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Alternative Nation: The Fediverse's Alternative and Indie Music Community

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Alternative Nation : The Fediverse's largest alternative and indie music community! All things alternative music, from 80s college rock to today's indie and all the amazing alternative music in between. Welcome home, music nerds!

Some of y'all may remember MTV's Alternative Nation or 120 Minutes, awesome programs & incredible ways to discover #music back in the 80s & 90s...

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DAY 10 of the 30 Day Song Challenge, alternative music styles!

I'M NOT CRYING! YOU'RE CRYING!!!

Each day Iโ€™ll post the challenge and you share some of your favorite alternative & indie songs that meet the challenge!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Phil Elverum from The Microphones and Mount Eerie lost his wife to cancer and then wrote an album about it called A Crow Looked at Me. It is absolutely heartbreaking. Here's the opener from the album.

Real Death - Mount Eerie

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's plenty of sad songs in this thread but this is the "this isn't cathartic it's just devastating" kind of sad that can only come from real, deep, somber, visceral pain

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a great way of putting it. It's devastating and honestly difficult to listen to. But maybe someone needs to hear it so that's why I posted it

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Absolutely, Phil's an incredible artist that doesn't get nearly as much attention as he deserves