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[-] Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org 37 points 1 week ago

Sigh, I miss the Alternative Music of the 90s and 2000s.

[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I was at the gym over the weekend and they had a playlist of songs from this era/genre playing over the speakers. One banger after another, brought me back to better times.

[-] ech@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago

There's still great stuff out there. It's just not mainstream, so it's not gonna fall into our laps - we have to do the legwork and shuffle through the muck if we want more.

Personally, I made the conscious choice to do so last year and it's been pretty rewarding.

[-] odigo2020@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

Any recommendations to check out?

[-] ech@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My favs from last year include:

  • Cheap Grills by Sincere Engineer (a great energetic, alt rock garage band vibe)

  • The Garden Dream by gglum (a moody alt rock album that would've fit perfectly on the Juno soundtrack)

  • Spiritual Cramps by Spiritual Cramps (a sound that feels simultaneously The Cure-ish, The Clash-ish, and The Ramones-ish)

  • Unicorn by Gunship (not an "unknown" band, but this album slaps if you enjoy synthwave at all)

[-] odigo2020@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Right on, that all sounds like my jam. Thanks for the tip!

[-] ech@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Sure thing! Fwiw, I found most of those just digging through the bandcamp discover page. gglum I heard on KEXP, a great indie radio station based in Seattle who do internet broadcasts. Lots of good stuff coming from them.

[-] positiveWHAT@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The mainstream is so small and the ocean of music so wide that "not mainstream" is ~~not~~ *barely a meaningful term.

[-] ech@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

It wasn't a disparagement. Just explaining why it's not as seemingly ubiquitous as it once was.

[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago

Alt music was still banging in the 2013 when i graduated high school. Still some great stuff out there if you lnow where to look.

[-] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Too bad it's all recorded at 44.1 kHz and there's no analog to convert to 88/96kHz.

[-] positiveWHAT@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

By Alternative you mean an assortment of punkish rock?

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago
[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Which is crazy, because originally "alternative" just meant "underground", i.e. stuff that wasn't popular. Once it did become popular, though, then it solidified into its own genre

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