The Alternative Music Thread

Tom Waits, The greatest of the great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw2MjRcVO4g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I9GqxDA4ac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAx2vMRXskQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6zCmCIsoAE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP3prDBQ9yE

One of my all times favourites!! :clap:

A landmark tune.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6221XuMGFk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9NiDNY7zL8

The bird behind Fever Ray, who had a highly rated album out last year, along with another dude makes up this crowd.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAptF-EN5PI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HNY0rx2fw4
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn4lJqbv7So

note to Imelda May. this is what rockabilly sounds like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXeMhJRwAGY

more genius sub pop music from the early 90s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5m19SF0ync

1.12 - 3.08 of this is just class.

Ireland’s best musician.

Martin Hayes (not the ex Arsenal and Cetlic striker).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96bKIE37gwQ

This comes from Eno’s Apollo Soundtracks album in which he wrote music with space in mind, the galaxy, the universe, infinity.

No beginning to it really, no end, just fades in and out.

Simply one of the most amazing pieces of music I have ever heard.

Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMXaE9NtQgg
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRa_lUdwhXw

This is pretty alternative. The unreleased hit from Daniel O’Donnell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDE_nVJcJ70

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9zTSvEpt_8

Minimalist grooves from France.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfGmoXU2heg

Slowdive wouldn’t be everyone’s mug of tea but they did have their moments to be sure. These are both from the 1991 album ‘Just for a Day’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVY9p1IHops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8_c9BjZEtM

The band tired of their ‘shoegazing’ tag after being dropped by Creation and subsequently morphed into the excellent (now disbanded),
Alt country-esque, Mojave 3

from 1988s ‘Out of Tune’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNiMDYRqgA0

from 2000s ‘Excuses for Travellers’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zauWHGdFTM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9pjnR2DLPA

Yo La Tengo have some top low fi tunes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1whpx9f9XA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSxpC5PSrRQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt5GrQfVlbU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CVSB2cdzhE