@The Lawnmower Ix. 091 what happens is they oversaturate the seen the fashion becomes mass marketed and over priced they manufacture bands picking people from other bands who don't even start playing together the it was done with the hippie and punks seen before the difference for gen. X is that while all these cool long haired grunge kids were fighting the record company making little change it was two computer nerds from opposite ends of the country to come together and bring the record industry crashing down.
This happen s with all popular art. At first it is cutting edge and exciting until successful and co-opted to sell ideas and products to the masses. The last thing the status quo wants is a true rennaisance allowed to reach a natural conclusion as it is unpredictable and could mean they lose their status as powerful elite in a world of consumer children. Better to profit and and control the outcome. This is why so many of the pure artists off themselves once reaching the pinnacle of success. They become either disillusioned and kill themselves or uncontrollable and someone kills them.
David Duncan it died on its own when most of them couldn’t last past the mid 90’s because of either death, addiction, or creative differences. To me you can’t go wrong with any 90’s music, the mid 90’s was just as great as the early part. Shit didn’t go bad until about 2004 and has gotten worse since. Currently there are some good bands but they don’t get mainstream
Intoxicated Daze not necessarily, besides Kurt I guess. For Layne it was DEFINITELY heroin, and for Chris, considering it was just a few years ago, I’m pretty sure it was depression that he had been fighting throughout his life, mostly unrelated to fame.
and Scott too! but chris was the one that hit me the most because i looked up to him. only recently i was able to cover his songs and listen to his music cause i would break down crying for him. i was a bit like that with layne too because he knew he was dying and couldn't be saved i was so sad for him when he passed he was unbelievably talented! i always wished layne and chris did music together as a super group. two of one of the greatest voices of all time. they were simply that amazing. i remember kurts death too that made me sad but didnt impact me as much as chris etc. i was young but upset that he was gone. we need eddie vedder in a vault hes the only one thats left.
@ripsaa2003 yeah, I completely agree, even though I never lived up there, personally, it's my ever so humble and usually ignored opinion that Courtney is in fact a great freaking songwriter and singer. And all that shit about her killing Kurt is exactly that, a completely superfluous pile of shit. Kurt Cobain was on his way to the graveyard the first time he ran dope up his arm, some people live through it, some don't. It's almost that simple in some respects. I'm a recovering alcoholic and addict myself, while I can respect both the music that he made and the struggles that he went through, I have major problems with the choice that he made to check out. Once you bring a child into the world, you're simply no longer allowed to do that. Once you undertake the responsibility of becoming a parent, it's more than just yourself that you are responsible for. It's a damn shame that he couldn't see that. I hope that it's better wherever he is now
Calling it the last great era feels kind of like a betrayal to all the people making good rock music today, but I totally agree it was the last era of rock legends, and looking at how people are consuming music differently now, no matter how much good new rock music there is it will probably always be the last legendary era
Ollie Foxx Nu-Metal, Pop Punk and Metalcore are some big genres which came up after the 90’s. I’m sure that the present lack of popular rock will soon result in some new genre too.
I was 13 in 1991 and remember when grunge was spat on in school because it was the shit those kids in the back of class listened to. Rocker kids were often thought of as dirtbags back then. Then suddenly it was a tsunami across MTV and corporate media and it suddenly became "fashionable" and even the popular preppies, princesses and jocks in school were jumping on the bandwagon and dressing in plaid shirts. It was a weird time, but a true gem of an era in music history.
Great comment, JJ. Reminds me when I was in high school, '84-'88, & I hung around the skate-punks who turned me onto the punk scene, as it was dying out actually. Black Flag & FEAR were my favs & my normie friends/family/baseball teammates thought I was "turning bad". 😎
I was born in 78, listening to slayer, pumpkins, nirvana in 91. One year I was getting bullied and made fun of for what I listened to and what I wore (which had nothing to do with fashion and everything to do with the fact that I was poor). A year later, everyone was listening to the the same music as me and shopping at Value Village. But Grade 11, I was being made fun of and being called a wannabe. Bunch of bullshit.
I thought so at first, but when the played the slow motion, I noticed that he turned that into the "h1dd3n h@nd" gesture, so we know what that means -- m@50n1c nw0.
A part of me is really sad that I was only a kid through the 90's, and another part of me is grateful that people like you take the time and put the effort into uploading all this stuff so that, even if for some minutes, we can pretend to be there. Thank you so much for this
I'm 53 and Mother Love Bone, Temple of the Dog, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, The Melvins, Mudhoney, STP, and quite a few unmentioned bands are STILL in my daily rotation of music I listen too. Without question one of the greatest time periods in music history...... and definitely the "coolest" bunch of musicians ever assembled.
