***Alt Music Thread***

Ok, so just like the Punk thread I somehow missed this and once again am late to the party.

As far as "what is Alt?" I always considered it music that is sorta close to what was mainstream but not quite. Or really cool/different music that the big radio stations won't play because "Our mainstream top 40 audience might not like this or think it is too weird." So by that definition there is still Alt-Music around today. Music you rarely hear on places like KROQ, the so called ATL-98.7, my104.3 ect ect. And if you do hear it it is 6 months to year after the song was actually released.

I actually, on more than one occasion, heard one of those stations declare "Check out this great brand new song by......." Yeah, I heard that last year on KCRW.

So here is one that I heard a few months ago and I doubt it will ever be played on the other stations..

This Danish singer, Agnes Obel goes medieval on us. String instruments, monkish sounding backup singers, dark mood.



Live....

 
Kings Provisional said:
Ok, so just like the Punk thread I somehow missed this and once again am late to the party.

As far as "what is Alt?" I always considered it music that is sorta close to what was mainstream but not quite. Or really cool/different music that the big radio stations won't play because "Our mainstream top 40 audience might not like this or think it is too weird." So by that definition there is still Alt-Music around today. Music you rarely hear on places like KROQ, the so called ATL-98.7, my104.3 ect ect. And if you do hear it it is 6 months to year after the song was actually released.

I actually, on more than one occasion, heard one of those stations declare "Check out this great brand new song by......." Yeah, I heard that last year on KCRW.

So here is one that I heard a few months ago and I doubt it will ever be played on the other stations..

This Danish singer, Agnes Obel goes medieval on us. String instruments, monkish sounding backup singers, dark mood.



Live....

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Well, if that's the definition...



 


I could be Flipper, I could be Ecco!
I could be a Rummy, I could be a Wino!
I could be Wasted, I could be Blasted!
I could be Wrong, I could be Right!!

May the road rise with you!
May the road rise with you!
May the road rise with you!
May the road rise with you! :dancing-smiley:
 


It feels weird to have an alt music thread without beck. So here is the obligatory beck. Please direct your hate to Silverlake and all things man-bun. Thank you.
 
orpheus said:


I could be Flipper, I could be Ecco!
I could be a Rummy, I could be a Wino!
I could be Wasted, I could be Blasted!
I could be Wrong, I could be Right!!

May the road rise with you!
May the road rise with you!
May the road rise with you!
May the road rise with you! :dancing-smiley:
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ANGER IS AN ENERGY!!!!! nice.
 
LetTigerIn said:
Outside of punk shows, so many LA shows in the '80s included Oingo Boingo, Fishbone, or these guys?



"Hey, I like music, too!"
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Untouchables were great and totally underrated. Most of the stuff Sublime got credit for was ripped off directly from them and Fishbone.
 
I know Black Flag is generally a Punk band, but by the time they got to the second side of My War they started to sound slower and more sludgy. Oh, ever so sludgy. lhdevil:



This LP side is basically what my dreams sound like when hungover, ahaha.
 
Sd: I am on my ass laughing at your nonsense. But if you post Ben Folds cover of Bitches ain't ***** or Dynamite Hack cover of Boys n tha hood as Alt Gangster Rap, I will lose my mind.
 
What party? said:
Sd: I am on my ass laughing at your nonsense. But if you post Ben Folds cover of Bitches ain't ***** or Dynamite Hack cover of Boys n tha hood as Alt Gangster Rap, I will lose my mind.
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I would never do that...
 
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