dwillisbass

What alternative rock/punk/indie/ metal songs have good basslines?

JakeElson

Airbag, Myxomatosis, Talk Show Host, Exit Music : all Radiohead

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Spaz91

Alternative and Indie are not genres, don't make this mistake again please.

Also this.

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dwillisbass

I agree with you but im not sure what else to call those genres.

Spaz91

You don't call them anything because they're not a thing. Give some example bands, most "indie" is Britpop (instead of independantly produced music) and "alternative means absolutely anything, the guys that tagged the CDs were just damn lazy.

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dwillisbass

Thank you for clarifying that for me. Is rock a more fitting name to explain alternative?

Spaz91

Well it depends which bands you're talking about.

I my Windows Media Player library it has The Cure (New Wave), Depeche Mode (Electro Pop), Pearl Jam (Grunge), The Sex Pistols (crap Punk) and about 100 hours of other shiz they couldn't be bothered to label properly.

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askrere

it's like Nirvana's song Negative Creep is "alternative" and so is Radiohead's song I'm a creep. Very different but considered the same.

That said, Nirvana is great for learning to, especially the Bleach album.

JakeElson

Surely, as soon as people started using Alternative and Indie as names for genres...they became genres?

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Spaz91

Nope.

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JakeElson

Why not? Im not trying to be annoying, genuinely curious

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ChucklesMginty

If someone uses an adjective, and they've conveyed a style or sound to you... I really don't see why it needs to be more complicated than that.

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Spanner93

Anyhoo, some good indie/alternative songs bass-wise

Like eating glass - Bloc Party (Post-punk revival)
Positive Tension - Bloc Party (Post-punk revival)

Shoot the Runner - Kasabian (Britpop)
Club foot - Kasabian (Britpop, Psychedelic)
Butcher Blues - Kasabian (Britpop, Psychedelic)

Here it goes again - OK go (Power Pop)
White Knuckles - OK go (Funk Rock)

And pretty much anything by Franz Ferdinand (Not necessarily the hardest songs ever, but effective basslines (post-punk revival)) and Evertything Everything (reasonably difficult, Indie (Art Rock)). Just goes to prove how all encompassing the term Indie/alternative actually is.

askrere

Franz Ferdinand does have some good stuff you're right.

Spaz91

It isn't because they haven't.

Because alternative is too vague to mean anything at all and indie already has a meaning in music.

Franz Ferdinand are indie as they're signed to Domino, an independant label.
Kasabian are not, they're signed to Sony.

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Robbgnarly

just about any 311,RHCP, Infectious Groves,Rush, Led Zeplin

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Spanner93

That's why Kasabian fall under the ''alternative'' heading.....

Anyway, as Alternative covers virtually every genre, it doesn't make a flying f**k of difference whether it's released on an an Indie label or not.

Spaz91

Alternative to what?

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anarkee

Alternative first was used to describe unknown or underground bands in the 70s and 80s that didn't quite fit the normal playlists of radio (aka corporate, big rock bands like the Stones, Pink Floyd or what is now considered "Classic Rock"). I know I lived through that. Most of what came out on Sire Records was considered "alternative" at some point.

I agree--learn some Radiohead stuff, Colin Greenwood has some great bass lines. And if you want to get a bit more funky--check out Gang of Four. I'll also throw in Fugazi and fIREHOSE.

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