Favorite Alternative Songs (indie, pop, rock, favorite songs, genre)

Necromancer · 11-13-2007, 10:55 PM

Found out about you-Gin Blossoms, Heaven Let Your Light Shine Down-artist? Just to many favorite songs to name all at once. (To Bands) : Wallflowers, Smashing Pumpkins, LIVE, REM, etc. And so many more! I am no expert, so what I call Alternative music may be incorrect.

~~N*S*G~~ · 11-14-2007, 12:49 AM

Holy ****, Alt is more pretentious than Acoustic now!?

Brock_West · 11-19-2007, 05:27 PM

it's true that alternative is now more mainstream.

I don't think anyone's going to agree what should be considered alternative anymore

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.

TheBig3 · 11-19-2007, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by VocalsBass

Heaven Let Your Light Shine Down-artist?

Thanks just "shine" by collective soul.

djchameleon · 11-20-2007, 09:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Crowquill

Incubus isn't even remotely alternative, especially seeing as the album that contains that track had 3 hit singles.

You have it all wrong, Crow. Alternative isn't based on hits. An Alternative band can have a full albums of hits and still be considered Alternative. Just because an alternative band is popular doesn't make it pop. That's just like saying if Patrick Wolf becomes number one on billboard that makes him no longer indie.

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.

sleepy jack · 11-20-2007, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

You have it all wrong, Crow. Alternative isn't based on hits. An Alternative band can have a full albums of hits and still be considered Alternative. Just because an alternative band is popular doesn't make it pop. That's just like saying if Patrick Wolf becomes number one on billboard that makes him no longer indie.

Yeah...but only because he'd still be on his INDIE label...

Necromancer · 11-20-2007, 04:11 PM

Thats true Cq.

djchameleon · 11-26-2007, 07:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Crowquill

Yeah...but only because he'd still be on his INDIE label...

You still missed the point of my post with your logic that you were using.

I guess it was a bad example but still......you are saying that if anyone in their current genre all of a sudden has a hit album that tops the billboard charts they no longer belong in that genre because they are pop now.....that doesn't make sense to me.

A band/artist making one album that is more commercially successful doesn't mean they won't go back to their roots in future albums.

11-13-2007, 10:55 PM	#11 (permalink)
Necromancer Divination Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,655	Favorite Alternative Song's. Found out about you-Gin Blossoms, Heaven Let Your Light Shine Down-artist? Just to many favorite songs to name all at once. (To Bands) : Wallflowers, Smashing Pumpkins, LIVE, REM, etc. And so many more! I am no expert, so what I call Alternative music may be incorrect.

11-19-2007, 05:27 PM	#13 (permalink)
Brock_West north american scum Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 158	it's true that alternative is now more mainstream. I don't think anyone's going to agree what should be considered alternative anymore __________________ http://www.icompositions.com/artists/Stockholm

11-20-2007, 01:27 PM	#17 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	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.

11-14-2007, 12:49 AM	#12 (permalink)
~~NSG~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 151	Holy ****, Alt is more pretentious than Acoustic now!?

11-19-2007, 05:49 PM	#14 (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	#19 (permalink)
Necromancer Divination Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,655	Thats true Cq.