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krj
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The New Pop Mainstream
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Oct 26 05:14 UTC 1993 |
The Usenet newsgroup alt.music.alternative is now running at approximately
200-300 postings per day, about double or triple that of the other high-
volume music newsgroups.
A Seattle "alternative" band has made the cover of Time magazine, so I hear.
"Alternative" to what? What next?
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hawkeye
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response 1 of 14:
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Oct 26 15:12 UTC 1993 |
"Alternative" is becoming a catch-all for almost *any* band your parents
or older sibling hasn't heard of...
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robh
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response 2 of 14:
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Oct 28 21:46 UTC 1993 |
Yes, it's amazing how all but one or two of the artists I listen to are
described in one place or another as "alternative." Red Hot Chili
Peppers have been around since, what 1984? And now there supposed to be
part of this all-encompassing new movement? As well as Kate Bush, Soul
Asylum, 10,000 Maniacs, etc.?
I guess "alternative" means just that - we can't figure out what it is,
so it must be something else.
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shaymu
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response 3 of 14:
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Oct 28 21:48 UTC 1993 |
They're also calling metal "alternative". I'm getting sick of it.
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sandeep
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response 4 of 14:
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Oct 29 07:27 UTC 1993 |
I continue to be more and more intrigued by bands that eschew traditional
musical elements (melody, harmony etc) and work to lay down interesting
sonic profiles. Often such attempts are boring, but when they work they
fascinate me. I suspect many here will disagree with me, but I still
feel that some of the freshest ideas musically are coming from the rap
scene, with rap as a genre contributing to the breakdown betweenmusic"/
"speech"/"noise."
As we all know, 'alternative' has just become another marketing ploy,
pitching its wares to 19-year-old college sphomores who somehow think that
listening to this twaddle marks them as more mature.
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skeez
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response 5 of 14:
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Nov 4 02:28 UTC 1993 |
Right On.
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scg
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response 6 of 14:
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Nov 8 03:35 UTC 1993 |
It's strange what's happening to alternative. It seems, now, that rather than
just being something different, alternative has taken to meaning cool, and
therefore mainstream. You can see this trend in music, with everybody
listening to alternative music, as well as in other areas. Just look at the
lines at enrollment time outside Ann Arbor's Alternative schools.
What I'm wondering now is how long it will take for people to be lining up
outside Cassidy Lake Prison, "an alternative incarceration facility." ;)
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shaymu
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response 7 of 14:
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Nov 15 00:57 UTC 1993 |
That really sucksadickalickalog
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skeez
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response 8 of 14:
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Nov 15 14:19 UTC 1993 |
heh
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cwb
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response 9 of 14:
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Dec 9 22:20 UTC 1993 |
The thing about "alternative" things is that a lot of people want to
conform, but don't want to get caught doing it. So you see them praising
that new group that gives them the air of having discovered something, never
mind that the rest of us discovered it 5 years ago.
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vidar
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response 10 of 14:
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Dec 15 01:03 UTC 1993 |
Re #3: I thought Heavy Metal had become: Hard Rock. Oh well, the more things
change...
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power
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response 11 of 14:
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Dec 15 16:03 UTC 1993 |
No, heavy metal is the hard rock that you don't like... or that's the
way it usually seems to be used, right now :)...
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vidar
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response 12 of 14:
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Dec 15 22:16 UTC 1993 |
Cool.
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cwb
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response 13 of 14:
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Dec 17 22:51 UTC 1993 |
Except when Jethro Tull won the Heavy Metal Music award.
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davidtg
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response 14 of 14:
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Jan 21 23:31 UTC 1994 |
alternative is synonymous with pop. Whether or not it at one
point had its own identity is something I can't say, mainly
because I never really got into it, however it is clear that
just as in the 60's, everyone wanted to look rebellious like
the hippies and pretend they had good ideas, now that we are in
the 90's everyone wants to think they are a punk rocker or
something or other, thus this trend of people trying to be
different but in effect being all the same.
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