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[30 Day Song Challenge: Alternative Nation Edition] Day 13 - A song you like from THE 70S! (lemmy.world)
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DAY 13 of the 30 Day Song Challenge, alternative music styles!

When music started getting WEIRD which led to the awesome 80s College Rock years - the 70s!!!

Each day I’ll post the challenge and you share some of your favorite alternative & indie songs that meet the challenge!

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[-] ren@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I mean, some absolute gems in this decade from Bowie, Krafwerk, Roxy Music, Talking Heads.... god damn.

But for me, as a huge Violent Femmes fan, finding Velvet Underground was so important. Which song though??? tough choice, but let's go with an absolute classic that I listen to on the reg: "Pale Blue Eyes" https://youtu.be/KisHhIRihMY

[-] perishthethought@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

All my favorite bands point back to the VU - Alex Chilton, REM, Yo La Tengo, and on and on. They were cooler than cool.

[-] ren@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yep! There was a saying once about VU were single handedly responsible for a bunch of bands. Violent Femmes too!

[-] useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey! Ho! Let’s Go!

[-] ren@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

YES!

[-] cordillera@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Needles In The Camel's Eye by Brian Eno

Elements of this sounds extremely early 90s alternative to me. He was so ahead of his time.

[-] hellfire103@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

"Jocko Homo" by Devo

[-] krzschlss@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pere Ubu - Nonalignment Pact (1978)

or the whole 'Unknown Pleasures' album by Joy Division...

[-] AcornCarnage@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

New York Dolls - Personality Crisis

What a great frigging decade.

[-] useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It’s unreal how much there is to choose from. All legendary.

[-] ren@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

musically, a super critical one too!

[-] regular_human@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can - Vitamin C (1972)

[-] philip_the3rd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Beat me to it 😂! Essential song.

[-] kvn@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

There's so much I want to mention but I've managed to narrow it down to a few things.

My dad is a big fan of Yes so here's a track that I heard a lot when I was a kid and still love today.

Roundabout - Yes

As an adult I've made some effort to dig into the stuff I missed out on from previous decades. I recently "discovered" Lou Reed and love everything he's done.

Walk on the Wild Side - Lou Reed

And finally I want to bring up Brian Eno's contributions to ambient music. No specific track but I love his albums Another Green World and Music for Airports.

[-] ren@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Roundabout is amazing, Fragile is a fave, but Close To The Edge is where my heart will always be...

[-] mrlee@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Discovered Black Devil Disco Club this month through a friend. Great Stuff.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BbVHOz6wIl4

[-] nhombrenovalido@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Queen -All Dead, All Dead

[-] oo1@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

this is too hard to choose . . .

patti smith, horses LP side 2 track 3 i think it is,

the long medley one that recalls other stuff on the album.

[-] FlanFlinger@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

999 - Emergency

[-] cordillera@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Why did a Girlschool song start playing in my head? 🤔

[-] FlanFlinger@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Because you have excellent taste in music perhaps

[-] cordillera@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

oh lmao "nine nine nine emergency" is the chorus to Girlschool's Emergency. Silly British musicians feeling obligated to use the actual emergency number.

I've never heard of 999 before, this is a great track! It has more melody than I was expecting.

[-] perishthethought@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

For all the crap on the airwaves, this decade still had a ton of great music. For instance....

https://youtu.be/TUxFQ5QBiYk

[-] deadh34d@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come

https://youtu.be/MOeOC16Jm9g

A fantastic band that I never see people mention in these kinds of threads.

[-] CmndrShrm@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Kraftwerk - The Robots

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