Modest Mouse was the first ever indie band I liked (I didnt even know what indie was until a year later). I heard their song "Ocean Breathes Salty" online and thought it was weird (now its not weird at all to me) but good, so I got their CD Good News For People Who Love Bad News and loved it. I never heard music like that before, and in my mind it was groundbreaking stuff. I was like "man, more bands should make stuff like this" and once I found out there was an entire scene of these bands, I became an indie kid.