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Originally Posted by Buff
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Velvet Revolver, Nickelback, Matchbox 20, Linkin Park, Korn, Stone Temple Pilots etc are considered "alternative"? Ewwww. Sometime in the mid-90s "alternative" rock got stolen from us. Bob Mould wrote a song about it, "I Hate Alternative Rock":
I knew you when you had something to say . . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_rock
By the mid-90s, alternative was synonymous with grunge in the eyes of the mass media and the general public, and a supposed "alternative culture" was being marketed to the mainstream in much the same way as the hippiecounterculture had in the 1960s (the existence of any such culture is debatable, and is often seen by some fans of the music to have been a creation of the media). Thus, many wildly popular post-grunge bands such as Third Eye Blind and Matchbox Twenty were labeled as "alternative" rock. Nevertheless, alternative bands who were leery of broad commercial success developed indie rock, a genre that espoused a return to the original ethos of alternative music