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DAY 12 of the 30 Day Song Challenge, alternative music styles!
Time to give away just how old you are! lol - reach back, y’all! What’s an alternative childhood song ya love?
Each day I’ll post the challenge and you share some of your favorite alternative & indie songs that meet the challenge!
If Nirvana counts, Smells Like Teen Spirit was one of my first exposures to anything outside of pop or rap, and it was pretty fucking awesome both then and now.
Edit: I never really looked up a definition of alternative before, but at least according to Wikipedia, Nirvana is a tentpole alternative band. I always would have described them as grunge/punk, and viewed alternative as generally more mellow as a genre.
oh, they count! While many credit bands like REM for bringing college rock / alternative to the mainstream, it ushered in an era of authenticity that Nirvana pretty much personified with their explosive success.
Alternative (or indie or college rock) just really means music not designed for top 40 mainstream accolades - yes, they may hit top 40, but that’s not really what the music is about. The music isn’t making music to follow top 40 trends, they tend to follow their own thing.