Holy smokes - this seminal compilation is THIRTY YEARS OLD this week!
To understand why this disc is so essential, and so celebrated, I direct you to Stereogum's writeup on it from ten years ago, on No Alternative's twentieth anniversary - can't add a word to this superb summation.
I'll just save my breath, and instead provide you all with possibly the best and timeliest collection of then-rarities and unreleased songs by some of the giants of alternative music of that period. Here's No Alternative, released on Arista Records on October 26th, 1993. Enjoy this great throwback to an interesting and exciting era in modern music, and, as always, let me know what you think.
Thanks for this! I used to have the vinyl all those years ago...
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ReplyDeleteRareties of the Alternative world is right.Many of these greats would be hard to find elsewhere. Great collection. Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI owned this on cassette! Thank you for this gem!
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing! Definitely some gems on this comp!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this! This album takes me back to living in Athens, GA in the early Nineties. First time I ever heard "Sappy" (aka "Verse Chorus Verse") by Nirvana.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for the share along with the quick response! Very cool to hear this one after so many years!!
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot for this!
ReplyDeleteI never heard of this album and have only heard of 6 out of 19 of the performers, but after reading Stereogum's review I had to hear this.
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this and providing an opportunity to learn about new (to me) artists.
Thanks for this. This is a very good album.
ReplyDeleteI own a CD copy of this album somewhere in storage. Thanks so much for sharing it with me again, SPx
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