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Topic	7 Days of Alternative Rock
hollow_shrine 07/15/19 4:42:44 PM #33:	EverDownward posted... I'm too much of a music nerd to put grunge under alt-rock, although I guess if I had to I would. Grunge was very big on its own in the early to mid 90s. It definitely had its own identity separate from typical alternative. Like, I wouldn't really compare Pearl Jam to Jane's Addiction. The only things I tend to put under alt rock are bands too popular to be 'indie,' but that still seem to get limited radio play, if at all. Radiohead is one such band for me. And even then, I need an additional tag to attach to it so I can keep the 'alt rock' section of my music library organized. And the term 'alternative rock' feels temporally anchored to the 90's and early aughts me, like it has no business describing anything made in the past fifteen years (by a group who wasn't around in the nineties). I also find myself tagging bands who used to be popular but whose careers have moved out of the popular rock scene as alt rock. So that might be bands like Third Eye Blind or Duncan Sheik, who continued to produce music decades after pop radio lost interest. Other genre tags like 'adult contemporary rock' just don't seem very descriptive to me. I'm more satisfied if I can cross reference something as being a fusion of genres if I can't find one I really like. And dancing around the edges of that whole thing is personal preference/recollection. Whatever. The below link has nothing to do with the above unsolicited stream of consciousness self reflection. Chapel Club - Widows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vbZwztrbE4" data-time=" --- Ignorance is a choice https://imgtc.com/i/7UnK3hx.jpg <cite>hollow_shrine posted [p:924727687] in 7 Days of ... [t:77865552]...</cite> <quote><cite>EverDownward posted...</cite> <quote>I'm too much of a music nerd to put grunge under alt-rock, although I guess if I had to I would. Grunge was very big on its own in the early to mid 90s. It definitely had its own identity separate from typical alternative. Like, I wouldn't really compare Pearl Jam to Jane's Addiction.</quote> The only things I tend to put under alt rock are bands too popular to be 'indie,' but that still seem to get limited radio play, if at all. Radiohead is one such band for me. And even then, I need an additional tag to attach to it so I can keep the 'alt rock' section of my music library organized. And the term 'alternative rock' feels temporally anchored to the 90's and early aughts me, like it has no business describing anything made in the past fifteen years (by a group who wasn't around in the nineties). I also find myself tagging bands who used to be popular but whose careers have moved out of the popular rock scene as alt rock. So that might be bands like Third Eye Blind or Duncan Sheik, who continued to produce music decades after pop radio lost interest. Other genre tags like 'adult contemporary rock' just don't seem very descriptive to me. I'm more satisfied if I can cross reference something as being a fusion of genres if I can't find one I really like. And dancing around the edges of that whole thing is personal preference/recollection. Whatever. The below link has nothing to do with the above unsolicited stream of consciousness self reflection. Chapel Club - Widows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vbZwztrbE4" data-time=" --- Ignorance is a choice https://imgtc.com/i/7UnK3hx.jpg</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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