DAY 12 of the 30 Day Song Challenge, alternative music styles!

Time to give away just how old you are! lol - reach back, y’all! What’s an alternative childhood song ya love?

Each day I’ll post the challenge and you share some of your favorite alternative & indie songs that meet the challenge!

      • CmndrShrm@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I remember people using new wave mostly when referring to the bands of the time that didn’t fit into the standard genres. But, I was a kid and growing up way out in the middle of nowhere. Which means there was a lot I simply didn’t know at the time. Now I am older, grayer, and still don’t know much of anything.

        • ren (a they/them)@lemmy.worldOPM
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          1 year ago

          Ah yes! “New Wave”! Good stuff. Mainstream definitely pulled from it after a few minor hits. It’s definitely a grey definition, you can almost feel it when it’s not built for the Top 40, eh? It’s like porn, “I don’t know how to define it but I know it when I see it” lol

  • krzschlss@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    The Cranberries - Linger

    This summer my mother decided for us to go from Germany via Italy to Greece by car and ferry with a lot of stops on the way. She bought a CD player with 10 CD slots for the car. This album was one of those 10 on rotation for almost a week. Dolores’ voice is for me synonymous with summer since then.

  • rDrDr@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    If Nirvana counts, Smells Like Teen Spirit was one of my first exposures to anything outside of pop or rap, and it was pretty fucking awesome both then and now.

    Edit: I never really looked up a definition of alternative before, but at least according to Wikipedia, Nirvana is a tentpole alternative band. I always would have described them as grunge/punk, and viewed alternative as generally more mellow as a genre.

    • ren (a they/them)@lemmy.worldOPM
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      1 year ago

      oh, they count! While many credit bands like REM for bringing college rock / alternative to the mainstream, it ushered in an era of authenticity that Nirvana pretty much personified with their explosive success.

      Alternative (or indie or college rock) just really means music not designed for top 40 mainstream accolades - yes, they may hit top 40, but that’s not really what the music is about. The music isn’t making music to follow top 40 trends, they tend to follow their own thing.

  • jcrabapple@dmv.pub
    3·
    1 year ago

    I was 10 when the Cranberries released “Dreams”. I remember the first time I heard it on my dad’s fancy stereo in my parent’s basement. I was fascinated from the moment I heard that opening guitar chord. This song ended up on many of my mix tapes (and later mix CDs) throughout the 90s. Still to this day it makes me feel like I’m at home sitting on the floor listening to the radio.

    https://youtu.be/Yam5uK6e-bQ

  • kvn@midwest.socialEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    So I was born in 92 and some of my early music exposure was the 90s alternative and pop music my older sisters were into. One CD that my sister would play a lot was Everclear’s So Much For the Afterglow. I always liked the title track because of the choral intro transition into the punk sound.

    So Much for the Afterglow - Everclear

    And then I was 12 when Green Day’s American Idiot came out so I was really into that for a while. My favorite track being the 9 minute epic Jesus of Suburbia.

    Jesus of Suburbia - Green Day

  • nhombrenovalido@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park came out when I was 10, it would be hard for me to choose just one song off that album to love. I owe a lot of my musical tastes to that record and without it I would not be the same person

  • vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    1 year ago

    Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - What I Am

    I remember this being one of the first “alternative” type songs I heard as a kid. Grew up hanging out with the (slightly) older heshers in the neighborhood so it was usually Maiden or Metallica or the like being played.

    This song opened me up to a whole new thing and I thoroughly dug it. A few Cure and Violent Femmes albums later and I was head first into 90’s suburban goth life.