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[30 Day Song Challenge: Alternative Nation Edition] Day 18 - An alternative song from the year you were BORN! 👶 (lemmy.world)

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DAY 18 of the 30 Day Song Challenge, alternative music styles!

Oh my, time to show our ages for reals, I guess. WOOF! Time to pick an alternative song you love from the year you were born? Does alternative even go that far???? lol REEEE!!!

Each day I’ll post the challenge and you share some of your favorite alternative & indie songs that meet the challenge!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Goodness...

This was hard. I'm a bit older now, grew up on 80s college rock and all that, but I'm Gen X so you know that means my birth year was a bit early for alternative-alternative. But let's go with:

Tom Waits - Hope I don't fall in love with you (1973 WOOF) https://youtu.be/EtLVXBqfqBY?si=49RWc51XP_tPXRqK

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I fell madly in love with this song earlier this year. It's SO good. The 10,000 Maniacs version is great too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, I bet!!!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is actually tough for me. I was born in a stellar year for alternative music: 1988. Do I go with Pixies? The Sugarcubes? My Bloody Valentine? Jane’s Addiction?

Ultimately, my choice is one of my favorite bands.

Sonic Youth - The Sprawl

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ya lucky basterd!!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol well I’d actually argue you were the luckier one. You actually got to experience 1988, I don’t remember any of it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

haha! I'll take it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Runaways - Cherry Bomb

A bunch of good ones from 1976 - Ramones, Lou Reed, Modern Lovers, Tom Waits, Blondie ... But I've got two girls who have both been obsessed with Joan Jett at various times, so we'll go with The Runaways.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ooo!! nice! Also, love passing on great music to my kids. Their music taste now is awesome and eclectic af!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's the best. When it works. 😄 One day, my teen is lamenting that no one her age knows Otis Redding.

The next, I put on The Postal Service and she says "This sounds like that Fireflies song..." So I start my diatribe about how that guy just ripped off TPS sound and so on, and she just goes "and they're both bad." Right after I invited her to go see them with me!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

All the Young Punks - The Clash

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The Damned - Smash it Up (1979)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't know if this is alternative, but Faye Wong's cover of The Cranberries' "Dream" called 掙脫 from her album Sky. Released in 1994, same as me. The first one is the Mandarin version, this is the Cantonese version. She is a native Mandarin speaker. PS. I don't speak Chinese despite the courses I took. 😅

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Killer Pussy - Teenage Enema Nurses in Bondage

https://youtu.be/e5ep8jp2zkQ?feature=shared

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I bet this sounded quite alternative back then

if not

something for the gatekeepers of AlterNAtiVe rOCk musIC

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh dang! LIZA! In it's own way, yeah, right? Maybe not at the time, but definitely in hindsight, she's always been a bit alternative to everyone else in her genres lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’d say it qualifies. Since I first saw this performance I’ve always been fascinated by it. Her voice and acting in this is rather hypnotizing. I just never liked the composition, never liked Pet Shop Boys.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've like a few of their songs, but nothing too seriously.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Love the original, love the cover.

Devo - Working in a Coal Mine (1981)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was born in 85. The same year Simple Minds dropped Don't You (Forget About Me) and Tears for Fears released Shout.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

1982 - The Clash - Rock The Casbah

https://youtu.be/bJ9r8LMU9bQ?si=LcMjAjbJgVk746yY

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Welp, TIL that some absolute classics came out in 1993! Hard to choose, but I’m gonna have to say Creep by Radiohead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I guess this makes me ancient, but here goes nothing: Blondie, Hangin' on the telephone .

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

it ain't easy being old, but hey, we got some great music for our teenage years!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

More of alternative metal, but Evanescence - Bring Me To Life came out the year I was born.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Here's a song I like from 1992!

Leave Them All Behind - Ride

Honorable mention: all of Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92