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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ren@lemmy.world to c/alternativenation@lemmy.world

DAY 2 of the 30 Day Song Challenge, alternative music styles!

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

One may be the loneliest number, but this community is nearly 2000 strong!

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[-] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

I mean, Song 2 by Blur.

Made to make fun of grunge and instead made a banger of a grunge-ish song.

[-] ren@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] Andjhostet@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

I'll see if I can count to 10

One Week - Barenaked Ladies

Two Worlds Apart - Little Sims

Three Little Birds - Bob Marley

Four Out of Five - Arctic Monkeys (two for one)

Six Blade Knife - Dire Straits

Seven Nation Army - White Stripes

Eight Miles High - The Byrd's

N95 - Kendrick Lamar (couldn't think of a better "9" song)

Ten Years Gone - Led Zeppelin

[-] tuckerteague@mastodon.social 2 points 1 year ago
[-] Andjhostet@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

How could I forget my girl Dolly, I love that song. Thanks.

[-] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago
[-] misericordiae@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And another excellent song from the same album: Smashing Pumpkins - Thirty-Three

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

Beat me to it.

[-] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Two princes - spin doctors

I had to.

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

spin doctors. so alternative and not mainsty pop at all.

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

should ban you for putting that in my head! lolol

[-] jasep@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

3's & 7's by Queens of the Stone Age

[-] calhoon2005@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago
[-] ren@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For me:

Jill Scott “One is the Magic #”

Grizzly Bear “Two Weeks”

Bright Eyes “Four Winds”

Here’s 15 songs with numbers in order for our 15th anniversary! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7o3o0pqUg0i9mSqq6PrA59?si=RY43pXFcR-K_JMvxgO9dBg

[-] kvn@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

The first thing that came to mind is

15 Step - Radiohead

A couple others that came to mind that people might not know.

5 years time - Noah and the Whale

1878 - The Dear Hunter

Thirteen Hours - Andy Shauf

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

Speaking of Andy Shauf, have you listened to Foxwarren?

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

I have! I do like them too but not as much as Andy Shauf's solo stuff

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

I love the Foxwarren album but have only listened to pockets of Andy's stuff. Any recommendation of where to jump in?

[-] kvn@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

The Neon Skyline is my favorite of his and also the first album I heard from him. The Party is also pretty good. Both are concept albums so I would recommend listening to them straight through.

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

Thanks, will give them a go!

15 step is so good

[-] w2tpmf@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I'm surprised no one has said "One". I guess Metallica's global fame is starting to fade.

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

Probably the only Metallica song I ever liked - got to be coming up on nearly 40 years old at this point, eh?

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

I’m not the first person to post 2112, am I?

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

I thought about it. It's an absolutely epic and essential song for any classic rock or prog fan. But I felt that it fell outside of alternative

[-] CarlsIII@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, oops, I misread the title

[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago
[-] DessertStorms@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bonus tracks:
Infected Mushroom - 9%
Infected Mushroom & Matisyahu - One Day
Ooh, and also Infected Mushroom - After 1000 Years

E: yes there is a theme, my autistic brain found something it likes and we're sticking to it lol (I do enjoy loads of other music, but if I need to choose to put something on, it'll always be IM)

[-] dr_scientist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Someone beat me to Four Winds but ...

40' - Franz Ferdinand

504 - Old 97s

1970 In Aspic - Robyn Hitchcock

2 Time - Architecture in Helsinki

and an old number-based favourite:

88 Lines About 44 Women - The Nails

[-] Pietson@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh wow. I love this. Thanks for sharing.

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

Blind Melon - Three is a Magic Number - surprised this didn't get mentioned sooner.

Elliott Smith - Thirteen - Sure, I could have gone with a Smith original, but I love this version of Thirteen.

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

17 Crimes -AFI

25 or 6 to 4 -Chicago

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

oh man you got me with chicago. that bass.

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

Quite a good cover version of that was done by Bruce Foxton , former bassist from The Jam, only made it as far as a B side though.

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

That was pretty decent, thanks for the rec

[-] Waluigi@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Forty Six & 2 - Tool

Sixteen Saltines - Jack White

Eighties - Killing Joke

O.N.E. - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

The Four Horsemen - Aphrodite's Child

I have a few more songs with one in it but I don't think they mean it as a number, like "We are One" by Buckethead feat. Serj Tankian (very interesting music video)

[-] FullOfBallooons@leminal.space 2 points 1 year ago
[-] Anrky@mstdn.social 2 points 1 year ago
[-] unexplaineditem@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

46 & 2 - Tool

[-] bobotron@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago
[-] 257m@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago. It a 3 in one.

[-] FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] oo1@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

is leonard cohen alternative ?

chelsea hotel #2

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

I’d argue yeah! his music has never been mainstream - only covers of his music lol

[-] DaSkinny1@newsie.social 1 points 1 year ago
[-] N4CHEM@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Late to the party with a Spanish song:

Standstill - Poema n° 3 (Spotify, Tidal, YouTube Music)

[-] useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago
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