I don't care what anyone says. Courtney had Kurt killed. I will believe this until my dying day. Even her own father said he believed she was capable of killing Kurt.
The Lawnmower Ix. 091 they literally showed the 5 main Seattle bands to hit it big. If you wanna say they should’ve highlighted more than those bands I’d agree but they didn’t just show nirvana here
@The Lawnmower Ix. 091 To be fair, it was Nirvana's success that sparked the explosion of the so-called "grunge movement". Were it not for them, all those other great bands might have never reached the general public.
I don't know whose face is funnier in the Nirvana SNL promo, Kurt trying so smile while cringing or Dave's eyes gradually bugging out, looking like something is slowly making its way up his leg lol. It never fails to make me laugh
I was born 1983..I remember wearing a flanel with a chain wallet with a soundgarden superunknown shirt with ripped up jeans with converse shoes with my hair parted directly down the middle..
Bonus 90s points if you used punky colors or manic panic to dye your parted hair blue,green or some other unnatural color. I think i had just about every color of the rainbow by the time I was 12 lol. It was a huge trend in 6th-7th grade and the kids whose parents wouldn't let them use dye used magic markers. Also jnco jeans and airwalks, babydoll dresses with doc martens, smeared lipstick for the girls emulating Courtney love and Babes in toy lands style .
4:48 I know exactly what that kid means. When you like a band that isn't well known then hits it big & gains thousands/ millions of fans & is constantly on Tv/ radio/ internet, it's like someone stole something special that you felt only belonged to you. It's a shitty feeling. That's how I felt about Nirvana. PS- why tf does he have earplugs in his nostrils?
If anyone started a station just playing videos from beginning of MTV, VH1 with videos of the new(er) organic BANDS that actually play organic instruments they’d be watched 24/7. Just like the good ole days, no polarized propaganda just a great escape where music brings ppl together.
Mosh pits were beautiful, insane, and most of all fun. Such a pure expression of angst and frustration with corporate fascism until it became corporate just like all popular art eventually does.
Rob Banks he meant that the raw and organic musical movement got engulfed by corporations. And that is exactly what happened, I saw it change. It was sad.
Bottom line is even tho people say there is still good rock you gotta find it, that there is no big movement or collective group of people in rock music now days.
You know after all this time it's still offensive to me that "the Grunge look" was ever mass marketed as a "new" trend that "originated" in Seattle. For fuck's sake the whole thrift store, hand-me-down clothes, flannel, long johns, knit hats, sensible stout footwear was NOT a Grunge or Seattle thing. It was - and still is - a fucking working poor thing. We dressed in layers in fall and winter because my parents couldn't afford a good winter jacket for each kid. We wore thrift store clothes for the same reason. We wore flannel because it was soft, warm, cheap, easy to layer and found in every thrift store for under three bucks. We wore stout sensible shoes like boots because while a good pair would cost your parents a pretty penny they wouldn't have to buy a new pair for three years and you could find them for cheap at army/navy surplus stores. We could tell the posers because they were the kids whose parents picked them up from school in new Mercedes and BMWs, lived in the million dollar home area of the city and wouldn't have been caught dead in flannel before some douchebag, has-been, pop star put their name on the front pocket or collar. It took twenty years after Cobain's death for the price of a brand new flannel shirt in a department store to drop back down to ten or twelve bucks from a high of around twenty five for the store brand and over eighty bucks for the name brands.
As a broke person who thrifts clothes in a time when "vintage" is becoming synonyms with "fancy" and a pair of old mom jeans cost around the same as a a new pair of jeans, making once-cheap thrift stores inflate their prices and attracting the upper class, I feel this in my soul.
I was born in 95. A little too late to see it happen. My parents went through the 80 as teens/young adults and love the 90s more. I can remember my dad blaring a mix of grunge and classic rock in his carpentry work shop at all hours. He passed away when I was 17 in 2013 and these songs bring back memories like nothing else. Grunge is one of the greatest genres to come out of rock n roll/blues/folk music and to those that enjoy it, it holds a special place in their heart.
