The Alternative Music Appreciation Thread

[Ocarina Stealer]

This is a thread for any of you guys who love alt music and post any alt music bands or songs you would like to share. My avatar is Purity Ring and I reckon you guys should go check out their stuff as it's brilliant.

 

[Spak]

My taste in songs can be a little more heavy, but I'll recommend a (or a few) bands from each decade (and put a couple songs in for each band as well):

70's
Toto (technically prog rock, but whatever) (Hold The Line, Hydra)

80's
R.E.M. (It's The End Of The World, The One I Love)
REO Speedwagon (Keep On Loving You, Take It On The Run)
Styx (also technically prog) (Renegade, Blue Collar Man)

90's
Third Eye Blind (Never Let You Go, Jumper)
Stone Temple Pilots (Plush, Creep)

00's
Alter Bridge (metal is a part of rock and it's alt metal. Bending the rules a bit? Maybe. Good music? Yes.) (Blackbird, Metalingus)
Jimmy Eat World (Sweetness, The Middle)
The Strokes (Reptilia, You Only Live Once)

10's
Middle Class Rut (New Low, Busy Bein' Born)
Buckethead (Crumple, Wall Slide)

I have lots more, but I'll just start with this.

 

[Ocarina Stealer]

Bare with me here. Damn The Strokes were going to go on my list. Anyway artist name first and then the name of the album(s).
Jack White: Blunderbuss, Lazarreto.
The White Stripes: De Stijl, White Blood Cells.
The Black Keys: Brothers, El Camino.
Purity Ring: Shrines, Another Eternity.
The Broken Bells: The Broken Bells, After the Disco.
PJ Harvey: Let England Shake.
Bloc Party: Silent Alarm, A Weekend In The City, Four.
CHVRCHES: The Bones Of What You Believe.
Coeur De Pirate: Roses, Coeur De Pirate, Blonde.
Cold War Kids: Hold my Home.
Courtney Barnett: Sometimes I Sit And Think And Sometimes I Just Sit.
Divine Fits: A Thing Called Divine Fits.
Dry The River: Alarms in the Heart.
Foals: What Went Down.
Grimes: Visions.
Handsome Furs: Sound Kapital.
La Roux: La Roux.
Maximo Park: Our Earthly Pleasures.
Metric: Synthetica.
MGMT: Oracular Spectacular.
The National: Trouble Will Find Me.
Prides: Way Back Up.
The Rural Alberta Advantage: Mended with Gold.
Seasick Steve: Doghouse Music.
Shad: The Old Prince.
The War On Drugs: Lost In The Dream.
White Lies: To Lose My Life.
Wintersleep: Hello Hum.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It's Blitz!
Young Galaxy: Ultramarine.
Franz Ferdinand: You Could Have It So Much Better.
Tokyo Police Club: Forcefield, Elephant Shell, Champ.
The Go! Team: Huddle Formation, Rolling Blackouts.
Gorillaz: Gorillaz, Demon Days, Plastic Beach.
Stereophonics: A Decade In The Sun.
The Raconteurs: Broken Boy Soldiers.
The Killers: Hot Fuss.
Hot Chip: The Warning.
The Dead Weather: Horehound.
Little Dragon: Ritual Union, Little Dragon, Nabuma Rubberband.
LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver.
Damon Albarn: Everyday Robots.
Django Django: Django Django.
Kele Okereke: Trick, The Hunter, The Boxer.
Modest Mouse: Good News For People Who Like Bad News.

Beat THAT son!

 

[DerpyCookies]

Here's some of the favorite alternative albums, I would highly recommend giving them a listen:

80s
The Cure - Disintegration
Pixies - Doolittle
R.E.M: Murmur
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
The Stone Roses - Self Titled
Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade
The Replacements - Tim
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
They Might Be Giants - Lincoln
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Violent Femmes - Self Titled

90s
Nirvana - In Utero
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Radiohead - OK Computer
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
Ride - Nowhere
Weezer - The Blue Album
The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency and I
Björk - Homogenic
Melvins - Houdini
Blur - Parklife
Ween - Pure Guava
Primus - Frizzle Fry

2000s
The Strokes - Is This It
Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Franz Ferdinand - Self Titled
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
Gorillaz - Self Titled
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
LCD Soundsystem - Sounds of Silver

 

[Ocarina Stealer]

Here's some of the favorite alternative albums, I would highly recommend giving them a listen:

80s
The Cure - Disintegration
Pixies - Doolittle
R.E.M: Murmur
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
The Stone Roses - Self Titled
Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade
The Replacements - Tim
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
They Might Be Giants - Lincoln
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Violent Femmes - Self Titled

90s
Nirvana - In Utero
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Radiohead - OK Computer
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
Ride - Nowhere
Weezer - The Blue Album
The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency and I
Björk - Homogenic
Melvins - Houdini
Blur - Parklife
Ween - Pure Guava
Primus - Frizzle Fry

2000s
The Strokes - Is This It
Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Franz Ferdinand - Self Titled
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
Gorillaz - Self Titled
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
LCD Soundsystem - Sounds of Silver

Great list! Some of my favourites on there too.

 

[Pippin (Peregrin Took)]

Does Bjork count? She's definitely unconventional. My fave song of hers is Who is It (Carry My Joy on the Left, Carry My Pain on the Right) but my favorite album is Biophilia because of the whole app concept - I just thought that was so cool.