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A gigantic stylistic umbrella for everything from early garage rockers the Stooges to noise artisans Sonic Youth, and from Synth Pop royalty New Order to Postmodern Pop pioneer Beck, the "alternative" moniker was introduced into the mainstream in the early 1990s -- but as an alternative to what? Alternative represented a collision of several genres whose momentum had been building for several decades. Beginning with the artsy, seedy undercurrents of the Velvet Underground in the late '60s, and continuing through both Punk's heyday in the late '70s and the college rock/Post-Punk of the '80s, the groundswell of the underground ultimately broke big in January 1992 when Grunge upstart Nirvana's Nevermind improbably topped album charts worldwide. The brashness of the original Punk movement has played a significant role in forming the attitude and identity of most alternative music of the last twenty years, yet the underground's original scorn of mass acceptance became so diluted in the wake of its ever-growing commercial success, its near-complete metamorphosis into the mainstream was an inevitability in the hodgepodge '90s.
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Title And Registration
Death Cab For Cutie
Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Alternative/Punk
Barsuk Records
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A Movie Script Ending
Death Cab For Cutie
Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Alternative/Punk
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The Sounds of Settling
Death Cab For Cutie
Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Alternative/Punk
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The New Year
Death Cab For Cutie
Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Alternative/Punk
Barsuk Records
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Soul Meets Body (Live)
Death Cab For Cutie
Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Alternative/Punk
Atlantic Records
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Crooked Teeth (Live)
Death Cab For Cutie
Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Alternative/Punk
Atlantic Records
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Death Cab For Cutie Intervie...
Death Cab For Cutie
Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Alternative/Punk
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Brothers On A Hotel Bed (Liv...
Death Cab For Cutie
Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Alternative/Punk
Atlantic Records
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Photobooth (Live)
Death Cab For Cutie
Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Alternative/Punk
Atlantic Records
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Brothers On A Hotel Bed (Liv...
Death Cab For Cutie
Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Alternative/Punk
Atlantic Records
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Soul Meets Body (Live)
Death Cab For Cutie
Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Alternative/Punk
Atlantic Records
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Crooked Teeth (Live)
Death Cab For Cutie
Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Alternative/Punk
Atlantic Records
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Photobooth (Live)
Death Cab For Cutie
Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Alternative/Punk
Atlantic Records
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Suffer Well
Depeche Mode
Synth Pop, Alternative/Punk, Alt Dance
Reprise
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