1:06 and that’s where the downward spiral and constant pain began for poor ol Kurt... Jokes aside him and Krist look like they wanna sink into the floor lol
I could watch 1:10-1:14 another 50 times and still find it funny asf 😆👌🏻. Gets me every time. And "I'm Layne Staley and you're watching Rage.. aren't you? Yes you are"😆. Another funny asf fave of mine. Hilarious spunk he is💜. Dirt NEVER leaves rotation in my car CD player. Good to see the ad for its release here. Extremely sad seeing Loder's report of Kurt's death though 😔. R.I.P, Layne and Kurt 💜🤘🏻. Your wings are no longer denied
Yeah...I have SuperUnknown and their double CD of Greatest Hits & B Sides and LOVE alot of Soundgarden's songs (Blow up the Outside World, Fell on Black Days, Rusty Cage, Jesus Christ Pose, Spoonman...I could go on) but Layne and Kurt were my Idols. Chris was DEFINITELY one of the greatest and made a shit ton of a contribution to the grunge/heavy rock movement and I have a fuck load of respect for the guy but, as I said, wasn't exactly my Idol. Same goes for Scott Weiland. I love his music with STP and VR (aswell as own all STP's albums and VR's Contraband) but although his death was upsetting, it didn't floor me
I’m currently 25, and I’ve always been stuck on music of the 90’s. Early 2000’s was a grab at the past, with a twist. Both are amazing, but 90’s was essential for all we have now nearly. Nirvana, Faith No More, Bush (obviously the Melvins too). I mean metal as well, and the evolution of punk.. grunge/whatever you want to call it. Even rap was at its best. Skateboarding was blowing up at the same time. I love all this stuff to this day, even though I was super young when it was all happening. It stayed around, coming from a working class background I think it was the most accessible social culture. It was super diverse, fashion wasn’t all that expensive when everyone wears old T-shirt’s and ripped up home made stuff. Movies as well! A lot of my favourite movies are from the 90’s. I discovered Nirvana at 13 years of age.. bit late to the party but they seemed timeless. I couldn’t believe what actually happened with the band, and how Kurt was just.. gone. It was soul destroying man. Anyway! Just thought I’d share ;) the 90’s were awesome and I’m glad to have caught the last bit of it! It’s still with me to this day :)
Rewatching these mtv news clips I haven’t seen in so very very long now but it still gives me a very very deep sadness in my heart ❤️ and knots are in my stomach right now. I do remember this happening. I was about 19yrs old at the time and I felt that same exact pain and had the same exact questions of why.
The quote at the end was from Courtney- it’s been said she was the one to always call the press and inform them of 80% of what was happening/not happening-
This is for S K but, thought I'd throw this out for Grunge Scene family to digest. (Epic Tome time) S K, I feel you. Back in the late '80s I was obsessed w/Led Zeppelin & Black Sabbath. I hated that I'd never see them live. In '91 my Cajun friend bought a used Fender Jazz Bass(no shortage of music shops in Mid TN) & found us a place to practice/learn to play. An old early 20th century cannery converted to 12+ practice rooms for bands. I picked up a sweet used Pearl Export 5-pc drum kit in red metallic for $200 and we moved into stinky, dank room #9 at Concert Productions Murfreesboro TN. We absolutely sucked. We would sometimes wait hours for the "real" bands to leave b4 we even plugged in we were so bashful. Didn't matter that we sucked. We kept at it like a miner digging for gold. Continued in Replies....
We became a screeching, distorted 2-pc band (inb4 White Stripes-love 'em) and enlisted our Arkansas Hillbilly friend who loved to hunt & scream as our lead singer and it was perfect. By '93 we had 3 original, complete songs: All of Your Lies, Jimmy Had a Dog & our all-time #1 hit, C@@n Huntin'. We played at the infamous Springwater in Nashville & parties various/sundry. We still sucked but, it didn't matter. Even the Boomer hippies at Springwater liked us. Said, "You guys sound like a rough Foghat." Best compliment I ever got. Continued...
We were like you, S K. We looked back at the '70s as you look back at the '90s & that's cool. We started this alt.-thrash-rock band as a catharsis and dove head-first into a scene we really had no b'ness being in. And in so doing had the time of our lives in the always hated, never duplicated dirty South. I want to hear back in the future from S K that he's bought a guitar or drum kit, something and is searching out his local live scene. You won't regret a single minute of it.
I miss those MTV Buzz Clips. Any artist or band featured got there on their own merit and were so good that music fans had been "buzzing" about them. This usually occurs after their music video had aired on a 1-2 hour late night show on MTV made specifically for that genre.
These were the best years of my life! My husband and i are very often told we still look like we stepped out of the 90's 😂 At age 46 years old, our day to day clothes are still concert t's with the flannel shirt and cargo pants/shorts. We both have t-shirts that are 30 years old and have been offered $$$ for them, but i can't get rid of them. We literally got married in our Phish tour t-shirts from 1992 😀
I agree with you and grunge peaked in '94 but still hung around in the mainstream until '96 or so. But yeah 93-94 was the peak. In Utero, Vs., Superunknown, Purple, Jar of Flies, etc.
1991 was a great year too. Release of “Ten” by Pearl Jam, “Nevermind” by Nirvana, and “Badmotorfinger” by Soundgarden. These albums helped propel grunge movement into the mainstream. I think ‘89 and ‘90 weren’t that bad of years either.
