playlist

50 Great Alternative Rock Guitars

Bold, boundary-pushing riffs and solos from Pavement, the Pixies, Blur and more.

49 songs (3 hours and 19 minutes) curated by Amazon's Music Experts
1
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Nirvana - Nevermind (Remastered)
5:01
2
Where Is My Mind?
Pixies - Surfer Rosa (Remastered)
3:55
3
Coffee and TV
Blur - 13
5:58
4
I'm the Man Who Loves You
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot [Explicit]
3:55
5
What's The Frequency, Kenneth? [Explicit]
R.E.M. - In Time: The Best Of R.E.M. 1988-2003
4:00
6
Pink Turns to Blue [Explicit]
Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade
2:42
7
Loser
Beck - Loser [Explicit]
3:55
8
Cannonball
The Breeders - Cannonball
3:36
9
Buddy Holly
Weezer - Weezer (Deluxe Edition)
2:39
10
Stereo (Remastered)
Pavement - Quarantine The Past: The Best Of Pavement [Explicit]
3:07
11
How Soon Is Now? (2008 Remaster)
The Smiths - The Sound of the Smiths (2008 Remaster)
6:47
12
Holland, 1945
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
3:12
13
Psycho Killer (2003 Remaster)
Talking Heads - The Best of Talking Heads
4:19
14
Blank Generation
Richard Hell & The Voidoids - The Old Grey Whistle Test: Punk and New Wave [Explicit]
2:43
15
Venus
Television - Marquee Moon
3:49
16
Late Night
Foals - Holy Fire (Deluxe Edition) [Explicit]
5:27
17
Mistaken For Strangers
The National - Boxer [Explicit]
3:30
18
Regular John
Queens Of The Stone Age - Queens Of The Stone Age
4:37
19
So Real
Jeff Buckley - Grace
4:43
20
One Armed Scissor
At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command
4:20
21
Chasing A Bee
Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam
7:11
22
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Joy Division - The Best Of
3:26
23
Vicious
Lou Reed - The Very Best Of
2:54
24
Kool Thing
Sonic Youth - Goo
4:06
25
Gimme Indie Rock
Sebadoh - Rocking The Forest
3:23
26
Repeater
Fugazi - Repeater + 3 Songs
3:01
27
Tugboat
Galaxie 500 - Today
3:56
28
Bastards of Young (2008 Remaster) [Explicit]
The Replacements - Tim [Expanded Edition]
3:38
29
Pretend We're Dead
L7 - Bricks Are Heavy [Explicit]
3:55
30
Freakin' Out
Graham Coxon - Happiness In Magazines
3:41
31
Rocks [Explicit]
Primal Scream - One For The Lad's
3:32
32
I Am the Resurrection (Remastered)
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses (20th Anniversary Legacy Edition)
8:12
33
Cruiser's Creek
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
4:17
34
Crazy Rhythms
The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
6:12
35
Not Too Soon
Throwing Muses - The Real Ramona [Explicit]
3:10
36
Sheela-na-gig
PJ Harvey - Dry
3:12
37
Headache
Frank Black - Teenager Of The Year
2:52
38
Autumn Sweater
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One
5:18
39
Feed The Tree
Belly - Feed The Tree
3:27
40
Teenage FBI
Guided By Voices - Do The Collapse
2:53
41
To Hell With Good Intentions
Mclusky - mcluskyism [Explicit]
2:24
42
Gone Under Sea
Electrelane - The Power Out
3:12
43
Equus
Blonde Redhead - Misery Is a Butterfly
3:50
44
Jesus Fever
Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo (Amazon Exclusive Version)
3:46
45
The Fitted Shirt
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
3:12
46
Release the Bats
The Birthday Party - Hits
2:30
47
Nothing Ever Happened
Deerhunter - Microcastle
5:50
48
Do You Realize??
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (U.S. Version)
3:33
49
Hotel Yorba
The White Stripes - Hotel Yorba
2:12