deaths of an era

Post by **stip** » Wed February 23, 2022 1:07 pm

question for the music historians - has there been an era/period/scene of music that has suffered as many high profile untimely deaths as grunge?

Post by **Jorge** » Wed February 23, 2022 1:12 pm

BurtReynolds · Post by **BurtReynolds** » Wed February 23, 2022 2:02 pm

It also seems that grunge was the last gasp of rock and its hedonistic lifestyle. A truly dead worldview.

tree_ · Post by **tree_** » Wed February 23, 2022 2:07 pm

Definitely not dead, just not mainstream anymore. It's insane that it was so popular to begin with.

Higgs · Post by **Higgs** » Wed February 23, 2022 2:14 pm

80s post Punk and new romantic sounds are everywhere these days. Grunge revivalists will be kicking off in another 7 or 8 years, I'm sure.

BurtReynolds · Post by **BurtReynolds** » Wed February 23, 2022 2:24 pm

Higgs wrote:80s post Punk and new romantic sounds are everywhere these days. Grunge revivalists will be kicking off in another 7 or 8 years, I'm sure.

Digging up a corpse and making it dance around.

tree_ · Post by **tree_** » Wed February 23, 2022 2:25 pm

sounds like hedonism to me

Higgs · Post by **Higgs** » Wed February 23, 2022 2:41 pm

BurtReynolds wrote:
Higgs wrote:80s post Punk and new romantic sounds are everywhere these days. Grunge revivalists will be kicking off in another 7 or 8 years, I'm sure.
Digging up a corpse and making it dance around.

Almost all popular music is this, no?

warehouse · Post by **warehouse** » Wed February 23, 2022 2:44 pm

hip hop

it's probably b/c kurt cobain killed himself when i was a kid, but i almost always associate people from the 'grunge scene' with heroin. it just seems to always come up whenever people talk about the scene.

rick malone · Post by **rick malone** » Wed February 23, 2022 2:48 pm

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper plane crash. The planes were better thirty years in the future so the singers sought new methods of self destruction.

Post by **Jorge** » Wed February 23, 2022 2:50 pm

rick malone wrote:Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper plane crash. The planes were better thirty years in the future so the singers sought new methods of self destruction.

I believe this is commonly referred to as The Day an Airplane Carrying Multiple Musicians Crashed, Causing Their Untimely Deaths

tree_ · Post by **tree_** » Wed February 23, 2022 2:52 pm

Jorge, it's "The Day the Music Died"

close, though

Post by **Jorge** » Wed February 23, 2022 2:53 pm

What?

JuanHamm · Post by **JuanHamm** » Wed February 23, 2022 2:53 pm

oof, first the Moe/Otto mixup and now this...

tree_ · Post by **tree_** » Wed February 23, 2022 2:58 pm

Jorge wrote:What?

Listen closely to the lyrics in the song American Pie and you will be slapping yourself on the face

Post by **stip** » Wed February 23, 2022 3:13 pm

warehouse wrote:hip hop

it's probably b/c kurt cobain killed himself when i was a kid, but i almost always associate people from the 'grunge scene' with heroin. it just seems to always come up whenever people talk about the scene.

I guess that's part I am kind of asking about. Is hip hop equivalent to grunge? It seems like hip hop should be differentiated, right? Hip Hope would be compared to Rock, and there would be genres within it.

VinylGuy · Post by **VinylGuy** » Wed February 23, 2022 3:21 pm

yeah, im not sure if there was another movement were its high profile artists died kinda for the same reasons (we dont know Mark´s yet tough)

tree_ · Post by **tree_** » Wed February 23, 2022 3:22 pm

it's just rock, dudes... hendrix, morrison, joplin, cobain, etc... all the same

warehouse · Post by **warehouse** » Wed February 23, 2022 3:29 pm

stip wrote:
warehouse wrote:hip hop

it's probably b/c kurt cobain killed himself when i was a kid, but i almost always associate people from the 'grunge scene' with heroin. it just seems to always come up whenever people talk about the scene.
I guess that's part I am kind of asking about. Is hip hop equivalent to grunge? It seems like hip hop should be differentiated, right? Hip Hope would be compared to Rock, and there would be genres within it.

'grunge' is kinda unique b/c its associated so heavily with a city, but if you are looking for a similar type thing maybe "gangsta rap" late 90s early 00s. biggie and pac obviously. DMX and ODB both OD'd. Big L, Nate Dog were murdered. this is probably the closest thing I can think of outside of the late 60s early 70s when hendrix, morrison, joplin, etc died.

warehouse · Post by **warehouse** » Wed February 23, 2022 3:31 pm

early punk maybe? how far apart did darby crash and sid vicious die?

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