Man once the media and corporations got a hold of it they really oversaturated and sucked the life out of the scene.
@The Lawnmower Ix. 091 what happens is they oversaturate the seen the fashion becomes mass marketed and over priced they manufacture bands picking people from other bands who don't even start playing together the it was done with the hippie and punks seen before the difference for gen. X is that while all these cool long haired grunge kids were fighting the record company making little change it was two computer nerds from opposite ends of the country to come together and bring the record industry crashing down.
This happen s with all popular art. At first it is cutting edge and exciting until successful and co-opted to sell ideas and products to the masses. The last thing the status quo wants is a true rennaisance allowed to reach a natural conclusion as it is unpredictable and could mean they lose their status as powerful elite in a world of consumer children. Better to profit and and control the outcome. This is why so many of the pure artists off themselves once reaching the pinnacle of success. They become either disillusioned and kill themselves or uncontrollable and someone kills them.
The Lawnmower Ix. 091 yeah, a shot at making money for them. All the corporations actually care about is making the most money
That’s what they do with everything.
David Duncan it died on its own when most of them couldn’t last past the mid 90’s because of either death, addiction, or creative differences. To me you can’t go wrong with any 90’s music, the mid 90’s was just as great as the early part. Shit didn’t go bad until about 2004 and has gotten worse since. Currently there are some good bands but they don’t get mainstream
RIP Kurt, RIP Layne, RIP Chris... God damn it why are all my favourite grunge singers dead
the pressures of stardom sadly killed em all
Intoxicated Daze not necessarily, besides Kurt I guess. For Layne it was DEFINITELY heroin, and for Chris, considering it was just a few years ago, I’m pretty sure it was depression that he had been fighting throughout his life, mostly unrelated to fame.
We got Eddie still at least...
You should add Dolores and Scott, even if they were not from Seattle
and Scott too! but chris was the one that hit me the most because i looked up to him. only recently i was able to cover his songs and listen to his music cause i would break down crying for him. i was a bit like that with layne too because he knew he was dying and couldn't be saved i was so sad for him when he passed he was unbelievably talented! i always wished layne and chris did music together as a super group. two of one of the greatest voices of all time. they were simply that amazing. i remember kurts death too that made me sad but didnt impact me as much as chris etc. i was young but upset that he was gone. we need eddie vedder in a vault hes the only one thats left.
I never cared for the term “grunge”. I lived through the time and honestly feel (still), that this was the last great era of rock n roll.
@ripsaa2003 yeah, I completely agree, even though I never lived up there, personally, it's my ever so humble and usually ignored opinion that Courtney is in fact a great freaking songwriter and singer. And all that shit about her killing Kurt is exactly that, a completely superfluous pile of shit. Kurt Cobain was on his way to the graveyard the first time he ran dope up his arm, some people live through it, some don't. It's almost that simple in some respects. I'm a recovering alcoholic and addict myself, while I can respect both the music that he made and the struggles that he went through, I have major problems with the choice that he made to check out. Once you bring a child into the world, you're simply no longer allowed to do that. Once you undertake the responsibility of becoming a parent, it's more than just yourself that you are responsible for. It's a damn shame that he couldn't see that. I hope that it's better wherever he is now
Calling it the last great era feels kind of like a betrayal to all the people making good rock music today, but I totally agree it was the last era of rock legends, and looking at how people are consuming music differently now, no matter how much good new rock music there is it will probably always be the last legendary era
People have been saying this thing for every decade since rock was born. Literally.
@@porcodiomede1094 sure but they haven't said it since the grunge movement. What big historical influence has happened since the 90's?
Ollie Foxx Nu-Metal, Pop Punk and Metalcore are some big genres which came up after the 90’s. I’m sure that the present lack of popular rock will soon result in some new genre too.
Layne is a mood
I was 13 in 1991 and remember when grunge was spat on in school because it was the shit those kids in the back of class listened to. Rocker kids were often thought of as dirtbags back then. Then suddenly it was a tsunami across MTV and corporate media and it suddenly became "fashionable" and even the popular preppies, princesses and jocks in school were jumping on the bandwagon and dressing in plaid shirts. It was a weird time, but a true gem of an era in music history.
Great comment, JJ.
Reminds me when I was in high school, '84-'88, & I hung around the skate-punks who turned me onto the punk scene, as it was dying out actually.
Black Flag & FEAR were my favs & my normie friends/family/baseball teammates thought I was "turning bad". 😎
I remember other kids looking down on the kids who dug Zeppelin and the Doors in 79.
@@briangregory6303 Led Zeppelin was huge in the 70's mate. Why would they look down on you?
