Audio by genre alternative

"Anatomic" by Afro Celt Sound System. Celt melodies with African beats. Also Visa Versa. Yeah !

Selections from four Ariel Pink Albums. Chillwave at its best.

Songs of Sorrow, Hope and Redemption by MS MR, Broken Bells, Eagle Eye Cherry, Florence and the Machine, Gene Loves Jezebel, Gwen Stefani, Nico, Zoo Brazil, Momoland, AOA, ChoA & Iron.

Melancholy alternative songs for a cold & snowy Ohio Sunday. Go back to bed with some hot chocolate and this podcast. Stay there till spring. Pearl Jam - Jeremy (Live Version), Lana Del Ray - Music to Watch Boys By, Layla - Smokestack, LimpBizKit - Home Sweet Home / Bittersweet Symphony, Lynyrd Skynyrd - That Smell, Lissie - Bad Romance, MGMT - Electric Feel, Michael Andrews and Gary Jules - Mad World, New Order - Age of Consent, Nick Cave - Jubilee Street, Paul Cole - Where have all the Cowboys gone ?

Composer and Producer Linda Perry presents original tracks from her 2005 album entitled "In Flight."

"Adore" by Smashing Pumpkins is a controversial album. Coming after the success of two highly regarded efforts ("Siamese Dreams" and "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness"), it marked a shift into alternative electronica. The mood is dark as befits a band buffeted by divorce, drug addition and line up changes. It is also one of my very favorite Smashing Pumpkins efforts. With heavy musical textures . . . and a heart breaking libretto . . . it is not to be missed.

Music by . . . The Cowsills (Hair), Fleetwood Mac (Tusk), Haddaway (What Is Love), Madness (Our House), Madonna (Holiday), ABC (The Look of Love), Electric Light Orchestra (Mr Blue Sky, Turn to Stone, 10538 Overture), Eagle Eye Cherry (Save Tonight), Edwyn Collins (A Girl Like You) and Eric Clapton (Layla). Guilty Pleasures? Hells Yeah . . For The Love of God . . . Get these songs . . . OUT OF MY HEAD . . . ! ! !

Alternative Anthems . . . the soundtrack of your emotional life. Peter Gabriel - "Games without Frontiers", Oasis - "Wonderwall", Richard Durand - "There is Hope", Badly Drawn Boy - "Something to Talk About", Red Hot Silly Peppers. . . I mean Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Snow", Metric - "Help I'm Alive", Florence and the Machine - "Drumming Song (live)", Smithereens - "Behind the Wall of Sleep", ChoA & Iron - "Don't Be Shy", Peter Murphy - "Cuts You Up", Chameleons - "Second Skin"

SCHOOL FOR BARBARIANS: TV on the Radio - "Wolf like me", Rise Against - "The First Drop" & "Life Less Frightening", Sisters of Mercy - "Lucretia My Reflection", Brooke Candy - "Changes", Amy Winehouse - "Back to Black", AFI - "Miss Murder" & "Bleed Black", Iggy Pop and the Stoogies - "I got a right", G.B.H. - "Diplomatic Immunity", Fiona Apple - "Criminal", Velvet Underground and Nico - "All Tomorrow’s Parties”

This is the final (and perhaps the finest) album by the Alternative Band called "The Cranberries." Bursting on to the Alt/Indie scene in 1993 with their debut album entitled "Everyone Is Doing It, Why Can't We?" their haunting track "Linger" continues to be heavily featured on Alt/Indie Rock radio stations across the world. Today I play my favorite tracks from their final Album appropriately titled "In the End" released in April of 2019, following the death of their lead singer Delores O'Riordan.

Blind but Not Silent. Lamentations for a Friend: Blind Faith - "Can’t find my way Home", Bob Dylan - "Blind Willie McTell", Gaelic Storm - "Blind Monkey", Florence and the Machine - "Blinding", The Who - "The Hawker", The Fall - "Blindness."

