[Closed] Best Alternative Music?

Stone Roses and Mary Chain 😀

For me also...

The Pixies
Radiohead
Joy Division

fIREHOSE.

Sonic Youth
Eels
Violent Femmes
Velvet Underground
Queens of the Stone Age

alternative to what?

The 'joke' I used to hear a lot is that Alternative Music is an alternative [i]to[/i] music...

eels
death in vegas
primal scream
beck..?

I haven't got a flippin clue what the alternative genre actually means... something to do with obeying NME..?

David Bowie

All great bands but for me.

Therapy
Claw finger
NIN
PWEI

Sonic Youth
The Cure
Pixies

Pixies are No.1
Stone Roses

Some Prodigy and Chemical Brothers

Nirvana's music has totally stood the test of time

Still like Carter USM too

Alternative to what? I'd call the Pixies, The Cure, and Nirvana pretty mainstream TBH.

Fugazi

nickc - Member

Alternative to what? I'd call the Pixies, The Cure, and Nirvana pretty mainstream TBH.

They are now, but 20-30 years ago when they started they weren't

verses, Doolittle peaked at 8 in the Album charts when it was released in the UK...That's a measure of mainstream acceptance, by any standard. Nevermind got to No. 1 in the US charts...

The Velvet Underground.

It annoys me when people say "thread closed", but, erm, thread closed.

[Nods at cha****ng/]

yeah, 1967 doing what they were doing..? Femme Fatale, Venus in Furs, Run Run Run, Heroin...

Whatever "alternative" means...here are a couple of ace tracks that might fit the tag...

" nickc - Member

verses, Doolittle peaked at 8 in the Album charts when it was released in the UK...That's a measure of mainstream acceptance, by any standard. Nevermind got to No. 1 in the US charts..."

I guess my perceptions are skewed given that I grew up in a small town where me and 3 others seemed to be the only people who didn't listen to music by Stock, Atiken and Waterman 😕

I was aware that Nevermind did well but obviously Bleach was relatively unhead of, also I always thought of the Pixies as being relatively unknown at the time but clearly I'm wrong 🙂

[i]I always thought of the Pixies as being relatively unknown at the time but clearly I'm wrong[/i]

There were always lots of fans...just spread pretty thinly... 😆

Just because a band make great music and become more widely acclaimed over time doesn't make them no longer alternative surely?

eg Nirvana didn't become purveyors of 'pop' just because they became successful

Just because a band make great music and become more widely acclaimed over time doesn't make them no longer alternative surely?

I'd agree with that. It used to make me laugh in the late 80's & early 90's when the 'really alternative indie kids' used to shun a band if they 'made it'. Did they all of a sudden atart making crap music?

I'd agree with that. It used to make me laugh in the late 80's & early 90's when the 'really alternative indie kids' used to shun a band if they 'made it'. Did they all of a sudden atart making crap music?

I've been doing that just lately with Kings of Leon 🙂

Their first few albums were great, but the most recent (most popular) is a bit so-so 🙂

Gaye Bykers On Acid (aka the lesbian Dopeheads On Mopeds)

Towards the end the music was techno thrash beats stuff, very much like a lot of modern music (Prodigy, appollo 440, faithless, chemical brothers etc), they were way too far before their time. If they had kept it together for longer they would have been massive.

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NIN
Sugar
Nomeansno
Husker Du
Dead Kennedys

Although I guess the last two could be considered punk rather than alternative.

I've been doing that just lately with Kings of Leon

Their first few albums were great, but the most recent (most popular) is a bit so-so

That one is fair enough though i think, their first album is their only decent one imo.

This thread needs more music 🙂

Another vote for Bob Mould, though I reckon his songwriting reached a peak when he was in "Sugar".

markfu - Member
That one is fair enough though i think, their first album is their only decent one imo.

True, the 1st is the best of the bunch. I do like 2 and 3, but 4 was ridiculously overrated.

Fu Manchu
Black Angels

....both best loud

[i]very much like a lot of modern music[/i]

are you quoting my dad there?

Agree, Sugar's Copper Blue album is ace.

I'd also add Smashing Pumpkins to the list.

fIREHOSE
The Odd Numbers
Ciccone Youth

anyone got copies of the Thrasher Magazine Skate Rock tapes? I'd love to hear them all again!

