Red Mosquito

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.

tattooedeverything wrote:There's also a book called Strangest Tribe: How A Group of Seattle Rock Bands Invented Grunge by Stephen Tow.

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?

warehouse wrote:

bada wrote:

harmless wrote:

theplatypus wrote:Did Grunge Really Matter?
http://www.avclub.com/articles/did-grun ... er,105354/

Holy shit, that article is pessimistic.

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.

Varis wrote:I already won this thread and no-one even realises it.

Pfft.

Sgt. Crackpot wrote:

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.

warehouse wrote:

Sgt. Crackpot wrote:

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

warehouse wrote:this was the height of eddie vedder's trying too hard days

Sgt. Crackpot wrote:

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.

bada wrote:

warehouse wrote:this was the height of eddie vedder's trying too hard days

theplatypus wrote:Welcome to the board, Mr. Tow.

tattooedeverything wrote:

theplatypus wrote:Welcome to the board, Mr. Tow.

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.

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.

tattooedeverything wrote:OK, I get it. I did a dumb thing by bringing it up.