Fitz and the Tantrums - “Handclap” and “MoneyGrabber”, Bananarama - “Cruel Summer”, B.o.B. - “Airplanes”, Jungle - “Busy Earn’in”, Mowgli’s - “San Francisco”, Electro Taboo - “Sweetest Taboo Remix”

A Blank Generation and Nothing Since: Richard Hell - "Blank Generation", Ramones - "I don’t wanna go, down to the basement", Psychedelic Furs - "India", Pixies - "Monkey’s Gone to Heaven", Pinback - "3 X 0", Peter Murphy - "Cuts you up", Pet Shop Boys - "What have I done ?", Perfume - "Flash", Natalie Umbruglia - "City", The Mowgli’s - "San Francisco", Iggy Pop - "The Passenger" and "Paraguay", Echo and the Bunnymen- "Evergreen", Kate Bush - "And Dream of Sheep"

Very few people today know about a remarkably talented and idiosyncratic band called "The Blue Nile." While eschewing the spot light they gained the admiration and support of Peter Gabriel and Rickie Lee Jones. Today we offer tracks from "Hats", an album that earned the highest accolades from Mojo, NME, Pitchfork, Q and many other musical/cultural magazines. If you look for hidden gems to impress your audiophile friends . . . . consider this a lucky day.

Superlative. Sublime. Surreal. This afternoon we offer the vocalizations of Nico both with and shortly after her collaboration with the Velvet Underground. Unconventional Feminist Alternative Music from the 1960's backed by Lou Reed, John Cale, Sterling Morrison, Maureen Tucker and produced by some guy named Andy Warhol. Tracks include: "The Fairest of the Seasons", "Femme Fatale", "All Tomorrow's Parties", "Winter Song", "I'll Keep It With Mine" and "Little Sister."

SING THE SORROW: Song List Includes: Nick Drake - "Way to Blue." Walk off the Earth - "Somebody that I used to know," Ms Mr - "Hurricane," Rivers of Delight - "Idumea," AK Dong - "Melted," Nick Cave - "Jubilee Street."

Ode to the Working Class: Bruce Hornsby and The Range - "The way it is", Tupac Shakur - "Changes" Rush - "Working Man", Bruce Springsteen - "Death to my hometown", Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Simple Man"

Brian Eno: Tracks from "Here Come the Warm Jets and Collaborations with Roxy Music and David Bowie. Songs include: Sea Breezes, Here Come the Warm Jets, Be my Wife, Always Crashing in the Same Car, Signals, Needles in the Camels Eye, Baby’s on Fire, By This River (from Life before and after Science), Cindy Tells me, On Some Far Away Beach, Blank Frank, Dead Finks, Some of Them

Songs I Like: 10,000 Maniacs - Because the Night; Patti Smith - Frederick, Jay Chou (Chinese Alternative ) with 2 songs from November Chopin, A Pink - Step (Korean Alt Pop), TV On the Radio - Wolf Like Me, Young Punks - Ready for the Fight, Five Stair steps - O-O-H Child, Four Tops - Bernadette, Word of Mouth Chorus - Idumea, Wolf Parade - What did my Lover Say, White Stripes - Jolene, Weezer - Buddy Holly

Big Voices Volume 2: Stellenbosch University Choir - Let My Love Be Heard & Say Something … I’m Giving Up on you, Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey, Sister Jiang - Red Flags Waving, Tez Cady - Seve & Ivory, Pippin and Ben Veeren - Simple Joys, African Children’s Choir - Sifuni Mungu, Janis Joplin - Summer time, Yusuf Islam (Cat Steven) - Wild World, Western Massachusetts Sacred Harp Convention- Wayfaring Stranger, Mozart - Requiem in D Minor, St Petersburg Philharmonic - Alexander Nevsky, Maude Maggart (Sister of Fione Apple) & Jamie Cullum -Skylark, Nina Simone - Trouble in mind

Return from Exile: Lulileela - Dive & Fantasy (K Pop), A-Yue Chang and Tanya Chua - Heartbroken While Missing you (Mando/Chinese Pop), Depeche Mode - It’s No Good & Shake this Disease, The Cure - Lullaby and Pictures of You, Florence and the Machine - Sky Full of Song, Stellenbosch University Choir - Say Something I’m Giving Up On You, Peter Gabriel - Games without Frontiers and Mercy Street (Live, 9 minute, rare version).

2021 BRAND NEW YEAR: Sting - Brand New Day, Perfume - Cosmic Explorer (Japanese Pop), Girls Day - Something (Korean Pop), The Chameleons - Don’t Fall, Christina Aguilera (vocals) Linda Perry (songwriter) - Beautiful, Sly and the Family Stone - If You Want Me To Stay, Indila - Love Story (French Alternative Pop) , The Shadows - Apache, Miike Snow - Pull My Trigger, Resa - Nothing Else Matters, Bad Suns - Cardiac Arrest, Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come,

Bee Gees REDUX (Dub, R&B, Alt & Metal): “Staying Alive” covered by Martin Carr (Dub Version), “Jive Talking” covered by Myron and E (Kirkwood Groove Version), “Night Fever” covered by The Silver Seas, “More Than a Woman” covered by Tragedy, “Night Fever / More Than A Woman” (Bee Gees from the “One Night Only” Live album), “Emotion” covered by Destiny’s Child, “Emotion” collaboration with Samatha Sang and the Bee Gees, “Nights on Broadway” covered by Candi Stanton, “Nights on Broadway” (Bee Gees from the “One Night Only” Live album), “I Started a Joke” covered by ConfidentialMX (from the Suicide Squad Film soundtrack), “I Started a Joke” by The Bee Gees, “Run to Me” covered by Barbie Hatch, “Run to Me” (Released Jan 8, 2021, collaboration between Barry Gibb and Brandi Carlile), “To Love Somebody” covered by Janis Joplin, “To Love Somebody” by The Bee Gees . . . "Imitation Is The Sincerest Sign of Flatter . . . - Oscar Wilde."

BILLIE ELISH - HAPPIER THAN EVER - BILLIE ELISH - Getting Older, Happier Than Ever, My Future, Goldwing, Lost Cause, Halley’s Comet, Not My Responsibility, OverHeated, Everybody Dies, Your Power, NDA, Therefore I Am, Male Fantasy, Ocean Eyes ('Live' From the Album “Don’t Smile At Me”)

ALTERNATIVE VERSIONS OF ALTERNATIVE SONGS: PETER GABRIEL, NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN & FRIENDS: Signal to Noise - Mercy Street - Red Rain, 3 DOORS DOWN: Kryptonite, SILVERSUN PICKUPS: Kissing Families, LIZ PHAIR: Why Can’t I ?, NAZ: It All Begins - If I Ruled The World. BLACK EYED PEAS: Gone Going, TEARS FOR FEARS: Sowing the Seeds of Love, FLORENCE & THE MACHINE: Addicted to Love

JP Marat and Big Barking Dog present R.E.M: REM - The One I Love - Pretty Persuasion - Discoverer - All the Best - Blue - Shiny Happy People - Orange Crush - Fall On Me - South Central Rain - Losing My Religion (BBC Live Version) - World Leader Pretend (BBC Live Version) - Superman - It’s The End of the World

JP Marat and Big Barking Dog present Some Weird Sin (70’s Alt Classics) : BOB DYLAN - Tangled Up In Blue, T. REX - Telegram Sam (BBC), DAVID BOWIE - Always Crashing in the Same Car & Be My Wife, IGGY POP - Gimmie Danger, NICO (John Cale & Lou Reed - Little Sister, TALKING HEADS - This Must be the Place, BLONDIE - Hanging on the Telephone, BLUE OYSTER CULT - Don’t Fear the Reaper, BRIAN ENO - Needles in the Camels Eye, ROXY MUSIC - Both Ends Burning & All I Want Is You & Sea Breezes, IGGY POP - Some Weird Sin