I was born in 78, listening to slayer, pumpkins, nirvana in 91. One year I was getting bullied and made fun of for what I listened to and what I wore (which had nothing to do with fashion and everything to do with the fact that I was poor). A year later, everyone was listening to the the same music as me and shopping at Value Village. But Grade 11, I was being made fun of and being called a wannabe. Bunch of bullshit.
Haha I love that. Its the same story now with my friends and with heavy metal at school🤘
"If you've never seen them before, you'll never see them again." - MTV anchorman
In Utero was released September 2013?
I must have been lucky since I bought the CD in 1993.
Yeah, we bought the pre release apparently
it was remastered in 2013
@@saproductions140 I'm so sorry but r/woooosh
Some could say he is stupid and contagious.
@@saproductions140 Yes! and it's awesome
Wasn't it great going to the thrift store and getting a whole wardrobe for less than 20 bucks.
Still is
@@miaferrari958 it would be if people wouldn’t sell the good stuff for 5 times the price online :(
@@Noone-jr1ku ??? just go to a goodwill and everything is still wardrobe material, stop shopping online lol
It was very nice of Eddie to do that at the end.
yep :')
Kurt liked Eddie just wasnt fond of PJ.
I thought so at first, but when the played the slow motion, I noticed that he turned that into the "h1dd3n h@nd" gesture, so we know what that means -- m@50n1c nw0.
A part of me is really sad that I was only a kid through the 90's, and another part of me is grateful that people like you take the time and put the effort into uploading all this stuff so that, even if for some minutes, we can pretend to be there.
Thank you so much for this
Iris da realidade 1:uma parte de mim esta triste com os dias de hoje 😔
Iris da realidade 2:ahh maninha🥺
@@martajacinta2603 Kauã hazekuro: meu bem não fica assim não tá bom 😖
@@martajacinta2603 kabu: vai ficar tudo bem amiga 😍
I'm 53 and Mother Love Bone, Temple of the Dog, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, The Melvins, Mudhoney, STP, and quite a few unmentioned bands are STILL in my daily rotation of music I listen too. Without question one of the greatest time periods in music history...... and definitely the "coolest" bunch of musicians ever assembled.
Don't forget Gruntruck,Tad,Green River and Screaming Trees
@@sebastiandiaz29 couldn't slide em all in..... but you got the point!
Nice collection you have there Bobby Scarfo.
Yes.
Amen to that!
Cobain's death described as a "blast to the head", as announced by someone named "Kurt Loder".
Watch the whole video buddy
Kurt Loader
Damn that's fckn ironic.
Kurt Co Bang
I don't care what anyone says. Courtney had Kurt killed. I will believe this until my dying day.
Even her own father said he believed she was capable of killing Kurt.
Two words. More Soundgarden!
Aaaaaand you beat me to it.
You have awesome taste, Soundgarden-Bro.
SOUNDGARDEN rules!!!
The Lawnmower Ix. 091 they literally showed the 5 main Seattle bands to hit it big. If you wanna say they should’ve highlighted more than those bands I’d agree but they didn’t just show nirvana here
@The Lawnmower Ix. 091 To be fair, it was Nirvana's success that sparked the explosion of the so-called "grunge movement". Were it not for them, all those other great bands might have never reached the general public.
Vrddd😭😭😭
Best era of time ever. Best music. Best vibes from people. Best clothes. Best movies. Best everything. I miss those times.
Dont forget video games.
Dont forget video games.
Kurt, Krist, Dave and Charles Barkley, one moment in time that can never be recreated. Classico
You, the owner of this channel... You have no idea how much I love you. Thank you so much! Greetings from Brazil.
hi friend!
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I don't know whose face is funnier in the Nirvana SNL promo, Kurt trying so smile while cringing or Dave's eyes gradually bugging out, looking like something is slowly making its way up his leg lol. It never fails to make me laugh
as a 24 year old I am equally parts fascinated and confused by the 90's
Confused, why?
i´m confused by your generations emo hairstyles
I was born 1983..I remember wearing a flanel with a chain wallet with a soundgarden superunknown shirt with ripped up jeans with converse shoes with my hair parted directly down the middle..
@@MrThedonhead you said "blow" huh huh
Bonus 90s points if you used punky colors or manic panic to dye your parted hair blue,green or some other unnatural color. I think i had just about every color of the rainbow by the time I was 12 lol. It was a huge trend in 6th-7th grade and the kids whose parents wouldn't let them use dye used magic markers. Also jnco jeans and airwalks, babydoll dresses with doc martens, smeared lipstick for the girls emulating Courtney love and Babes in toy lands style .
ha the chain wallet...you don't see them anymore. I remember wearing those big ass dog chains back in the day.
