Members jorhay1 Posted September 15, 2009 Members Share Posted September 15, 2009 please name some groups Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thisISjoel Posted September 15, 2009 Members Share Posted September 15, 2009 Depends what decade you're talking about. I believe the term became widely used in the 90's and covered everything from Pearl Jam, AIC and Radiohead (and just about any band that sounds like those bands). Now days it usually refers to teh indie bands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tape Posted September 15, 2009 Members Share Posted September 15, 2009 a rediculous label used by mainstream music stations and stores to conveniently classify anything that isn't pop, rap, techno, metal, country, straight rock and classical. used primarily during the 90s. "this is alternative music" me: "alternative to what?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ming Chow Posted September 15, 2009 Members Share Posted September 15, 2009 Why do people always get up in arms over music being called "alternative music"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Marmoset King Posted September 15, 2009 Members Share Posted September 15, 2009 is there something wrong with using the word 'hell' in your thread title ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jordanjordan Posted September 15, 2009 Members Share Posted September 15, 2009 Bands that don't consider hell to be a swear word. And Radiohead. :poke: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members english_bob Posted September 15, 2009 Members Share Posted September 15, 2009 It's a term that really only had meaning in the early/mid 90s when mainstream "rock" was Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen, then bands like Nirvana came along, who weren't interested in or influenced by any of the rock bands who'd been commercially successful in the previous ten or fifteen years. Suddenly, it seemed like a whole parallel world of rock music appeared on the radio that had existed in various forms since the punk era, but that had only just become commercially viable. It's about as broad a term as they come in terms of defining genres- Grunge was at the core of the media coverage of "alternative rock", but everything from the Pixies to the Violent Femmes to Jane's Addiction to the Red Hot Chili Peppers got lumped together as "alternative". If you want any sort of meaningful definition, I guess it's "any early-to-mid 90s band that was doing anything remotely interesting with guitars and didn't sound like 80s stadium rock". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members english_bob Posted September 15, 2009 Members Share Posted September 15, 2009 ...the label is still in use today, but IMO it became completely meaningless around the point that bands like Staind and Puddle of Mudddddddd, who were 10th generation xerox copies of alternative rock were on heavy rotation on MTV. It was supposed to be the "alternative" to mainstream poodle-perms-and-spandex rock, but it doesn't make any sense to call it that now that it is mainstream rock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jorhay1 Posted September 15, 2009 Author Members Share Posted September 15, 2009 great definitionsthanks guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NetStar Posted September 15, 2009 Members Share Posted September 15, 2009 Why do people always get up in arms over music being called "alternative music"? Hipster Complex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members IamBurnout Posted September 15, 2009 Members Share Posted September 15, 2009 REM and Social Distortion come to mind, as well as Beck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members companyman Posted September 15, 2009 Members Share Posted September 15, 2009 Lollapalooza bands.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members seYo Posted September 15, 2009 Members Share Posted September 15, 2009 how about The Butterfly Effect, or Karnivool? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members onyxrhino Posted September 15, 2009 Members Share Posted September 15, 2009 It's what is now more commonly referred to as "indie". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tim gueguen Posted September 15, 2009 Members Share Posted September 15, 2009 I get a kick from the Alternative section in a local CD place because it has the stuff you'd expect, like the current batch of New Wave revivalists, and it also has stuff from the Talking Heads, Velvet Underground, Captain Beefheart etc. In other words the term is meaningless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tape Posted September 15, 2009 Members Share Posted September 15, 2009 I get a kick from the Alternative section in a local CD place because it has the stuff you'd expect, like the current batch of New Wave revivalists, and it also has stuff from the Talking Heads, Velvet Underground, Captain Beefheart etc. In other words the term is meaningless. It's also known as the WeCan'tBeArsedToMakeACustomGenreSignForEachThing section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members melx Posted September 15, 2009 Members Share Posted September 15, 2009 Started with Pixies, there was no 'Alternative Rock' before them. ........then was applied to anything that wasn't mainstream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members toneforhire Posted September 15, 2009 Members Share Posted September 15, 2009 Harmony House USED to have U2 in Alternative section... its all about perception back in late 80's early 90's I considered "the replacements'. Husker du, Souxsie and the banshees, the cure, Rem, The Cult, Love and Rockets, Black Flag, The Pixies, Sonic Youth, Throwing Muses, Belly, and many others alternative...anything not top 40 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tb_308 Posted September 15, 2009 Members Share Posted September 15, 2009 Alternative Rock has kind of become Pop rock.. at least to me.. I've always considered Lifehouse to be alternative rock, but anymore I think bands like Cool Hand Luke deserve the title more... it's indie, but not progressive or ambient... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members orange worker Posted September 15, 2009 Members Share Posted September 15, 2009 it was the indie rock of the 90s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tb_308 Posted September 15, 2009 Members Share Posted September 15, 2009 it was the indie rock of the 90s good way to put it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mlabbee Posted September 15, 2009 Members Share Posted September 15, 2009 I think it actually started in the 80's with bands like REM - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_rock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members goodhonk Posted September 15, 2009 Members Share Posted September 15, 2009 lisa loeb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members claytonjohn18 Posted September 15, 2009 Members Share Posted September 15, 2009 It's what is now more commonly referred to as "indie". Disagree'd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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