favourite alt-indie songs (alternative, blues, dance, band)

Neapolitan · 01-22-2018, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

I'm here because of http://www.musicbanter.com/games-lis...litz-game.html , and I'm wondering why Sneer got zero response to his invitation to post favourites.

I'm hoping this thread might help to clarify what Indie/Alt music sounds like, because afaik it's a genre that defines itself by what it's not, i.e. not mainstream. But if that is the case, why does Sneer have an Oasis song in his list? Surely they're about as mainstream as you can get?

EDIT: Here's a sad factoid: as of right now, this thread has had 2,462 views and yet this post, 12 years after the OP is the first reply ever. Little wonder that Sneer is no longer around.

The name Alternative Rock came about to avoid the irony of calling underground music "underground" when it became mainstream, or calling something College Rock when it's played on high-wattage mainstream FM stations. I think it came about around the time when Nirvana became household names and Grunge was no longer contained in Seattle area. They had to look for a new name and at some point started using the name Alternative or Alt-Rock.

Indie is from independent major record labels. The big three being Universal, Sony, and Warner. The confusion enters because some treat "indie" as a music genre, while others see it as the way the music is produced independently from a major label.

An impossible task to think of just ten, and then order them accordingly which I like more.

Wire - Outdoor Miner (1978)
The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet (1978)
Actual Tigers - Testimony (2001)
Hum - Stars (1995)
Jump Little Children - Cathedrals (1998)
The Church - Flied of Mars (1982)
Urusei Yatsura - First Day on a New Planet (1996)
The Muffs - Outer Space (1997)
The Cardigans - Carnival (1995)
Sixpence None The Richer - Kiss Me (1997)