VH1 Classics "The Alternative"

Idiotjed · **Posted:** Sun Nov 07, 2004 2:52 pm

Haven't seen many posts about this show as of late. Is it still on?

What cool videos am I missing on?

no guru · **Posted:** Sun Nov 07, 2004 3:05 pm

Yeah, I was just watching it. It's on 11am-1pm as well as at night.

It's worth watching. Some stuff's great. There's still the occasional dreck and whenever Eddie Trunk hosts (which is most shows), I want to pummel him because he's a fat robot (reads the teleprompter and does hand gestures, that's it).

There's a lot more obscure 80's modern rock/indie rock I wish they'd dig up, but what they do play is enjoyable.

Sometimes, you realize that great bands have stupid looking people who make crap videos, though.

Case in point today: TSOL "Colors"

Idiotjed · **Posted:** Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:53 am

Here's the playlist from yesterday:

The Alternative 11/11 & 12/12 (ET)
Hour one...

Soul Asylum - Somebody To Shove
Morrissey - You're The One For Me Fatty
Electronic - Getting Away With It
Depeche Mode - Behind The Wheel

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Fight Like A Brave
They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul
Cramps - Bikini Girls With Machine Guns
TSOL - Colors

OMD - Secret
Robyn Hitchcock - Madonna Of The Wasps
Midnight Oil - Forgotten Years

Lemonheads - Into Your Arms
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat
Lush - For Love

Hour two...

Missing Persons - Destination Unknown
Classix Nouveux - Guilty
Jam - The Bitterest Pill
Tears For Fears - Change

Pearl Jam - Evenflow
Curve - Fait Accompli
Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane

Tori Amos - Silent All These Years
Church - Tantalized
Pixies - Alec Eifel
Comsat Angels - Independence Day

James - Say Something - concept version 2
Breeders - Cannonball
Love And Rockets - Mirror People
Plasmatics - The Damned

Haven't actually see it, just copy/pasted this from another board. Sound slike a good ep to me.

B-OK: If yur readin' this, ya got mail buddy.

Evil Dr. K · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:51 am **Posts:** 6327

Idiotjed Wrote:

Cramps - Bikini Girls With Machine Guns

I've never seen this video and I feel like I'm missing out.

Cramps Fact: 'Bikini Girls With Machine Guns' was their only bona fide Top 40 Singles hit in the UK.

no guru · **Posted:** Mon Nov 08, 2004 9:44 am

konstantinl Wrote:

Idiotjed Wrote:

Cramps - Bikini Girls With Machine Guns

I've never seen this video and I feel like I'm missing out.

Err...not suprisingly, it features go-go girls, in bikinis, with...erm...machine guns.

Plus the whole lead-singer-as-FrankenIggy-Presley bit.

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Mon Nov 08, 2004 12:16 pm

I don't care about video's anymore.....

FT · **Posted:** Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:44 pm

Idiotjed Wrote:

Missing Persons - Destination Unknown

Mmmmm...Dale Bozzio...wrapped in plastic...

Bee OK · **Posted:** Mon Nov 08, 2004 4:51 pm

I want to get that web site info from you. I only watch Subterranean when I have the play list from the prior night in front of me. The second hour had a bunch of videos I have never seen. I had Taxidriver on because Showtime was still free, didn’t watch it though.

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