"alternative"

Not that it proves much, but I found 51 hits for "alternative music" on a news search engine from 1980-'85, nearly 700 for '85-'90 and "more than 3,000" for '90-'95.

pete - you should ch2eck out the google books ngram thread that jaymc started yesterday. I plotted the prevalence of "alternative rock" vs "indie rock" between 75 and 95, I think.

here's a few cool recent headlines from bold alternative rock music magazine Alternative Nation:

Kurt Cobain's Daughter Shows Off Backside In Hot Coachella Photo
Van Halen Disturbing List of Drugs at Show Allegedly Revealed
Eddie Vedder Has Surprising Reaction to Small Crowd at Show
Slipknot's Corey Taylor Makes Bold Quitting Announcement
Metallica Intimidated Ozzy Osbourne In Front of Famous Actor
Kurt Cobain's Girlfriend Reveals If He Enjoyed Getting Head
Metallica Icon Gross Photo After Using Toilet Revealed
Ozzy Osbourne Disgusting Bathroom Accident Revealed
Steven Tyler Filmed Pulling Down Pants at Aerosmith Show
Kurt Cobain's Daughter Filmed Swimming in Bikini
Gavin Rossdale Reveals Bold Truth About Billy Corgan
Limp Bizkit Make Bizarre Kurt Cobain Joke
Keith Richards Bizarre Shitless Photo Revealed
Van Halen Icon Reveals What He Did With Keith Richards Daughters
Slash Reacts to Michael Jackson Pedophile Accusations
Mick Jagger Brutal Disrespect of Led Zeppelin Revealed
Motley Crue Reveal If They Hated Pearl Jam
Kurt Cobain's Girlfriend Reveals How He Was 'Little Bitch'
Red Hot Chili Peppers Singer Bizarre Haircut Revealed

Shitless?

sorry, typo! should've been "Shit-Smeared"

this drives me mad at stores that still insist on maximizing their genre sections. Other day I noticed Joy Division was in Alt and New Order was PopRocks. what is that?! Did New Order overcome bring Alt?

Nevermind there's also a fkn "Electronic" section!

Spotify have an Alternative 60s playlist which features The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Animals and other obscurities.

OMG, that list is really bad. In what way is France Gall "alternative" besides the fact that she's French? I saw the "alternative 70s" playlist, and clicked on it thinking I'd find obscure German tracks and weird prog rock...but it had all stuff I've heard before, plus Blue Oyster Cult and Pink Floyd.

bet you didn't think anything interesting was still happening in the world of alternative music. well guess what? you were wrong and Brett Buchanan from Alternative Nation is right:

Eddie Van Halen Disgusting Kurt Cobain Bombshell Finally Revealed
Guns N' Roses Icon Reveals Who Sexually Molested Women
Howard Stern Reveals What Really Killed Scott Weiland
Guns n' Roses Icon Reveals Disturbing List of Drugs He Did
Van Halen Icon Massive Bill for Alcohol Revealed
Billy Corgan Reveals Heartbreaking Reason He Gained Weight
Chris Cornell's Widow Emotionally Reaches Out to Billy Corgan
Van Halen Icon Reveals Dark Kurt Cobain Secret
Dave Grohl Makes Bizarre Food Demand at Concert
Kurt Cobain's Daughter Reveals Bizarre Chest Photo
Eddie Vedder Made Bold Remark to A-List Star at Beach
Steven Tyler Finally Reveals If He Dislikes Joe Perry
Corey Taylor Fiance Reveals Slipknot Gay Surprise
Eddie Van Halen Emotional Text to Sammy Hagar Revealed
Kurt Cobain's Daughter Shows Off Hot Abs Tattoo
Eddie Vedder Reacts to Bug Flying On Him During Performance

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Eddie Van Halen Disgusting Kurt Cobain Bombshell Finally Revealed

Sadly I searched that out, and from what I can gather the disgusting bombshell is that Kurt kissed Eddie hello upon meeting him backstage after a Nirvana show?

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