Gorilla Biscuits
Youth Of Today
Judge
Slapshot
Sick Of It All

Minor Threat, Black Flag, Fugazi, Government Issue, Negative Approach, 7 Seconds, Bad Brains, Mission of Burma, Husker Du, Dag Nasty, The Lemonheads, Mudhoney, Tad, Afghan Whigs, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, Superchunk, Pavement, Sebadoh, Archers of Loaf, Polvo, Urusei Yatsura, PWEI, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Jawbreaker, Mega City Four, Rocket From The Crypt, Drive Like Jehu, Texas is the Reason, Get-Up Kids, The Promise Ring, Bivouac, Knapsack, Propagandhi, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, PJ Harvey, The Breeders, The Pixies, Seam, Come, Done Lying Down, Man or Astroman?, Champion, Paint it Black, Kid Dynamite, Latterman, The Lawrence Arms, J Church, Lifetime, ****ed Up, Les Savy Fav, Gorilla Biscuits, Grade, Against Me, As Friends Rust, Avail, Shudder to Think, Helmet, Dead Kennedys, American Football, At the Drive-In, Gunmoll, Dillinger Four, Hot Water Music, Small Brown Bike, Twelve Hour Turn, Trapdoor ****ing Exit, Planes Mistaken for Stars, Depistado, Jawbox, Luscious Jackson, New Kingdom, Municipal Waste, Surfer Blood, Meneguar

Just been listening to Sleater-Kinney for the firs time in ages so them too.

Had forgotten how good they were.

...and Shellac, Quicksand and The Organ.

Five Finger Death Punch.

I started singing this on a ride today for some unknown reason. Now they really are an alternative to music...

I started singing this on a ride today for some unknown reason. Now they really are an alternative to music...

Wilco are really doing it for me at the moment.

ChrisL - Member
Wilco are really doing it for me at the moment.

Have you watched Ashes of American Flags, Wilco's live DVD?

It's stunning.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wilco-Ashes-American-Flags-DVD/dp/B001RTYKWM

G.B.O.A were tops as were scat opera. I loved 80's gothy stuff and Have a mad passion for these silly buggers as well

http://www.myspace.com/blamedfornothing/music/songs/stephenson-69634530

Minor Threat, Black Flag, Fugazi, Government Issue, Negative Approach, 7 Seconds, Bad Brains, Mission of Burma, Husker Du, Dag Nasty, The Lemonheads, Mudhoney, Tad, Afghan Whigs, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, Superchunk, Pavement, Sebadoh, Archers of Loaf, Polvo, Urusei Yatsura, PWEI, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Jawbreaker, Mega City Four, Rocket From The Crypt, Drive Like Jehu, Texas is the Reason, Get-Up Kids, The Promise Ring, Bivouac, Knapsack, Propagandhi, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, PJ Harvey, The Breeders, The Pixies, Seam, Come, Done Lying Down, Man or Astroman?, Champion, Paint it Black, Kid Dynamite, Latterman, The Lawrence Arms, J Church, Lifetime, * Up, Les Savy Fav, Gorilla Biscuits, Grade, Against Me, As Friends Rust, Avail, Shudder to Think, Helmet, Dead Kennedys, American Football, At the Drive-In, Gunmoll, Dillinger Four, Hot Water Music, Small Brown Bike, Twelve Hour Turn, Trapdoor * Exit, Planes Mistaken for Stars, Depistado, Jawbox, Luscious Jackson, New Kingdom, Municipal Waste, Surfer Blood, Meneguar

Sounds like a good evening session from the 90s

MrNutt... another fIREHOSE fan, what a band. Absolutely tremendous.

The Pixies were cool as, but practically pop music, everyone seemed to like them at the time, even more like them now. Black Francis is God.

billybob - Member

Sounds like a good evening session from the 90s

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It'll always be 1994 in my head!

fudge tunnel- Hate songs in E minor was a 90's classic album

and my all time favorite hardcore fatties

and something very different, all by one man playing an extended range bass guitar with only a delay pedal (he's a very talented boy).

Have you watched Ashes of American Flags, Wilco's live DVD?

Yes - I own it. Saw them live in Glasgow a couple of weeks ago, too. 🙂

Ashes of American Flags is very good. However it does that thing that many live DVDs seem to be doing these days of mixing documentary/talking head bits inbetween the songs. I'd prefer if they weren't disrupting the flow of the music, it'd be better if they were a separate feature on the DVD.

What is "alternative", anyway? Music is music.

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Still ****ing demolishes me. The sound of broken-hearted machinery.

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"I miss you!"

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State of the nation rave lament. Ruff like a badger.

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Shake it.

Don't think any of these have been mentioned yet

Faith No More
Flaming Lips
Soundgarden
Buffalo Tom
Screaming Trees

Pointless question but you gotta love the Wizard

+1 Velvet Underground & Husker Du

The Stooges were ace as well

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