Indie in Album Draft
Indie has very few outright smashes, which makes it a natural home for the Deep Cut. Treat a big indie crossover as a gift.
32Indie songs you can draft
1980s–2020s5 decades covered
1big enough for Lead Single
22small enough for the Deep Cut
Which slots Indie fills
- Lead Single (track 3) and The Closer (track 12) want your biggest songs, whatever the genre. 1 Indie songs qualify.
- Deep Cut (track 9) wants your smallest song. 22 Indie songs qualify.
Albums score higher when they use fewer genres and more decades, so Indie works best as one of two or three genres spread across several eras. How scoring works.
The biggest Indie songs by decade
1980s
- Once in a Lifetime · Talking Heads, 1981
- This Charming Man · The Smiths, 1983
- How Soon Is Now? · The Smiths, 1985
- Just Like Heaven · The Cure, 1987
- Personal Jesus · Depeche Mode, 1989
1990s
- Wonderwall · Oasis, 1995
- Bitter Sweet Symphony · The Verve, 1997
- Creep · Radiohead, 1992
- Common People · Pulp, 1995
- Paranoid Android · Radiohead, 1997
2000s
- Yellow · Coldplay, 2000
- Last Nite · The Strokes, 2001
- I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor · Arctic Monkeys, 2005
- Take Me Out · Franz Ferdinand, 2004
- Kids · MGMT, 2008
2010s
- Somebody That I Used to Know · Gotye, 2011
- Take Me to Church · Hozier, 2013
- Do I Wanna Know? · Arctic Monkeys, 2013
- Pumped Up Kicks · Foster the People, 2011
- Riptide · Vance Joy, 2013
2020s
- Heat Waves · Glass Animals, 2020
- About You · The 1975, 2022
- Kyoto · Phoebe Bridgers, 2020
- Silk Chiffon · MUNA, 2021
- Glue Song · beabadoobee, 2023
Other genres
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