[30 Day Song Challenge: Alternative Nation Edition] Day 13 - A song you like from THE 70S!
[30 Day Song Challenge: Alternative Nation Edition] Day 13 - A song you like from THE 70S!
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DAY 13 of the 30 Day Song Challenge, alternative music styles!
When music started getting WEIRD which led to the awesome 80s College Rock years - the 70s!!!
Each day I’ll post the challenge and you share some of your favorite alternative & indie songs that meet the challenge!
I mean, some absolute gems in this decade from Bowie, Krafwerk, Roxy Music, Talking Heads.... god damn.
But for me, as a huge Violent Femmes fan, finding Velvet Underground was so important. Which song though??? tough choice, but let's go with an absolute classic that I listen to on the reg: "Pale Blue Eyes" https://youtu.be/KisHhIRihMY
7 0 ReplyAll my favorite bands point back to the VU - Alex Chilton, REM, Yo La Tengo, and on and on. They were cooler than cool.
2 0 ReplyYep! There was a saying once about VU were single handedly responsible for a bunch of bands. Violent Femmes too!
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Needles In The Camel's Eye by Brian Eno
Elements of this sounds extremely early 90s alternative to me. He was so ahead of his time.
7 0 Reply6 0 ReplyYES!
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Pere Ubu - Nonalignment Pact (1978)
or the whole 'Unknown Pleasures' album by Joy Division...
5 0 Reply5 0 ReplyBeat me to it 😂! Essential song.
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New York Dolls - Personality Crisis
What a great frigging decade.
5 0 ReplyIt’s unreal how much there is to choose from. All legendary.
3 0 Replymusically, a super critical one too!
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5 0 ReplyThere's so much I want to mention but I've managed to narrow it down to a few things.
My dad is a big fan of Yes so here's a track that I heard a lot when I was a kid and still love today.
As an adult I've made some effort to dig into the stuff I missed out on from previous decades. I recently "discovered" Lou Reed and love everything he's done.
Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed
And finally I want to bring up Brian Eno's contributions to ambient music. No specific track but I love his albums Another Green World and Music for Airports.
4 0 ReplyRoundabout is amazing, Fragile is a fave, but Close To The Edge is where my heart will always be...
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Discovered Black Devil Disco Club this month through a friend. Great Stuff.
3 0 Reply3 0 ReplyWhy did a Girlschool song start playing in my head? 🤔
2 0 ReplyBecause you have excellent taste in music perhaps
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this is too hard to choose . . .
patti smith, horses LP side 2 track 3 i think it is,
the long medley one that recalls other stuff on the album.
2 0 ReplyFor all the crap on the airwaves, this decade still had a ton of great music. For instance....
2 0 Reply@perishthethought @ren
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Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come
A fantastic band that I never see people mention in these kinds of threads.
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