Did you gnash your teeth and bite the recess lady's breast?
@@robdixson196 how could I forget
The 90s was an awesome time for rock n roll/heavy metal
Heavy metal? Uh, grunge pretty much killed heavy metal, and then nu metal buried it. It's only been revived somewhat recently.
@@mugwump7049 you don't know, "grunge" killed hair bands not heavy metal. The best metal is from the '90s
I rocked ministry, white zombie, sepultara, king diamond, gwar,,etc...we had great music choices back then
4:48 I know exactly what that kid means. When you like a band that isn't well known then hits it big & gains thousands/ millions of fans & is constantly on Tv/ radio/ internet, it's like someone stole something special that you felt only belonged to you. It's a shitty feeling. That's how I felt about Nirvana.
PS- why tf does he have earplugs in his nostrils?
What's wrong? I would feel happy for the band
+CGH I mean if your favorite band doesnt get popular enough they will cease to exist since they need to make a living
@@joshuafult84 That's not true at all. There thousands of bands that keep on playing despite the lack of fame bc of their love of music.
@@sansbudget because it´s tied to how people grew up and those who hop on are usually those one has nothing in common with
@@sansbudget lol like you´re styled how we grew up our actual cultures and now we have been made fashion by the mass mainstream and companies
MTV doesn't have this music anymore cuz it's no longer "new" :(
Yep, it's all rap and hip-hop.. Ugh.
early hip hop was great but today’s mumble rap I just can’t get into
MTV sucks. Since years!
If anyone started a station just playing videos from beginning of MTV, VH1 with videos of the new(er) organic BANDS that actually play organic instruments they’d be watched 24/7. Just like the good ole days, no polarized propaganda just a great escape where music brings ppl together.
Its also barely a music channel anymore so maybe change the name ? Idk just do something about it i guess .
Cat Butt - best Seattle band name back in the day
Loved the Nirvana commercial. That was great!
Hype! Is one of the greatest docs of all time. It captured a feeling so genuine, it changed my life.
Very sad ending. 😢
Just like the '90s decade itself,
bittersweet.
Mosh pits were beautiful, insane, and most of all fun. Such a pure expression of angst and frustration with corporate fascism until it became corporate just like all popular art eventually does.
tomb613 lol how tf does a mosh pit become corporate ?
I think he meant music became corporate because I'm sure as hell moshpits aren't corporate lmao
Rob Banks he meant that the raw and organic musical movement got engulfed by corporations.
And that is exactly what happened, I saw it change. It was sad.
@Acererak lol it has become gentrified
That Soundgarden performance on Hype still gives me chills every-time I watch it.
RIP Layne Staley, the best metal vocalist ever... So sad the way he left us...
Bottom line is even tho people say there is still good rock you gotta find it, that there is no big movement or collective group of people in rock music now days.
Why does Dave look like a guy working at a comic book store
“The grunge is spreading” 😂
You know after all this time it's still offensive to me that "the Grunge look" was ever mass marketed as a "new" trend that "originated" in Seattle. For fuck's sake the whole thrift store, hand-me-down clothes, flannel, long johns, knit hats, sensible stout footwear was NOT a Grunge or Seattle thing. It was - and still is - a fucking working poor thing.
We dressed in layers in fall and winter because my parents couldn't afford a good winter jacket for each kid.
We wore thrift store clothes for the same reason.
We wore flannel because it was soft, warm, cheap, easy to layer and found in every thrift store for under three bucks.
We wore stout sensible shoes like boots because while a good pair would cost your parents a pretty penny they wouldn't have to buy a new pair for three years and you could find them for cheap at army/navy surplus stores.
We could tell the posers because they were the kids whose parents picked them up from school in new Mercedes and BMWs, lived in the million dollar home area of the city and wouldn't have been caught dead in flannel before some douchebag, has-been, pop star put their name on the front pocket or collar. It took twenty years after Cobain's death for the price of a brand new flannel shirt in a department store to drop back down to ten or twelve bucks from a high of around twenty five for the store brand and over eighty bucks for the name brands.
As a broke person who thrifts clothes in a time when "vintage" is becoming synonyms with "fancy" and a pair of old mom jeans cost around the same as a a new pair of jeans, making once-cheap thrift stores inflate their prices and attracting the upper class, I feel this in my soul.
a lot of it is just plain generation jones and generation x ( and older ) alternative kids childhood styles
I was born in 95. A little too late to see it happen. My parents went through the 80 as teens/young adults and love the 90s more. I can remember my dad blaring a mix of grunge and classic rock in his carpentry work shop at all hours. He passed away when I was 17 in 2013 and these songs bring back memories like nothing else. Grunge is one of the greatest genres to come out of rock n roll/blues/folk music and to those that enjoy it, it holds a special place in their heart.
