Ah, these were my college years. IIRC the charts were very heavy on hiphop and country at the time (as they still are) so alternative was pretty much where all

Ah, these were my college years. IIRC the charts were very heavy on hiphop and country at the time (as they still are) so alternative was pretty much where all the other genres went. Not so much the songs that didn't make the charts, as entire genres that were niche.