Sentence examples for alternative songs from inspiring English sources

For another, the music is from alternative songs of the 1980's by the Cure, New Order and the Smiths.

It gives her the chance to slip alternative songs into encounters with mainstream guests but Ezra doesn't play ball and goes down the Kings Of Leon route.

It is also the first song to reach No. 1 on the Hot 100 as well as on three other of Billboard's charts: alternative songs, dance club songs and another for dance mixes on the radio.

Mr. Jollett is capable of strong, relatable imagery — "Changing," a Top 10 single on Billboard's alternative songs chart, feels practically focus-grouped — but he also has a habit of flat-footed overstatement.

There are doubtless those who will disagree – and indeed offer a list of alternative songs drawn from their regular diet of abstruse Krautrock, grime and experimental electronica – but this seems as close as recent pop music has got to a sure thing, the Abba-like glory of its chorus somehow undimmed by X Factor omnipresence.

The Grammy-nominated single "Float On" topped the Alternative Songs chart and stormed music television, while "Ocean Breathes Salty" was Modest Mouse at its catchiest, with willowy guitars and a hard-swung breakdown full of new-millennium moroseness: "For your sake I hope Heaven and Hell are really there, but I wouldn't hold my breath," Brock riffs.

Both success stories underline another major reason for alternative song versions, beyond just helping people have a great dance party.

Manu Chao, born in France but multilingual in his songs, won best alternative song for his "Me Llaman Calle" ("They Call Me the Street").

Gian Marco, from Peru, won the award for best singer-songwriter album, and Carla Morrison, from Mexico, won best alternative album and best alternative song for her second album and its pristine title song, "Déjenme Llorar" ("Let Me Cry").

To make matters worse, everyone had picked cool pop, rap and hip-hop songs, while I had chosen an alternative song that no one else had ever heard of.

Alternative song of the year - Imagine Dragons, Demons.