A few tunes I was reminiscing about. These 80’s alt rock bands weren’t mainstream, but they had some poppy/anthemic tunes in their day. Post more below.
This was always a favorite of mine. Golden Brown has been used to score some movie soundtracks, but it didn’t get much mainstream traction other than that. Found a cool short video on YouTube describing its origin.
Exactly how I understood it as not mainstream, but I did not consider it experimental either! I just thought it was not disco, not rock, not punk, which were all cycling through 'rapid-fire' (Bands were on fire everywhere in the 80's - very exciting time for music!) and these bands were springing up here and overseas singing the heaven out of stuff!
This was always a favorite of mine. Golden Brown has been used to score some movie soundtracks, but it didn’t get much mainstream traction other than that. Found a cool short video on YouTube describing its origin.
[jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" youtube_id="AWAsI3U2EaE"]
[jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" youtube_id="7SioL8ba0Bo"]
[jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" youtube_id="hAofFHPRZTE"]
[jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" youtube_id="hi53rgdJyvI"]
I've never understood what the ALT means.
These are all good clips... but they have very little in common, musically. A few are known, most not. Some are "harsh", others lyric.
Can someone explain ALT?
It’s like alt-right, except that it’s sane and intelligent. Just an abbreviation.
They call alternative, punk, REM and Nirvana. In this day and age I think the label is pretty much meaningless.
I look at it the same way as pop music that some would call country.
Back in the day, the only identifiable characteristic of ALT was that you heard it on ALT stations...
Alt just meant not mainstream and somewhat experimental. New and different. It was not a specific sound, but something unexpected at the time.
Exactly how I understood it as not mainstream, but I did not consider it experimental either! I just thought it was not disco, not rock, not punk, which were all cycling through 'rapid-fire' (Bands were on fire everywhere in the 80's - very exciting time for music!) and these bands were springing up here and overseas singing the heaven out of stuff!
[jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" youtube_id="8egczjhg9x4"]
[jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" youtube_id="XYGa0oK-yX0"]
The hair! Make it stop!
Cringeworthy fashion.
I can't say too much. There were a couple years there when I did everything I could to look as much as possible like Don Johnson on Miami Vice.
We want pictures!
We used to get body waves in our hair. And had that feathered thing going on.
Don’t ask me why I liked P.I.L. back in the day. I guess just because it was Johnny Rotten.
[jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" youtube_id="ylOCIP54PIQ"]
Back when Sinead was cool. What a flake she turned into.
[jrEmbed module="jrYouTube" youtube_id="h08pCvyKfbs"]
1990 ~~ right on the line. I just can not let it alone!
I laugh quietly to myself when I read the Youtube notes on this one. Someone wrote this:
EPhilly
5 years ago
I heard this for the first time during an intense acid trip. Need I say more.
Me too, EPhilly. Me too. It was the 80's.