I like that idea of the pre-defined list. Then there's no need to consider whatever definition each person would consider "indie".

My first try at nominating categories:

1. Songs that include unusual time signatures
2. Songs with twin guitars
3. Songs about historical events

I was considering "unoriginal songs used in movies", but figured it could be covered by the "too common" rule? As in all songs used in Guardians of the galaxy, for example.

GROUP 4
6 - Radiohead - Paranoid Android
4 - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat
3 - Desireless - Voyage Voyage
2 - Black Sabbath - Paranoid
1 - Dire Straits - Telegraph Road

GROUP 5
6 - Cure - A Forest
4 - B-52's - Roam
3 - Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
2 - Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want
1 - House of Pain - Jump Around

GROUP 1
6 - Clash - Rock the Casbah
4 - Toto - Africa
3 - Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
2 - Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
1 - Police - Message in a Bottle

GROUP 2
6 - David Bowie - Starman
4 - Boston - More Than a Feeling
3 - Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again
2 - Earth, Wind and Fire - September
1 - Portugal. The Man - Live in the Moment

GROUP 3
6 - Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
4 - Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
3 - Police - Roxanne
2 - Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure
1 - Kenny Rogers - The Gambler

GROUP 9
4 - Cure - A Forest
3 - Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again
2 - Toto - Africa
1 - Deep Purple - Child in Time

GROUP 10
4 - Donkeyboy - Ambitions
3 - Blur - The Universal
2 - Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
1 - Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)

I know it says "Robert Wyatt - Alife". But I always read it as "Alfie", even though I know it isn't correct. That's all I had to say. Thanks for the attention.

GROUP 7
4 - Brinsley Schwarz - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding
3 - Robert Wyatt - Alife
2 - Dire Straits - Telegraph Road
1 - New Order - Blue Monday

GROUP 8
4 - Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
3 - David Bowie - Starman
2 - Boston - More Than a Feeling
1 - Fleetwood Mac - The Chain

GROUP 5
4 - Madrugada - Majesty
3 - Radiohead - Paranoid Android
2 - Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want
1 - Måneskin - Zitti E Buoni

GROUP 6
4 - Beatles - Taxman
3 - Black Sabbath - Paranoid
2 - Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five
1 - Desireless - Voyage Voyage

GROUP 3
4 - B-52's - Roam
3 - Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
2 - Portugal. The Man - Live in the Moment
1 - Ludwig von Beethoven - Mondscheinsonate, 3rd movement

GROUP 4
4 - House of Pain - Jump Around
3 - Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
2 - Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
1 - Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence

GROUP 1
4 - Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence
3 - Tom Waits - Step Right Up
2 - Kenny Rogers - The Gambler
1 - Le Tigre - Deceptacon

GROUP 2
4 - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat
3 - Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
2 - Clash - Rock the Casbah
1 - B-52's - Private Idaho

GROUP 9
3 - Dagny - Somebody
2 - John Grant - Marz
1 - Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence

GROUP 10
3 - Madrugada - Majesty
2 - House of Pain - Jump Around
1 - Gåte - Ulveham

GROUP 7
3 - Brinsley Schwarz - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding
2 - Blur - The Universal
3 - Robert Wyatt - Alife


GROUP 8
3 - Clash - Rock the Casbah
2 - Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
1 - Tom Waits - Step Right Up

Group 5
3 - Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
2 - George Harrison - Beautiful Girl
1 - Desireless - Voyage Voyage

Group 6
3 - Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
2 - Gaelic Storm - One More Day Above the Roses
1 - Paul McCartney and Eric Clapton - While My Guitar Gently Weeps

GROUP 3
3 - Beatles - Taxman
2 - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - Ohio
1 - Queen - Innuendo

GROUP 4
3 - Boston - More Than a Feeling
2 - Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
1 - Fay Wildhagen - ohmygod

GROUP 1
2 - Colourist - Little Games
3 - Donkeyboy - Ambitions
1 - Nolwenn Leroy - Tri Martolod

GROUP 2
3 - Mercury Rev - Goddess on a Highway
2 - Doobie Brothers - Long Train Runnin'
1 - Modena City Ramblers - Bella Ciao