The 'alternative' music thread

[sockwithaticket]

Alternative is a pretty broad brief, basically consider it a place for anything kind of rock-y, but not metal as there's a thread for that.

My own musical preferences skew towards hardcore and its derivatives, but feel free to bring anything you like that isn't. Indie or Britpop are just as welcome as emo or deathcore.

With that in mind, I've been enjoying the hell out of The Pariah, a pretty new German hardcore band. Nothing groundbreaking, but sometimes really well executed genre music is what you want.



At the other end of things a cool indie band I like recently re-formed to put out a new album. They have a strong folksy influence, but cold air and pine forests folksy rather than deep south, heat and varmints style. They alternate between male and female led tracks, this is one of the latter.



This is probably their best song from the back catalogue

[-RB-]

Cool. Will check that out when I go for a walk later.

I've recently rediscovered Mad Season which was Layne Staley and Mike McCready's side project

[Enzedder]

I like to tune into Kasey Kasem's American Top 40 from the 70s

Continuous loop here

https://www.iheart.com/live/classic-ame ... LYygb78AM0

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I like to tune into Kasey Kasem's American Top 40 from the 70s

Continuous loop here

https://www.iheart.com/live/classic-ame ... LYygb78AM0

Good find! Was always on at my Nan's house.

[sockwithaticket]

Cool. Will check that out when I go for a walk later.

I've recently rediscovered Mad Season which was Layne Staley and Mike McCready's side project

Interesting, without knowing otherwise I'd say it was from an R&B band in the late 60s.

[Guy Smiley]

I like to tune into Kasey Kasem's American Top 40 from the 70s

Continuous loop here

https://www.iheart.com/live/classic-ame ... LYygb78AM0

Good find! Was always on at my Nan's house.

I used to listen to that... in the 70s

No disrespect or criticism intended here but that whole Top 40 scene is pretty much the opposite of alternative... alt music began as a genre in its own right with stuff like early REM and the like getting airplay on college radio when commercial stations wouldn’t touch them. That also tapped into the post punk new wave stuff coming out of the UK and around the mid 80s or so I guess, you had this monster of a music scene emerging under the umbrella of alternative music... then grunge happened and shit got loud and unreasonable.

[mat the expat]

No disrespect or criticism intended here but that whole Top 40 scene is pretty much the opposite of alternative... alt music began as a genre in its own right with stuff like early REM and the like getting airplay on college radio when commercial stations wouldn’t touch them. That also tapped into the post punk new wave stuff coming out of the UK and around the mid 80s or so I guess, you had this monster of a music scene emerging under the umbrella of alternative music... then grunge happened and shit got loud and unreasonable.

In the UK, the Saturday music video show used to alternate Hip Hop, Indie Rock and Alternative charts

Was annoying if you missed the one you were after

[Guy Smiley]

Anyhoo...



Wrap your heads around that.

[Enzedder]

I like to tune into Kasey Kasem's American Top 40 from the 70s

Continuous loop here

https://www.iheart.com/live/classic-ame ... LYygb78AM0

Good find! Was always on at my Nan's house.

I used to listen to that... in the 70s

No disrespect or criticism intended here but that whole Top 40 scene is pretty much the opposite of alternative... alt music began as a genre in its own right with stuff like early REM and the like getting airplay on college radio when commercial stations wouldn’t touch them. That also tapped into the post punk new wave stuff coming out of the UK and around the mid 80s or so I guess, you had this monster of a music scene emerging under the umbrella of alternative music... then grunge happened and shit got loud and unreasonable.

I didn't know what you meant by alternative so I considered it "Alternative to the shit they have now" :D :D

[Guy Smiley]

[-RB-]

Good find! Was always on at my Nan's house.

I used to listen to that... in the 70s

No disrespect or criticism intended here but that whole Top 40 scene is pretty much the opposite of alternative... alt music began as a genre in its own right with stuff like early REM and the like getting airplay on college radio when commercial stations wouldn’t touch them. That also tapped into the post punk new wave stuff coming out of the UK and around the mid 80s or so I guess, you had this monster of a music scene emerging under the umbrella of alternative music... then grunge happened and shit got loud and unreasonable.

I didn't know what you meant by alternative so I considered it "Alternative to the shit they have now" :D :D

It's certainly that :D

[Margin__Walker]

Bit of shoegaze tonight

[iarmhí]

[iarmhí]

[iarmhí]

[Margin__Walker]

Definite teenage crush on Justine back in the 90s

[iarmhí]

I was only 12 then but shared a room with older brother who was crazy into Britpop

[iarmhí]

[iarmhí]

Remember this song? Fucking love it

[Margin__Walker]

Yeah, was never hugely into PJ Harvey, but that was a good track. This is my favourite tune she's featured on

[iarmhí]

Yeah, was never hugely into PJ Harvey, but that was a good track. This is my favourite tune she's featured on

Never heard that before. Really like that

[iarmhí]

Some Tricky

[iarmhí]

[iarmhí]

[Margin__Walker]

Black Steel is a cracking cover

Not the coolest band at the time, but Mosely Shoals was a cracking album



And no trip to the 90s should leave without visiting the Levellers

[iarmhí]

That Levellers has a nostalgic vibe. Really like thst one

Reminds me of this band that toured Ireland early to mid 90s. They were a hippy band from the UK

[iarmhí]

Not a Suede fan but Animal Nitrate was a brilliant song

[Margin__Walker]

Yeah, my favourite Suede track by a distance.

Final set for the road. Taking it a bit scouse

[iarmhí]

This song is a treasure

[Mr Bungle]

Nice tunes, these embedded clips are the ducks nuts.

[iarmhí]

Nice tunes, these embedded clips are the ducks nuts.

First time hearing that as well. Very cool

[iarmhí]

[Guy Smiley]

Lisa Hannigan is a force of nature when she plays live.

[iarmhí]

Lisa Hannigan is a force of nature when she plays live.

That's pretty awesome. Best thing she did was get away from Damien Rice

[Guy Smiley]

Yeah, I’ve heard that a lot. Don’t know the back story but it sounds like one of those domination and power trips costing a truly talented artist a lot of suffering. She’s something else... here’s a clip I wanted to find earlier and couldn’t remember, singing at a Nick Drake tribute show, Black Eyed Dog

[Dismal Pillock]

nice choice there Bungle.

more from NZ. this album saw The Terminals surpassing The Verlaines as my fave ever NZ band:



ps guess the Terminals are no more. Peter Stapleton died in March. RIP

[Mr Bungle]

Nice on, Dismal.

Iarmhiman, Straitjackets Fits should have been huge. Check their work out.

Verlaines have always been one of my faves...

[-RB-]

Good thread.

Bit of Flying Nun:

[Mr Bungle]

Good thread.

Bit of Flying Nun:

And we've eclipsed the Great South African Music thread or PR 2020 with 4 posts.

[Gordon Bennett]

Good thread.

Bit of Flying Nun:

Great tune, though Bressa Creeting Cake were my favourite 90s Flying Nun band.

Recently, from an alternative standpoint, I've been listening to a lot of later Talk Talk and some Black Flag.

My daughter seems to have taken a liking to Car Seat Headrest, particularly the wonderful Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales.