Posts Tagged ‘alternative’

I have found myself in the same argument over and over again through the years. The argument is that there is no indie movement, or alternative, or anything of the type. The second something becomes a movement, it no longer really exists, at least not as it started. I was reminded of this argument again yesterday when I was followed by two guys that were the white boy hip-hop version of the ‘Night at the Roxbury’ guys. It would have been funny if it was not so sad. They were so indie with their cred………..NOT!

Take hippies for example. They were counterculture, they were broke, they were pretty smelly, but at first they were genuine. Then the marketing guys and retail outlets latched on. If you were buying your bell bottoms at Montgomery Wards or Sears, and ordering your ‘paint your wagon’ patches from magazines, you missed the hippie movement. Sorry to say it, but you did.

Let’s look at the ‘alternative’ music scene. If you were listening to Radio Free Europe in the 80’s, you were part of the ‘college scene’ or alternative scene as it would start to be known. If you liked Husker Du, you may have been alternative. If the Replacements were in your tape deck, you still had cred. If you listened to any of these bands after seeing Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit,’ or were turned on to REM with ‘Losing My Religion’, then no, you were not really part of the scene. Grunge? Give me a break.

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It is another Best of RfL show to get us closer to Friday’s episode #400!

Here is the original show notes

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We are not going to go to hard on today’s Indie and Alternative show, just hard enough. Enough to get your blood pumping.

We will also have some more atmospheric things as well.

We have a tired and drunk criminal, the Pope breaking up a bachelor stagg do, and some music history in the segments today.

Enjoy the show!

Ape House-You’re Not in a Band

Collectors-Find a Way

Acquisotic-Pardigm Pure

Rotoscope-Drive

The Gentlemen-It’s not so much that I disagree with you it’s that you’re wrong

The Misprintz-Goggles

Sophia Ramos-Jon’s Song

New Maximum Donkey-Perfect Personality

Lynn Julian aka Cookie Cutter Girl-If Farts Were Made of Superball Stuff

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We hope you are in the mood for some entertaining music today on Indie and Alternative Tuesday. We have the band, “The Cribs,” to start things off in style. We have a two-for from Reaching for Lucidity favorites, “Lato,” and another two-fer from a band with a long name, “The Curtains and Their Terrifying Story.”

See, Loooooong name.

We finish out the episode with, “The Velmas.”

That is a lot of great tunes for you.

Add to that our trivia section and our celebrity birthdays, and you have a darn good bit of entertainment today! We even have a special, in house, birthday today. It is digital assistant/princess Faith’s birthday today. So, we should quit typing and get to preparing.

Cheers,

Eban and SJ

Music on the Show

The Cribs–I’m a Realist

Lato–Love in a Heart Shaped Box and Tune In

The Curtains and their Terrifying Story–Love You Everyday and Chain of Daisies

The Velmas–Sun

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