Artist	Song
Modest Mouse	Dramamine
from This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About (1996)
The Dandy Warhols	We Used to Be Friends
from Welcome to the Monkey House (2003)
Ween	Don't Laugh (I Love You)
from God Ween Satan - The Onenes (2006)
Blonde Redhead	Bipolar
from Fake Can Be Just As Good (1997)
Girls Against Boys	Bulletproof Cupid
from Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby (1993)
Rocket from the Crypt	Ditch Digger
from Circa: Now! (1993)
The Brian Jonestown Massacre	Anenome
from Tepid Peppermint Wonderland: A Retrospective (2008)
The Spinanes	Noel, Jonah and Me
from Manos (1993)
The Apples In Stereo	Energy
from New Magnetic Wonder (2007)
Archers of Loaf	Lowest Part Is Free!
from Vs. the Greatest of All Time - EP (1994)
Sparklehorse	Sad and Beautiful World
from Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot (1995)
Lambchop	The Man Who Loved Beer
from How I Quit Smoking (1996)
Portastatic	The Angels of Sleep
from Slow Note from a Sinking Ship (1995)
Man or Astro-man?	Television Man
from Experiment Zero (1996)
Unrest	Yes She Is My Skinhead Girl
from Imperial f.f.r.r. (1992)
Jawbreaker	Shield Your Eyes
from Bivouac (1991)
Polvo	Tragic Carpet Ride
from Celebrate the New Dark Age (1994)
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion	Money Rock n' Roll
from Matador At Fifteen (2004)
Velocity Girl	Crazy Town
from Copacetic (1993)
Royal Trux	Strawberry Soda
from Royal Trux #1 (1988)
Tsunami	Water's Edge
from Deep End (1993)
The Sea and Cake	Jacking the Ball
from The Sea and Cake (1994)
American Music Club	Why Won't You Stay
from Everclear (1991)
Red House Painters	Grace Cathedral Park
from Retrospective (1999)
Mogwai	Yes! I Am a Long Way from Home
from Young Team (2008)
The Beta Band	Dry the Rain
from Music - The Best of the Beta Band (2005)
Quasi	Our Happiness Is Guaranteed
from Featuring "Birds" (1998)

Comment:

From its underground-treasure status at hip college radio (and even hipper record stores), indie rock took up just too much historical and psychic space for a single playlist. So we’ve returned for a second helping. Back in 1996, when Modest Mouse’s career still [i]was[/i] modest, they delivered “Dramamine,” a woozy, late-night aperitif that waltzes us around for one last backward glance at love’s burned-out ghost. Don’t fry your brain trying to suss out the Sea and Cake’s stream-of-consciousness lyric in “Jacking the Ball" — just drift in the summer-sun eddies and swells of its muted Afro-Cuban undercurrents. The roboto-electronica-new wave mélange of the Dandy Warhols’ “We Used to Be Friends” crackles with such a delectable [i]snap[/i] that TV came calling, and it was snapped up as the theme for [i]Veronica Mars[/i]. And potty-mouthed duo Ween’s “Don’t Laugh (I Love You)” spins a quirky-sweet love web to a helium high — cotton candy with a razor blade tucked inside. From the Afghan Whigs to American Music Club, this is the perfect place to catch up on the jaw-dropping (and sometimes bewildering) variety of sounds, scenes, and stars that made the small world of indie rock the Next Big Thing.

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