Nice top, SpaceCadetHayden ! I'll make a top 10 :
1. Guided by Voices
2. Animal Collective
3. Neutral Milk Hotel
4. Godspeed You! Black Emperor
5. Boards of Canada
6. The Beatles
7. Pavement
8. Wilco
9. The Olivia Tremor Control
10. of Montreal
Honorable mentions: Circulatory System, Talking Heads, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Deerhunter, Wire, The Microphones/Mount Eerie, Elliott Smith, Nick Drake, Brian Eno, Belle and Sebastian, Built to Spill, The Shins, Radiohead, The Who, Pearl Jam