Day 56: Alternative Rock/Protogrunge

This week's genre tour comes by request from a friend of mine; he wanted an Alternative Rock-type list, so I tried to come up with some jams. What he was asking for is a relatively narrow genre that pretty much only existed in the 80s during the era between the post-punk movement and the rise of grunge.

Early Alternative had a relatively broad range of sound from more noise in bands like Sonic Youth to more folk in groups like the Violent Femmes. The list is sort of short, but I think it encapsulates the genre pretty well.

YouTube:
01. The Replacements - Unsatisfied
02. R.E.M. - So. Central Rain
03. Meat Puppets - Plateau (N/A on imeem, "Original Love" by The Feelies instead)
04. Pixies - Debaser
05. Pavement - Old to Begin (N/A)
06. Dinosaur Jr. - Little Furry Things (N/A on imeem, "No Bones" instead)
07. Violent Femmes - Add It Up
08. Throwing Muses - Not Too Soon
09. Hüsker Dü - Never Talking to You Again
10. Sonic Youth - Teen Age Riot

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Day 56: Alternative Rock

Soy Bomb,
Erik

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