Favorite Alternative Songs (indie, pop, rock, favorite songs, genre)

sleepy jack · 11-13-2007, 10:24 PM

Incubus isn't even remotely alternative, especially seeing as the album that contains that track had 3 hit singles.

Necromancer · 11-13-2007, 10:55 PM

Found out about you-Gin Blossoms, Heaven Let Your Light Shine Down-artist? Just to many favorite songs to name all at once. (To Bands) : Wallflowers, Smashing Pumpkins, LIVE, REM, etc. And so many more! I am no expert, so what I call Alternative music may be incorrect.

~~N*S*G~~ · 11-14-2007, 12:49 AM

Holy ****, Alt is more pretentious than Acoustic now!?

TheBig3 · 11-19-2007, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by VocalsBass

Heaven Let Your Light Shine Down-artist?

Thanks just "shine" by collective soul.

katiexdollface · 11-26-2007, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by VocalsBass

Found out about you-Gin Blossoms, Heaven Let Your Light Shine Down-artist? Just to many favorite songs to name all at once. (To Bands) : Wallflowers, Smashing Pumpkins, LIVE, REM, etc. And so many more! I am no expert, so what I call Alternative music may be incorrect.

its called Shine and its by Collective soul
and i love that song more than anything.

djchameleon · 11-20-2007, 09:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Crowquill

Incubus isn't even remotely alternative, especially seeing as the album that contains that track had 3 hit singles.

You have it all wrong, Crow. Alternative isn't based on hits. An Alternative band can have a full albums of hits and still be considered Alternative. Just because an alternative band is popular doesn't make it pop. That's just like saying if Patrick Wolf becomes number one on billboard that makes him no longer indie.

sleepy jack · 11-20-2007, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

You have it all wrong, Crow. Alternative isn't based on hits. An Alternative band can have a full albums of hits and still be considered Alternative. Just because an alternative band is popular doesn't make it pop. That's just like saying if Patrick Wolf becomes number one on billboard that makes him no longer indie.

Yeah...but only because he'd still be on his INDIE label...

djchameleon · 11-26-2007, 07:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Crowquill

Yeah...but only because he'd still be on his INDIE label...

You still missed the point of my post with your logic that you were using.

I guess it was a bad example but still......you are saying that if anyone in their current genre all of a sudden has a hit album that tops the billboard charts they no longer belong in that genre because they are pop now.....that doesn't make sense to me.

A band/artist making one album that is more commercially successful doesn't mean they won't go back to their roots in future albums.

sleepy jack · 11-26-2007, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

You still missed the point of my post with your logic that you were using.

I guess it was a bad example but still......

Yeah I guess I did because what you said didn't make much sense. I'm assuming it didn't be cause you don't know what indie is. Anyway, we were talking about alternative, not indie.

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you are saying that if anyone in their current genre all of a sudden has a hit album that tops the billboard charts they no longer belong in that genre because they are pop now.....that doesn't make sense to me.

Pop as a genre is different now and has grown to mean different things, but in essence it still means popular. So yes, if you're all over the music magazines and MTV, you're popular.

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A band/artist making one album that is more commercially successful doesn't mean they won't go back to their roots in future albums.

Okay, if they left their roots to become commercial I wouldn't be calling them alternative anymore and if they had to leave their roots to become popular then that means their roots weren't working in the first place. So if they went back to it it probably still wouldn't work and they wouldn't be popular anymore.

Brock_West · 11-19-2007, 05:27 PM

it's true that alternative is now more mainstream.

I don't think anyone's going to agree what should be considered alternative anymore

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