Your Favorite Alt/Rock band...

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All those bands are Alt/Rock just because they're mainstream has no affect on the music they play. BB borders metal.

In that case, they're STILL not Alt Rock...they're Melodic Hard Rock/Metal...

Wow. Reading over most of these lists, the only thing I got that comes close is STP and a Soundgarden disc or 2. And to whomever listed Social Distortion can't be serious. Social D alt/rock? Punk or rockabilly, yes, but alternative? Not in my little close-minded world.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Wow. Reading over most of these lists, the only thing I got that comes close is STP and a Soundgarden disc or 2. And to whomever listed Social Distortion can't be serious. Social D alt/rock? Punk or rockabilly, yes, but alternative? Not in my little close-minded world.

Depends on which album you listen to. Recent stuff like Sex, Love and Rock n Roll is much less "countrified" IMO.

Also depends on your definition of "alt rock". To me, that term is so generic that it encompasses anything that's rock and alternative. In other words, I discount industrial, punk, goth etc bands but something like Social D doesn't fit neatly into any one category in my book so I lump 'em in with "alt rock".

tohostudios wrote:

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Wow. Reading over most of these lists, the only thing I got that comes close is STP and a Soundgarden disc or 2. And to whomever listed Social Distortion can't be serious. Social D alt/rock? Punk or rockabilly, yes, but alternative? Not in my little close-minded world.

Depends on which album you listen to. Recent stuff like Sex, Love and Rock n Roll is much less "countrified" IMO.

Also depends on your definition of "alt rock". To me, that term is so generic that it encompasses anything that's rock and alternative. In other words, I discount industrial, punk, goth etc bands but something like Social D doesn't fit neatly into any one category in my book so I lump 'em in with "alt rock".

Ahhh, I see. By your definition, I can see your point. I don't see it that way, but hey, you know what they say about opinions...Every one is wrong but mine.

Others i forgot to mention and totally forgot about are

Candlebox and Silverchair


For A LIST OF aLt/rock artists click on the link below.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_rock_artists

Wow, I find a lot of debatable ones in that list.

Not the list of which is including a lot of punk and power/punk and synthpop bands.

LOL! I just noticed Social D is in that list!

I take it back; that list rules!

tohostudios wrote:

Wow, I find a lot of debatable ones in that list.

Not the list of which is including a lot of punk and power/punk and synthpop bands.

Same here. Going from that list, there are still only a handful I bands that I own something by. If I had to pick a fovorite of those listed, I'd go with Alice in Chains, although, by my definition, they're grunge, not alt/rock. But hey, whatever.

That list even includes Sisters Of Mercy for cryin' out loud. AND Stabbing Westward.

I do have a ton of stuff off that list though.

And I agree with classifying AIC as grunge.

Well alt/rock bands in the 90's are a lot different then the ones that you have around nowadays. A lot of the Alt/rock bands out there now are the majority of what you hear on the radio. IMO alt/rock is a genre that was placed on bands that werent quite just your hard rock band say like The Black Crowes and Pearl Jam but bands that are too hard to be labeled just alternative and are too soft to be labeled metal they are in between. So i call it more Alt/Metal then rock nowadays...

AIC, Silverchair, Nirvana, and Soundgarden all can be labeled grunge i guess, and thats what i would label it, but they very well could also be Alt/rock bands as well based on a lot of there songs..

SAHB Healer wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

Some of you turds like Therapy??

Boy, that sentence looks odd.

Yuh. I loved Nurse. Saw them tour that with Kings X.

Wow! Pretty cool show to see.

And if you've not heard anything since Nurse, I suggest you do. Every album is a bit different, but also still great. Love this band.

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MetalGuy71 wrote:

tohostudios wrote:

Wow, I find a lot of debatable ones in that list.

Not the list of which is including a lot of punk and power/punk and synthpop bands.

Same here. Going from that list, there are still only a handful I bands that I own something by. If I had to pick a fovorite of those listed, I'd go with Alice in Chains, although, by my definition, they're grunge, not alt/rock. But hey, whatever.

AiC did get the grunge lable when grunge took off, but Soundgarden and AiC were conisder metal when they first came out - both bands had no problem with being called grunge because it sold more albums in the early 90's.

I should add Weezer to this fav alt/rock bands list!

I love Weezer anyone hear the red album?

Grampa's historical revisionism. Since the term "Alternative" was coined in the late 80's; "Alternative" has become mainstream and Metal has become, uh, alternative.

I see Alternative Rock as something that started after punk (but not post-punk) around the early 80's. It encompasses college rock, indie, grunge, britpop and so forth right up till today.

Of course those 4 labels are simplistic and there are alot of bands in and around those.

Toho i don't know how you could say Sisters Of Mercy are not Alternative Rock but the Georgia Satellites are. Puzzles me for sure.

Also i don't consider bands that are derivative of the Grunge scene alternative rock. Bands like Silverchair, Bush, Stone Temple Pilots and right through to Creed, Nickelback, 3 Doors Down are not Alternative Rock. Their modern hard rock bands taking a direct tunnel visioned influence from Seattle, theres nothing alternative about them.

"Loud Rock" anyone?

MetalRob331 wrote:

I love Weezer anyone hear the red album?

Chris Crocker is in their new video; thus they deserve to be shot repeatedly.

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Toho i don't know how you could say Sisters Of Mercy are not Alternative Rock but the Georgia Satellites are. Puzzles me for sure.

Sisters are goth rock; Satellites aren't.

Alice In Chains is Metal.

Georgia Satellites is Southern Rock.

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

Alice In Chains is Metal.

Georgia Satellites is Southern Rock.

Satellites are sort of Southern Rock. They sound a lot different than Molly Hatchet, The Outlaws or Lynyrd Skynyrd to my ears though.

The "Goth" tag is a pretty redundant term, stupid even. Sisters Of Mercy were definately an Alternative Rock band in the 80's, along with Bauhaus, Flesh For Lulu, The Cure etc.

If you were to use the tag "Goth" on these bands then they would fall under the banner of Alternative Rock, just like other terms i dislike such as Grunge, College, Indie, Britpop, Paisley Underground (Worst umbrella term ever) etc all fall under that banner.

Georgia Satellites are completely removed from Alternative Rock, Alternative Rock i see is something born out of punk/post-punk that was bit different to what came before it. The closest the Georgia Satellites got to punk was a like of the Ramones but they really played straight down the line no nonesense traditional roots rock n' roll in the vein of Chuck Berry, Little Feat, Faces etc with no surprises or alternative twists.

We all have our own definitions of genres.

Mine are just right.

I think it's official.There isn't one person on this forum that knows genres.

And I completely disagree with the concept of "alternative rock" being born out of punk.

To me that term simply represents a style of music that the mainstream ignores.