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!
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
All my favorite bands point back to the VU - Alex Chilton, REM, Yo La Tengo, and on and on. They were cooler than cool.
YES!
Beat me to it 😂! Essential song.
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.
Pere Ubu - Nonalignment Pact (1978)
or the whole ‘Unknown Pleasures’ album by Joy Division…
Discovered Black Devil Disco Club this month through a friend. Great Stuff.
New York Dolls - Personality Crisis
What a great frigging decade.
It’s unreal how much there is to choose from. All legendary.
Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come
A fantastic band that I never see people mention in these kinds of threads.
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.
For all the crap on the airwaves, this decade still had a ton of great music. For instance…
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