[30 Day Song Challenge: Alternative Edition] Day 1: An Alternative Song You Like With A Color In The Title

Let's do the 30 Day Song Challenge, alternative music styles! Each day I'll post the challenge and you share some of your favorite songs that meet the challenge!

LET'S GO!

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Red Tide, Neko Case.

https://youtu.be/_D6Y7jd0gX0

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- Yes!! Neko stans rise up!!
  
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  Would cut off my arm for Neko Case.
  
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You Am I - Purple Sneakers

https://songwhip.com/youami/purple-sneakers

Classic Aussie indie rock.

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- An even better candidate...
  
  Eskimo Joe - Black Fingernails, Red Wine
  
  https://songwhip.com/eskimo-joe/black-fingernails-red-wine
  
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Blackstar - David Bowie

Blue in Green - Miles Davis

Pink Moon - Nick Drake

Pink + white - Frank Ocean

Yellow Ledbetter - Pearl Jam

Tangled up in Blue - Bob Dylan

Sorry if these aren't "alternative" still trying to figure out what that really means but I'm not sure I'd call any of these inside the modern mainsteam.

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- Pink moon, pink and white, and yellow Ledbetter are all songs I love on various playlists of mine. I'll have to give the other songs you suggested a listen!
  
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Here's two with the color pink! First from one of my favorite bands.

Pink Rabbits - The National

Second one is probably not considered alternative but whatever I like it because it's basically an Andre 3000 song.

Pink Matter - Frank Ocean (feat Andre 3000)

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Ill give you 4 colours.

Purple Yellow Red and Blue - Portugal. The Man.

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Does psy trance count as alternative? Infected Mushroom - Pink Nightmares (E: link to the better, extended version I thought I'd linked in the first place)

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- Bonus track - Infected Mushroom The Legend of the Black Shawarma
  
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@ren Goldfrapp - Crystalline Green (2003)

https://songwhip.com/goldfrapp/crystalline-green

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Zwan - Ride a Black Swan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ7550OtqPQ

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Fountains of Wayne - Red Dragon Tattoo

Weezer - Pink Triangle

So many 'blue' songs to choose from....

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Not very alternative, but Nina Simone - Black Is The Color of My True Love's Hair https://youtu.be/NWmCbEbMmeU

will have a think for a better answer...

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- Julian Casablancas "Out Of The Blue"
  
  https://youtu.be/8v80mo75vB4
  
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  Phrazes for the Young is a great album!
  
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Augie March - There’s something at the bottom of the black pool https://open.spotify.com/track/3LClp65ppWEjCrHrnsKiNt?si=Elu8D-7RQSWnw8TQzw_d_w

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- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Blacktop https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BE6A4TGZ-dE
  
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Arctic Monkeys - Red Light Indicates Doors are Secured
https://open.spotify.com/track/56GFlp1dkt7dw56pQdTwqW?si=e5ec666e768a4db7

(a reference to):

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Bleu Nuit from Timber Timbre. Awesome "noir" ambience from a great unique band.

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Bonnie Prince Billy - Black

https://youtu.be/JBODtb9vLhM

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Animal Sun - Girl in Blue

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Pink Diamond - Charli XCX

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Not sure it this really qualifies as alternative? But I've recently been enjoying Ilsey's Heart of Gold cover. Nice to see more collabs of her and Justin Vernon.

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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - the Sara Bareilles cover: https://youtu.be/Ozd2ja7mAgM

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TL;DR: I hate picking one. But if I had to, it'd probably be Black Car by Beach House.

Link to the Spotify Playlist. Depends what you define as alternative! Here's what I found in my Spotify likes that one could argue are alternative (I've starred are my top faves):

⭐ Black - Pearl Jam (please listen to the MTV unplugged version if you haven't yet)
Blackest Bile - Giles Corey
⭐ Blackberry Stone - Laura Marley
Black Swan - Thom Yorke
⭐ Black Car - Beach House
Black Cadillacs - Modest Mouse
Blackout - Muse
Black Rain - Soundgarden
⭐ Black Star - Radiohead
Waving A White Flag - The Smile
White Cyclosa - Boards of Canada
Red Right Hand - Arctic Monkeys
Ruby - Tweaker, Will Oldham (a bit of a weird one)
⭐ Ruby Pool - VOLA (alternative rock electronic stuff what genre even is this???)
⭐ Cherry-coloured Funk - Cocteau Twins
Cherry - Chromatics
Pink Funeral - Beach House
Pink Moon - Nick Drake
⭐ Peach Pit - Peach Pit
⭐ Tangerine - Frank Sativa
Amber - 311
Gold Guns Girls - Metric
I Love You Golden Blue - Sonic Youth
⭐ Green Green Grass Of Tunnel - múm
⭐ Turquoise Hexagon Sun - Boards of Canada

Some stuff I can't say is alternative but I love enough to mention:

Big Black Car - Gregory Alan Isakov (Folk)
Black Leaf - John Paul White (that's a twofer! Folk)
Black Sands - Bonobo (downtempo electronic? I dunno)
Red Summer - Thornhill (metalcore)
Vermilion, pt. 2 - Slipknot (this is acoustic, not what you might think as slipknot)
Flamingo - Kero Kero Bonito (don't judge)
Bright as Yellow - The Innocence Mission (indie folk)
Aquamarine - The Afterimage (metalcore, this song very much not metal though)
Blue Ridge Mountains - Fleet Foxes (indie folk)

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- so much Black, but no Black Hole Sun? ;)
  
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  Gosh I knew I was missing something. I have a lot of songs missing in my liked songs on Spotify because I'll add them to my playlists but forget to like them. I'll try to remember to add it, thanks!
  
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red thread - lisa germano

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- quite interested to know if you can get a good full rainbow going:
  
  r - red sky - pere ubu
  o - the orange county lumber truck - mothers of invention
  y - yellow country teeth - cyhasy
  g - buckingham green - ween
  b - blue boy - orange juice (double points?)
  i - indigo - moloko
  v - violet - hole
  
  finish off with the rainbow by talk talk for good measure
  
  might also sneak pink glove by pulp in just before red.
  
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- I'm keeping with my first choice, but it might be interesting to to pick a colour.
  (blue is illegal, black/white is also too common and not proper colours )
  
  here's some more red - so i might stick with red overall:
  
  blood red bird - smog
  murder in the red barn - tom waits
  my lips are red - st vincent
  brick is red - pixies
  my left red eye - worm is green
  red sky - acoustic ladyland
  
  if acoustic ladyland is permissable, then i might get away with:
  red clay - soil and pimp sessions
  
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blue - fyc

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Pink Cigarette - Mr. Bungle

Red Flag - Billy Talent

Blue Monday - New Order

Blue Orchid - The White Stripes

Nights in White Satin - The moody Blues

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I'm surprised no one dropped this one.

Paint it, Black - Rolling Stones

https://youtu.be/170sceOWWXc

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Bad Religion - The Gray Race (debatable if alternative, though)

https://youtu.be/hgIS39pUGZA

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- Oh BR is def alternative. Never really got near the mainstream!
  
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  You might be right. It's just in case of punk rock bands those are a very well known one. Well at least they were in the 90s.
  
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