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Indie 2000 was a series of alternative music compilations that enjoyed moderate success in Australia throughout the latter half of the 1990s. There were a total of nine volumes. The title was changed to simply Indie for volumes 8 and 9. The compilations consisted of popular alternative songs, a considerable amount of them being by Australian bands. [1]

Contents

Discography

Indie 2000 Volume 1

Disc 1

  1. "Jesus Built My Hotrod (Album Version)" – Ministry
  2. "A.D.I.D.A.S." – Korn
  3. "Slave" – Silverchair
  4. "Mach 5" – The Presidents of the United States of America
  5. "Soldiers" – You Am I
  6. "Here We Go" – Shelter
  7. "Punk Rock Song" – Bad Religion
  8. "Let There Be Rock" – Hard-Ons
  9. "Cromagnon Man" – Snout
  10. "Jerks of Attention" – Jebediah
  11. "Krupa (440 Edit)" – Apollo 440
  12. "Born Slippy .NUXX (Short)" – Underworld
  13. "Voodoo People" – The Prodigy
  14. "Fire Water Burn" – Bloodhound Gang
  15. "Breathing Through My Eyes" – Skunkhour
  16. "Drugs" – Ammonia
  17. "Tons of Bricks" – The Meanies
  18. "Small" – Effigy
  19. "Higher Than You Think" – Something for Kate

Disc 2

  1. "Place Your Hands" – Reef
  2. "Hey Dude" – Kula Shaker
  3. "It's Like Sound" – Automatic
  4. "Don't Look Back in Anger" – Oasis
  5. "Coppertone" – Fini Scad
  6. "From Here on In" – The Living End
  7. "Cult of Personality" – Living Colour
  8. "Nearly Lost You" – Screaming Trees
  9. "Interloper" – The Mark of Cain
  10. "Not an Addict" – K's Choice
  11. "Barrel of a Gun" – Depeche Mode
  12. "Space Shanty" – Leftfield
  13. "Dead Eyes Opened" – Severed Heads
  14. "Effervescence" – Pollyanna
  15. "Infatuation" – Moler
  16. "I Am Awake" – Rail
  17. "Where Did She Come From" – Hard-Ons
  18. "Love Measurer" – Custard

Indie 2000 Volume 2

Disc 1

  1. "The Beautiful People" – Marilyn Manson
  2. "The Perfect Drug" – Nine Inch Nails
  3. "Funky Shit" – The Prodigy
  4. "Into My Arms" – Nick Cave
  5. "Some Kind of Bliss" – Kylie Minogue
  6. "Coma" – Pendulum
  7. "Remember Me" – Blue Boy
  8. "DC×3" – Grinspoon
  9. "Abuse Me" – Silverchair
  10. "Last Cup of Sorrow" – Faith No More
  11. "Swallowed" – Bush
  12. "Why's Everybody Always Pickin' on Me?" – Bloodhound Gang
  13. "I Go Off" – Diana ah Naid
  14. "Good God" – Korn
  15. "Dance with the Devil (Radio Mix)" – Raggadeath
  16. "A Life Less Ordinary" - Ash
  17. "Here in Your Bedroom" – Goldfinger
  18. "Early to Bed" – Morphine
  19. "More than This" – 10,000 Maniacs

Disc 2

  1. "Military Strongmen" – Jebediah
  2. "Naughty Boy" – The Mavis's
  3. "Pulse" – Front End Loader
  4. "There's Your Dad" – Frenzal Rhomb
  5. "George" – Headless Chickens
  6. "Isaac or Fuzz" – Machine Gun Fellatio
  7. "Rabbit with Fangs" – Magic Dirt
  8. "Smile" – Pangaea
  9. "Sunbury '97" – The Fauves
  10. "Debaser" – Pixies
  11. "Lust for Life" – Iggy Pop
  12. "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)" – N.Y.C.C.
  13. "Kool Thing" – Sonic Youth
  14. "Bring Tha Noize" – Public Enemy featuring Anthrax
  15. "When the Shit Goes Down" – Cypress Hill
  16. "Somebody to Shove" – Soul Asylum
  17. "Let It Slide" – Mudhoney
  18. "Don't It Get You Down" – Deadstar
  19. "Heaven" – Mr. Blonde
  20. "Lose My Mind (A Friend In London)" – Bill
  21. "Sometimes" – Brand New Heavies
  22. "The Joker Is Wild" – Corduroy
  23. "Fuck the Millennium" – 2K

