[30 Day Song Challenge: Alternative Edition] Day 3! An Alternative Song You Like That Reminds You Of Summer 😎

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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!

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Crying Lightning - Arctic Monkeys

Not sure why but its got a strange summer vibe for me.

Don’t get much better than LEN’s “Steal My Sunshine” for my money!

https://youtu.be/E1fzJ_AYajA

@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 😅

The War on Drugs - Suffering

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.

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.

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