Good call on The Breeders! 'Cannonball' is a classic alternative rock song!

i know right?...like the earth totally needs to find new ways to create oxygen!

this thread is reminds me of the glory days of mix-tapes

i second this and also a big :thumb: on the Violent Femmes

a few more to add to the mix


Lush - Ladykillers....still my favorite song from them...still in absolute love/lust with Miki...it's the hair :o:


Primus - The Toys Go Winding Down....best song song ever from a band that only created great songs....if i ever get sentenced to death this is what i want playing when they kill me


The Sugarcubes - Hit....my other teenage boy crush...


Lemonheads - Into Your Arms.....i swear this thread is becoming a mix tape i made for some beautiful girl....that then turn into a Cure/Joy Division mixtape i made for myself


Swervedriver - Duel....this is nothing short than amazing

^^I have totally forgotten about Lemonheads...and how beautiful Evan Dando is :love:

Here's more from me. Let's go to Paisley Underground for a moment. I love those bands and their special type of alternative rock mixed with psychedelia and folk.

The Dream Syndicate - 'Halloween' (The Days of Wine and Roses, 1982) This whole album is just perfect!


Thin White Rope - 'Wet Heart' (Moonhead, 1987) This song is killing me, that's all I have to say.


Rain Parade - 'This Can't Be Today' (Emergency Third Rail Power Trip, 1983) Beautiful


Opal - 'Soul Giver' (Happy Nightmare Baby, 1987) This is what Pink Floyd would sound like if they were an 80s alternative rock band. Interesting facts about Opal: the band was born from The Dream Syndicate and Rain Parade and later gave birth to Mazzy Star.

Thanks to Burning Down for posting the Pylon song. Hotdamn! I loved that band. I saw them in the 80s and they were a ferocious beast of a live band. Human Body was my favorite song by them & I've embedded it below.



The Bush Tetras were another band I absolutely adored and saw several times in the early 80s.



My favorite band of that era was Mission of Burma who I've seen live at least 150 times because I lived in Boston when they were gigging in local clubs around 5-10 times a month during 1980 & 1983. I saw every local show they ever did including their first & last ones. This video of Trem Two is from their last Boston show at ballroom of the Bradford Hotel in 1983.

Little late, but I gotta say for all the enthusiasm of page 1, page 2 was the end? Hahaha. Here's some things that didn't get attention in case more people swing by...

Silversun Pickups





Silversun Pickups - Three Seed <---click here

Highly recommend Three Seed as one of the best off the album, but oft not mentioned.


Ataxia
f. John Frusciante and friends...

Ataxia - Dust<--- click here




Beck

Hell yeah to alternative rock! especially the music from the 90s! :love:

I cannot post youtube videos cos I'm at work but here's a list:

Live - Selling The Drama... or anything from the brilliant Throwing Copper!
The Cranberries - Zombie
Smashing Pumpkins - Hummer / Soma / Mayonaise
Radiohead - Airbag....... anything from Bends or OK
Duncan Sheik - Wishful Thinking from Great Expectations OST (I love this song! Does it qualify?)
Breeders - Cannonball
Weezer - Anything from the blue album
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Kill Your Television

Well we could post virtually anything in here with a guitar. Here are a few ditties that I like.


Should have been bigger. They are British but don't sound like it at all.

I like her vocals even though they have been treated and the geek on drums adds minus cool points.

A classic with the lovely Katie Jane Garside (Queen Adreena).

I think we've talked about this before a while ago but it's great to see I'm not the only Daisy Chainsaw fan on here. :)