How's This For An Alternative Playlist?

[Slinky]

1. Erasure - Breathe
2. U2 - Original Of The Species
3. Depeche Mode - Precious (Remix)
4. Jack Johnson - Breakdown
5. Aqualung - Brighter Than Sunshine
6. Alanis Morisette - Crazy
7. Coldplay - Talk
8. James Blunt - You're Beautiful
9. Royksopp - Someone Like Me
10. Simply Red - Perfect Love (Remix)
11. D.H.T. - Someone (Chill Out Mix)
12. Death Cab - Soul Meets Body
13. Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
14. Harvey Danger - Wine, Women, and Phonographic...
15. Jason Mraz - Did You Get My...
16. Sia - Breathe Me
17. Kate Bush - King Of The Mountain
18. Diamond Nights - The Girl's Attractive
19. Enya - Amarantine
20. Beth Orton - Conceived
21. The Fray - Over My Head
22. Hard-Fi - Cash Machine
23. Interpol - Narc
24. James Blunt - Tears And Rain
25. White Stripes - Denial Twist
26. Augustana - Boston
27. Gorillaz - Dare
28. Depeche Mode - A Pain That I'm Used...
29. Action Action - The Game
30. Nine Inch Nails - Everyday Is Exactly...
31. Matisyahu - King Without A Crown
32. She Wants Revenge - Tear You Apart
33. Coldplay and Richard Ashcroft - Bittersweet Symphony

Adds:

1. Jack Johnson - Upside Down
2. Death Cab - Crooked Teeth
3. Ladytron - Weekend
4. Daniel Powter - Bad Day
5. Nightmare Of You - I Want To Be Buried In Your Backyard

If nothing else, this is the most interesting playlist on a real commerical Alternative radio station I've read in a while. If you know my posting habits, you can probably guess which station this is...

[tortuga]

That looks too good to be true, but they lose points for playing Enya.

[Matt4319]

Wasn't Enya big on Alternative radio in the early '90s (possibly pre-dating the R&R chart for it) though?

[The Human Strobe]

Peaks for Enya singles on the Billboard Modern Rock chart:

Orinoco Flow (Sail Away) - #6 01/28/89
Caribbean Blue - #3 01/18/92

[Slinky]

admin said:

Wasn't Enya big on Alternative radio in the early '90s (possibly pre-dating the R&R chart for it) though?

Yeah. To me, the station sounds like what Alternative would have been if grunge never hit it big. They play a lot of 80/early 90's music too, but not just the overplayed golds. Last night I heard an Elvis Costello track I had never heard before, and this morning I heard INXS's "Disappear".

The station is the resurrection of WLIR, by the way. Their format flip failed miserably, so now they're back. Online at www.streamaudio.com/stations/asx/WLIR_FM.asx or 107.1 FM on Eastern LI or Southern CT.

[jdmasta289]

No Foo Fighters? No System of a Down?

I possibly would have never gotten FULLY into alternative had grunge never become popular. Sometimes I need to hear some guitars, and some talented artists behind them. Mix in a little STP, Queens, & FF, (and a little actual emo-punk) and that station would be set. Until then, I will PASS.

[halo19]

I guess that to me, guitars does not always=great music. Some albums amaze me and have little/few in use (ie. Remedy by Basement Jaxx).

I wouldn't mind hearing an alternative station that still regularly played Erasure and Depeche Mode regularly. It seems more triple A to me, though... Simply Red and James Blunt are great examples of why it seems more like that than alternative to me.