Alternative Rock

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what?

What's on second.

</rainman moment>

hnmm, favorite artists:

the strokes, interpol, beck, green day, white stripes, ok go, weezer, incubus, and oh so many more i just can't keep track, that's just the beginning haha

songs:
ok go - a million ways (go see the video for it! HILARIOUS)
interpol - PDA
weezer - say it ain't so
incubus - warning
incubus - just a phase
the killers - all these things that i've done

All right, I'm defining Alternative Rock to be anything from the '90s on, which is definitely rock'n'roll, but is usually experimental, catchy and loud. Typically an Alt Rock song will have some weird hook to it that you hate the first time you hear it but a few listens later you are addicted

My 10 fave alt rock bands

A Perfect Circle
Arcade Fire
Incubus
Killers
Pixies
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE (and their side projects and their antecedents and their solo albums)
Radiohead
SMASHING PUMPKINS (and their side projects and solo albums, etc etc)
System of a Down
U2

EDIT: My list might be very different depending on the way you define alt rock... I see some of the bands people mention which to me are what I'd call 'garage rock'... but this is the way im defining it

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Franz Ferdinand I'd say were an independant group with a New Wave/Post-Punk sound that is borrowed from groups such as Gang Of Four, Talking Heads and perhaps even early Cure records. Any way my girlfriend is seeing them tonight...

That term is so absurdly vague.
I could almost so that everything I listen to is Alt Rock.

I guess that means that this will be a very long thread then!! !! ((And pretty much everything I listen to save for the stuff I adopted from Thagomizer is Alt Rock too, hence why I made the thread- between this and TheViking's thread my entire ipod is covered))

Yeah, I think you're right, I guess I was tmporarily blinded by how incredibly awsome they are
ok Franz gets replaced by System

I actually put a list of every musical album I have (save for a mix of Now CDs, or the NowCd's themselves) up in my LJ. It's a pretty Aspie list as far as obvious artist and genre perseverations.

stone temple pilots, oasis, folk implosion, gin blossoms, semisonic, nirvana, red hot chili peppers, nine inch nails, kyuss, cake, foo fighters, radiohead, sugar ray, violent femmes, prodigy, alice in chains, the living end, eels, greenday, fugazi, portishead, goldfinger, fatboy slim, mr bungle, estradasphere, crystal method, ween, butthole surfers, my bloody valentine, the cure, orgy, beck, tripping daisy, alboth, silverchair, pearl jam, tool, secret chiefs 3, soundgarden, breeders, filter, fastball, sneaker pimps, black heart procession, spacehog, squarepusher, ozric tentacles, blind melon, deftones, wallflowers, cornershop, blur, toadies, etc.

Artist- H.I.M Favorite Album- Love Metal Favorite Song- Soul On Fire
Artist- Silverchair Favorite Album- Frogstomp Favorite Song- Tomorrow
Artist- Smashing Pumpkins Favorite Album- Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Favorite Song- Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Artist- Filter Favorite Album- Short Bus Favorite Song- Hey Man Nice Shot
Artist- The Tea Party Favorite Album- Splendor Solis Favorite Song- The River
Artist- Incubus Favorite Album- S.C.I.E.N.C.E. Favorite Song- New Skin
Artist- Red Hot Chili Peppers Favorite Album- Blood Sugar Sex Magick Favorite Song- Under the Bridge
Artist- Trapt Favorite Album- Trapt Favorite Song- Headstrong
Artist- Moist Favorite Album- Creature Favorite Song- Resurrection
Artist- Pearl Jam Favorite Album- Ten Favorite Song- Jeremy

I don't know if they're quite "alternative Rock" but anyone interested in creative, counter-mainstream (how i define "alt rock") music should look up Porcupine Tree, they're f'n' brilliant

U2
AFI
Cold Play
Panic at the Disco
The Cure
REM

Radiohead
Linkin Park
POD
Coldplay

Mostly...