#early alternative

[gottahavesoul]

Pixies - Where Is My Mind? (Surfer Rosa, 1988)

[dopeyjoe]

[ponyboyfaceshopping]

TINA BELL'S HIDDEN LEGACY: THE BLACK WOMAN WHO CREATED THE SOUND OF GRUNGE

In 1983, the Seattle band Bam Bam, fronted by a talented, elegant Black woman named Tina Bell, created a sound and lyrical foundation for a

In 1983, the Seattle band Bam Bam, fronted by a talented, elegant Black woman named Tina Bell, created a sound and lyrical foundation for a genre that white men with knit hats and plaid shirts would later make famous as “grunge.” Bell was backed by husband Tommy Martin and lifelong friend Scott Ledgerwood (“Scotty Buttocks”). Jen B. Larson digs deep into the archives to give Tina Bell, who died in 2012, her props as the uncrowned “Queen of Grunge.”

[glamgothhobbit]

[scarlettintheskyy]

charming men saved me- and make me question everything

Over the past months my whole life has been consumed and enveloped with the stresses of things that I thought mean’t everything to me. Things like school, things like friends, things like boys. 

Today is the first day in the last 7 weeks that I have sat down, all by myself and had entire freedom, of thought and of action. It is the times like this that allow me to truly find myself and see the person that I am and the person that I want to be.

I spent the whole day listening to The Smiths. My favourite musical artists of all time (yes even more than one direction) are The Smiths. Yes. They make sad music AND YES, if I listen to them too much I do fall into a depressive pit. But that is what I love about them. They are truly the only people who have ever been able to touch me at such a great level and make me think, truly thing. I am a sort of dystopia when I feel their music. A sense of fear of the future and of the past. Being an existential person by nature. I feel at home.

I think the reason that I love the music so such is because I love the MUSIC, not the people. I am largely separated from the artists. I couldn’t tell you their names more then Steven Patrick Morrissey and Johnny Marr and thats the purpose of the whole band. ‘The Smiths’ suggests nothing about them.

Though ultimately, superb in meaning. I need remind myself that the writer of these songs was not as I am in his state of mine and I fear that if I read to deep into his words I might be.

[jravenb]

(via https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXdTCdwCKzXwo?si=hwnkEBD_SJWuo79501ohNQ)

I’ve been digging this Spotify playlist this morning. Lots of great music to be had. Take a listen

[esotericcarnage]

Thought she was James Dean for a day