DAY 13 of the 30 Day Song Challenge, alternative music styles!
When music started getting WEIRD which led to the awesome 80s College Rock years - the 70s!!!
Each day I’ll post the challenge and you share some of your favorite alternative & indie songs that meet the challenge!
26 Comments
ren@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
I mean, some absolute gems in this decade from Bowie, Krafwerk, Roxy Music, Talking Heads.... god damn.
But for me, as a huge Violent Femmes fan, finding Velvet Underground was so important. Which song though??? tough choice, but let's go with an absolute classic that I listen to on the reg: "Pale Blue Eyes" https://youtu.be/KisHhIRihMY
perishthethought@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
All my favorite bands point back to the VU - Alex Chilton, REM, Yo La Tengo, and on and on. They were cooler than cool.
ren@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Yep! There was a saying once about VU were single handedly responsible for a bunch of bands. Violent Femmes too!
cordillera@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Needles In The Camel's Eye by Brian Eno
Elements of this sounds extremely early 90s alternative to me. He was so ahead of his time.
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 2y
Hey! Ho! Let’s Go!
ren@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
YES!
krzschlss@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Pere Ubu - Nonalignment Pact (1978)
or the whole 'Unknown Pleasures' album by Joy Division...
regular_human@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Can - Vitamin C (1972)
philip_the3rd@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Beat me to it 😂! Essential song.
AcornCarnage@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
New York Dolls - Personality Crisis
What a great frigging decade.
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y
It’s unreal how much there is to choose from. All legendary.
ren@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
musically, a super critical one too!
hellfire103@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 2y
"Jocko Homo" by Devo
kvn@midwest.social · 4 pts · 2y
There's so much I want to mention but I've managed to narrow it down to a few things.
My dad is a big fan of Yes so here's a track that I heard a lot when I was a kid and still love today.
Roundabout - Yes
As an adult I've made some effort to dig into the stuff I missed out on from previous decades. I recently "discovered" Lou Reed and love everything he's done.
Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed
And finally I want to bring up Brian Eno's contributions to ambient music. No specific track but I love his albums Another Green World and Music for Airports.
ren@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Roundabout is amazing, Fragile is a fave, but Close To The Edge is where my heart will always be...
FlanFlinger@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y
999 - Emergency
cordillera@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Why did a Girlschool song start playing in my head? 🤔
FlanFlinger@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
Because you have excellent taste in music perhaps
cordillera@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
oh lmao "nine nine nine emergency" is the chorus to Girlschool's Emergency. Silly British musicians feeling obligated to use the actual emergency number.
I've never heard of 999 before, this is a great track! It has more melody than I was expecting.
nhombrenovalido@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Queen -All Dead, All Dead
mrlee@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y
Discovered Black Devil Disco Club this month through a friend. Great Stuff.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BbVHOz6wIl4
oo1@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y
this is too hard to choose . . .
patti smith, horses LP side 2 track 3 i think it is,
the long medley one that recalls other stuff on the album.
deadh34d@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come
https://youtu.be/MOeOC16Jm9g
A fantastic band that I never see people mention in these kinds of threads.
perishthethought@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
For all the crap on the airwaves, this decade still had a ton of great music. For instance....
https://youtu.be/TUxFQ5QBiYk
tuckerteague@mastodon.social · 1 pts · 2y
@perishthethought @ren
so good
CmndrShrm@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Kraftwerk - The Robots