DAY 3 of the 30 Day Song Challenge, alternative music styles!
Each day I’ll post the challenge and you share some of your favorite alternative & indie songs that meet the challenge!
3…. That’s the magic number!
Vampire weekend!
Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa, nice! Yeah, VW definitely gives summer vibes somehow
Mansard Roof has always felt very summery to me.
Don’t get much better than LEN’s “Steal My Sunshine” for my money!
@ren it’s funny, my former boss was in this video. I have so much respect for Len after hearing the story. They basically knew they caught lightning in a bottle with that song and took a bunch of the labels money and used it to fly all their friends from St Catherines down to Florida to shoot a guerrilla video. No permits or anything, just getting drunk and fucking about on the boardwalk.
Most of the times the label gives them a bill for that stuff and the band has to pay it back in album sales. Hope they knew that 😅
amazing! It’s a super fun album too.
@ren and you are correct, this is the #1 A+ with a gold star summer song
Actually found this harder than expected–most of the songs I associate with summer are the wrong genre, or became super mainstream. But I played this album extensively one summer, and this song in particular has that warm, stuffy evening vibe for me.
They are one of my favorites and I didn’t expect anyone to say that the war on drugs were summer vibes. It’s awesome that people can have such differing interpretations of music.
The Breeders-Saints
Babe rainbow! Beach vibes in the vein of electric acid Kool aid test https://open.spotify.com/track/742oWlfJlZRsX6SA2QLRtD?si=8ogit9ylRK-ixl-o0bss7A
Awesome band. Definitely summer vibes
Feels Like Summer by Weezer. Too on the nose? 😁
Crying Lightning - Arctic Monkeys
Not sure why but its got a strange summer vibe for me.
arab strap - the first big weekend
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Whoops. My bad, wrong challenge thread lol
Minus the Bear - Absinthe Part At The Fly Honey Warehouse
Pretty much the whole album’s a summer-soaked stomper but this one hits me with that nostalgic pang of young love heading somewhere for a romantic summer holiday.
Heat of the Summer by Young the Giant
Is that alternative? Either way, that song was released during the summer of 2018 and I couldn’t stop listening to it.
if it ain’t mainstream! ;)
The writhing south - Say Anything. I dunno man. Makes me happy! https://open.spotify.com/track/6NCjnGKa1Nj6blTwdnaNab?si=nzMqzh8sSg-Z5p9MOU5mYw
that’s all that matters!
Usually struggle with picking just one for these but it has to be Hunnybee by Unknown Mortal Orchestra. Sunny days and smiles are all I get from this song!
Edit: Okay I lied about picking just one, there’s also L.S.D. by Skeggs. Can’t go wrong with a “woohoo” and “so I’m just gonna enjoy the sunshine” for summer lyrics.
20ish years ago I made a mixed cd for a bunch of friends when we were working at a summer camp. This song was dedicated to my best friend who lived just outside DC.
Smart Went Crazy - d.c. will do that to you (1997) https://youtu.be/PZTSIIhwi_A
Can I believe you by fleet foxes!
most of that album actually, for some reason it makes me think of summer.
ooo! great one!
Supergrass - Alright (Spotify / Tidal / YouTube video / YouTube Music). To me this is the sound of summer holidays beginning, forgetting any worries and start enjoying summer
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