super nintendo chalmers wrote:It's not a book, but Hype! should be all they need.
Yarms book is good too. What little I read of it.
Spot on SNC. I've still got my old VHS copy of Hype!. It's pretty damn good. I haven't watched it in a while, but I clearly remember one of the teenagers they interviewed at a festival complaining that too many people were now into grunge, and he was pissed because he was into it first. He was a grunge hipster.
It had a classic Ed quote too: I mean, you hear a song that's a great song; play it a million times, you never want to hear it again... "If I hear that song one more time... if I see that guy's face one more time... I'm gonna fuckin find out his address and kill that motherfucker!" I don't blame 'em. I've said it myself.
Rangi Guy wrote:So skating back to the train station after work today things went wrong.....now my skateboard is at the bottom of the harbour
tattooedeverything wrote:There's also a book called Strangest Tribe: How A Group of Seattle Rock Bands Invented Grunge by Stephen Tow.
I really enjoyed this. It was a bit academic in tone compared to the Mark Yarm and Greg? Prato books but it gave much better coverage of the pre-Nevermind Seattle. I think all 3 provide comprehensive coverage with a good spread of interviewees.
Lament wrote: Like I always say, "Anyone who thinks getting kicked in the nuts by one person sucks has never gotten kicked in the nuts by two people at the same time."
stip wrote:A friend of mine is teaching a class on the idea of 'cool' and he's structuring the course around major trends decade by decade. A lot of the class will be on music. He asked me if there are any key books or essays on grunge. Are there?
I don't remember what was actually in the article, but would the infamous Time magazine article work? Being that it was written in the middle of the height of it?
I thought it was good until it started praising the Foo Fighters for "brightness" and "grunge transcendence" (what's that?).
Yeah the problem is grunge isn't a real sub genre. Most bands that one might put under that moniker don't really have much in common. So saying grunge has no shelf life is kinda dumb because it was never a real thing. The term grunge never really mattered. Those bands were different degrees on the rock dial. Calling them alt rock seems more appropriate. Unless you wanna say that the alt rock late 80s early 90s Seattle scene is called grunge in which case it would be pretty unlikely for it to continue forever unless the expectation is that every band in that geographic location is forever required to pick one of the big four bands from that era and do their impression.
i was about to say, "grunge" is more location based. alt rock or pop punk is probably what i think as "cool" music genres of the early/mid 90s.
Yeah, if a band didn't come out of the Pacific Northwest 80s underground music scene, I don't think they can rightly be considered "grunge". As absurd as that term is, it's entirely meaningless when it's applied to bands that have nothing to do with that regional scene.
super nintendo chalmers wrote:It's not a book, but Hype! should be all they need.
Yarms book is good too. What little I read of it.
Spot on SNC. I've still got my old VHS copy of Hype!. It's pretty damn good. I haven't watched it in a while, but I clearly remember one of the teenagers they interviewed at a festival complaining that too many people were now into grunge, and he was pissed because he was into it first. He was a grunge hipster.
It had a classic Ed quote too: I mean, you hear a song that's a great song; play it a million times, you never want to hear it again... "If I hear that song one more time... if I see that guy's face one more time... I'm gonna fuckin find out his address and kill that motherfucker!" I don't blame 'em. I've said it myself.
this was the height of eddie vedder's weirdo days
i still cant over the fact that a guy named Mark Yarm wrote a book about grunge
super nintendo chalmers wrote:It's not a book, but Hype! should be all they need.
Yarms book is good too. What little I read of it.
Spot on SNC. I've still got my old VHS copy of Hype!. It's pretty damn good. I haven't watched it in a while, but I clearly remember one of the teenagers they interviewed at a festival complaining that too many people were now into grunge, and he was pissed because he was into it first. He was a grunge hipster.
It had a classic Ed quote too: I mean, you hear a song that's a great song; play it a million times, you never want to hear it again... "If I hear that song one more time... if I see that guy's face one more time... I'm gonna fuckin find out his address and kill that motherfucker!" I don't blame 'em. I've said it myself.
this was the height of eddie vedder's weirdo days
i still cant over the fact that a guy named Mark Yarm wrote a book about grunge
super nintendo chalmers wrote:It's not a book, but Hype! should be all they need.
Yarms book is good too. What little I read of it.
Spot on SNC. I've still got my old VHS copy of Hype!. It's pretty damn good. I haven't watched it in a while, but I clearly remember one of the teenagers they interviewed at a festival complaining that too many people were now into grunge, and he was pissed because he was into it first. He was a grunge hipster.
It had a classic Ed quote too: I mean, you hear a song that's a great song; play it a million times, you never want to hear it again... "If I hear that song one more time... if I see that guy's face one more time... I'm gonna fuckin find out his address and kill that motherfucker!" I don't blame 'em. I've said it myself.
Mama SNC took me to that movie in the theater Veterans Day 1996. Went and got the soundtrack afterwards.
Still ain't right.
David Yow wrote:How are Pearl Jam any different from Toto?
So if I mention someone's book, it's a plug and I'm the author? OK...
The Yarm and Prato books had already been mentioned and I knew of a third one, so I thought I'd post it. Just trying to help the OP.
So if I mention someone's book, it's a plug and I'm the author? OK...
The Yarm and Prato books had already been mentioned and I knew of a third one, so I thought I'd post it. Just trying to help the OP.
It was a joke. (☞ﾟ∀ﾟ)☞
Anders wrote:I do not have a «neoliberal assessment of geopolitics», so please stop writing that I do.
tattooedeverything wrote:Well, I kinda figured. Sorry about that. It's just that I've seen people on the internet do what you did, but in complete seriousness.
Im sure he was serious.
He is sending PMs to the mods asking if they know who are you.