1:06 and that’s where the downward spiral and constant pain began for poor ol Kurt...
Jokes aside him and Krist look like they wanna sink into the floor lol
I want those Grunge pencils!!!
Does anyone else remember those 1-800 Collect commercials in the 90's? That had to have been the most aggressive ad campaign I've seen by far.
Thanks Phone Dude!
Grunge: the fashion of the urban lumberjack. Duck boots and long underwear! 😂
MTV buzz clips. Damn, they use to show music videos.
1:12 Grohl looks like Butt-Head.
Grunge isn't dead, it will return.
AIC, Pearl Jam and Mudhoney are still around.
For the last segment, you should have pulled the Blind Melon performance from David Letterman.
It's damn powerful.
I could watch 1:10-1:14 another 50 times and still find it funny asf 😆👌🏻. Gets me every time.
And "I'm Layne Staley and you're watching Rage.. aren't you? Yes you are"😆. Another funny asf fave of mine. Hilarious spunk he is💜. Dirt NEVER leaves rotation in my car CD player. Good to see the ad for its release here. Extremely sad seeing Loder's report of Kurt's death though 😔.
R.I.P, Layne and Kurt 💜🤘🏻. Your wings are no longer denied
And Chris. I mean, seriously...
Yeah...I have SuperUnknown and their double CD of Greatest Hits & B Sides and LOVE alot of Soundgarden's songs (Blow up the Outside World, Fell on Black Days, Rusty Cage, Jesus Christ Pose, Spoonman...I could go on) but Layne and Kurt were my Idols. Chris was DEFINITELY one of the greatest and made a shit ton of a contribution to the grunge/heavy rock movement and I have a fuck load of respect for the guy but, as I said, wasn't exactly my Idol.
Same goes for Scott Weiland. I love his music with STP and VR (aswell as own all STP's albums and VR's Contraband) but although his death was upsetting, it didn't floor me
5:13 Rest in Peace Mia Zapata
I’m currently 25, and I’ve always been stuck on music of the 90’s. Early 2000’s was a grab at the past, with a twist. Both are amazing, but 90’s was essential for all we have now nearly. Nirvana, Faith No More, Bush (obviously the Melvins too). I mean metal as well, and the evolution of punk.. grunge/whatever you want to call it. Even rap was at its best. Skateboarding was blowing up at the same time. I love all this stuff to this day, even though I was super young when it was all happening. It stayed around, coming from a working class background I think it was the most accessible social culture. It was super diverse, fashion wasn’t all that expensive when everyone wears old T-shirt’s and ripped up home made stuff. Movies as well! A lot of my favourite movies are from the 90’s. I discovered Nirvana at 13 years of age.. bit late to the party but they seemed timeless. I couldn’t believe what actually happened with the band, and how Kurt was just.. gone. It was soul destroying man. Anyway! Just thought I’d share ;) the 90’s were awesome and I’m glad to have caught the last bit of it! It’s still with me to this day :)
I recently have been listening music from 90's and I love bands like Nada surf or Hum.
Also 25 and honestly grunge was the shit...90s was am influential time for sure
I love this post✌
Early 2000s sucked Hell everything past 1997 has been total & utter goat shit.
"Skateboarding was blowing up at the same time." That's funny, skateboarding was blowing up for me back in 1976-78.
My first album I ever bought was Pearl Jam - Ten on cassette
2:36 "new music by"
90s Dave grohl is so funny looking
I missed the 90s I was 16 in 93
I love how they used the melvins in the background of the news
thanks for adding the clip from rage was honestly surprised
Now id love to see a nu metal collection of skits, commercials and parodys
that sounds like a migraine
the end had me crying lol
Kurt at 1:13 being like "Bro that's kinda cringe bro"
lol no one from the 90´s generation would say bro
0:37 this is what's known as " defeating the purpose"
Eddie looked as annoyed with Adam Sandler as... well we all should be on average all the time.
That thumbnail! Lol
1:07 I thought they were sitting. Then I realized that’s the Chuckster. Then I realized Krist is freakishly tall
Rewatching these mtv news clips I haven’t seen in so very very long now but it still gives me a very very deep sadness in my heart ❤️ and knots are in my stomach right now. I do remember this happening. I was about 19yrs old at the time and I felt that same exact pain and had the same exact questions of why.
Proud to be from Seattle. Xoxoxoxo
That In Utero ad i never saw before!! Funny stuff
The David fucking Spade commercial
" eheh heh heh save 44 % "
The quote at the end was from
Courtney- it’s been said she was the one to always call the press and inform them of 80% of what was happening/not happening-
FUNNY in title but you go and hit the feels at the end.
