Back in the early 80’s Xymox aka Clan of Xymox started creating beautiful alternative music. By the mid 80’s we started hearing their songs played on the local college radio stations and after listening to these works of art, we immediately went to the record stores to find them. We had bought the album Medusa and I thought it was the best new, dark and heavenly music I’ve ever heard. Begining with Theme I and ending with Back Door while the record had other tremendous songs such as Louise and my favorite After the Call. The band started on the label 4AD but when Pieter Nooten left the band and were once again Xymox they signed with Wing Records a subsidiary of Polygram. They released Twist of Shadows in 1989, their most commercially successful album to date. They had three singles from the album, Obsession, Imagination and a song that brings me back in time that you can listen to now, Blind Hearts.
The Silversun Pickups are one of those alternative bands I love listening to when I’m driving my car. Their songs seem to get me in that good mood and they sound great loud. Their CD Carnavas is a great one and has an amazing collection of tracks starting with Melatonin and ending up with Common Reactor. All the songs in between are equally as good so lets listen to their hit Lazy Eye below show dates.
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I remember back in the late 80’s, actually it was 1989 when I first listened to Monkey Gone to Heaven by the Pixies. My brother bought the album Doolittle at an alternative record store in New Jersey and when he got home we cranked it up and loved every minute of it. Take a listen below.
You just gotta love Radiohead just by the way the belt out these solid underground alternative dreams of music. I can listen to this track over and over again and never get tired of it. The lp “IN/ RAINBOWS” is a melodic trip deep into your head that one can feel outside of their body.
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In Rainbows
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All I have to say is that Radiohead is incredibly smooth, melodic and that this musical piece of art is somewhat catchy but yet still alternative. Don’t miss this one!
This is a great cover of Kate Bush’s 80’s alternative hit. It’s much different yet still captures the surreal nature of the original. <<:/)
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