Rhapsody MP3 Music Downloads: Indie Pop Music: Album, Track and Artist Charts

Description of Indie Pop

Indie pop bands offered a pretty, saccharine alternative to the aggressive punk and macho indie rock of the 1990s. Inspired by English groups like the Pastels, the Vaselines and Orange Juice, indie popsters made their own feel-good confections: simple, introspective, playful love songs that worked the simplicity of punk without the anger. The sound emerged from England's Sarah Records, with albums by Boyracer, the Field Mice and Heavenly.

Meanwhile, in the Pacific Northwest and California, Beat Happening paved the way for mostly female indie bands like Cub, the Softies and Lois, all of whom created fun and playful pop as a counterpoint to the politicized anger of the riot grrrl movement. Rather than addressing feminism and race and sexuality issues, indie pop bands focused on childhood fascinations like fluffy animals, nature, candy and the kind of love that doesn't go wrong.

Top Indie Pop Tracks

Play	Track	Artist	Price
	1. Satellite Skin	Modest Mouse	$0.99
	2. Guilty Cocker Spaniels	Modest Mouse	$0.99
	3. Autumn Beds	Modest Mouse	$0.99
	4. The Whale Song	Modest Mouse	$0.99
	5. King Rat	Modest Mouse	$0.99
	6. Perpetual Motion Machine	Modest Mouse	$0.99
	7. History Sticks To Your Feet	Modest Mouse	$0.99
	8. Daylight	Matt and Kim	$0.99
	9. I've Got It All (Most)	Modest Mouse	$0.99
	10. Float On	Modest Mouse	$1.29
	11. I Will Follow You Into The Dark	Death Cab For Cutie	$1.29
	12. Smile (Explicit Version)	Lily Allen	$1.29
	13. The Fear	Lily Allen	$1.29
	14. Promiscuous	Nelly Furtado	$1.29
	15. Sometime Around Midnight	The Airborne Toxic Event	$1.29
	16. 1901	Phoenix	$0.99
	17. Soul Meets Body	Death Cab For Cutie	$1.29
	18. Say It Right	Nelly Furtado	$1.29
	19. Laughing With	Regina Spektor	$1.29
	20. The Calculation	Regina Spektor	$1.29
	21. Dashboard	Modest Mouse	$0.99
	22. Lisztomania	Phoenix	$0.99
	23. F*ck You	Lily Allen	$1.29
	24. I Will Possess Your Heart	Death Cab For Cutie	$1.29
	25. My Girls	Animal Collective	$0.99
	26. Eet	Regina Spektor	$1.29
	27. A-Punk	Vampire Weekend	$0.99
	28. Eyes On Fire	Blue Foundation	$1.29
	29. The Way I Am	Ingrid Michaelson	$0.99
	30. Folding Chair	Regina Spektor	$1.29
	31. Fidelity	Regina Spektor	$1.29
	32. Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa	Vampire Weekend	$0.99
	33. Blue Lips	Regina Spektor	$1.29
	34. Ocean Breathes Salty	Modest Mouse	$1.29
	35. Not Fair	Lily Allen	$1.29
	36. Missed The Boat	Modest Mouse	$1.29
	37. Marching Bands Of Manhattan	Death Cab For Cutie	$1.29
	38. Maneater	Nelly Furtado	$1.29
	39. Crooked Teeth	Death Cab For Cutie	$1.29
	40. Dance Anthem Of The 80's	Regina Spektor	$1.29
	41. Oxford Comma	Vampire Weekend	$0.99
	42. The Call (Soundtrack)	Regina Spektor
	43. Human Of The Year	Regina Spektor	$1.29
	44. Stolen	Dashboard Confessional	$0.99
	45. Cath...	Death Cab For Cutie	$1.29
	46. The World At Large	Modest Mouse	$1.29
	47. Vindicated	Dashboard Confessional	$0.99
	48. Everyone's At It	Lily Allen	$1.29
	49. Fences	Phoenix	$0.99
	50. Two Birds	Regina Spektor	$1.29

Filed Under

Alt/Punk > Indie/Alternative > Indie Pop

Indie Pop Key Artists

Animal Collective

Animal Collective is an avant
pop band fusing indie rock,
noise, electronica and
"Friends"-era Beach Boys.
Animal Collective got its st...

Belle and Sebastian

Orchestrated pop marked
by literary preciousness
has seen this band take the
place of the Smiths on high
school notebooks. They...

Bis

Cub

Happy Punk-Pop covered in
enough glucose to frighten
a diabetic.

Death Cab For Cutie

With loops, jangly guitars,
and the occasional Farfisa,
DCFC craft a melodic
backdrop for Benjamin
Gibbard's cozy vocals. De...

Field Mice

Flatmates

Heavenly

Heavenly excelled in
writing witty, lighthearted
pop songs with enough
crunch to make your ears
buzz. This English band's...

Holiday

Holiday formed in 1992 on
the campus of Yale
University. The original
name for the band was
Wimp Rocket. Holiday's b...

Marine Research

Rocketship

Sacramento's Rocketship
are a much-loved indie pop
group who have actually
only released one
full-length record. Rocke...

Sondre Lerche

A Nordic singer-songwriter
whose lush slices of pop
perfection fall somewhere
between Rufus Wainwright
and Paul McCartney. Alth...

Television Personalities

The Television Personalities'
quirk pop has influenced
everyone from Creation
Record's Alan McGee to
Green Day.

The Pastels

Glasgow, Scotland's
inventors of twee indie
pop, the Pastels have been
shambling around since
1982. Founder Stephen Pa...

The Skygreen Leopards

The Bay Area's Skygreen
Leopards fuse gentle indie
folk and country pop,
producing a sound that's
uniquely Californ The Sky...

The Softies

Tiger Trap

Short-lived and beloved,
the Bay Area's Tiger Trap
made jumpy, frenetic, sugar
sweet, pure pop. Singer
Rose Melberg would go o...

Trembling Blue Stars

Tullycraft

Tullycraft make a melodic
splash of shy-boy,
punk/Twee Pop for their
friends. Some people might
even call it pop music. Wi...

Indie Pop

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