Do you? What sort of stuff do you listen to? What genres and subgenres of music do you consider alternative?
I don't like the term alternative at all.
Especially when used for bands like Blink-182 and other pop punk bands.
Surely everyone's tastes are alternative? I listen mainly to metal, which is an alternative to listening to pop
Pop is an alternative to metal
jazz is an alternative to rock
dumb as shit term
Well I listen to a lot of alternative rock if that's what you mean. Really make a less vague question next time.
Let me define it further:
[quote]"Alternative rock" is essentially an [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella_term"]umbrella term[/URL] for underground music that has emerged in the wake of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punk_rock"]punk rock[/URL] since the mid-1980s.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_rock#cite_note-American_alt-rock-10"][11][/URL] Throughout much of its history, alternative rock has been largely defined by its rejection of the commercialism of mainstream culture. Alternative bands during the 1980s generally played in small clubs, recorded for indie labels, and spread their popularity through word of mouth.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_rock#cite_note-encarta-11"][12][/URL] As such, there is no set musical style for alternative rock as a whole, although [I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times"]The New York Times[/URL][/I] in 1989 asserted that the genre is "guitar music first of all, with guitars that blast out power chords, pick out chiming riffs, buzz with fuzztone and squeal in feedback."[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_rock#cite_note-12"][13][/URL] Sounds range from the dirty guitars of grunge to the gloomy soundscapes of gothic rock to the guitar pop revivalism of Britpop to the shambolic performance style of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twee_pop"]twee pop[/URL]. More often than in other rock styles since the mainstreaming of rock music during the 1970s, alternative rock lyrics tend to address topics of social concern, such as drug use, depression, and environmentalism.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_rock#cite_note-encarta-11"][12][/URL] This approach to lyrics developed as a reflection of the social and economic strains in the United States and United Kingdom of the 1980s and early 1990s.[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_rock#cite_note-13"][14][/URL] [/quote]
Do you like alternative music? That's all I ask.
No, not really
It's pretty unusual though
Well, I guess some of the music I listen to could be considered alternative, or would have been considered alternative back when it was made if the term was back then. Alot of the older blues I listen to was recorded in small temporarily set up studios and stuff like that.
I always think of "alternative" as "not mainstream", so the alternative to what's in the charts.
If that's the case, yes. (Even though a lot of my favourite bands have been chart-toppers in the past.)
[QUOTE=CoolCorky;25901157]I always think of "alternative" as "not mainstream", so the alternative to what's in the charts.
If that's the case, yes. (Even though a lot of my favourite bands have been chart-toppers in the past.)[/QUOTE]
This.
Everyone in the area where I live listens to techno and bad trance and house and all that techno stuff.
I mainly listen to Metal and a lot of it's subgenres and Hardcore Punk and a a lot of it's subgenres.
I listen to classic and hard rock like AC/DC and ZZ Top, which is unusual by all i know (they all listen to gay pop) so therefore i would call my music taste alternative.
[QUOTE=Lambeth;25901704][img_thumb]http://gunshowcomic.com/comics/20091110.gif[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]
Or just do what I do in Winamp and use the genre tag for keywords I can search for later
Alternative to music is noise. :smug:
You know its a zing.
Edit: How is it dumb if I like some noise music?
[QUOTE=Lufttygger306;25901911]I listen to classic and hard rock like AC/DC and ZZ Top, which is unusual by all i know (they all listen to gay pop) so therefore i would call my music taste alternative.[/QUOTE]
No one knows AC/DC or ZZ Top?
does not compute
[QUOTE=mikeyt493;25902419]No one knows AC/DC or ZZ Top?
does not compute[/QUOTE]
Good thing you're not a computer or else it would've been weird.
And how on earth can someone not know ZZ Top or AC/DC?
I don't really listen to any Alt Rock apart from Grunge, which seems to be what you were talking about. I mostly listen to Black Metal, Post-Rock, Punk, Ambient, as well as a few other types of music. Mostly other forms of Metal.
No
Except maybe post rock, I don't know anyone in my life that listens to Post Rock
But then again it's not really alternative
If we're going by the umbrella definition of alternative music as meaning music that's not recognized by the mainstream, then yes. Yes I do.
Because I don't think you'll find very many bands like [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnPX-saNuXw]Behind the Scenery[/url] or [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmNMVR_7n50]HI-TECH[/url] played on the radio any time soon.
oh im so hipster i listen to ttly indie bands
I only listen to post avant-garde dark jazzcore
No because I'm not 12 years old.
Never was more truth contained in a post
I mean, alt rock sounds exactly like normal rock, I read somewhere that the killers were alt rock and they don't sound very alternative to me
alternative ... The "indie rock" of the 90s
Alt-rock used to be post punk then it became modern hard rock that evolved from post punk (the foo fighters and jane's addiction)
[editline]7th November 2010[/editline]
now more currently it's post-punk revival bands which does include the killers
[editline]7th November 2010[/editline]
[QUOTE=En-Guage V2;25904788]No
Except maybe post rock, I don't know anyone in my life that listens to Post Rock
But then again it's not really alternative[/QUOTE]
post rock is awesome
that it is, just great stuff to sit and get absorbed into
umbrella terms are bad and should be hated
especially alternative and techno
god forbid someone start saying alternative techno
i like alternative techno like dnb
"alternative"
"dnb"
ha
Voted no.
Reality: I don't give a fuck. I listen to whatever sounds good to me. If I shuffle my library we will end up with:
Mastodon - La Roux - KMFDM - Kid Cudi - Matt and Kim - Lamb of God - MGMT - Death From Above 1979 - The Prodigy - Royksopp - Pogo - Amon Amarth - MIA - Major Lazer - Modest Mouse - Muse - Doomtree - Geto Boys - JayZ - Nile - Friendly Fires
etc etc etc
[QUOTE=absinthe;25910905]"alternative"
"dnb"
ha[/QUOTE]
It's almost as if it was a joke or something.
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