Indie 2000 Volume 3

Disc 1

  1. "Josie" – Blink-182
  2. "Fight for Your Right (To Party)" – N.Y.C.C.
  3. "It's Tricky (Jason's Slo-pocus Radio Mix)" – Run–DMC vs. Jason Nevins
  4. "Walkin' on the Sun (Feet Beat Manifesto Mix)" – Smash Mouth
  5. "Touch, Peel and Stand" – Days of the New
  6. "Breathe" – Kylie Minogue
  7. "Smack My Bitch Up (Edit)" – The Prodigy
  8. "Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Remix Single Version)" – Cornershop
  9. "Not the Sunscreen Song" – John Safran
  10. "One Headlight" – The Wallflowers
  11. "Criminal (Radio Edit)" – Fiona Apple
  12. "Change in Me" – Monique Brumby
  13. "All for You" – Sister Hazel
  14. "Bleed" – Soulfly
  15. "Shake Hands with Beef" – Primus
  16. "Wash It Away" – Black Lab
  17. "100% Jesus" – Daniella's Daze
  18. "Ready or Not (Radio Edit)" – manBREAK

Disc 2

  1. "Just Ace" – Grinspoon
  2. "Mum Changed the Locks" – Frenzal Rhomb
  3. "Got Sold on Heaven" – Snout
  4. "She Riff" – Magic Dirt
  5. "Jimmy Rogers" – Fur
  6. "Roll Credit" – Something for Kate
  7. "Music Is Crap" – Custard
  8. "You Sound Like Louis Burdett" – The Whitlams
  9. "Sirena" – Dirty Three
  10. "Smokin' Johnny Cash" – The Blackeyed Susans
  11. "Suspicion Bells" – Effigy
  12. "Letter Never Sent" – Bodyjar
  13. "Hi-C's" – Screamfeeder
  14. "It's Not Real" – Fini Scad
  15. "Red Light Disco" – Moler
  16. "Lightning Crashes" – Live
  17. "Jump Around (Master Mix)" – House of Pain
  18. "You Are What You Is" – Frank Zappa
  19. "Get Higher" – Black Grape
  20. "Busy Child (Radio Edit)" – The Crystal Method
  21. "I'm a Disco Dancer (And a Sweet Romancer) (Ernie's Edit)" – Christopher Just

Indie 2000 Volume 4

Disc 1

  1. "Heavy Heart" – You Am I
  2. "Black Friday" – Grinspoon
  3. "Doctor Worm" – They Might Be Giants
  4. "Pure Morning" – Placebo
  5. "Every Day Should Be a Holiday" – The Dandy Warhols
  6. "Shimmer" – Fuel
  7. "Sweater" – Eskimo Joe
  8. "Engel" – Rammstein
  9. "Resurrection" – Fear Factory
  10. "I Hate Stupid People" – Insurge
  11. "California Stars" – Billy Bragg & Wilco
  12. "Rachael" – Buffalo Tom
  13. "Eat Me" – Arkarna
  14. "Skankin' Carpark Blues" – The Porkers
  15. "Tequila Sunrise" – Cypress Hill
  16. "Revolution (Bring the Noise)" – Subsonic Legacy
  17. "Baddest DJ on 2 Turntables" – Wax Assassins
  18. "Banana Chips" – Shonen Knife
  19. "No Surprises" – Even

