Popular means widely likeable or appreciated. In the case of alternative rock it also means a significant achievement of the stripling procreation in the 80s. Anchored by subversive music of reverse-guitar riffs, military drumming and occasionally black, still consistently rebellious verses, alternative rock environs reveals a new social influence, through the creation of stereotypes and role models, reflecting the need of a substantial audience for more harmonical and inferior chaotic music.

To my view, the most favourite alternative songs ever in the history of music (in alphabetical order) are:

CURE – A FOREST FROM THE ALBUM SEVENTEEN SECONDS (1980)

A Forest was released in the primeval days of what would be later called alternative rock environs and it has offered to post-punk groups a belief to believe in and a causative for further development.

Although the song reached exclusive #31 in the U.K. Singles Chart it one of the most recognizable, rebelliously sad songs that Robert Smith ever has written reflecting the Cure philosophy and sound.