Grunge

I never got into the “grunge” music of the early 90’s. I was in my transition from Milli Vanilli to Metal. So I devoted all my time to Metallica and Pantera. Anything outside of metal was absolute crap. I refused to listen to the Nirvanas and the Alice in Chains of the world. I told myself “It’s just trendy BS for the masses and it would soon go away”. Even today I tend to fight the trendy stuff, I just have a harder time trying to do it. I like the Justin Timberlakes and Timbalands out there. I just have to draw the line on Fergie and any American Idolist.

In the past couple of years I have been on the search for good music. I’m finding the stuff I listen to gets kind of old…real quick. So I have reached all the back to the 60’s, 70’s, and 90’s (I didn’t even mention the 80’s. I love any music that has a keytar). When I got to the 90’s I gave Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains a listen. Wow! I totally missed out on this great music. Alice in Chains completely blows me away, even more so after reading about Layne Stanley. I really dig this version of Nutshell from their Unplugged session.

So I wonder, in 10-15 years will I be looking back really digging on Fergie and her humps? I seriously hope not.

Is there any new band/performer out today that will stand the test of time? I can’t think of any. But I’m wrong 79% of the time.

Btw, I still think Nirvana is the most overrated band out there. Same goes for Soundgarden.