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Old 05-09-2004, 06:54 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Back when they were maddd sick. Prolly the best indie album ever released.
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Old 05-17-2004, 09:14 AM   #12 (permalink)
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Uhh well i dont think u'll class good charlotte as alternative but i dont care that was the first album i bought and the last album i bought was HIM-And Love Said No just on saturday, lol im bored
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Old 08-27-2008, 07:35 PM   #13 (permalink)
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This is a really difficult one to do, because "Alternative" goes back much earlier than Grunge, or 90's Brit-Pop (which is where I would lump Bush). I would classify the earliest forms of Punk to be Alternative. Glam-Rock, even. Early David Bowie, The New York Dolls, etc. When I was young, the "Alternative" music was New Wave. I would have to say that MY first Alternative album was "Wild Planet", by The B-52's.

Indie is it's own monster. From a true definition, it would be something that was released on an independent label, and produced with a DIY (do it yourself) mentality. True Indie music is stuff where the artists are more responsible for their releases than a record company. Something that the artists helps to promote, instead of a high paid record company mogul who doesn't give a hairy rat's behind about the music that he is pushing. Although Bush was a core of the mid 90's "Alternative" movement, which was more focused around Brit-Pop, Nirvana was definitely the core of the early 90's Alternative movement. Alternative simply means outside of the mainstream. There was actually a point where all those bands really became Mainstream Rock artists.

Yes, you may say that The B-52's were just a Pop band. That would be true, if you were talking about 1988-1990. They were definitely left-of-center, back in the late 70's and early 80's.

So, for me... The B-52's was my first "Alternative" album... and as far as true blue Indie music? Geez... probably a guy by the name of Fela Johnson, who wrote everything, played every instrument, had a horrible black and white album cover, and nobody had, or has ever heard of him. TRUE Indie music.

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Old 08-27-2008, 08:25 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Probably Surfer Rosa by the Pixies.
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Old 08-28-2008, 03:38 AM   #16 (permalink)
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For Alternative:
Nirvana- Nevermind


For Indie:
The Smiths- Hatful of Hollow
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Old 08-28-2008, 07:40 AM   #17 (permalink)
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Velvet Underground and Nico in 1993 for first Indie album

First "alternative album" and only one I have bought to this date is Live's Throwing Copper. Most of what I hear that is described as alternative I tend not to like.
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What was the first Indie or Alternative album that you purchased?
Document by REM. It was actually the first album I bought ever, of any genre.
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Old 08-28-2008, 01:41 PM   #19 (permalink)
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the first indie album i bought was you're a woman, im a machine by death from above 1979. i didnt buy it but i got it for christmas was franz ferdinand's debut - that was my first alternative album that i got. the first one i actually bought was rated r by queens of the stone age, i dont know if you would consider them alternative though....
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What was the first Indie or Alternative album that you purchased?
The Flamming Lips back in 1993. I was a little late in the ball game.
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