Goodtunes discussion

This thread is for alternative music in general. If you have a particular type of alternative music you'd like to focus on, feel free to create a thread for it.

From my understanding, alternative is sort of a catch-all for the less traditional sounding rock music. There are different categories within alternative music, as you all know. Please feel free to start threads for them.

I've never been into the mainstream rock sound. But I love alternative rock. I like my rock music to be kind of weird and off the beaten path. My sister, who I invited to join, is a huge rock fan.

Traditional "rock" music never really pushed my buttons either. Then again, I was born in the 80's, so when my musical tastes were developing, alternative was about the only thing if you didn't want hip hop or pop. The first CD I bought was U2's Achtung Baby and it's still my favourite album of theirs. It was more alternative than their other works.

I will admit that I never really liked the grunge sub-genre. Nirvana, Pearl Jam, all those garage bands from the Northwest never did much for me.

I'm not fond of grunge, either. Achtung Baby is an excellent album.

I love Chris Cornell's voice. Soundgarden is probably the one band in that so-called 'grunge' classification that I liked the most. I wasn't a fan of Nirvana, but I love the Foo Fighters, and Dave Grohl was the drummer for Nirvana.

He's a very hot guy. I could see him modeling. I'd just look at him. :)

Some newer bands that I've gotten into:

Broken Bells
Temper Trap

The Stills aren't new, and I really like them. And the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are a new favorite. I love "Dull Life."

I like Cake. My friend adores them.

There wasn't many I didn't love in the 90's. Some of my favorites are,
Pearl Jam
Soundgarden
Stone Temple Pilots
Candlebox
Bush
Nirvana
Silver Chair
Alice In Chains
Collective Soul
Blind Melon
I know they didn't all come out of Seattle, but their some of the best from the 90's.

For me Grunge was kind of the beginning of the end for rock music I like. I love the Pixies and Dinosaur Jr, and I like a lot of the post-punk and post-hardcore bands, like later Black Flag, Minutemen, Fugazi and Sonic Youth, and I just got into The Jesus Lizard, but all the grunge bands never did it for me, I do like a little Alice In Chains, but thats prety much it.

Damn good bands listed there Lori, especially, Nirvana, Collecive Soul and Blind Melon!!!

Oh, by the way, Danielle, Yeah Yeah Yeahs definitely have some great music!!

Glad to see another Yeah Yeah Yeahs fan, Thinker. :)

Did you know that Axel Rose and the Lead singer from Blind Melon went to school together?

No i didn't. Did they really?

Oh, that guy who died, too bad he did, Blind Melon had some good tunes.

His name was Shannon Hoon, he died of a heart attack due to cocaine overdose. No one knows if it was on purpose or an accident.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmVn6b...

Damn. Just like the Nirvana lead singer, and they had good tunes too.

Well sort of. But I do believe Kurt's was ruled a suicide. He had a "high concentration of heroin and traces of valium". Oh and a shotgun under his chin, along with a suicide note.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Cobain

I miss the 90s alternative the stuff they call alternative these days just doesn't have any of the meaning the 90s stuff did for me. I like a couple like She Wants Revenge and The Bravery otherwise it all seems the same and half hearted. Am I the only one?

Rob wrote: "I loved "alternative" and "metal" back in the 80's and 90's, but neither one of those genres do much for me these days. All metal bands these days sound like Cookie Monster on steroids. And 'alte..."

exactly

Ha! Cookie Monster... I like that comparison, reminds me of some Nightwish and Epica tunes. But I love Nightwish and Epica anyway they're not that bad at all, there are some other bands I won't listen to for prolonged periods of time at all, a little too much growling.

That's a funny analogy Rob, because that's how i hear Robert Plant. I couldn't explain it till now, so thanks!!! :)

Cradle of Filth is a tragically hard to listen to band. Why? Because their songs are full of great lyrics and stories but you can't understand most of the lyrics through the screeching "vampire voices" that overwhelm and in my mind ruin them. I have a nice stack of their songs i love but most of them are the melodic ones where they don't screech so much.

