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Ok, I'm old and got into punk in the late 70s. Never lived in a place with a really big active scene until Seattle in the late 80s / early 90s, but honestly tha
by sverige 8y ago
Ok, I'm old and got into punk in the late 70s. Never lived in a place with a really big active scene until Seattle in the late 80s / early 90s, but honestly that wasn't punk per se, it was something different. More rock than punk, I would say. Feel free to disagree. The Bellingham Bash in 1990 or 91 had a good vibe, though, and I saw Nirvana at Squid Row for a dollar before they got famous.
I think the point is that punk is accessible and relateable for a lot of people. The punk people I've known were the most open-minded of any crowd, whether that was built around music or something else. I think it's true that it still unites people who otherwise would probably not mix. They are also the most open to different styles of music.
And as for connecting people across space and time, I can't help but think of The Fall's "Telephone Thing" every time I remember the douchebags at Google have all my data as I type HN comments. How dare you assume I want to parlez-vous with you.
- AceJohnny2 8y agoPunk or cypherpunk? :)
- singingfish 8y agoI saw Nirvana kind of before they were famous too (first British tour). Am I right in thinking they were kind of unmemorable, or was it just that I had other things on my mind at that gig?
- dvdcxn 8y agoBleach wasn't a very strong album, imo.
- drcode 8y agoIDK, I kind of felt that way too when I heard it after it came out and I started off as a Nirvana skeptic.. but nowadays when I listen to it again there was really some interesting and unique stuff on it.
- singingfish 8y agoBleach is my favourite of their albums :)
- rusk 8y ago> it was something different Grunge?
- sverige 8y agoYeah, that was the media's name for it. I never heard people call it that until the magazines and tv used the term. That lumped in a bunch of stuff, from Queensryche to Soundgarden to Nirvana to Mudhoney.
- rusk 8y agoAs a 90s kid living on the other side of the Atlantic that was my name for it too. The proliferation of the "Seattle Scene" was very much a product of MTV and 90s culture. I guess it's more of a cultural category than a musical one, but then again you could say the same thing about punk! EDIT it actually comes to mind that I've also heard Grunge referred to as "Post Punk"