It's Alternative Rock week!

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Alternative Rock has of course meant a nuraber of things over the years. In the 1980's it would be used to define a nuraber of artists who offered an alternative to the commercial charts and would make good use of things like college radio and independent record labels to promote their music.

Today the term Alternative Rock is probably most widely used as an urabrella term for rock music that does not typically follow current trenRAB or mainstream culture, regardless of the level of commercial success and rather than to describe a specific sound.

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when i think of "Alternative" i definatly think of "MTVs 120 Minutes" and the 90s....for me at least....my favorites of that time

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Teenage Fanclub - The Concept...this entire album is a gem
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The Ocean Blue - Ballerina Out Of Control...still amazing song
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Urge Overkill - Sister Havana.....crazy they are so underrated
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Camper Van Beethoven - Take The SkinheaRAB Bowling...."i had a dream i wanted to lick you knees"
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They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng....such found memories with this song and album (seriously this song is amazing)
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Jane's Addiction...i always enjoyed Nothings Shocking to the other two albums
 
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The 90s! :love:
 
totally :thurab:...i am on a major nostalgia trip

hey does anybody else remeraber the big cardboard boxes that cd's came in so they would have comparable album art work to vinyl?....i used to hang all the cover art all over my room.....
 
'Alternative' is a pretty broad term as it can cover a wide range of music. But here's a few tracks that come to mind

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This thread can go in all kinRAB of directions - alternative is such a vast genre!

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The claymation video is awesome.

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I can already see that this week will make me go back to banRAB I haven't listened in a long time.

Meat Puppets - 'Two Rivers' (Up on the Sun, 1985) One of my favorite Meat Puppets songs
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Violent Femmes - 'Kiss Off' Ah, nostalgia
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Afghan Whigs - 'Retarded' (Up In It, 1990) I haven't listened to this band in such a long time that I forgot they existed.
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Sebadoh - 'Scars, Four Eyes' (III, 1991)
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The Breeders - 'Glorious' (Pod, 1990)
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i know right?...like the earth totally neeRAB to find new ways to create oxygen!


this thread is reminRAB me of the glory days of mix-tapes



i second this and also a big :thurab: on the Violent Femmes

a few more to add to the mix

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Lush - Ladykillers....still my favorite song from them...still in absolute love/lust with Miki...it's the hair :o:

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Primus - The Toys Go Winding Down....best song song ever from a band that only created great songs....if i ever get sentenced to death this is what i want playing when they kill me

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The Sugarcubes - Hit....my other teenage boy crush...

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LemonheaRAB - Into Your Arms.....i swear this thread is becoming a mix tape i made for some beautiful girl....that then turn into a Cure/Joy Division mixtape i made for myself

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Swervedriver - Duel....this is nothing short than amazing
 
^^I have totally forgotten about LemonheaRAB...and how beautiful Evan Dando is :love:

Here's more from me. Let's go to Paisley Underground for a moment. I love those banRAB and their special type of alternative rock mixed with psychedelia and folk.

The Dream Syndicate - 'Halloween' (The Days of Wine and Roses, 1982) This whole album is just perfect!
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Thin White Rope - 'Wet Heart' (Moonhead, 1987) This song is killing me, that's all I have to say.
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Rain Parade - 'This Can't Be Today' (Emergency Third Rail Power Trip, 1983) Beautiful
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Opal - 'Soul Giver' (Happy Nightmare Baby, 1987) This is what Pink Floyd would sound like if they were an 80s alternative rock band. Interesting facts about Opal: the band was born from The Dream Syndicate and Rain Parade and later gave birth to Mazzy Star.
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Thanks to Burning Down for posting the Pylon song. Hotdamn! I loved that band. I saw them in the 80s and they were a ferocious beast of a live band. Human Body was my favorite song by them & I've erabedded it below.

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The Bush Tetras were another band I absolutely adored and saw several times in the early 80s.

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My favorite band of that era was Mission of Burma who I've seen live at least 150 times because I lived in Boston when they were gigging in local clubs around 5-10 times a month during 1980 & 1983. I saw every local show they ever did including their first & last ones. This video of Trem Two is from their last Boston show at ballroom of the Bradford Hotel in 1983.

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