Music Banter - Favorite Alternative Songs

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger (Post 415891)

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: