What are the best alt rock songs of all time ? of 2009?

Anything by Pearl Jam

Wolf Like Me by TV on the Radio (2006)

Reckoner

Just about anything from the new Muse. To name a few, though, “Exogenesis : Symphony Part I (Overture)”, “Uprising”, “Exogenesis : Symphony Part III (Redemption)”

My Body is a Cage (Arcade Fire)
Wake Up (Arcade Fire)

just naming a few :)

The Verve – “Sonnet”

Here is a playlist I enjoy:

Minus the Bear – Ice Monster
Brand New – Fork and Knife
Circa Survive – The Great Golden Baby
Dredg – Ireland
Vampire Weekend – Walcott
The Whitest Boy Alive – Fireworks
Bloc Party – Like Eating Glass
Glasvegas – Geraldine
Band of Horses – Detlef Schrempf
Silversun Pickups – The Royal We
Thrice – In Exile
No Knife – Red Bedroom
Secret and Whisper – Werewolves
Arctic Monkeys – Dance, Little Liar
Manchester Orchestra – Wolves at Night
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Runaway
Muse – Ruled By Secrecy
Great Lake Swimmers – Your Rocky Spine
Pinback – Devil You Know
Revis – Caught In The Rain

@jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities nice playlist

Use Somebody by Kings of Leone
New Fang or Elephants by Them Crooked Vultures.
Uprising by Muse.
Daylight by Mat & Kim.
Fixer by Pearl Jam.
5 years time by Noah and the Wale.
1901 by Phoenix.
Viva La Gloria! by Green Day.
Spaceman by The Killers.

muse, pearl jam, radiohead, weezer…

Ooh, The Dears – Lost in the Plot

And the grandaddy of alt-rock songs, R.E.M. – Radio Free Europe I like this version from Eponymous. Punkier.

You know what? Just get your friend Murmur. I’m dead serious. I heard this album at 12 and it changed my life.

old green day and offspring and blink182!!!

thanks, i really like these thanks for the help! @aprilsimnel yeah i’ve loved rem since i was a kid too and @jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities you never fail to deliver

I would like to answer, but am wondering what you, @trailsillustrated, define as alt rock. I don’t want to give you songs that don’t fit the genre!

@TheNimrod, I was going to give you lurve, but Kings of Leon is so overplayed on my home town’s radio station. Sigh.

@evegrimm – silversun pickups, cage the elephant, etc and all the stuff @jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities and everybody said- it’s sort of a mix of old and new, all our old favourites and then stuff I listen to now and stuff from our childhood (Im puttin ny dolls on there and iggy and really old stuff too) its for my sis and bff so I would really like help from you, @evegrimm, too if you want, this is music for days….. thanks everbody

As long as you “stretch” your definition of alt rock… :D

Ratatat is good. I love their El Pico and Seventeen Years. Similar to Ratatat is Deastro, but they are more video-game inspired. Light Powered.

I like Coldplay and Death Cab, but they are a bit “slow” for some people. Death Cab’s most recent release, The Open Door is all great stuff, especially Little Bribes, I Was Once a Loyal Lover and My Mirror Speaks.

Anything Cake would be amazing. As are Daft Punk.

I will think about it and add more if I can think of anything!

Cage the Elephant
Muse
The Killers
The Mars Volta
Death Cab for Cutie
Puscifer
Franz Ferdinand

I’ve been wanting to compile an “unexpected covers” play list for while. Things like Alien Ant Farm doing Smooth Criminal, Rivethead doing Bringing Sexy Back, Love Rollercoaster by the Chili Peppers, Word Up by Korn, Land of Confusion by Disturbed, Hey Ya by Obadiah Parker and Hurt by Johnny Cash.

@syz yess! I looove obadiah parker!! these are sooo good thanks people

Ok, here goes round 2 – without using any of the artists from before:

Heavens – Leave
Eye Alaska – I Knew You’d Never Fly
Against Me! – Don’t Lose Touch
Klaxons – Golden Skans
Coheed and Cambria – Feathers
Ghostland Observatory – Midnight Voyage
Anberlin – Paperthin Hymn
Cold War Kids – Hospital Beds
Rubyhorse – Fell On Bad Days
The Dandy Warhols – The Last High
Fleet Foxes – Your Protector
Strata – Coma Therapy
Interpol – C’mere
My Morning Jacket – Touch Me I’m Going To Scream Part 2
The Kooks – I Want You Back
Pearl Jam – Amongst The Waves
Right Away, Great Captain! – Memories From A Shore

you are a prince among men. I love caheed and cambria. the kooks! yes ! such good music thanks a bazillion

@evegrimm thankyou! i forgot about cake… superb