FORTY-FIVE REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE #38: Sanitized By Swisher
R.E.M. “Driver 8″ b/w “Crazy” (I.R.S. Records #52678, 1985)
Alternative rock became a saleable commodity in the 1990’s, but back in ’85 it was mostly confined to non-commercial college radio stations, dorm-room record-players, frat-house keggers and a string of musky all-ages clubs that stretched from Jacksonville to San Diego. Acting as a genuine “alternative” to all the Poison, Warrant and Cinderella gumming up the airwaves, down-to-earth acts like The Minutemen, Husker Du and The Replacements provided a […]