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Various Artists - No Alternative

Track listing:
  1. Superdeformed Matthew Sweet 3:58
  2. For All To See Buffalo Tom 3:36
  3. Sexual Healing Soul Asylum 4:45
  4. Take A Walk Urge Overkill 4:39
  5. All Your Jeans Were Too Tight American Music Club 3:33
  6. Bitch Goo Goo Dolls 3:17
  7. Unseen Power Of The Picket Fense Pavement 3:54
  8. Glynis Smashing Pumpkins 4:53
  9. Can't Fight It Bob Mould 3:49
  10. Hold On Sarah Mclachlan 4:23
  11. Show Me Soundgarden 2:49
  12. Brittle Straitjacket Fits 3:24
  13. Joed Out Barbara Manning 3:52
  14. Heavy 33 The Verlaines 4:21
  15. Effigy Uncle Tupelo 5:59
  16. It's The New Style Beastie Boys 2:20
  17. Iris The Breeders 3:44
  18. Memorial Tribute Patti Smith 3:33
  19. Verse Chorus Verse Nirvana 3:24

Notes

A mixture of B-sides, outtakes, live tracks, and newly recorded songs, No Alternative was the most successful benefit album of 1993, both commercially and artistically. Exceptional songs from Nirvana, Bob Mould, Urge Overkill, Smashing Pumpkins, American Music Club, and Pavement enhance fine outtakes from Buffalo Tom and Matthew Sweet, strengthen Uncle Tupelo and Soul Asylum's strong covers, and make the weak live tracks from the Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, and the Breeders tolerable. However, nothing can save the Goo Goo Dolls' atrocious pop-metal take on the Rolling Stones' "Bitch." Still, that's only one song out of 19, making No Alternative a worthy purchase.