Well, there's an alternative album club that hasn't been touched since 2011, but I'd like to try something a little less involved seeing as how those threads tend to die. The Metal Wars thread was popping for a while and I imagine it helped that it was a much simpler format so I'm giving this approach a shot. I've heard a lot of people say that the metal and hip hop cliques are the biggest cliques around here but I've always thought alternative is arguably the most popular genre on the site, it just hasn't been tapped as much as it should. Here goes...
I imagine most people already understand the concept of an album wars thread since it's pretty simple: I post two albums and the rest of you comment on them and vote. Comments are necessary as this thread is for fostering discussion rather than just voting. Battles will likely last two weeks, or longer if necessary, or possibly shorter if they go fast enough and it looks like the vast majority of people who are likely going to contribute have already weighed in. I'm gonna be very liberal with the definition of alternative. I probably don't have to tell you what that means from the eighties onward, but I'm also counting art/experimental rock from the sixties onward (VU, the Monks, Bowie, Brian Eno, etc), proto-punk (the Stooges, New York Dolls, Modern Lovers, etc), krautrock, post-punk, new wave, and in general any old school rock not generally falling under the classic rock umbrella. Use your best judgement and imagination about anything else I haven't mentioned and PM me your own battles. Suggest whatever you want but I'm likely going to be posting a few of my own that aren't as obscure to get people chiming in on bands that they already have something to say about and hopefully draw in newbies and other members of the site who aren't necessarily aficionados.
So first up is an easy one that I'm sure everybody will be familiar with just to get things rolling...
The Replacements - Tim
vs.
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
Remember, comment and then post the current score of the battle.