* The name "Alternative" is a rebrand of "Modern Rock" (modern wasn't superseded by alternative; it became known as alternative).
* "Alternative" is an alternative to AOR and hard rock/metal. You can dunk on it by pointing to bands like Alice in Chains, which is basically a drop-tuned Motley Crue with harder-to-understand lyrics, but really the whole point of it as a "genre" was as a catch-all for acts that sounded neither like Guns n' Roses nor Fleetwood Mac.
Cherry Poppin' Daddies is unforgivable, though. I'll give you that. But without a playlist like yours, you never could have gotten the BNL bit on Community:
* The name "Alternative" is a rebrand of "Modern Rock" (modern wasn't superseded by alternative; it became known as alternative).
* "Alternative" is an alternative to AOR and hard rock/metal. You can dunk on it by pointing to bands like Alice in Chains, which is basically a drop-tuned Motley Crue with harder-to-understand lyrics, but really the whole point of it as a "genre" was as a catch-all for acts that sounded neither like Guns n' Roses nor Fleetwood Mac.
Cherry Poppin' Daddies is unforgivable, though. I'll give you that. But without a playlist like yours, you never could have gotten the BNL bit on Community:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfdTnpV03p8