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Alternative Nation: The Fediverse's Alternative and Indie Music Community

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Alternative Nation : The Fediverse's largest alternative and indie music community! All things alternative music, from 80s college rock to today's indie and all the amazing alternative music in between. Welcome home, music nerds!

Some of y'all may remember MTV's Alternative Nation or 120 Minutes, awesome programs & incredible ways to discover #music back in the 80s & 90s...

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One of my favorite songs from them.

[โ€“] ProfessorZhu@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love this song but my wife somewhat ruined it for me by pointing out this line

"Honey, it's your son, I think I borrowed just too much We had taxes, we had bills, we had a lifestyle to front And, tonight, I swear I'll come home and we'll make love like we're young"

[โ€“] CobaltLion@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think the line is supposed to be "Honey, it's your SUN..."

[โ€“] zaph@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Indeed. He sees himself as the center of her universe and the reason she's able to exist and maintain her lifestyle.

[โ€“] ProfessorZhu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Literally every version of the lyrics has it as son

[โ€“] krzschlss@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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The first single from American Electro-Pop band Passion Pit's sophomore album, Gosammer, finds singer Michael Angelakos singing of family financial struggles, including an immigrant relative selling flowers outside Penn Station. "It's about very specific family members, the male hierarchy, and how the men in my family have always dealt with money," he explained to MTV News. "I've always been really fond of a lot of my family members and not so fond of others. All these men were very conservative; socially very liberal but for some reason, they all came here for capitalism, and they all ended up kind of being prey to capitalism. And I'm not making any political statements or anything, but it's ironic and it's sad."

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