Nothing did more to further the cause of Alternative Nation-building than 120 Minutes, MTV’s Sunday-night video showcase of non-mainstream acts. For nearly two decades, the program spanned musical eras from ’80s college rock to ’00s indie, with grunge, Britpop, punk, industrial, electronica and more in between. MAGNET raids the vaults to resurrect our 120 favorite and unjustly forgotten videos from the show’s classic era.
#39: Guadalcanal Diary “Always Saturday”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpZtj1o9Z1I&feature=related
Apparently, nothing made late-’80s college rockers more irate than boring weekends. A year after Morrissey released “Everyday Is Like Sunday,” Guadalcanal Diary dropped “Always Saturday,” another skewering of bland suburban life. We’ll take this upbeat, ironic take on the subject over the sad-sack approach any day. Hailing from Marietta, Ga., Guadalcanal Diary was a few miles removed from R.E.M.’s fabled Athens jangle-rock scene, and the band didn’t make it into the ’90s, calling it quits after 1989’s Flip-Flop (on which “Always Saturday” appears). Last year, Guadalcanal singer Murray Attaway and guitarist Jeff Walls resurfaced in the group Bomber City.
