken bells wasnt on there at least but still seems weird to pick his like, smaller project to highlight his contribution to indie.
Id love a hyperpop bracket. You should do a hyperpop bracket. Would be awful if something were to happen if you didnt do a hyperpop bracket.
i would perish if they did a hyperpop bracket
Graydon’s BJ throw up bit with Riley’s reaction is a new top 10
listening to electric feel for the first time started a chain reaction that lead to me becoming an avid fan of indie music, literally my gateway drug
same…
sorry for replying so late but i love this comment. for me it was daylight by matt &kim
Funfact: Laurent Brancowitz, a member of Phoenix, was originally in a band called Darlin' in the early 90s, but the other 2 members were actually Guy Manuel De Homem Christo and Thomas Bangalter, the gold and silver robots from Daft Punk. Going even further, the name "Daft Punk" actually came from a review someone gave for one of Darlin's singles because he called it "Daft Punky trash".
How could arcade fire not be on here, they had some hits and DEFINED that era
I was disappointed too, they made my favourite album
If Lorde's first album counts as "indie," my favorite is Team
I kinda expected Royals to be here
Classic episode. Pretty thorough coverage of the era's top songs with only a couple notable omissions coming to mind so far.
Modest Mouse - Float On
Lorde - Royals
The Neighborhood- Sweater Weather
Anybody else got other big tracks that are missing?
I feel like it could have used some suburbs era arcade fire, but I'm not mad
Their timeframe was 2007-2014 so no Modest Mouse. IMO Lorde like Lana del Rey doesn't really class as indie. Here's some influential/popular songs from that era:
The Shins - Australia
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Deerhunter - Desire Lines
Santigold - LES Artistes
MIA - Paper Planes
Bat for Lashes - Daniel
Real Estate - It's Real
Ariel Pink - Round and Round
Best Coast - Boyfriend
Maximo Park - Books from boxes
Yeasayer - ONE
Also early Mac Demarco
THE SHINS. I appreciated they at least got Broken Bells on there, though.
ooooo sweater weather is one of my all time favorites
I was literally screaming when riley hated on dance yrself clean. That song is a masterpiece and deserved to atleast get by the first round. Thank you DJ grant for saving it.
I've come to expect horrific music takes on this channel lmao. They're lucky they're so funny
This video frustrated me to my core. Immediately subscribed.
Nice bracket, hits me in the nostalgia feels. It does miss Arcade Fire and Kings of Leon though. Both were massive during this era.
I don’t really listen to rap but I watch hivemind all the time. As a supple lil indie boy tho, this episode freaking SLAPPED
Yesss exactly! I usually don't know the music they're talking about that well and I watch them for their humor but this was right up my alley. I totally understand the rage other people feel while watching their brackets now
insane results BUT recognized so many songs and learned about so many good songs.. cannot complain EVER. I love hivemind.
As someone who did competitive dance around the 2013-2016 tumblr era, these songs had a CHOKEHOLD in both spaces. Also, just had a crystal clear flashback of seeing Dignan rolling around on the ground at Bonnaroo saying 'I'm the mud man!' ...it was beautiful
yes!! the number of these that i had dances to
33:17 I honestly loved Graydon's reaction to Riley's story about the choir singing fleet foxes at a church, and genuinely calling it beautiful :) Felt wholesome.
As a British person who likes Americana music, and indeed kinda likes Mumford and Sons, I really love the description of them as someone who has " seen O Brother Where Art Thou a few too many times". Very accurate.
For the past 4 years my group of friends does "Indie March Madness" where our top 150 indie artists go head to head in bracketed system like this. Loving the energy in the studio
IMMA SAY IT I LOVE BREEZEBLOCK BY ALT + J. the brass or horns that hit 4 times idk it does something
whole album slaps imo
The breezeblocks slander is insane
they said that and i am sitting here with them as one of my favourite bands lmao
Agreed, love Alt-J
I knowwww how could they do that to them
Hivemind please do an 80s hits bracket
I second this
PLEASEEEEEE
That's a great idea!!!!
Or 80s indie hits! You know, the Housemartins, Wedding Present, Smiths all had some hits and went on TOTP.
