For you conspiracy fans: The Grunge Conspiracy

[Fiesta Red]

Tremonti has become a gift though. Guy is pretty great.

I'm sorry -- my arms are not wide open for him

 

[Ultradeaf]

Post-conservative, end-of-the-Cold-War, pro-pinko brainwashing. It didn't last long- because the gangsta rap brainwashing came immediately after. They moved on to shoving Backstreet Boys and Spice Girls down kids' throats.

I was jamming out to Alice in Chains' Facelift on a boom box with my sister's boyfriend one week. Then a week later he's forgotten all of it, and comes strolling up wearing Jeancos with pockets so big he could put a math textbook in them... talking about how badass and tough the sellout Snoop Dog was. That shit wasn't going to fly in my house.

Thank God we had a decent rock radio station back then. It was a weird time being the only kid in my neighborhood sticking to my guns (rock). But I was vindicated when nu Metal blew up a few years later, and people started to realize they had missed out on five+ years of great 90s rock.

And it has to be said: Kurt did NOT kill himself. They made a shit ton of $ off that guy. In any case, imagine a world where outspoken and playformed Kurt is still alive and arguing with Zoomers on Telegram and about pronouns and tranny rights. I shudder.

 

[Techdeth]

I fucking loved grunge and some hair metal . I never made a choice . I liked both

 

[Ultradeaf]

I’ve never understood the I’m-mad-grunge-killed-metal people. I’m not a big grunge fan bud I’d rather listen to those bands versus the glam-butt bands that made up the public sphere of “metal” at the time. Some of those grunge bands are more metal in spirit than most commercial metal bands of the time anyway.

Also, the fucking entitlement to boohoo when the masses don’t reflect your music taste is not metal. Go cry yourself to sleep hugging your hair records.

I was little when 80s metal made the transition to 90s metal. I remember were a ton of shitty Poison and Bon Jovi wannabe bands still circling the drain, but there were really good bands like Extreme and Skid Row, etc. who had yet to show us their best... and got shelved in exchange for all of the one-album Nirvana wannabes. It's the nature of the industry.

Regardless, by 2005, metal was king again. People realized that the Kurt Cobains were nowhere near as legit and cool as the Lemmys and John Lydons. It's not very "punk" to give in to peer pressure, and yet that's exactly what the Eddie Vedders and Bonos of the world want us to do. Fuck that.

 

[NowYou'rePlayingWithPower]

I like music.

 

[Floyd Eye]

Something needed to kill hair metal.

 

[skoora]

Something needed to kill hair metal.

Ultimately it extinguished itself as all it’s oxygen had been removed through executive formula. A polka resurgence could have knocked it over in 1990/1.
People were aching for some other kind of mainstream rock/metal to breathe life.
Then the executives squeezed every drop out of that by ‘94/‘95.

 

[MadAsAHatter]

And it has to be said: Kurt did NOT kill himself.

I'm pretty sure he did. My theory is he sobered up, realized what the fuck he was married to, and took the easy way out.

 

[Floyd Eye]

Ultimately it extinguished itself as all
Its oxygen had been removed through executive formula. A polka resurgence could have knocked it over in 1990/1.
People were aching for some other kind of mainstream rock/metal to breathe life.
Then the executives squeezed every drop out of that by ‘94/‘95.

Well, it's what they do isn't it. Or used to be. The record companies aren't as "All encompassing" these days I suppose.