Record Store Day is tomorrow (here's a list of great record stores you can go to tomorrow and always... until they are replaced with a soulless bank or whatever). Even if you aren't a hardcore collector of non-digital music, it's worth checking out for the special offerings. Like tomorrow you'll find a 12" vinyl of No Alternative, which turns 20 this year [pause to reflect on your age] and has never been released on vinyl before. Do you remember it?
From Record Store Day's announcement: "The groundbreaking compilation produced to benefit AIDS relief. Features the biggest acts that defined 90s alt rock including Beastie Boys, Pavement, Soundgarden, Nirvana. 2LP Gatefold, 180 g, Numbered, never before on vinyl!"
Personally, I totally forgot about this compilation (which definitely had a place with the rest of my CDs on the bench seats of my cherry red Plymouth Reliant in high school) until seeing the announcement. But one look at the cover images and now I'm having all sorts of '90s nostalgia feelings, so if you are too... dive right in:
MTV had a No Alternative week!
... and I highly recommend revisiting it (Smashing Pumpkins around the 20-minute mark):
Some individual tracks on the album (full track list below)...
BEASTIE BOYS
PATTI SMITH singing a song for Robert Mapplethorpe
PAVEMENT
SARAH MCLACHLAN
SOUNDGARDEN
Track List
Matthew Sweet — Superdeformed
Buffalo Tom — For All to See
Soul Asylum — Sexual Healing
Urge Overkill — Take a Walk
American Music Club — All Your Jeans Were Too Tight
Lance Diamond + The Goo Goo Dolls — Bitch
Pavement — Unseen Power of the Picket Fence
The Smashing Pumpkins — Glynis
Bob Mould — Can’t Fight It
Sarah McLachlan — Hold On
Soundgarden — Show Me
Straitjacket Fits — Brittle
Barbara Manning + San Francisco Seals — Joed Out
The Verlaines — Heavy 33
Uncle Tupelo — Effigy
Beastie Boys + DJ Hurricane — New Style [Live]
The Breeders — Iris [Live]
Patti Smith — Memorial Song [Live]
Nirvana — Verse Chorus Verse