HOLY SHIT KURT LODER! Wow, haven't seen that guy, well since MTV played music! Awesome flashback.
Lol was that Larry 'Bud' Melman dressed in grunge clothes at 3:45? I remember him from the David Letterman show.
« It pissed me off »
Why?
« Well, i liked them first ! »
Who can relate ?
lol I remember 1800 Collect. Hadn’t thought of that in like 20 years.
This is for S K but, thought I'd throw this out for Grunge Scene family to digest. (Epic Tome time)
S K, I feel you. Back in the late '80s I was obsessed w/Led Zeppelin & Black Sabbath. I hated that I'd never see them live.
In '91 my Cajun friend bought a used Fender Jazz Bass(no shortage of music shops in Mid TN) & found us a place to practice/learn to play. An old early 20th century cannery converted to 12+ practice rooms for bands.
I picked up a sweet used Pearl Export 5-pc drum kit in red metallic for $200 and we moved into stinky, dank room #9 at Concert Productions Murfreesboro TN.
We absolutely sucked. We would sometimes wait hours for the "real" bands to leave b4 we even plugged in we were so bashful.
Didn't matter that we sucked. We kept at it like a miner digging for gold.
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We became a screeching, distorted 2-pc band (inb4 White Stripes-love 'em) and enlisted our Arkansas Hillbilly friend who loved to hunt & scream as our lead singer and it was perfect.
By '93 we had 3 original, complete songs: All of Your Lies, Jimmy Had a Dog & our all-time #1 hit, C@@n Huntin'.
We played at the infamous Springwater in Nashville & parties various/sundry. We still sucked but, it didn't matter. Even the Boomer hippies at Springwater liked us. Said, "You guys sound like a rough Foghat." Best compliment I ever got.
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We were like you, S K. We looked back at the '70s as you look back at the '90s & that's cool.
We started this alt.-thrash-rock band as a catharsis and dove head-first into a scene we really had no b'ness being in. And in so doing had the time of our lives in the always hated, never duplicated dirty South.
I want to hear back in the future from S K that he's bought a guitar or drum kit, something and is searching out his local live scene.
You won't regret a single minute of it.
Very cool!
1:13 LOL @ Kurt's face!
Oh wow thank you for your devotion
I love Hype! I watched it on Tubi, the free streaming service. Best documentary (along with The Gits documentary).
Man when MTV did live updates
That's really nice to know Charles met Nirvana :).
SINGLES IS SUCH AN ICONIC MOVIE
Grunge rocks
That sounds weird 🤣
GRUNGE 4 LIFE
90s were the best time!!!
06:00 I miss Chris, wonder what he would think of today?
Thanks phone dude .... 🤣😂😎
I miss those MTV Buzz Clips. Any artist or band featured got there on their own merit and were so good that music fans had been "buzzing" about them. This usually occurs after their music video had aired on a 1-2 hour late night show on MTV made specifically for that genre.
it was all fun and happy and then he brought up kurts death and im like o yeah :/ rip
“It’s a great place to kill some brain cells”
1:06 Dave XDDD
Eita tempo bom que não volta mais.
1:43 It's good that Rich Evans was able to find work after 1994.
John Norris looks like Flea while at a boarding school.
I knew it was over when Entertainment Weekly did a profile of "how to dress for Lollapalooza".
1:45 Tell me the guy talking isn't a Fred Armisen character.
These were the best years of my life! My husband and i are very often told we still look like we stepped out of the 90's 😂 At age 46 years old, our day to day clothes are still concert t's with the flannel shirt and cargo pants/shorts. We both have t-shirts that are 30 years old and have been offered $$$ for them, but i can't get rid of them. We literally got married in our Phish tour t-shirts from 1992 😀
1994 is the greatest year of music and the final year of grunge. Change my mind
I agree with you and grunge peaked in '94 but still hung around in the mainstream until '96 or so. But yeah 93-94 was the peak. In Utero, Vs., Superunknown, Purple, Jar of Flies, etc.
1991 was a great year too. Release of “Ten” by Pearl Jam, “Nevermind” by Nirvana, and “Badmotorfinger” by Soundgarden. These albums helped propel grunge movement into the mainstream. I think ‘89 and ‘90 weren’t that bad of years either.
1:02 - My thoughts exactly.
7:32 pizza planet truck lol
Mmm, Kurt's death? HILARIOUS!
I just love how krist is as tall as an actual nba player
Kurt Loder had the subtlety and tenderness of a sledge hammer. Jesus Christ.
That last one is one of the most unexpected things I’ve seen
Cool dudes
Ahhh memories.