L’alternative rock è un genere di rock nato dalla scena underground degli anni 80 e divenuto ampiamente popolare negli anni 90. Il termine “alternative” fu coniato per descrivere gruppi di ispirazione punk rock con contratti con etichette indipendenti che non si adattavano ai generi mainstream dell’epoca. Come genere musicale, il rock alternativo è molto vasto ed include diversi stili musicali, alcuni più melodici, altri più aggressivi e heavy, ma tutti legati insieme dalla volontà di creare musica al di fuori del mainstream. In questo articolo elenchiamo delle interessanti edizioni in CD e vinile per alcuni famosi album di alternative rock, spaziando dai Radiohead ai Pixies, dai Replacements ai Pearl Jam passando per Smashing Pumpkins e Spin Doctors.
I grandi vinili dell’alternative rock
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Radiohead – OK Computer
01.Airbag 02.Paranoid Android 03.Subterranean Homesick Alien 04.Exit Music (For A Film) 05.Let Down 06.Karma Police 07.Fitter Happier 08.Electioneering 09.Climbing Up The Walls 10.No Surprises 11.Lucky 12.The Tourist
CD VINILEPixies – Doolittle
01.Debaser 02.Tame 03.Wave of Mutilation 04.I Bleed 05.Here Comes Your Man 06.Dead 07.Monkey Gone to Heaven 08.Mr. Grieves 09.Crackity Jones 10.La La Love You 11.No. 13 Baby 12.There Goes My Gun 13.Hey 14.Silver 15.Gouge Away
CD VINILENirvana – Nevermind
01.Smells Like Teen Spirit 02.In Bloom 03.Come as You Are 04.Breed 05.Lithium 06.Polly 07.Territorial Pissings 08.Drain You 09.Lounge Act 10.Stay Away 11.On a Plain 12.Something in the Way
CD VINILEThe Replacements – Let It Be
01.I Will Dare 02.Favorite Thing 03.We’re Comin’ Out 04.Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out 05.Androgynous 06.Black Diamond 07.Unsatisfied 08.Seen Your Video 09.Gary’s Got A Boner 10.Sixteen Blue 11.Answering Machine
CD VINILER.E.M. – Murmur
01.Radio Free Europe 02.Pilgrimage 03.Laughing 04.Talk About The Passion 05.Moral Kiosk 06.Perfect Circle 07.Catapult 08.Sitting Still 09.9.9 10.Shaking Through 11.We Walk 12.West Of The Fields
CD VINILEThe Replacements – Tim
01.Hold My Life 02.I’ll Buy 03.Kiss Me On The Bus 04.Dose Of Thunder 05.Waitress In The Sky 06.Swingin Party 07.Bastards Of Young 08.Lay It Down Clown 09.Left Of The Dial 10.Little Mascara 11.Here Comes A Regular
CD VINILELiz Phair – Exile In Guyville
01.6′1″ 02.Help Me Mary 03.Glory 04.Dance of the Seven Veils 05.Never Said 06.Soap Star Joe 07.Explain It to Me 08.Canary 09.Mesmerizing 10.Fuck and Run 11.Girls! Girls! Girls! 12.Divorce Song 13.Shatter 14.Flower 15.Johnny Sunshine 16.Gunshy 17.Stratford‐on‐Guy 18.Strange Loop
CD VINILEPearl Jam – Ten
01.Once 02.Even Flow 03.Alive 04.Why Go 05.Black 06.Jeremy 07.Oceans 08.Porch 09.Garden 10.Deep 11.Release
CD VINILELloyd Cole & The Commotions – Rattlesnakes
01.Perfect Skin 02.Speedboat 03.Rattlesnakes 04.Down On Mission Street 05.Forest Fire 06.Charlotte Street 07.2cv 08.Four Flights Up 09.Patience 10.Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken?
