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- -=EGReSS PRODUCTIONS INC=-
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- present:
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- NO ALTERNATIVE
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-
- The following is taken from the "NO ALTERNATIVE" CD liner:
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-
- "This is NOT an alternative rock collection. "Alternative" rock DOES NOT
- exist. It is a MYTH on par with Elvis sightings, QUALITY airline food and
- STRESS-free relationships. No, what you're listening to is SIMPLY nineteen
- songs. It is OUR BELIEF, however, that these songs SIMULTANEOUSLY create
- one BEAUTIFUL clamor and SERVE as a soundtrack to this suspended moment
- in TIME. As an oft-labeled, SELDOM understood GENERATION, we have NO
- better VOICE than a COMMUNITY of bands, MANY of whom you'll FIND on THIS
- record. It is THE BANDS making up NO ALTERNATIVE - ALONG with dozens of
- OTHERS, WHETHER they're reinvigorating ROCK and ROLL or HELPING to
- TRANSCEND musical AND cultural BOUNDARIES - who have helped AWAKEN the
- WORLD to the FACT that music NOT only HAS the POWER to SPEAK TO a
- GENERATION but FOR a GENERATION. When FIRST listening to this album it may
- NOT be IMMEDIATELY APPARENT HOW the poetry of ONE track CORRESPONDS
- with the NODS to the PAST in the NEXT or WHY ONE band's whispers are
- INTRICATELY LINKED to ANOTHER group's SCREAMS.
- Closer inspection will REVEAL the COMMON thread that BINDS them all
- TOGETHER: INTEGRITY. That bands contributing to NO ALTERNATIVE cannot be
- neatly nestled BENEATH one blanket STATEMENT. They do, HOWEVER, SHARE an
- EMOTIONAL COMMITMENT and FOCUS that RINGS TRUE from this collection's
- OPENING note to its FINAL chord. What YOU are HEARING is the SOUND of
- these reaffirming their DEDICATION not JUST to a musical CULTURE but to a
- WORLD COMMUNITY that has been devastated by AIDS. In the past, the groups
- BEFORE you were THROWN TOGETHER UNDER the roof of "alternative" rock and
- THEN ghettoized SOMEWHERE LEFT of a radio dial rendered IMMOVABLE with
- rigor mortis. TODAY the dial has LOOSENED. WE must LEARN that LABELLING
- music creates BORDERS and these borders create factions. DON'T categorize.
- JUST LISTEN. This is the music of YOUR life; in your life; about your LIFE.
- This is NOT alternative rock. It's NO ALTERNATIVE. It's not us VERSUS them.
- It's JUST us. And this is the way WE sound.
- -Chris Mundy
-
-
- HERE comes the HARD PART. We've brought these bands TOGETHER.
- They've made GREAT music. YOU'VE spent SOME HARD-earned cash, a
- SIGNIFICANT percentage of which WILL go toward FIGHTING AIDS through
- primary care and prevention EDUCATION. Now YOU HAVE to THINK about YOUR
- SENSE of RESPONSIBILITY and your ROLE in the FACE of an unprecedented
- HEALTH CRISIS that, whether you KNOW it or NOT, has CHANGED the way WE
- ALL live our LIVES. Perhaps the MOST CRITICAL THING to REMEMBER about
- this mysterious AND miserable disease IS THAT there are a few SIMPLE things
- you CAN do to PREVENT YOURSELF from GETTING infected (or infecting
- others): practice SAFER SEX and DON'T share needles. What IS safer sex? The
- MOST BASIC thing to REMEMBER is that wearing a NEW latex condom EVERY
- time YOU have vaginal OR anal INTERCOURSE is the MOST RELIABLE means of
- STOPPING the SPREAD of HIV, a virus WHICH is BELIEVED to CAUSE the
- VARIETY of human immune system DISORDERS called AIDS. BEYOND practicing
- SAFER SEX and NOT SHARING needles, the MOST IMPORTANT thing to
- REMEMBER about AIDS IS that PREJUDICE and MISUNDERSTANDING have
- TRANSFORMED this medical EMERGENCY into a SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CRISIS.
- THE EPIDEMIC of INTOLERANCE surrounding AIDS has made an ALREADY
- horrible SITUATION WORSE and CAUSED hundreds or THOUSANDS OF people
- around the WORLD to SUFFER needlessly AND SOMETIMES DIE. AIDS WILL NOT
- just GO away and WE have NO CHOICE but to LEARN to DEAD with IT,
- RESPONSIBLY, HONESTLY and compassionately. That's the HARD PART...AND
- there's NO ALTERNATIVE.
- -John Carlin
-
-
- IN SPECIAL REMEMBRANCE of Sluggo Allison, Louie Beeson, Iolo Carew,
- Frank Hori Churchward, William Cormier, Donny Diaz, Vic Fought, Gertrude
- Goldberg, Jon Goldberg, George Guim, Dan Hate, Paul Jabara, John Keane, Mitch
- Kellog, Lori Klein, Robert Mapplethorpr, Haoui Montaug, Jim Owles, Niel Place,
- Bernhard M. Raschsl, George Reyes, Vito Russo, Anthony Wayne Thomas, Paul
- Trupin, Upchuck, Robert Vogel, David Wijnarowicz, AND EVERYONE WHO DID
- WHAT THEY DID FOR THE SAKE OF LOVE."
-
- For NO ALTERNATIVE merchandise contact BROCKUM at this TOLL-FREE #:
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- 1-800-724-ROCK
-
-
- NO ALTERNATIVE songs:
- 1. Matthew Sweet SUPERDEFORMED
- 2. Buffalo Tom FOR ALL TO SEE
- 3. Soul Asylum SEXUAL HEALING
- 4. Urge Overkill TAKE A WALK
- 5. American Music Club ALL YOUR JEANS WERE TOO TIGHT
- 6. Goo Goo Dolls BITCH
- 7. Pavement UNSEEN POWER OF THE PICKET FENCE
- 8. Smashing Pumpkins GLYNIS
- 9. Bob Mould CAN'T FIGHT IT
- 10. Sarah McLachlan HOLD ON
- 11. Soundgarden SHOW ME
- 12. Straitjacket Fits BRITTLE
- 13. Barbara Manning JOED OUT
- 14. The Verlaines HEAVY 33
- 15. Uncle Tupelo EFFIGY
- 16. Beastie Boys IT'S THE NEW STYLE
- 17. The Breeders IRIS
- 18. Patti Smith MEMORIAL TRIBUTE
- 19. Nirvana VERSE CHORUS VERSE
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- (c)opyright 5.1.94
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- NO ALTERNATIVE (c)opyright 1993 The Red Hot Organization
-