Today we start the 2nd half of the challenge!!! DAY 16 of the 30 Day Song Challenge, alternative music styles!
The way I read this one is, what’s a song that’s generally accepted as a CLASSIC alternative song that you love? ICONIC. THE standard for a band or moment or for the genre.
An obvious example would be like Nine Inch Nails “Head Like A Hole” - their breakthrough classic that’s pretty much synonymous with NIN.
Each day I’ll post the challenge and you share some of your favorite alternative & indie songs that meet the challenge!
I think back to when I started listeneing to “alternative” music, and Shine, by Collective Soul is always what plays in my head.
The other day I was telling a coworker half my age that this was my favorite song through much of high school. She’d never heard of them.
Stone Temple Pilots - Plush (1992) https://youtu.be/V5UOC0C0x8Q?si=mMNFS95WTo86HY1-
One of my favorites Soul Coughing -Circles https://youtu.be/L_Ve9h1HNBA?si=tqLd1zp2IC1MNKVF
Great song and great band! I was super into Mike Doughty’s first solo album after Soul Coughing, and it was great music - but the following albums lost whatever it was that connected me to his music.
Ya know you might enjoy what he is doing now with “Ghosts of Vroom” https://youtu.be/0ViM1o9QDGc?si=Me30INdIKWcWBldC
Rocket From The Crypt - On A Rope
It was great to see more punkish music going more mainstream in the 90s, but this band blew my mind. So much melody, a horn line, and so much grrrrrrriiiiiiiinnnnnnnddddd.
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