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You could see the surprise in Graydon's face after he dropped the perfect "jeans are on sale" line
Also I agree that White Winter Hymnal should’ve taken it ALL
The fact that this bracket more or less is just what i listened to for YEARS makes me feel the feels.
thank you hivemind for always cheering me up and providing a community where i feel like i belong. jokes aside y’all are doing so much for me. it almost redeems dignan for creating the 1918 spanish flu by mixing wolverine piss with lactose and giving it to the innocent spanish children
Never thought i would see animal collective in a hivemind video! They need more love and respect almost their entire discog is amazing
i’m so happy you guys did this video. the late 2000s-2010s indie scene had such a variety of sound and acts that unfortunately waned out. a lot of fun nostalgia for me!
also grizzly bear vs washed out tore me apart. two classics!
Wow. The Grizzly Bear & Washed Out bracket was tough. Both amazing in their own rights.
Dignan, thanks for kidnapping Gotye shortly after the release of Somebody That I Used to Know. That really sealed 2011 as the best year since 1837
You can see Riley trying to commit to the bit at 34:10 but ultimately bailing. All time Hivemind moment for this guy
the nostalgia of watching this was unmatched
It’s hard to believe that anyone wouldn’t see Pumped Up Kicks going big but I guess that’s the nostalgia talking.
It really is a testament to the talent though, that you could write a song with those lyrics and concept and have it explode like it did. Like I still love it now it hasn’t gotten stale to me or been ruined by what the world became after. It’s just so good. It feels good to listen to but the lyrics aren’t what you’d expect. It’s so bizarre and there will never be another song like it because it’s something that can only be done on accident
When you put Skinny Love and The High Road up against each other I wanted to scream, I was literally listening to both in between watching this and seeing them suddenly go up directly against each other was so tearing to watch. Quite the coincidence but still hard to watch.
The Spins didn’t sample Walking on a Dream, it sampled Half Mast (also by Empire of the Sun).
glad somebody else noticed that lol
I think they meant “The Trill” by Wiz
Almost every single one of these indie hits was on FIFA at some point and I'm so glad I grew up on it
Fifa Jams!
White winter hymnal on FIFA would be wild
Does the Check Yes Juliet reference mean the next bracket is going to be 2000s pop punk/emo/scene songs? Because yes please :)
Riley correcting the correcting the pronunciation on "Ukulele" while not realizing that it's a mandolin
I share similar sentiments with Graydon re: feIIatio. I am clawing at the walls in an open field and against all odds they are clawing back. Great video!
Dr.dog was my friend group's "band". we travelled so many times to see them. so nice to see them get love because i feel like often times people never know who they are.
Love seeing them talk about stuff other than rap. I love rap but their indie talk is so sick
You should do a punk rock bracket next! Love this format for genres as opposed to singular artists!! Keep it upppp
pitting sleepyhead versus polish girl seems criminal. both wayyyy too good
Fleet foxes made that era of folk somehow sound not goofy
Ill speak a bit of love about The Wombats. I love them. Also, they are actually still making music, and is quite successful. Greek tragedy is made by them and is a well listened song. They are a bit cheesy, but super catchy and I also think well produced. Sad to see them go in the first round.
yeah enjoyed their newer album
I truly truly love the Wombat's first and second albums, I still enjoy their new stuff "If you ever leave" is a really great one. But those first two albums, geeeez. Interesting that "Let's Dance to Joy Division" was chosen from 'Guide to love, loss and depression' when "Kill the Director" and "Moving to New York" are far superior.
Oh 100%, Lets dance to Joy Division has some emotional worth to me, but I love kill the director and moving to New York, the latter might be one of their best of all time.
i saw them live a couple years ago and it was fantastic
The Wombats lyrics are so good
rill rill vs kids was such a BRUTAL first round matchup damn!!
Rill rill is such a fire song. Shame it got paired up against Kids
Totally really reminded me of how much I loved Sleigh Bells - gonna go listen
I wanted to cry
18:26 "Did Born To Die come with the Crosly record player? That has to be the most scratched vinyl of all time" sent me to Brazil
yall should do like a pop punk or early 2000s songs bracket (mcr, patd, fall out boy, etc.)
