Baby on Cover of Nirvana's Neverind Album Speaks

[Kire]

Life in general isn't quite as "cool" as it was when he jumped naked in the pool in the early '90s, though, he says. These days, his peers are too stuck on the Internet and video games. Ironically, he yearns for the era that gave Kurt Cobain, the lead singer for Nirvana, so much angst.

These days, Elden says, his peers concentrate on "playing Rock Band on Xbox, like, that's not a real band! That's the difference between the '90s and kids nowadays; kids in the '90s would actually go out and make a band!"

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[d_b]

1. glad i grew up in the 90's

that's for damn sure. I'll take Clinton and Nirvana over Dumbya and Metro Station any day.

[Kire]

2. me too

it's weird that the Smashing Pumpkins and Pearl Jam will one day be "oldies".

[d_b]

3. true that

Nevermind's 20th anniversary is coming up in three years.

And I'll be 30 that year =/

[Kire]

4. I'll be 36.

I was 16 when Nevermind came out, and it changed a lot of things in my high school.

At least, I thought it did. Suddenly, it was okay to wear green hair, among other things.

I used to wear army shorts from the Army Navy store, and I think I was the first in my school to wear Argyle socks with my combat boots. Now you have to go to "Hot Topic" to get anything like that to wear. That wouldn't be cool when every word out of my mouth was either "sell" or "out". There are no Army Navy stores near me anymore. They were pretty useful for a lot of reasons. Now everything, no matter what it is, has a "brand name". Yeesh.

[d_b]

9. 36

so you were right there when it all blew up.

My older brother Patrick (rip) had 11 years on me, and he was the one who turned me on to Nirvana. When I was twelve I had siamese dream, Nevermind, few other albums. By the time I was 13(94) I was a full-blown "grunge kid" . Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden, STP, Alice in Chains, Smashing Pumpkins were all huge at that time. I was also a big NIN fan. Then I guess around late 95 this cat Jason introduced me to the oldschool California punk scene, killing my grunge phase.


But i've since gone back to the 90's stuff. That was an awesome time to be a kid and into rock music. Mainstream or not, those were/are amazing fucking bands.

(and no shit, the hot topics here in Anchorage ran all the old hole-in-the-wall punk fashion places into the ground. They have some ok shirts I suppose, but everything else is just junk.)

[Kire]

10. this is so funny

I was actually IN a band. A heavy metal band, when "it all blew up". In fact, the guitar player quite to join the skinheads, and it took us a while to reform, and within a year we were still pretty metal, but we were doing shows with other bands, like one they called "Sunshine" where they would dress up like hippies similar to the drummer's mom when she was "our age" and they even covered a Nirvana song, but they rewrote the lyrics and called it "Smells Like More Money". When irony is involved, even irony itself will eventually become its own target.

Later I studied postmodernism in college, it's fun, to a certain point, and then, it gets into being quite mad.

[d_b]

11. sunshine sounds like a hot ticket

:D

[Kire]

12. they were great

and then we all graduated and went our separate ways

[Kire]

15. d_b

I'm very sorry to hear that your brother Patrick passed away. I have lost many friends and family members in my short life. I am also sorry that I did not acknowledge what you wrote (rip) about him back in July. Please feel free to PM me, I would like to show you some pictures of my dear departed father, and two of my friends from the time period we are discussing in this thread, when you have the time.

Warm Regards,
Erik B. Anderson

[TomClash]

5. But kids today have some good bands

Arctic Monkeys, Fratellis, Kaiser Chiefs, Wombats . . . just to name a few.

[Kire]

6. I guess the members of those bands...

...dont' go to this kid's high school.

[TomClash]

7. Probably not nt

[d_b]

8. how big are those bands?

every decade has its great indie bands. The mainstream rock is just utter crap.

[TomClash]

13. Some are not big at all

They are all British. The Arctic Monkeys are pretty popular for an alternative band. The Fratellis made a huge alt splash in the UK a year or two ago.

None would be considered mainstream. Your comment about mainstream rock is dead on, though I listen to a bit from time to time.

[d_b]

14. I really like Interpol and the Editors

too bad they aren't considered mainstream either.