Whatever Happened to Alternative Nation?

[Abraham Smashington]

Green River is still one of the best "grunge bands" that no one seems to talk about.

[Timothy225]

I nominate Vin as the Great White Hipster Hunter. Who's with me?

Yep, read the article, shaking my head the whole time. Kid was too young to really appreciate the time period, to take advantage of all it offered, etc. so his opinion becomes suspect and irrelevant as a result.

By the mid-80's I was thoroughly into the alternative/underground music scene, mostly thanks to my college's radio station, the fact I had easy access to several quality record stores (Vintage Vinyl, folks! Used to mainline that store every week when it was in Eatontown), as well as many, MANY clubs to see bands play. Most of those, sadly, are long since gone - Club Bene, Birch Hill, The FastLane, The Saint, etc. Also the Stone Pony, though it's been ages since I've been there. That whole genre finally hit the mainstream during the grunge movement, despite not all of it being grunge or a distant relation at best.

IMHO, figuring grunge began and ended with Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc. ignores a lot of preceding history, and unless you were really part of the scene at the time, you really can't speak of it beyond how Nevermind made you feel. Dude who wrote this article was out of it before he even got to high school, so take that for what you will.

[V]

VIN-dication!

Your back. I haz it.

[Abraham Smashington]

VIN-dication!

[V]

It's true. I linked the article here and on Farceberk.

[Abraham Smashington]

Now hold on for a second,

No hipster uses food stamps.

Do a google search for that. I remember reading an article at Salon about this.

[Ed Hocken]

Now hold on for a second,

No hipster uses food stamps.

They have money from their parents.

[V]

OK, I just finished reading that first column, and I don't think I'll be able to stomach the remaining. He dismissed the music, tells the reader by high school he has trashed all the CDs he accumulated, and didn't listen to any of the music again until just recently. He's the one trying to write an retrospective on how much of a cultural shift grunge music was? The guy that listened to the music for at most 5 years, and dismissed it for a decade? Come on.

Fucking hipsters, man...

They're everywhere.

Slacking in your neighborhood, buying caviar with food stamps... writing articles.

This shit needs to end. Now.

[Ed Hocken]

The guy said it was a prologue article, he's no Nathan Rabin. Still, I always enjoy the comments that follow.

[BillyG]

OK, I just finished reading that first column, and I don't think I'll be able to stomach the remaining. He dismissed the music, tells the reader by high school he has trashed all the CDs he accumulated, and didn't listen to any of the music again until just recently. He's the one trying to write an retrospective on how much of a cultural shift grunge music was? The guy that listened to the music for at most 5 years, and dismissed it for a decade? Come on.

[Ed Hocken]

Also, I just remembered that Violator came out that year. Goddamn, what an album.

[Ed Hocken]

*clears throat* You forgot someone.

Sorry,

....AND HOWARD.

There.

[V]

Yea. I was kind of shocked to acknowledge it myself. I told my girlfriend and she gave me this look like she wanted to hug me for realizing I just changed this really fundamental thing in my life. The list was always

1A - Megadeth
1B - Faith No More
1C - Led Zeppelin

1C now goes to Chains, and Zeppelin moves to 2.

Brock Samson's password says it all.

John. Bonham. Rocks.

[BillyG]

Yea. I was kind of shocked to acknowledge it myself. I told my girlfriend and she gave me this look like she wanted to hug me for realizing I just changed this really fundamental thing in my life. The list was always

1A - Megadeth
1B - Faith No More
1C - Led Zeppelin

1C now goes to Chains, and Zeppelin moves to 2.

[V]

*clears throat* You forgot someone.

Yep... he's earned a beating fo sho.