Let's Dance to Joy Division was pretty great during my teenage heartbreak. It's that feeling of being a teenager and finding happiness in the moment despite disappointments AND despite being a bit cringey
actual joy division was my playlist for that lol
@@alonedownthere47 Oh mine too of course! It's essential
Total banger, but you can definitely tell it's an earlier one by The Wombats. I reckon 1996 would have done better on this bracket.
Even though Greek Tragedy is a better song, I still like let's dance for how simple it is.
different eras you cant be a mopey indie kid without listening to the recluse by cursive to me
LETS GOOOO Animal Collective making a run!!! All of those sweet 16 songs were like my middle school mix. Best bracket yet My Girls one of my favorite songs of all time
On my fathers grave
I really love when Riley says something fairly dirty thinking it'll catch people off guard but Graydon takes it so much farther 😂
Wide eyes… how can you not love that bass. I would die for that song.
This has been an absolutely wild blast from my teens, but I also have to say I saw the Arctic Monkeys *very* early in their career and they were *so godawful* like truly baad. But I saw them again later and they had really found their style and groove.
I know this is such a late reply, but the Arctic Monkeys had no stage presence to begin with. The crowd singing along was what made their live performances, they had the charisma of a wet sock; just kind of standing there - little to no crowd interaction. I always thought Alex Turner just had permanent stage fright. They found something during S.I.A.S and A.M. The music was great, and even though it was a cheesy kind of British Elvis frontman that played songs that reflected working class teenage/young adult angst it worked. Then T.B.H.A.C and T.C arrived and he's morphed into a jazz lounge crooner, which works with those songs but just doesn't quite work with anything before Tranquillity Base.
Fun fact: one of the members of Miike Snow is also a member of the huge mainstream EDM duo Galantis, and the singer of Empire Of The Sun is also a member of PNAU, the DJ trio who remixed that terrible Elton John and Dua Lipa song that became a massive hit.
The producer from EOTS, not the singer.
He also wrote Toxic, the Britney Spears song
sleepyhead by passion pit is so special to me because it reminds me of little big planet 2 and that was a very beautiful time in my life
I think when discussing we are young it is important to look at it in its time. Right now it might sound like pop, but it was doing something that pop just wasn't doing in that time. It with some other songs, kind of changed the most popular music of the time from ultra pop into more indie music being at the forefront of music.
This whole bracket was a trip, I remember this era fondly as a fresh graduate from university from before the recession, the whiplash from hearing trashy EDM pop to early trap to electro clash to indie songs like 1901 in the same night going out, going to grad school in 2010 and having my only outlet being DJing at the student radio station and befriending the younger undergrads and seeing the gradual bubbling of this type of indie music, to leaving the states in early 2012 and seeing those Fun. and Gotye songs being sung by drunken British expats at an expat bar and not realizing that they were genuine billboard chart hits (nor how much of it were used in commercials). Maybe not my favorite kind of music overall, aside from some absolute bops, but really fond memories overall.
Also Empire of the Sun is just a Great Value Fischerspooner.
Love the CVRCHES. my dad had the first album on his iPod and i continued listening to their newer sons on my phone. this band has the biggest marketshare in my personal Playlist.
i like how much you guys speak from a place of musical knowledge and personal experience like y'all really know about every single song :)
"yeah i mean that makes sense" is the bracket version of "that was my second guess" whenever grant picks against riley during a tiebreaker
I’d love to see a 90s grunge hits bracket that’s sure to not piss anyone off
I don’t really watch UA-cam as much anymore since like 2012 but after seeing y’all on TikTok I had to watch and this video is like everything I loved and still love and basically only listen to now. Thank you for the nostalgia.
y’all did alt-j so dirty, such a good band. an awesome wave is such a great album
“In cold blood” is a better champion for them than breezeblocks, even if breezeblocks is better known
21:43 I can see how Riley and Graydon wouldn’t like Breezeblocks but the rest of that album, An Awesome Wave is incredible
the alt-J slander hurt 😭
@@starrysar Fr, I love Alt-J and was just sitting there with a single tear rolling down my cheek
If “Left hand free” had instead been the band’s entry, would Alt-J have done better? 🤔
@@austintrousdale2397 Maybe, Left hand free is great, but honestly I like Breezeblocks better
@@austintrousdale2397 Tessellate