Let’s do the 30 Day Song Challenge, alternative music styles! Each day I’ll post the challenge and you share some of your favorite songs that meet the challenge!

LET’S GO!

  • FeatherConstrictor
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    1 year ago

    TL;DR: I hate picking one. But if I had to, it’d probably be Black Car by Beach House.

    Link to the Spotify Playlist. Depends what you define as alternative! Here’s what I found in my Spotify likes that one could argue are alternative (I’ve starred are my top faves):

    ⭐ Black - Pearl Jam (please listen to the MTV unplugged version if you haven’t yet)
    Blackest Bile - Giles Corey
    ⭐ Blackberry Stone - Laura Marley
    Black Swan - Thom Yorke
    ⭐ Black Car - Beach House
    Black Cadillacs - Modest Mouse
    Blackout - Muse
    Black Rain - Soundgarden
    ⭐ Black Star - Radiohead
    Waving A White Flag - The Smile
    White Cyclosa - Boards of Canada
    Red Right Hand - Arctic Monkeys
    Ruby - Tweaker, Will Oldham (a bit of a weird one)
    ⭐ Ruby Pool - VOLA (alternative rock electronic stuff what genre even is this???)
    ⭐ Cherry-coloured Funk - Cocteau Twins
    Cherry - Chromatics
    Pink Funeral - Beach House
    Pink Moon - Nick Drake
    ⭐ Peach Pit - Peach Pit
    ⭐ Tangerine - Frank Sativa
    Amber - 311
    Gold Guns Girls - Metric
    I Love You Golden Blue - Sonic Youth
    ⭐ Green Green Grass Of Tunnel - múm
    ⭐ Turquoise Hexagon Sun - Boards of Canada

    Some stuff I can’t say is alternative but I love enough to mention:

    Big Black Car - Gregory Alan Isakov (Folk)
    Black Leaf - John Paul White (that’s a twofer! Folk)
    Black Sands - Bonobo (downtempo electronic? I dunno)
    Red Summer - Thornhill (metalcore)
    Vermilion, pt. 2 - Slipknot (this is acoustic, not what you might think as slipknot)
    Flamingo - Kero Kero Bonito (don’t judge)
    Bright as Yellow - The Innocence Mission (indie folk)
    Aquamarine - The Afterimage (metalcore, this song very much not metal though)
    Blue Ridge Mountains - Fleet Foxes (indie folk)