Favourite Alternative Rock songs

The_Red_Hope

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Name some of your favourite Alternative Rock songs. Here's are some of mine in no particular order.

Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun.
Crowded House - Four Seasons in a day.
Radiohead - Creep
Radiohead - Karma Police
Dashboard Confessional - Stolen
Dashboard Confessional - Vindicated
Deathcab for Cutie - Soul meets Body.
Finger Eleven - Paralyser
Three days Grace - Never too late.
Three Doors Down - When I'm gone
Three Doors Down - Here without you.
The Wallflowers - One Headlight
 
some more Finger Eleven - Suffocate, Stand In Shadow, Good Times.
Flaw - Whole, Playback
Lifer - Heave
Ra - Rectifier
Stereomud - Anything But Jesus, Drop Down
Sunna - Power Struggle
and anything by Seether
 
I used to love that One Headlight song like ten years ago
 
Alternative can mean different things. It can mean anything that isn't mainstream rock, and Dashboard Confessional most definitely are not mainstream rock. However, it also has a more specialised meaning which is a specific sound.

One band that I've heard sometimes classified as alternative and sometimes not, showing how useless a label it is really, is Alien Ant Farm.

But out of the bands widely considered alternative and accepted as such by the majority, the best by far has to be MUSE. Seriously, they're awesome.

One of my favourite non-MUSE songs though has to be:



Nine Inch Nails - The Hand That Feeds
 
I don't need you to tell me what Muse are mate, I saw them at Wembley this summer. I just don't class them as Alternative
 
Muse is an English rock band formed in Teignmouth, Devon in 1997, comprising Matthew Bellamy, Chris Wolstenholme and Dominic Howard. The band blends alternative rock, progressive rock, classical music, electronica, and heavy metal, to help form the new sub-genre of new prog.
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Indeed.
 
Rock music that ain't popular

Muse - Headlined the new Wembley stadium
Radiohead - Headlined Glastonbury

Hmmmmmmm
 
I had a feeling this would boil down to a debate over what constitutes Alternative rock and the definition of the genre. IMO any independent rock music that did not fit into any of the mainstream genres of the late 80', mid 90's were termed as alternative. That definition has carried on upto present times.

Got this from wiki about the classification of what "Alternative is" ...

"Somehow this term 'alternative' got rediscovered and heisted by college radio people during the 80s who applied it to new post-punk, indie, or underground-whatever music . . ."[8] Thus the original use of the term was often broader than it has come to be understood, encompassing punk rock, New Wave, post-punk, and even pop music, along with the occasional "college"/"indie" rock, all music found on the American "commercial alternative" radio stations of the time.

Defining music as "alternative" is often difficult because of two and often conflicting applications of the word. "Alternative" can describe music that challenges the status quo and that is "fiercely iconoclastic, anticommercial, and antimainstream."
 
Earthtone9 - Intonegrateattached
Earthtone9 - Nameless (The 4th and the 10th)
Earthtone9 - Yellow Fever
Earthtone9 - Vitriolic HSF
Earthtone9 - Zechariah Rush (Uru Shalom Har Meggidon)

Basically Earthone9 > *
 
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