Nevermind

[torchthebitch]

Twenty years!

 

[thør]

Twenty years!

To the same woman?

 

[Jm J Bullock]

Twenty years!

Suicide is painless.

 

[torchthebitch]

I know it was really last month that it made No1 but whodathunkit?

 

[torchthebitch]

To the same woman?

Nah, that'll be thirty.

 

[RoryN]

It's aged poorly, in my not-so-humble opinion.

There was only so much room in the popular music world for words, emotion, and a little bit of a tune via guitars. Rock & Roll drained a good deal of that particular bank account, and Punk emptied the rest of it.

Grunge, for me, is purely utilitarian. It serves its purpose, then it's onto the next track. I don't find Nirvana 1/10th as interesting as I found them back in `92.

 

[torchthebitch]

It's aged poorly, in my not-so-humble opinion.

There was only so much room in the popular music world for words, emotion, and a little bit of a tune via guitars. Rock & Roll drained a good deal of that particular bank account, and Punk emptied the rest of it.

Grunge, for me, is purely utilitarian. It serves its purpose, then it's onto the next track. I don't find Nirvana 1/10th as interesting as I found them back in `92.

It did have the advantage of giving a lot of youngsters a new focus on what was basically garage. At the time it was a break from everything else and injected some excitment. Compared to some of the giants I agree it doesn't quite have the timelessness, but still I'm surprised that twenty years have passed.

The music industry now is a real mincing machine. Hell, the closing concert for the Olympics will feature Blur. If that is not a condemnation of the stagnation and paucity of inspiration from the organisers, nothing is.