OPO Indie/Alt Rock Song 1986 to Present

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Keep it rockist!

― Aaron A., Monday, 18 November 2002 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)

drive like jehu - "new math"

― gygax!, Monday, 18 November 2002 21:06 (twenty-three years ago)

'dad, there's a little phrase called too much information,' out hud (terrible title, tho)

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Monday, 18 November 2002 21:06 (twenty-three years ago)

"Kennedy" by the Wedding Present

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 18 November 2002 21:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Fuck. Alex stole mine.

― Yancey (ystrickler), Monday, 18 November 2002 21:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Unrest, "Yes She Is My Skinhead Girl"

― Douglas, Monday, 18 November 2002 21:10 (twenty-three years ago)

"Ghost" by Neutral Milk Hotel - Because it moves me. Physically. In a strange way. He's also got flow. In a strange way.

― Adam A. (Keiko), Monday, 18 November 2002 21:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Replacements, "I'll Be You"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 18 November 2002 21:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Love Child "Cigarette Ash" oR half japanese "1,000,000 Kisses"

― jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 18 November 2002 21:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Rapeman: Budd.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 18 November 2002 21:21 (twenty-three years ago)

"We Dance" P*vemen*

― Aaron A., Monday, 18 November 2002 21:23 (twenty-three years ago)

opium by brother love

― d, Monday, 18 November 2002 21:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I Wanna Be Adored

― Aaron W, Monday, 18 November 2002 21:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Built To Spill, "You Were Right"

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 18 November 2002 21:35 (twenty-three years ago)

"You're The Only One" Mr T Experience

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 18 November 2002 21:45 (twenty-three years ago)

"Take a Wild Guess" by That New Best-Of is Useless Buy Their Fucking Albums (1991)

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 18 November 2002 22:03 (twenty-three years ago)

i like the cut of "YR." jib!

― Aaron A., Monday, 18 November 2002 22:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I Love Me (vol 1) - Lotion

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 18 November 2002 22:15 (twenty-three years ago)

"Take a Wild Guess" by That New Best-Of is Useless Buy Their Fucking Albums (1991)

A song that came out in 1991 by a band with a recent lackluster best-of... I guess that would have to be "Even Better Than The Real Thing"?

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 18 November 2002 22:17 (twenty-three years ago)

'she's a woman (and now he is a man)' - husker du

― angelo (angelo), Monday, 18 November 2002 22:22 (twenty-three years ago)

'she's a woman (and now he is a man)' - husker du

Of all the great Husker Du songs to pick--hell, even all the great ones on that album--I'm baffled. I've always hated that song on the grounds that it's overstated, trite and insincere.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 18 November 2002 22:32 (twenty-three years ago)

The Pixies- Debaser

― Micheline Gros-Jean (Micheline), Monday, 18 November 2002 22:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Pixies, definitely, but the song would have to be "Mr. Grieves".

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 18 November 2002 22:37 (twenty-three years ago)

it's a fuggin' gorgeous song, ian. i've rarely heard rock music bristle with so much energy.

― angelo (angelo), Monday, 18 November 2002 22:49 (twenty-three years ago)

That One Guy I'm Always Prattling On About, "Fuckin' With My Head (Moutain Dew Rock)"

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Monday, 18 November 2002 23:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Of all the great Husker Du songs to pick--hell, even all the great ones on that album--I'm baffled. I've always hated that song on the grounds that it's overstated, trite and insincere.

I could replace HD with the Replacements and wonder the same thing about JBR's pick. That's not a dis, but it's just funny because I never liked "I'll Be You" and I've never even heard anyone say anything good about it.

― Aaron A., Monday, 18 November 2002 23:14 (twenty-three years ago)

(If you're gonna pick a Pixies song, why not kill two birds with one stone and take the cover of "Head On?")

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 18 November 2002 23:44 (twenty-three years ago)

(Hearing "Head On" was actually the moment when I realized there was a connected indie "scene," that the bands I liked actually had something to do with one another, and that I knew enough about the whole thing to be excited when one massively cool band covered a massively cool song by another one.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 18 November 2002 23:45 (twenty-three years ago)

That song is like a best friend to me (along with the Feelies' "Only Life," which would be my second choice for an OPO '86-'02) when I'm bored/depressed/self-pitying. I'm gonna listen to the song again tonight and I'll see if I can come up with a better answer than "blah blah Westerberg weary romanticism blah blah."

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 18 November 2002 23:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Sebadoh's "Brand New Love"

(please don't tell anyone)

― dan (dan), Monday, 18 November 2002 23:46 (twenty-three years ago)

november rain

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 00:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Rodan "The Everyday World of Bodies"

― original bgm, Tuesday, 19 November 2002 00:18 (twenty-three years ago)

not only does 'she's a woman...' get a slagging but 'i'll be you' by the replacements as well?!?! i just don't get it, folks.

― angelo (angelo), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 00:46 (twenty-three years ago)

this is a toughy. I might go with "Cool" by Superchunk.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 00:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I was going to go for a non-Sonic Youth answer but, fuck it, "Shoot" wins this one.

I wonder what Ned's answer is.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

[ha - oops, I read that as 96-present]

― scott pl. (scott pl.), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 02:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Sk8ter Boi. Obviously.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 02:30 (twenty-three years ago)

The Grifters - "Black Fuel Incinerator"

This is very difficult, so I will go with something from left field.

― earlnash, Tuesday, 19 November 2002 03:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Spoon – "Fitted Shirt"

Kind of recent, but I think Spoon rivals Wilco as the best band of the past three or four years.

