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 Iβll 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
New York Dolls - Personality Crisis
What a great frigging decade.
Pere Ubu - Nonalignment Pact (1978)
or the whole 'Unknown Pleasures' album by Joy Division...
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.
Discovered Black Devil Disco Club this month through a friend. Great Stuff.
There's so much I want to mention but I've managed to narrow it down to a few things.
My dad is a big fan of Yes so here's a track that I heard a lot when I was a kid and still love today.
As an adult I've made some effort to dig into the stuff I missed out on from previous decades. I recently "discovered" Lou Reed and love everything he's done.
Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed
And finally I want to bring up Brian Eno's contributions to ambient music. No specific track but I love his albums Another Green World and Music for Airports.
For all the crap on the airwaves, this decade still had a ton of great music. For instance....
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.
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