I'm bored -- let's play a game

I'm sure it's happened to you. You're listening to your favorite station and you hear a song and you shake your head and say: "I can't believe they're playing this crap." OK the word you'll use probably will start with the letter "s" but I don't feel like informing Blogger to activate the "adult content" screen just so I can type that word.

Anyway, if the station in question is an alternative station or "adult alternative" you may add "that's not alternative" Well the object of this game is to define the line that separates "alternative" from "not alternative". You take two artists that have some similarities and sort out which one is really "alternative", broadly defined, and which is not. And remember, just because it's played on alternative stations doesn't necesarily mean it's alternative. And just because it's not played on alternative stations doen't mean it isn't

Good way to start arguments at parties. "Dude, Liz Phair is totally alternative. You ever heard "Exile in Guyville?" "No way, she sold her soul after her first two albums!"

Obvious Example: the Beastie Boys are alternative and Vanilla Ice isn't

OK. Let's play

Tom Waits is alternative and the Eagles aren't
Los Lobos are alternative and Los Lonely Boys aren't
Green Day is alternative and Good Charolette isn't
Bob Dylan is alternative and Donovan isn't
Depeche Mode is alternative and Duran Duran isn't
The Black Crowes are alternative and Hinder isn't
Death Cab For Cutie is alternative and Snow Patrol isn't
Gnarles Barkley is alternative and the Ting Tings aren't
Prince is alternative and Lenny Kravitz isn't
Peter Gabriel is alternative and Phil Collins isn't
Neil Young is alternative and David Crosby isn't
REM is alternative and 3 Doors Down isn't
Aimee Mann is alternative and Sheryl Crow isn't
No Doubt is alternative but Gwen Stefani isn't
Bush (lamentably) was alternative but Gavin Rossdale isn't
Mike Doughty is alternative and Paolo Nuiti isn't
Jack Johnson is alternative (if only just barely) and Jason Mraz isn't
Amy Winehouse is alternative and Duffy isn't (I do love "Mercy" however)
Johnny Cash was alternative and Garth Brooks isn't
Papa Roach is alternative and Godsmack isn't
Eminem is alternative and Kid Rock isn't
Jimi Hendrix was alternative and Eric Clapton isn't

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