Disc 2

  1. "Flagpole Sitta" – Harvey Danger
  2. "Sex and Candy" – Marcy Playground
  3. "Father of Mine" – Everclear
  4. "My Favourite Game" – The Cardigans
  5. "Thunderbirds Are Coming Out" – TISM
  6. "Save Yourself" – Stabbing Westward
  7. "Road Rage" – Catatonia
  8. "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" – Manic Street Preachers
  9. "Drinking in L.A." – Bran Van 3000
  10. "Charlie No. 3" – The Whitlams
  11. "Cinnamon Lip" – Pollyanna
  12. "The Ballad of Tom Jones" – Space with Cerys Matthews
  13. "Party Hard" – Pulp
  14. "No Logic" – Area-7
  15. "Summertime" – The Sundays
  16. "A Punk Named Josh" – Chopper One
  17. "Black the Sun" – Alex Lloyd
  18. "Hey Now Now" – Swirl 360
  19. "Bradley" – Coal Chamber

Indie 2000 Volume 5

Disc 1

  1. "Freak on a Leash" – Korn
  2. "Never Had So Much Fun" – Frenzal Rhomb
  3. "More Than You Are" – Grinspoon
  4. "Don't Wanna Be Left Out" – Powderfinger
  5. "When I Grow Up" – Garbage
  6. "Jesus or a Gun" – Fuel
  7. "Polyester Bride" – Liz Phair
  8. "Shazam!" – Spiderbait
  9. "Turn Up Your Stereo" – Eskimo Joe
  10. "Stereo" – The Watchmen
  11. "I Wanna Be a Nudist" – Regurgitator
  12. "Hazy Shade of Winter" – Bodyjar
  13. "Can't Get Enough" – Suede
  14. "You Stole the Sun from My Heart" – Manic Street Preachers
  15. "Heart and Shoulder" – Heather Nova
  16. "Bitter Words" – Area-7
  17. "Cha Cha Cha" – Grand Theft Auto
  18. "Get Down" – Jungle Brothers
  19. "Radio Funk" – Endorphin
  20. "The Universe" – Snog
  21. "Lift" – Sunk Loto
  22. "Mystical Machine Gun" – Kula Shaker
  23. "B-Line" – Lamb

Disc 2

  1. "Tender" – Blur
  2. "Sheep Go to Heaven" – Cake
  3. "Hallways" – Something for Kate
  4. "Lucky Star" – Alex Lloyd
  5. "Waltz #2" – Elliott Smith
  6. "You Don't Care About Us" – Placebo
  7. "What It's Like" – Everlast
  8. "Right Here, Right Now" – Fatboy Slim
  9. "Push Upstairs" – Underworld
  10. "Theophilus Thistler (An Exercise in Vowels)" – Sonic Animation
  11. "Touched" – VAST
  12. "Action and Drama" – Bis (Some pressings featured the song 'Theme From Tokyo' by the same artist, however 'Action and Drama' is listed on the track list)
  13. "Spray Water on the Stereo" – Turnstyle
  14. "Young" – Primary
  15. "Hit Song" – Custard
  16. "Delicious" – Moler
  17. "Crush" – Violetine
  18. "Have Your Way" – Superheist
  19. "Ladyfingers" – Luscious Jackson

Indie 2000 Volume 6

Disc 1

  1. "Falling Away from Me" – Korn
  2. "Guerrilla Radio" – Rage Against the Machine
  3. "What's My Age Again?" – Blink 182
  4. "Blue Monday" – Orgy
  5. "Spit It Out (Overcaffeinated Hyper Version)" – Slipknot
  6. "Underdog" – Testeagles
  7. "Ready 1" – Grinspoon
  8. "Ten Minutes" – The Get Up Kids
  9. "Boredom" – The Tenants
  10. "All Torn Down" – The Living End
  11. "Second Class Citizen" – Area-7
  12. "Pumping on Your Stereo" – Supergrass
  13. "Didley Squat" – Sonic Animation
  14. "Build It Up, Tear It Down" – Fatboy Slim
  15. "Swastika Eyes (Edit)" – Primal Scream
  16. "Rendez-Vu" – Basement Jaxx
  17. "Supersonic (Radio Edit)" – Jamiroquai
  18. "Mutha Fukka on a Motocycle" – Machine Gun Fellatio
  19. "Comin' Up from Behind" – Marcy Playground
  20. "Plastic" – Spiderbait
  21. "Skin Tight" – The Donnas
  22. "In the Middle" – Nitocris

