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[30 Day Song Challenge: Alternative Edition] Day 1: An Alternative Song You Like With A Color In The Title

Let's do 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!

LET'S GO!

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Andjhostet
kbin.social

Blackstar - David Bowie

Blue in Green - Miles Davis

Pink Moon - Nick Drake

Pink + white - Frank Ocean

Yellow Ledbetter - Pearl Jam

Tangled up in Blue - Bob Dylan

Sorry if these aren't "alternative" still trying to figure out what that really means but I'm not sure I'd call any of these inside the modern mainsteam.

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FeatherConstrictorreply
sh.itjust.works

Pink moon, pink and white, and yellow Ledbetter are all songs I love on various playlists of mine. I'll have to give the other songs you suggested a listen!

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ren (a they/them)reply
lemmy.world

totally, that “cali” sound always has a summery vibe to it, Blue album really captures it well with those fuzzy d-tuned power chords.

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AcornCarnagereply
lemmy.world

True! But I was actually thinking like Blue Monday, Blue (Jayhawks), No Blue Sky, When the Stars Go Blue, Bullet the Blue Sky, and on and on and on. 😀

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oo1reply
kbin.social

quite interested to know if you can get a good full rainbow going:

r - red sky - pere ubu
o - the orange county lumber truck - mothers of invention
y - yellow country teeth - cyhasy
g - buckingham green - ween
b - blue boy - orange juice (double points?)
i - indigo - moloko
v - violet - hole

finish off with the rainbow by talk talk for good measure

might also sneak pink glove by pulp in just before red.

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oo1reply
kbin.social

I'm keeping with my first choice, but it might be interesting to to pick a colour.
(blue is illegal, black/white is also too common and not proper colours )

here's some more red - so i might stick with red overall:

blood red bird - smog
murder in the red barn - tom waits
my lips are red - st vincent
brick is red - pixies
my left red eye - worm is green
red sky - acoustic ladyland

if acoustic ladyland is permissable, then i might get away with:
red clay - soil and pimp sessions

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Downcountreply
lemmy.world

You might be right. It's just in case of punk rock bands those are a very well known one. Well at least they were in the 90s.

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Waluigi
feddit.de

Pink Cigarette - Mr. Bungle

Red Flag - Billy Talent

Blue Monday - New Order

Blue Orchid - The White Stripes

Nights in White Satin - The moody Blues

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FeatherConstrictor
sh.itjust.works

TL;DR: I hate picking one. But if I had to, it'd probably be Black Car by Beach House.

Link to the Spotify Playlist. Depends what you define as alternative! Here's what I found in my Spotify likes that one could argue are alternative (I've starred are my top faves):

⭐ Black - Pearl Jam (please listen to the MTV unplugged version if you haven't yet)
Blackest Bile - Giles Corey
⭐ Blackberry Stone - Laura Marley
Black Swan - Thom Yorke
⭐ Black Car - Beach House
Black Cadillacs - Modest Mouse
Blackout - Muse
Black Rain - Soundgarden
⭐ Black Star - Radiohead
Waving A White Flag - The Smile
White Cyclosa - Boards of Canada
Red Right Hand - Arctic Monkeys
Ruby - Tweaker, Will Oldham (a bit of a weird one)
⭐ Ruby Pool - VOLA (alternative rock electronic stuff what genre even is this???)
⭐ Cherry-coloured Funk - Cocteau Twins
Cherry - Chromatics
Pink Funeral - Beach House
Pink Moon - Nick Drake
⭐ Peach Pit - Peach Pit
⭐ Tangerine - Frank Sativa
Amber - 311
Gold Guns Girls - Metric
I Love You Golden Blue - Sonic Youth
⭐ Green Green Grass Of Tunnel - múm
⭐ Turquoise Hexagon Sun - Boards of Canada

Some stuff I can't say is alternative but I love enough to mention:

Big Black Car - Gregory Alan Isakov (Folk)
Black Leaf - John Paul White (that's a twofer! Folk)
Black Sands - Bonobo (downtempo electronic? I dunno)
Red Summer - Thornhill (metalcore)
Vermilion, pt. 2 - Slipknot (this is acoustic, not what you might think as slipknot)
Flamingo - Kero Kero Bonito (don't judge)
Bright as Yellow - The Innocence Mission (indie folk)
Aquamarine - The Afterimage (metalcore, this song very much not metal though)
Blue Ridge Mountains - Fleet Foxes (indie folk)

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FeatherConstrictorreply
sh.itjust.works

Gosh I knew I was missing something. I have a lot of songs missing in my liked songs on Spotify because I'll add them to my playlists but forget to like them. I'll try to remember to add it, thanks!

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