Would DEVO be considered Alternative (for its time)? Because they have a NEW CD coming out!!

I loves them.

Dana wrote: "Would DEVO be considered Alternative (for its time)? Because they have a NEW CD coming out!!

I loves them."

Certainly, back in the day i think they were thought to be geek punk.

Rob cracks me up. I read this yesterday, then late last night I was playing my MP3 player while reading. This song came on randomly that made me laugh right there in my reading chair. The wife thought I'd lost my mind.

"A Eulogy for The Living Lost" by Novembers Doom.

That is a perfect example of the Cookie Monster voice.

OMG Chris, I looked them up. As for music, the instruments their playing that sounds really good. But that "so called singer", how much stuff have they got on him? He truly does sound like the Cookie Monster. He's awful!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfR4OI...

He looks more like Herry Monster....

He sounds really good on the chorus parts, it's just the other verses where he has the CM sound. I think he's trying to be another Burton C. Bell (Fear Factory) with the shift between rough and clear.

You're right though, the music is really good...

I don't know what he's trying to be, but IMO he's bad all the way!

My brother has an incurable addiction to Cookie Monster metal and it drives me freaking NUTS! I hate the stuff. It's all Christian, and I'm all for the message it's conveying, but can't you make it sound a little better?!!!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!

Did we just invent a new sub-genre? Cookie Monster Metal.

It's been around for a while actually. I was using the term maybe three years ago.

Have you all heard Novembers Doom in acoustic style? I was checking it out on you tube.

No, but do they sound better then the Cookie Monster we were talking about.

Well at least we could understand what they're saying in this one Lori:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7exa0...

and this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XttpGc...

I'm sorry Thinker but i just don't get it! The music is really good, but his singing leaves something to be desired. They need a new front man.

Guitar Chick-Dolly Dagger wrote: "My brother has an incurable addiction to Cookie Monster metal and it drives me freaking NUTS! I hate the stuff. It's all Christian, and I'm all for the message it's conveying, but can't you make it..."

GCDD, I call that 'so-called Christian' music whats the point in having 'music with a message' if you cant understand the message, here in Trinidad we have what they call 'gospelypso' a merger of gospel music with our local calypso music but a listener would get so caught up in the calypso rhythm that its like to hell with any message.

Lori wrote: "I'm sorry Thinker but i just don't get it! The music is really good, but his singing leaves something to be desired. They need a new front man."

Lori you think they need a new front man or maybe they could just send the guy for singing lessons.

No they need a new front man. His singing and his whole look is wasted on me. He looks like he sings slovenly! I usually don't go by looks at all, but in his case i just can't help it. Slovenly sums him up for me. And if this is gospel, christian, or any kind of a label for God, then their not doing a very good job of conveying any kind of message.

I just got the NEW DEVO CD - Something For Everybody.

It is classic DEVO and I love it!!!

Any other DEVO fans around?

Sadly, I found out they played in my town last nite,, and I missed it!!! Curse you Live Nation.

All hail DEVO!

Your lucky you get shows at all. Alabama has Big Spring Jam, and that's pretty much it most of the time. This year we're getting quite a fwe more. But oh my goodness we hardly ever get any good shows.

We get plenty of good shows around here, just not in my town. Hell we don't even have a place for a show. We have an old movie theater they could turn into a concert hall, but they won't. We have to go an hour to Greensboro, or an hour and a half to Raleigh, but they always have some kind of show going. My trouble is money. LOL

i call Smashing Pumpkins Alt. Gish is great. Siamese is the bomb. mellon collie is o.k. a bit pompus...this is when Alt made too much money, imo.

1997 grunge/alt. died.

Smashing Pumpkins greatest hits was quite ok, I like the track 'Landslide' amongst others.

Ciccone Youth