Disc 2

  1. "Take a Picture" – Filter
  2. "Miss You Love" – Silverchair
  3. "Passenger" – Powderfinger
  4. "Genre Casting" – Lo-Tel
  5. "Burn to Shine" – Ben Harper
  6. "Heaven Coming Down" – The Tea Party
  7. "Every You Every Me" – Placebo
  8. "Come Original" – 311
  9. "Coffee & TV" – Blur
  10. "Whatever You Want" – Something for Kate
  11. "Stolen Car" – Beth Orton
  12. "Ends" – Everlast
  13. "Every Morning" – Sugar Ray
  14. "You Gotta Love This City" – The Whitlams
  15. "Don't Change Your Plans" – Ben Folds Five
  16. "Cowboy" – Kid Rock
  17. "Beautiful" – Joydrop
  18. "Something Special" – Alex Lloyd

Indie 2000 Volume 7

Disc 1

  1. "Yellow" – Coldplay
  2. "Bohemian Like You" – The Dandy Warhols
  3. "Slave to the Wage" – Placebo
  4. "Damage" – You Am I
  5. "Pacifier" – Shihad
  6. "Dirty Jeans" – Magic Dirt
  7. "Teenager of the Year" – Lo-Tel
  8. "Teenage Dirtbag" – Wheatus
  9. "Porcelain" – Moby
  10. "The Time Is Now" – Moloko
  11. "Music Is My Radar" – Blur
  12. "Wasting My Life" – The Hippos
  13. "Start Making Sense" – Area-7
  14. "Set the Record Straight" – Reef
  15. "Goodbye" – 28 Days
  16. "Secrets" – Grinspoon
  17. "Catch the Sun" – Doves
  18. "Music Non Stop" – Kent
  19. "Drive" – Chakradiva
  20. "King of the DJ's" – Grand Theft Auto
  21. "Too Big for Your Boots" – The Porkers

Disc 2

  1. "Renegades of Funk (Radio Edit)" – Rage Against the Machine
  2. "Pictures in the Mirror" – The Living End
  3. "Fall to the Ground" – Bodyjar
  4. "Nothing's Wrong" – Frenzal Rhomb
  5. "Please Leave" – Jebediah
  6. "Make Me Bad (Sickness In Salvation Mix)" – Korn
  7. "Every Fucking City" – Paul Kelly
  8. "Wonderful" – Everclear
  9. "Sunken Eyes" – Sunk Loto
  10. "Crush the Losers" – Regurgitator
  11. "The Best Things (Radio Edit)" – Filter
  12. "Stellar" – Incubus
  13. "Killing the Fly" – The Union Underground
  14. "Holiday" – The Get Up Kids
  15. "Go Let It Out!" – Oasis
  16. "My Way Home" – Alex Lloyd
  17. "Charlie's Angels 2000" – Apollo 440
  18. "Never Gonna Come Back Down (Single Edit)" – BT featuring Mike Doughty
  19. "Size Does Matter" – ONinc
  20. "B.O.B (Radio Mix)" – OutKast
  21. "Mind Bomb" – Oblivia

