http://www.listsofbests.com/list/51679 From a March 2008 issue of _Entertainment Weekly_. Rules: "1. Only one album may represent each year...2. All the bands had to have been signed to an independent label for the given album (ergo, the absence of Nirvana and the Flaming Lips, whose true genius didn't manifest itself until they graduated to the big leagues, but the inclusion of My Bloody Valentine and the Pixies, who originally signed to small labels in the U.K.) 3. The term "band" must be taken literally (thus eliminating otherwise unimpeachable artists like Elliott Smith, Sufjan Stevens, and Cat Power)." 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