Favorite Alternative Songs (soundtrack, indie, metal, rock, genre)

Necromancer · 11-19-2007, 05:49 PM

I agree BW. Not with the bands labeled as alternative from the 90s era. anyway, compared to the present mainstream music of today, etc.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 11-20-2007, 01:27 PM

Alternative = Post Nirvana stadium rock with a silly name.

Any chance of it actually being 'alternative' has long since disappeared.

VEGANGELICA · 03-12-2010, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

Alternative = Post Nirvana stadium rock with a silly name.

Any chance of it actually being 'alternative' has long since disappeared.

What you say about the definition of alternative music, Urban, sounds very similar to Wikipedia, my source for almost all genre info, since I'm not a genre person:

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Defining music as alternative is often difficult because of two often conflicting applications of the word. Alternative can describe music that challenges the status quo and that is "fiercely iconoclastic, anticommercial, and antimainstream," but the term is also used in the music industry to denote "the choices available to consumers via record stores, radio, cable television, and the Internet.

At times alternative rock has been used as a catch-all phrase for rock music from underground artists in the 1980s, and all music descended from punk rock (including punk itself, New Wave, and post-punk).Alternative rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Here is an example of what I think is a commercial, non-alternative "alternative" song...one that was never my favorite when it came out in 1989...but which, for some reason...I don't know, maybe because they are British? Or because they sing about someone with long, brown hair?

...is growing on me after I listened more carefully today to the lyrics while the song played on the radio at work:

"So Alive" (1989) by Love and Rockets, defined as an alternative band who used to play post-punk, psychedelic music, but then with this song went slick and commercial:

Necromancer · 11-20-2007, 04:11 PM

Thats true Cq.

Brock_West · 11-26-2007, 07:35 PM

I guess it's like Alternative is just a subgenre of Rock, it's not really the meaning "alternative" just the name.

I need an alternative to alternative rock

djchameleon · 11-27-2007, 05:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Brock_West

I guess it's like Alternative is just a subgenre of Rock, it's not really the meaning "alternative" just the name.

I need an alternative to alternative rock

I guess that's what I was trying to say in a nutshell regardless of if they are in the top40 or not.

Alternative Rock is a subgenre of Rock regardless of their position on the top40

sleepy jack · 11-27-2007, 11:17 PM

Yeah i've always considered alternative bands that were doing something that is actually alternative. I hardly see how pushing the same generic rock that Nirvana brought onto us in the 90s is alternative. I do not think the Foo Fighters are alternative and I sure as hell don't think Three Days Grace, Blink-182 or Fall Out Boy is. All they are is generic, mainstream, boring, cliche, rock. How those bands can even compare to Television or Joy Division is beyond me.

stakeraiser · 11-28-2007, 03:08 PM

I blame the Pixies, they shouldn't have been so awesome

Nirvana stole their deal, and now we are stuck with Creed and Nickelback

katiexdollface · 11-28-2007, 06:07 PM

haha oh nickleback, the band who takes 1 song and changes the words for every album.

blendedsounds · 11-30-2007, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by katiexdollface

haha oh nickleback, the band who takes 1 song and changes the words for every album.

That is probably the most on target statement I have heard in a long time! My thoughts exactly! I actually broke out laughing in the middle of the room when I read that.

As for defining alternative: I would say that Alternative Rock and Indie Rock really together make up a larger subcategory of anyone who doesn't like to go with the typical flow of mainstream rock music. To me, acts such as Motion City Soundtrack, VHS or Beta, Boys Like Girls, Matt Costa, Jack Johnson, Ingrid Michaelson and others all represent something that is different than your typical Creed, Nickelback, Matchbox Twenty, and Foo Fighters type music which has the feel of being crafted specifically for the radio.

Opinions are like asses, everyone has one, and that's just mine.

-Mike

11-20-2007, 01:27 PM	#2 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,626	Alternative = Post Nirvana stadium rock with a silly name. Any chance of it actually being 'alternative' has long since disappeared. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

11-26-2007, 07:35 PM	#5 (permalink)
Brock_West north american scum Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 158	I guess it's like Alternative is just a subgenre of Rock, it's not really the meaning "alternative" just the name. I need an alternative to alternative rock __________________ http://www.icompositions.com/artists/Stockholm

11-28-2007, 03:08 PM	#8 (permalink)
stakeraiser Music Addict Join Date: May 2006 Location: WV Posts: 188	I blame the Pixies, they shouldn't have been so awesome Nirvana stole their deal, and now we are stuck with Creed and Nickelback __________________ http://WWW.FLASHBACKALTERNATIVES.com Playing classic alternative, new wave, punk, etc, taking requests all day

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11-19-2007, 05:49 PM	#1 (permalink)
Necromancer Divination Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,655	I agree BW. Not with the bands labeled as alternative from the 90s era. anyway, compared to the present mainstream music of today, etc.

11-20-2007, 04:11 PM	#4 (permalink)
Necromancer Divination Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,655	Thats true Cq.

11-28-2007, 06:07 PM	#9 (permalink)
katiexdollface Groupie Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: the dirty jerz Posts: 32	haha oh nickleback, the band who takes 1 song and changes the words for every album.