Indie Volume 8

Disc 1

  1. "Clint Eastwood" – Gorillaz
  2. "It Don't Matter" – Rehab
  3. "Three Dimensions (Single Edit)" – Something for Kate
  4. "The Drugs Don't Work" – Ben Harper
  5. "Amazing" – Alex Lloyd
  6. "Drive" – Incubus
  7. "Little L (Single Edit)" – Jamiroquai
  8. "Weapon of Choice" – Fatboy Slim
  9. "Rock the Nation" – Michael Franti & Spearhead
  10. "Special K" – Placebo
  11. "Pace It" – Magic Dirt
  12. "Get Off" – The Dandy Warhols
  13. "Rose Rouge Pt. 1" – St Germain
  14. "Rome Wasn't Built in a Day" – Morcheeba
  15. "No Man's Woman" – Sinéad O'Connor
  16. "AM Radio" – Everclear
  17. "Godless" – U.P.O.
  18. "Everything in Its Right Place" – Radiohead
  19. "I Don't Care What Your Friends Say" – Soda Racer
  20. "Much Against Everyone's Advice" – Soulwax

Disc 2

  1. "The Heretic Anthem" – Slipknot
  2. "Dig" – Mudvayne
  3. "Last Resort" – Papa Roach
  4. "Stash Up" – OPM
  5. "Little Things" – Good Charlotte
  6. "Lonesome" – Unwritten Law
  7. "No Cigar" – Millencolin
  8. "Roll On" – The Living End
  9. "Feed It" – Bodyjar
  10. "40 Boys in 40 Nights" – The Donnas
  11. "All My Best Friends Are Metalheads" – Less Than Jake
  12. "I Hear You Calling" – Gob
  13. "Killing Time" – Hed PE
  14. "Charlotte" – Kittie
  15. "Invisible Wounds (Dark Bodies)" – Fear Factory
  16. "Rumba" – Ill Niño
  17. "I'm with Stupid" – Static-X
  18. "Turn Me On "Mr. Deadman" (Explicit Version)" – The Union Underground
  19. "Again & Again" – Taproot
  20. "Pain" – Stereomud
  21. "Smash It Up" – The (International) Noise Conspiracy
  22. "Die, All Right!" – The Hives
  23. "Don't Call Me Baby" – Frankenbok

Indie Volume 9

Disc 1

  1. "Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)" – Garbage
  2. "Rockin' the Suburbs" – Ben Folds
  3. "The Hindu Times" – Oasis
  4. "This Mess We're In" – PJ Harvey
  5. "Island in the Sun" – Weezer
  6. "Souljacker Part I" – Eels
  7. "Twenty Years" – Something for Kate
  8. "Sexual Healing" – Ben Harper
  9. "Lullaby" – The Tea Party
  10. "Knives Out" – Radiohead
  11. "Gabriel" – Lamb
  12. "Roseability" – Idlewild
  13. "Bliss" – Muse
  14. "Economic Decline" – Rocket Science
  15. "Shock" – Cartman
  16. "Supagloo" – Magic Dirt
  17. "Karma" – 1200 Techniques
  18. "You Give Me Something" – Jamiroquai
  19. "Superstylin'" – Groove Armada
  20. "Man, It's So Loud in Here" – They Might Be Giants

Disc 2

  1. "Main Offender" – The Hives
  2. "First Date" – Blink-182
  3. "She's Got the Look" – Guttermouth
  4. "Divine Intervention" – Pennywise
  5. "Mean Girl" – Unwritten Law
  6. "Fall Down" – Jebediah
  7. "Say What?" – 28 Days featuring Apollo 440
  8. "Hope Is Where the Heart Is" – Seraph's Coal
  9. "Nice to Know You" – Incubus
  10. "The Cell" – The Butterfly Effect
  11. "Feel So Numb" – Rob Zombie
  12. "Bodies" – Drowning Pool
  13. "Sonne" – Rammstein
  14. "Linchpin" – Fear Factory
  15. "Synthetic" – Spineshank
  16. "Squash That Fly" – Fu Manchu
  17. "The Shame of Life" – Butthole Surfers
  18. "Giving In" – Adema
  19. "Flashback" – Tomahawk
  20. "What I Always Wanted" – Kittie
  21. "Burn Baby Burn" – Ash
  22. "Killing Time" – Hed PE

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