[30 Day Song Challenge: Alternative Nation Edition] Day 18 - An alternative song from the year you were BORN! 👶

DAY 18 of the 30 Day Song Challenge, alternative music styles!

Oh my, time to show our ages for reals, I guess. WOOF! Time to pick an alternative song you love from the year you were born? Does alternative even go that far???? lol REEEE!!!

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

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Goodness...
This was hard. I'm a bit older now, grew up on 80s college rock and all that, but I'm Gen X so you know that means my birth year was a bit early for alternative-alternative. But let's go with:
Tom Waits - Hope I don't fall in love with you (1973 WOOF) https://youtu.be/EtLVXBqfqBY?si=49RWc51XP_tPXRqK
- I fell madly in love with this song earlier this year. It's SO good. The 10,000 Maniacs version is great too.
  
  Oh, I bet!!!

This is actually tough for me. I was born in a stellar year for alternative music: 1988. Do I go with Pixies? The Sugarcubes? My Bloody Valentine? Jane’s Addiction?
Ultimately, my choice is one of my favorite bands.
Sonic Youth - The Sprawl
- ya lucky basterd!!!
  
  Lol well I’d actually argue you were the luckier one. You actually got to experience 1988, I don’t remember any of it

The Runaways - Cherry Bomb
A bunch of good ones from 1976 - Ramones, Lou Reed, Modern Lovers, Tom Waits, Blondie ... But I've got two girls who have both been obsessed with Joan Jett at various times, so we'll go with The Runaways.
- Ooo!! nice! Also, love passing on great music to my kids. Their music taste now is awesome and eclectic af!
  
  It's the best. When it works. 😄 One day, my teen is lamenting that no one her age knows Otis Redding.
  The next, I put on The Postal Service and she says "This sounds like that Fireflies song..." So I start my diatribe about how that guy just ripped off TPS sound and so on, and she just goes "and they're both bad." Right after I invited her to go see them with me!

The Damned - Smash it Up (1979)

All the Young Punks - The Clash

I don't know if this is alternative, but Faye Wong's cover of The Cranberries' "Dream" called 掙脫 from her album Sky. Released in 1994, same as me. The first one is the Mandarin version, this is the Cantonese version. She is a native Mandarin speaker. PS. I don't speak Chinese despite the courses I took. 😅

I guess this makes me ancient, but here goes nothing: Blondie, Hangin' on the telephone .
- it ain't easy being old, but hey, we got some great music for our teenage years!

Welp, TIL that some absolute classics came out in 1993! Hard to choose, but I’m gonna have to say Creep by Radiohead.

Killer Pussy - Teenage Enema Nurses in Bondage
https://youtu.be/e5ep8jp2zkQ?feature=shared

1982 - The Clash - Rock The Casbah
https://youtu.be/bJ9r8LMU9bQ?si=LcMjAjbJgVk746yY

Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)

I was born in 85. The same year Simple Minds dropped Don't You (Forget About Me) and Tears for Fears released Shout.

I bet this sounded quite alternative back then
if not
something for the gatekeepers of AlterNAtiVe rOCk musIC
- Oh dang! LIZA! In it's own way, yeah, right? Maybe not at the time, but definitely in hindsight, she's always been a bit alternative to everyone else in her genres lol
  
  I’d say it qualifies. Since I first saw this performance I’ve always been fascinated by it. Her voice and acting in this is rather hypnotizing. I just never liked the composition, never liked Pet Shop Boys.

Love the original, love the cover.
Devo - Working in a Coal Mine (1981)

Here's a song I like from 1992!
Leave Them All Behind - Ride
Honorable mention: all of Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92

More of alternative metal, but Evanescence - Bring Me To Life came out the year I was born.

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