Alternative Nation: The Fediverse's Alternative and Indie Music Community
Alternative Nation : The Fediverse's largest alternative and indie music community! All things alternative music, from 80s college rock to today's indie and all the amazing alternative music in between. Welcome home, music nerds!
Some of y'all may remember MTV's Alternative Nation or 120 Minutes, awesome programs & incredible ways to discover #music back in the 80s & 90s...
Welcome, to the Fediverse edition!
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Share youtube, songwhip, spotify, bandcamp links, music memes, album art, articles, whatever! But avoid links to directly download music (don't want to get Lemmy.world in trouble). Songwhip links always appreciated!
See this post on recs on how to post!
The Golden Rule: Music taste is subjective so don't be a gatekeeping asshole. There's no "bad music", only music you like or don't like.
We Are A Community: So no racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, or spam.
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Other Lemmy music communities to explore and support:
- !music@lemmy.world
- !90smusic@lemmy.world
- !80smusic@lemmy.world
- !70smusic@lemmy.world
- !60smusic@lemmy.world
- !classicrock@lemmy.world
- !popheads@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
- !HipHopHeads@sopuli.xyz
Where to find ren:
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Alright, I've passively listened to one or two albums before, but not really dived in. With such a large and eclectic discography, what are some recommended starting points?
Hard to say. They pump out music like mad, and every album can be an entirely different genre.
My personal favourite is Polygondwanaland, though.
Depends on your style. Most albums try completely different genres, so if you like one genre more, you may want to start with those albums.
Depends on what you prefer, given they often have very different sounds because all of the members wrote the songs and some of the albums will be mostly written by one member. For a sample of everything, try Gumboot soup or Omnium Gatherium, those are the albums where they put songs they didn't have an individual album for. That being said, I rather like Flight 741 (it's a collaboration album, all of the 7 members wrote 4 one), Changes (very good technically amazing jazz), Sketches of Brunswick East (also jazzy and really good), and Petrodraconic apocalypse (heavy metal with a tinge of psychedelia). To be honest though, there is standout music from each album, so just start with one that you like a song from.