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  • WakeInFrightWakeInFright
    I always thought anything not mainstream was....alternative. I remember an interview where Iggy Pop said something along the lines of him not being "normal" or "average" and many others at his school just like him. So if he created music for them, he wasn't competing with the mainstream, but had a big enough chunk to make money by. The Stooges were the godfathers of punk, so New York Dolls, Television, Ramones, Devo etc in my opinion are all alternative. If you predate The Stooges there were plenty of other garage rock bands that were making kick ass music, but we're not mainstream...so, alternative too! R.E.M. Were college rock independent, where college radio became "cool" to listen to, and helped the likes of Mudhoney and other Seattle luminaries like,...what was their name again? Nir...? Nir...?
  • TheFarter2.0TheFarter2.0
    The Who
  • McShredorDieMcShredorDie
    Yeah, but you know what I mean by alternative. College rock, jangle pop, etc. In 1981 they started a style of music that many bands of the 90's aped and played a neutered version of. 1985 to 1990 was the golden age of college/alternative and emo.
  • McShredorDieMcShredorDie
    Speaking of alternative and emo, here's a classic!



  • WakeInFrightWakeInFright
    Look up C86 on Wikipedia Macca!
  • ghostbusterghostbuster
    If you like REM check out Pylon-- they are also from Athens and played around with REM, who covered their song "Crazy." Also check out the Butthole Surfers-- Gibby Haynes loves Michael Stipe!

  • VatoRatVatoRat
    edited May 2018
    Nice, @WakeInFright ! Speaking of proto-punk, you can't forget the Modern Lovers!..

    @ghostbuster - Yeah, man - I lived in Athens for many years, next door to Michael Stipe for one of them. I know @SkaterRick has some pretty good Athens stories, too!
    @McShredorDie - Toxic Reasons? Man, who are these guys?! This is good stuff! Just looked them up - Dayton, OH? Rad! Friends with Guided by Voices? Kim Deal? Didn't Neil Blender live out there for a while with Alien Workshop? Weird!
  • McShredorDieMcShredorDie
    @WakeInFright C86 is overhyped. I've heard people say it's the starting point of indie but that's ridiculous! From a British perspective, indie (as a music style) started around the time of The Cure's Boys Don't Cry and in the US it was R.E.M.'s Hib-Tone single.

    @ghostbuster I'll give them a listen. What album's best to start? Gyrate, Chomp or Chain?

    @VatoRat Glad you like them! Within These Walls is another great product of the 85 emo/alternative explosion. Their earlier pre and post 85 stuff is standard hardcore mixed in with some oi (it's weird. Within These Walls is the redheaded stepchild of their catalog but also their best) but you might also like Killed By Remote Control which is more along the lines of the melodic Bad Religion sound.

    Another good band is Articles of Faith!

    All these bands started releasing their best albums when they slowed down and started listening to REM.
  • ghostbusterghostbuster
    edited May 2018
    Gyrate
  • McShredorDieMcShredorDie
    Ah cool! Thanks dude. I'm pretty stoned right now so I need some good shit to listen to.
  • McShredorDieMcShredorDie
    Dude, I'm listening to some of Gyrate right now and this some pretty rad stuff Very early 80s post-punk i like what I hear!
  • WakeInFrightWakeInFright
    How about the Go Betweens Macca? An Australian Indie band that formed in 1977?
  • McShredorDieMcShredorDie
    Yeah, I'd say the Lee Remick is a good contender for starting point of indie in Australia.
  • ghostbusterghostbuster
    edited May 2018
    @McShredorDie: That's cool, glad you like it, coincidentally 1st heard "Stop It" stoned at a party in the 90s and was like wtf is this? & did some research.

    @VatoRat: That's awesome; was there a van with messages painted on it parked out front when you were living there?
  • SkaterRickSkaterRick
    Pylon were extremely cool. I got the pleasure of working with Randy Bewley, the guitar player, for about a year or so. At the time I had no idea who Pylon was, but I slowly caught on and had the good fortune of seeing their first reunion show the last time they got together. He tuned his guitar A D G C E E, which was something he came up with on his Supro on his own. Unfortunately he died in a car accident a few years later.

    I don't really have an REM story, unlike most Athenians/former Athenians. I met Mike Mills in passing once but didn't know who he was.
  • ghostbusterghostbuster
    edited May 2018
    That sucks! Sorry to hear.

    Bassists are unrecognized work horses in my experience and also usually get treated a lot like horses by other band members and audience members (as in, they are eaten first during hard times). Not that anyone asked but my favorite bassist is John Entwistle.
  • myrenmyren
    Tommy Guerrero on The Nine Club


  • AstroGhastAstroGhast
  • McShredorDieMcShredorDie
    That's some Canadian heritage right here. I'm wearing my Skull Skates hat right now, too.
  • AstroGhastAstroGhast
    @McShredorDie Absolutely man. Great Canadian punk rock. I met them once through work. They were super chill and very nice. They gave me some guitar picks and a bag of weed cause they were heading to the airport to fly home and didn't wanna take it with them. It was damn good too..
  • McShredorDieMcShredorDie
    Rad dude. You can't go wrong with free ganj!

    You ever heard of The Nils? Another great Canadian band who were basically doing in 1985 what bands like Gob and BNU were doing 10 years later but with some more Husker Du influence.



    The Asexuals are rad, too.

  • SK8ERSK8ER
    Megadeth-So Far, So Good, So What
  • WakeInFrightWakeInFright
    Don't forget Rust In Peace!
    And Anthrax's Among the living, and Persistence of time @SK8ER !
  • SK8ERSK8ER
    Megadeth’s newest album Dystopia is good and thrashy too!
  • AstroGhastAstroGhast
    @McShredorDie I've never heard of either of those bands. The Nils are badass! Way ahead of their time. Thanks for that.

    Dinosaur Jr tonight.




    And some Brian Jonestown Massacre.





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