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50 Great Alternative Rock Guitars

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

50 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
5:19
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. - Complete Warner Bros. Studios Albums, Vol. 1
3:59
6
Pink Turns To Blue [Explicit]
Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade
2:42
7
Loser (Album Version)
Beck - Mellow Gold
3:55
8
Cannonball
The Breeders - Cannonball
3:36
9
Buddy Holly
Weezer - Weezer (Deluxe Edition)
2:39
10
Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
3:04
11
Stereo
Pavement - Brighten The Corners
3:08
12
How Soon Is Now?
The Smiths - The Sound Of The Smiths
6:47
13
Holland, 1945
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
3:12
14
Psycho Killer (Remastered)
Talking Heads - The Best Of Talking Heads
4:19
15
Blank Generation
Richard Hell & The Voidoids - The Old Grey Whistle Test: Punk and New Wave [Explicit]
2:43
16
Venus
Television - Marquee Moon
3:49
17
Late Night
Foals - Holy Fire (Deluxe Edition) [Explicit]
5:27
18
Mistaken For Strangers
The National - Boxer [Explicit]
3:30
19
Regular John
Queens Of The Stone Age - Queens Of The Stone Age
4:37
20
So Real
Jeff Buckley - Grace (Legacy Edition)
4:39
21
One Armed Scissor
At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command
4:20
22
Only Shallow (Remastered Version)
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
4:17
23
Chasing A Bee
Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam
7:11
24
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Joy Division - The Best Of
3:26
25
Vicious
Lou Reed - The Very Best Of
2:54
26
Kool Thing
Sonic Youth - Goo
4:06
27
Gimme Indie Rock
Sebadoh - Rocking The Forest
3:23
28
Repeater [Explicit]
Fugazi - Repeater + 3 Songs
3:01
29
Tugboat
Galaxie 500 - Today (Deluxe Edition)
3:55
30
Bastards of Young (2008 Remastered Version) [Explicit]
The Replacements - Tim [Expanded Edition]
3:38
31
Pretend We're Dead
L7 - Bricks Are Heavy [Explicit]
3:55
32
Freakin' Out
Graham Coxon - Happiness In Magazines
3:41
33
Rocks [Explicit]
Primal Scream - Dirty Hits
3:35
34
I Am the Resurrection (Remastered)
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses (20th Anniversary Legacy Edition)
8:12
35
Cruiser's Creek
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
4:17
36
Crazy Rhythms
The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
6:12
37
Not Too Soon
Throwing Muses - The Real Ramona [Explicit]
3:10
38
Sheela-na-gig
PJ Harvey - Dry
3:12
39
Headache
Frank Black - Teenager Of The Year
2:52
40
Autumn Sweater
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One
5:18
41
Feed The Tree
Belly - Star
3:29
42
Teenage FBI
Guided By Voices - Do The Collapse
2:53
43
To Hell With Good Intentions
Mclusky - mcluskyism [Explicit]
2:24
44
Gone Under Sea
Electrelane - The Power Out
3:12
45
Equus
Blonde Redhead - Misery Is a Butterfly
3:50
46
Jesus Fever
Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo (Amazon Exclusive Version)
3:46
47
The Fitted Shirt
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
3:12
48
Release the Bats
The Birthday Party - Junkyard
2:31
49
Nothing Ever Happened
Deerhunter - Microcastle
5:50
50
Do You Realize??
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (U.S. Version)
3:33