Favorite Alternative Songs
 

What is your top ten favorite alternative songs?..

What the hell is an "Alternative" song?

A song that's not a song?

"Alternative" has become so popular that it's no longer alternative, it's popular.

So what is alternative these days?

Ten (the album)

Too bad everything Pearl Jam released (including Ten) is trash.

Another thread that will go nowhere?

Automatic stop- the strokes ( it makes me happy!)
Flourescent adolescent- Actic monkeys
F@*k forever- Babyshambles
Our velocity- Maximo park
Knights of cydonia- Muse
Losing my religion- REM (even better when played by russel brand on a lute!)
Soul to squeeze- The chili's ( not realy alternative but not realy much else)No sugar- Thirsty merc
errrrrrm.... this is quite hard.
Thats all realy, cant think of anything else! That'll do

Yeah, I'm still rather confused about this whole thing. The songs listed in the last post have all been made by bands which have made it into the charts... what are they alternative to? Is this 'alternative' thing a particular sound or a particular attitude towards the music industry or something else?

(Anything by LCD Soundsystem)
Up! Up! Up! - Prinzhorn Dance School
Power Supply - Anamanaguchi
Getting Better - KCsGROOVE
A Little More High - Jayman, Baboon, Macdude02, HGimenez

Alternative has become any music that really has trouble fitting in a normal category. Is just thrown into alternative.

My Favorite would have to be Incubus - Make Yourself

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

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.

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

it's true that alternative is now more mainstream.

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

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

Thanks just "shine" by collective soul.

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.

Alternative = Post Nirvana stadium rock with a silly name.

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

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

Thats true Cq.

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.

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

Yeah I guess I did because what you said didn't make much sense. I'm assuming it didn't be cause you don't know what indie is. Anyway, we were talking about alternative, not indie.

Pop as a genre is different now and has grown to mean different things, but in essence it still means popular. So yes, if you're all over the music magazines and MTV, you're popular.

Okay, if they left their roots to become commercial I wouldn't be calling them alternative anymore and if they had to leave their roots to become popular then that means their roots weren't working in the first place. So if they went back to it it probably still wouldn't work and they wouldn't be popular anymore.

its called Shine and its by Collective soul
and i love that song more than anything.

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

Thats pretty much how I work it. I either throw it into "alternative" or "general rock"


89x, the "alternative" radio station in my area plays like three days grace, blue october, breaking benjamin, blink 182, fallout boy, blah blah blah.

In short I'm saying I just dont know.....

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.

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

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

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

Id have to say Fully alive by flyleaf.. i think thier alternative

haha wow!


but techinically all music is alternative.
every [MOST] bands take their favorite generes and mix them, grabbing influence from a bunch of things to create their own sound.

I don't disagree but what's with the yelling dude?

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

Believe what you want Crow. But IMO Evanescence is alternative, three days grace is alternative, chevelle is alternative and so is flyleaf.

Isn't slipknot like wanna be metal or something?

I like Radiobox's song "Underwater" and Fenix TX's "Phoebe Cates" the best right now. Both are the most played in my iPod!

Oh, and Evanescence is totally alternative.

i love Chelsea Williams. amazing alternative

Yep, but that one song sucks.

At the moment, I'd say it's Scentless Apprentice by Nirvana.

LOST Season 3 Finale FTW!

what is the point in labeling different bands by a specified genre anyway?

I Agree like whats the difference its music at the end of the day, you like it or not. Also i am not defending nickleback, they are alright i guess but **** off with the hating, its almost like Boston red sox fans(outside boston), you knew none until they win. (I know yankees too but red sox are more recent)