CD VINILESpin Doctors – Pocket Full of Kryptonite
01.Jimmy Olsen’s Blues 02.What Time Is It? 03.Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong 04.Forty or Fifty 05.Refrigerator Car 06.More Than She Knows 07.Two Princes 08.Off My Line 09.How Could You Want Him (When You Know You Could Have Me?) 10.Shinbone Alley/Hard to Exist 11.Yo Mamas A Pajama 12.Sweet Widow 13.Stepped on a Crack
CD VINILEBlind Melon – Blind Melon
01.Soak the Sin 02.Tones of Home 03.I Wonder 04.Paper Scratcher 05.Dear Ol’ Dad 06.Change 07.No Rain 08.Deserted 09.Sleepyhouse 10.Holyman 11.Seed to a Tree 12.Drive 13.Time
CD VINILEMidnight Oil – Diesel and Dust
01.Beds Are Burning 02.Put Down That Weapon 03.Dreamworld 04.Arctic World 05.Warakurna 06.The Dead Heart 07.Whoah 08.Bullroarer 09.Sell My Soul 10.Sometimes 11.Gunbarrel Highway
CD VINILEThe Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Disco 1: 01.Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 02.Tonight, Tonight 03.Jellybelly 04.Zero 05.Here Is No Why 06.Bullet with Butterfly Wings 07.To Forgive 08.Fuck You (An Ode to No One) 09.Love 10.Cupid de Locke 11.Galapogos 12.Muzzle 13.Porcelina of the Vast Oceans 14.Take Me Down Disco 2: 01.Where Boys Fear to Tread 02.Bodies 03.Thirty‐Three 04.In the Arms of Sleep 05.1979 06.Tales of a Scorched Earth 07.Thru the Eyes of Ruby 08.Stumbleine 09.X.Y.U. 10.We Only Come Out at Night 11.Beautiful 12.Lily (My One and Only) 13.By Starlight 14.Farewell and Goodnight
CD VINILEThe Cult – Love
01.Nirvana 02.The Big Neon Glitter 03.Love 04.Little Face 05.Brother Wolf; Sister Moon 06.Rain 07.The Phoenix 08.The Hollow Man 09.Revolution 10.She Sells Sanctuary 11.Judith 12.Black Angel
CD VINILEWeezer – Weezer
01.My Name is Jonas 02.No One Else 03.The World Has Turned and Left Me Here 04.Buddy Holly 05.Undone (The Sweater Song) 06.Surf Wax America 07.Say It An’t So 08.In the Garage 09.Holiday 10.Only in Dreams
CD VINILEHole – Celebrity Skin
01. Celebrity Skin 02. Boys On The Radio 03. Hit So Hard 04. Malibu 05. Reasons To Be Beautiful 06. Dying 07. Awful 08. Use Once & Destroy 09. Northern Star 10. Heaven Tonight 11. Playing Your Song 12. Petals
CD VINILESoul Asylum – Grave Dancers Union
01.Somebody To Shove 02.Black Gold 03.Runaway Train 04.Keep It Up 05.Homesick 06.Get On Out 07.New World 08.April Fool 09.Without A Trace 10.Growing Into You 11.99% 12.The Sun Maid
CD VINILE4 Non Blondes – Bigger, Better, Faster, More!
01.Train 02.Superfly 03.What’s Up 04.Pleasantly Blue 05.Morphine & Chocolate 06.Spaceman 07.Old Mr. Heffer 08.Calling All The People 09.Dear Mr. President 10.Drifting 11.No Place Like Home
CD VINILECounting Crows – August and Everything After
01.Round Here 02.Omaha 03.Mr. Jones 04.Perfect Blue Buildings 05.Anna Begins 06.Time And Time Again 07.Rain King 08.Sullivan Street 09.Ghost Train 10.Raining In Baltimore 11.A Murder Of One
CD VINILEPixies – Surfer Rosa
01.Bone Machine 02.Break My Body 03.Something Against You 04.Broken Face 05.Gigantic 06.River Euphrates 07.Where Is My Mind? 08.Cactus 09.Tony’s Theme 10.Oh My Golly! 11.(Vamos Intro) 12.Vamos 13.I’m Amazed 14.Brick Is Red
CD VINILEAbbiamo elencato 20 splendidi album di alternative rock che non possono mancare nella collezione di chiunque ami la musica e sia appassionato di questo genere musicale. Per tutti coloro che volessero andare più a fondo vi rimandiamo a una serie di articoli dedicati ai migliori album di alcune delle band qui citate:
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