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🌑 ALT MUSIC MOMENT — APRIL 13, 1973
On this day in 1973, David Bowie released Aladdin Sane in the UK — a record that pushed his sound further into something sharper, stranger, and more unpredictable.
Built on the momentum of Ziggy Stardust, it didn’t repeat the formula…it twisted it.
A moment where style, sound, and identity all shifted at once.
In honour of this electrifying album, we’re turning up:
🎧 “The Jean Genie”
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Still hits with that same swagger, doesn’t it?
#Bowie #AladdinSane #MickRonson #ZiggyStardust #AltRock #AlternativeRock #FORKSTER
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@FatOldAnarchist @lee0969 @NatalieAHood @sineadmcfc @DrBrookeDaniels @AuxComtesse @gunclub_music @GeorgiosMasman2 @NotoldNOJE @mal_onelondon @nikidoog @deborahvanjohn1 @SkamanD14 @Williamson42729 @JBGBs @mikepunk1977 @brunstead @Carolyn_on_X @jillwebb2005 @LynnBenson28 @RoyLlowarch @FleegleJason @LazyStardust5 @Schnitzel63 @blackenrho @VLafora Brilliant stuff!!
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Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles - Official Music Video youtu.be/QVcNfiRWS6U?is… vía @YouTube
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How miserly can a bookmaker be? Only 5 places in the Grand National!!!
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46 years ago
We Gotta Get Out of This Place is Angelic Upstarts second album, released April 3, 1980.
#punk #punks #punkrock #angelicupstarts #oldschoolpunk #history #punkrockhistory
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🖤 ALT MUSIC NIGHT FEATURE
Sisters Of Mercy — 🖤This Corrosion🖤
🎧 Volume Levels Up
youtu.be/aArkIaPqV3c?si…
🌑 A towering gothic anthem — massive, theatrical, and relentless, where choir-driven power collides with dark, driving force.
🔗 the-sisters-of-mercy.com
#AltMusicNightFeature #SistersOfMercy #AlternativeMusic #GothicRock #FORKSTER
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🖤 ALT MUSIC NIGHT FEATURE
The Cure — 🖤A Forest🖤
🎧Turn it up!
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🌑 ALT MUSIC MOMENT — APRIL 8, 1980
A defining breakthrough came for The Cure on this day in 1980, when “A Forest” was released as a single in the UK — becoming their first track to enter the UK Singles Chart.
Taken from their second album, Seventeen Seconds, the song marked a decisive shift into darker, more atmospheric territory — its hypnotic bassline and haunting minimalism laying the groundwork for what would soon evolve into gothic and alternative music’s expanding frontier.
Sparse, eerie, and emotionally distant on the surface — yet deeply immersive underneath — “A Forest” didn’t just chart… it signalled the arrival of a band redefining mood, space, and identity in modern music.
#AltMusicNightFeature #TheCure #AlternativeMusic #PostPunk #FORKSTER
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@rilf07 @jillwebb2005 @nikidoog @Carolyn_on_X @FatOldAnarchist @brunstead @SkamanD14 Spot on again Ralph 👍
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On this day in 1995 No 4 UK Album Chart The Cranberries “No Need To Argue” IMHO their finest album and a very difficult choice for us. I’ll choose “Zombie” how about you? #1990s #TheCranberries @jillwebb2005 @nikidoog @Carolyn_on_x @FatOldAnarchist @brunstead @SkaManD14
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FORKSTER FEATURED ALT TRACK🎧
🎧Turn it up LOUD📢
David Bowie — “Hang On to Yourself”
youtu.be/_igoQ1y3eLM?si…
On April 8, 1973, Bowie opened the Japan leg of his Ziggy Stardust tour in Tokyo at Shinjuku Koseinenkin Kaikan — taking his electrifying glam-era persona to a new global audience at the height of his rise.
#AltMusic #DavidBowie #GlamRock #ZiggyStardust #Japan #BOWIE #FORKSTER
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