Whatever Happened to Alternative Nation?

[Timothy225]

That's another thing... outside of satellite radio, very few rock/alternative stations in my neck of the woods. Used to rely on 106.3 (WHTG) for many, many years, but they went all pop/autotune and then recently went country. College stations are somewhat reliable, with 89.5 topping 'em all (Seton Hall's Pirate Radio. Some alternative, but mostly metal)

Mad props, again to Iggy for hooking me up to 101.9. Actually heard some Husker Du the other night! You da man, Ig!

[BillyG]

I still listen to Lithium on Sirius (the all 90s alt channel) more than anything else. I actually used to tape 120 Minutes Sunday nights. Hell, listen to most of our stuff and you can see we never left the 90s.

LITHIUM! Yes, totally spaced on the name of the channel. When I first got XM about 4 years ago it was amazing. Lots of Fishbone, Mother Love Bone, Dinosaur Jr, just more of the bands that didn't get so much play. Now they put in late 90s pop shit uuuugh

[Timothy225]

Yeah, I recall seeing one gorgeous blonde sucking down what one would, at first glance, mistake for a rather large Milky Way dark chocolate bar.

Punched out soon after. Gimme that old school porn... Kay Parker, Colleen Brennan, Anette Haven, where'd you all go?

[V]

Ah... German Scheiße porn.

That takes me back.

[Timothy225]

Hey, hey, HEY! The gay porn and scheise mixtapes didn't show up until 2001, Vin! That's at least two career-path changes. And those were on DVD!

This guy over here...

[V]

One cool thing about my first post-college jerb ('89 - '97) was I used to work with a guy named Erik who made weekly gay porn mix-tapes. Thanks to him, I was exposed to a TON of cocks I'd never seen before, even back in college.

Everybody needs a friend like that.

They suuuuuuuuuure do, Tim...

[Chris Miller]

I still listen to Lithium on Sirius (the all 90s alt channel) more than anything else. I actually used to tape 120 Minutes Sunday nights. Hell, listen to most of our stuff and you can see we never left the 90s.

[Abraham Smashington]

Also, been jamming to a sweet cd of Fugazi that was mixed by Steve Albini (as opposed to the studio release) and I forgot how fucking BADASS they were.

[Timothy225]

One cool thing about my first post-college jerb ('89 - '97) was I used to work with a guy named Erik who made weekly mix-tapes. Thanks to him, I was exposed to a TON of bands I'd never heard of before, even back in college.

Everybody needs a friend like that.

[Abraham Smashington]

Sebadoh! OMG. I finally feel like I can add to the music conversation. <3 the 90s.

[Timothy225]

Geez, been far too long since I heard any Dinosaur Jr. Same with bands like Sebadoh, ALL, The Descendants, Black Flag, and until recently, The Replacements.

Really, really gotta start reconnecting to my musical faves. As well as upgrade many of my old cassettes to CDs.

[Abraham Smashington]

Dinosaur Jr. IS fucking AMAZING. Much love. One of my favorite bands.

[BillyG]

Mother Love Bone is fantastic. Really pissed there isn't more of their stuff on Mediafire. Also, Dinosaur JR. gets no love, and they should get TONS. Farm came out like a year ago, and it's incredible.

[Abraham Smashington]

Mother Love Bone...oh how I loved your name when I was a kid.

[Timothy225]

I also don't hear much about Mother Love Bone either. Seconding Green River BTW.