― Bruce Urquhart, Tuesday, 19 November 2002 03:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Ally is so fired. If she can post that I'm calling 'Take It Or Leave It' by The Strokes.

― Tom Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 03:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Velocity Girl - Forgotten Favorite

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 03:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, fine, be that way. I guess I'll have to pick something sensible. Yes by Manics or Hey You! by Mensen.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 03:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I was actually going to change my answer after I saw your first post.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 04:53 (twenty-three years ago)

If I have to POO, then kill me now.

― jm, Tuesday, 19 November 2002 04:55 (twenty-three years ago)

"an argument for sugar," mike hanle y

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 05:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Splitting the Pixies votes still further.... Monkey Gone To Heaven

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 09:38 (twenty-three years ago)

The Flaming Lips, "God Walks Among Us Now".

― doug (doug), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 09:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Sugarcubes, "Birthday".

― OleM (OleM), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 10:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Cause the qn asked about rock, it has to (at least a bit). Cause the question further asked for 'rockist'. we'll make it an album track. "Debaser" was the first thing that came to mind but it's 'taken'; so...

"Guest Informant" by The Fall.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 11:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I wonder what Ned's answer is.

Oh, far be it from me to disappoint.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 12:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Ooooh so many to choose from!

Sonic Youth - Kissability

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 12:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Field Mice - Sensitive

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 13:30 (twenty-three years ago)

more pixies - broken face

― adam b (adam b), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 13:33 (twenty-three years ago)

"For the Singer of REM" - fIREHOSE

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 13:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I've got the Butthole Surfers on my mind now, so 'Sweat Loaf'.

― James Ball (James Ball), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 13:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot

― toraneko (toraneko), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 13:51 (twenty-three years ago)

heard locust abortion technician before i went to bed last night so 'KUNTZ'.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 19 November 2002 14:25 (twenty-three years ago)

fifteen years pass...

"the rest of the day" - bedhead

― ur-oik (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 21:30 (eight years ago)

"Kennedy" by the Wedding Present
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, November 18, 2002 4:08 PM (fifteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this was mine for a time

― ur-oik (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 21:32 (eight years ago)

CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE - Built to Spill

happy & not at all surprised to see another track from Keep It Like a Secret mentioned upthread 15 years ago

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 22:19 (eight years ago)

Pavement - Gold Soundz

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 22:25 (eight years ago)

Pavement - Summer Babe

― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 22:34 (eight years ago)

East River Pipe - 40 Miles

― Evan, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 22:40 (eight years ago)

Can we do a POX thread for this one?

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 23:01 (eight years ago)

yeah probably need a POX, but the first song I thought of when I saw this thread title was

Archers of Loaf - "Web in Front"

― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 23:08 (eight years ago)

Right answer obv = Superchunk - "Slack Motherfucker"

― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 23:45 (eight years ago)

Breeders - cannonball

― brimstead, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 00:09 (eight years ago)

Sugarcubes, "Birthday".

Wait, no, this

― brimstead, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 00:13 (eight years ago)

itt I admit listening to Babybird lately. 'Back Together' is like his emo bittersweet symphony. sort of a palatable emo because old man voice, not crybaby
I'm not gonna OPO

― Woon... Doopee Time (FlopsyDuck), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 02:14 (eight years ago)

one year passes...

maybe silkworm's "couldn't you wait" acoustic version

― Famous Anus (rip van wanko), Thursday, 26 September 2019 23:27 (six years ago)

^SUCH a great song, that version in particular

Without thinking too hard I'd pick the Breeders - Divine Hammer

― J. Sam, Thursday, 26 September 2019 23:52 (six years ago)

...or Throwing Muses - Hate My Way

― J. Sam, Thursday, 26 September 2019 23:53 (six years ago)

Trail of Dead "Relative Ways" might be mine

― billstevejim, Friday, 27 September 2019 01:19 (six years ago)

the pastels - nothing to be done

― devvvine, Friday, 27 September 2019 11:51 (six years ago)

four months pass...

^ great pick

but feeling "gemini cusp" by polvo rn

― greta van thunberger fleetwig (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 05:52 (six years ago)

Carry the Zero, Slack MFer, or tractor Rape Chain

― calstars, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 13:23 (six years ago)

Built to Spill - Temporarily Blind

― ☮️ (peace, man), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 13:30 (six years ago)

Blue Line Swinger

― are you a fan of i.die music (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 13:31 (six years ago)

Swirlies - Wrong Tube

― Evan, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 15:45 (six years ago)

Oh wait I already went with 40 miles upthread. I can stick with that too

― Evan, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 15:45 (six years ago)

the one I happen to be listening to right now (Dinosaur Jr. - "Start Choppin'") is as good a contender as any!

― handsome boy modelling software (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 20:28 (six years ago)

Unrest - Suki

― sleeve, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 20:44 (six years ago)

Archers of Loaf - Wrong

― Chris L, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 20:48 (six years ago)

carry the zero

― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 20:51 (six years ago)

ask me again tomorrow and i'll pick someone else.

we should do a genre poll.

― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 21:04 (six years ago)

yeah 'Start Choppin' rules!

― calstars, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 21:37 (six years ago)

I feel like the real giants are being looked over for perhaps being too obvious. like "I Wanna Be Adored", "Freak Scene", "Teenage Riot", "Summer Babe", "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (not indie but alt). Am I rong

― greta van thunberger fleetwig (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 22:29 (six years ago)

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