JP Marat and Big Barking Dog present Lorde’s “Melodrama:” LORDE - Green Light - Homemade Dynamite - The Louvre - Liability, FREIDA - Something Going On, LORDE - Hard Feelings / Loveless - Sober II - Writer In the Day, CLAIRE - Broken Promise Land. LORDE - Supercut - Perfect Places, TORI AMOS - Speaking with Trees, STELLENBOUSCH UNIVERSITY CHOIR OF SOUTH AFRICA - Let My Love Be Heard

JP Marat and Big Barking Dog Present "Complicated": ATLAS SOUND - Walkabout- Mona Lisa, AVRIL LAVIGNE - Complicated, HYPERTRONIC HEART- Run to Me, BROKEN BELLS - Vaporize, BEACH HOUSE - Majorette - All Your Yeahs, BROKEN BELLS - Holding on for Life - October, BRUCE SPRINGSTEIN - Death to my Hometown, CAESARS - Jerk It Out, CITY FLANKER - Love Fever - JUNGLE - Happy Man - Keep Moving

Five different versions of "Nothing Else Matters" from great artist across multiple genres. Also a few other very Alternative covers and original songs. You gotta hear it to love it . . .

SQUEEZE - Is That Love ?, - Another Nail in the Heart, - Black Coffee in Bed, PET SHOP BOYS - Love Comes Quickly, - West End Girls, SQUEEZE - Tempted, - Pulling Mussels from a Shell, PET SHOP BOYS - What Have I Done to Deserve This ?, ABC - The Look of Love, ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN - Evergreen, CARS - Good Times Roll, - Moving In Stereo, -Since You’re Gone

Natalie Merchant newly released album "Keep Your Courage."

Things We Get Right: Punk, Roots, Soul, R&B, Rock. Yeah to all the Beautiful People in the World.

ALANIS MORISSETTE - JAGGED LITTLE PILL and AMY WINEHOUSE - Back to Black, AVRIL LAVIGNE - Complicated, CRANBERRIES - Linger, GWEN STEFANI & AKON - The Great Escape

UNORIGINAL SIN: Marilyn Manson, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Jack White, Jimmy Hendrix, Joy Division, New Order, Sky Saxon (of the Seeds), Nick Drake, Nick Cave.

EMINEM - Stan, DIDO - Thank You, MADONNA - Nothing Matters and The Power of Good-Bye, MOWGLI’S - San Francisco, MATT AND KIM - Good ol’ Fashion Love Song, MS MR - Hurricane, MIIKE SNOW - My Trigger, MICHAEL ANDREWS AND GARY JULES - Mad World, PAPA WEBMA - Yolele, PATTi SMITH - Gimmie Shelter, HOZIER - Take Me To Church, PAVEMENT - The Killing Moon, THE MOODY BLUES - Go Now !

Prospective 2024 American Presidential Contendors Pulled from Classic Rock, Alternative, Punk Rock, Post Punk Rock, Hip Hop, Soul and R&B Genres. What have we got to lose ? There is nothing to win with Joe Biden or Donald Trump.

MOCKINGBIRD (Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flatter): Mockingbird, Love Song, Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft, We Can Work It Out, Teen Spirit, Safe & Sound, Old Man, Life on Mars, Twice

Reimagining (Covers) of Classic Alternative, R&B and Rock Tracks by SIA, Korn, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Pearl Jam, Gaelynn Lee, Brian Ferry, The Commitments, Dishalla, Pixies, No Motiv . . . and other bands all the cool kids know . . .

Amy Winehouse - Back to Black, Collective Soul - December, Edwin Collins - A Girl Like You, Elle King - Ex's and Oh's, Florence and the Machine - Only if for a Night, Fionna Apple - Criminal

Today we present excerpts from the seminal post-punk album "Script of the Bridge" by The Chameleons.