![]() ![]() (And for those wondering, the Yo La Tengo snub was deliberate, too. Tune Sweeper checks for duplicates by comparing the result of an online scan with the current iTunes library. While cutting L7 was easy, trashing the unforgivable Goo Goo Dolls was natural, and losing Radiohead made me chuckle (oh, the hatemail), seeing the dude from Palace sent to the scrapheap made me a little sad until I realized, someday there will be an alt.country list that I can sneak him and Richard Buckner onto! But until then, we’ll stick with this crap. Song Sergeant Alternatives 1 Tune Sweeper Freemium 0 Tune Sweeper is a tool or application that can analyze a Track’s properties to identify duplicate Tracks and remove them from iTunes. I had over 75 bands on this initial list and everyone included had to start in the first half of the 1990s to qualify. (Belle & Sebastian are Scottish.) Somehow, it seems like they should have their own list someday, a place where Pulp and Blur and Oasis can duke it out without a bunch of loudmouth Americans getting in the way. I also short-changed the English big time. And Smashing Pumpkins were ignored because they’re not alternative, they’re Queen. ![]() I did Nirvana the favor of keeping them in the top 10 out of pure crass cynicism. And while I still compromised the list a tad to include bands that sold a few records here - I mean, Beck was a hero to most, but he always seemed a little forced to me- I did manage to put some of my personal faves way higher on the list than any other listening human would. ![]() Because even the best solo performers hire someone to play behind them. This time around I decided to really mess with you. And Fugazi made dull records but managed to put their Marxist anti-consumerist values to the test and stayed true to their ideals until the end. Rancid sounded like the Clash, but much worse. Were Pearl Jam or Stone Temple Pilots or Nine Inch Nails really alternative groups back in the 1990s? I suppose Trent Reznor was scratching out a new sound, and Pearl Jam may have sounded like Blood, Sweat & Tears on “the clear,” but their business practices and general outlook on life once they’d sold 10 million copies of their first album was pretty much a “leave us be” kind of approach. And most of them, regardless of what they sounded like, got marketed as “indie” (even if on a major label), alternative (even if they sounded like the Eagles with distortion pedals), or punk (grab a safety pin and say “Oi!”). With Weezer out with a new album, it reminded us (actually it’s just me, but I talk to myself enough to engage the plural) that there were other bands that also existed in the 1990s. ![]()
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