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alternative.... just isn't.

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Oerdin:
Alternative used to mean just about any of the new trendy youth orientated rock music that came out in the first half of the 1990's.  Basically if it wasn't hard rock, classic rock, soft rock. ot metal but it was still rock then it was Alternative rock.  Much of what we now call Indie would have been called Alternative if it came out 10 years ago.

AndSheeWas:

--- Quote from: Oerdin ---   I can also remember a time when nothing was cooler then Oingo Bongo.
--- End quote ---


Yes, that time is now!

Deformagraphy:
Alternative to me is the stuff that doesn't fit a genre.  The artists that change every record with every mood.  Where one record can be a concept album surrounding a man falling into his own personal hell, and the next be a art-rock album surrounding what this man does with the pieces.

Of course, I'm directly referring to Nine Inch Nails, but there are many other bands like this.  

Simple terms:  Artists or band that recreate what they do with every album and every song.  They can't ever be put into a genre because it could be defended for yet another genre.

Or something, I had a point there but I lost it.

DeathrockZombie:
Alternative in the 80s was pretty much anything that wasn't pop. Joy Division, Minor Threat, Slayer, Bauhaus, Oingo Boingo. It was all Alt. Like Indie, it got reappropriated to a college rock sound in the 90s, and lost its meaning.

Blast!

Oingo Boingo is cooler than your mom.

Ruskin:
Isn't this a dream come true? ISN'T THIS A NIGHTMARE TOOOOOOOOOOO?!

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