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Laughing, I am one of the younger X'ers. I was born in '77. >I got more of a "we live in a fucked up world, what are we going to do about it, or at least let's

Laughing, I am one of the younger X'ers. I was born in '77. >I got more of a "we live in a fucked up world, what are we going to do about it, or at least let's throw one fuck of a party" vibe, not a "we live in a fucked up world... oh well, fuck it" vibe. I've always attributed the former to the 60s movement and the latter to Generation X. >I have mixed feelings about the changes in the music scene in the early 90's. If you're at all referring to the emergence of grunge and "alternative", then I hope it never awakens again. I hate the labels of grunge and such. It was about when good music dominated the consciousness and overcame 80s pop music (the lousy kind) and hair band rock. There are some bands who were considered metal and their legacy continues to survive, such as Metallica. I am glad to be rid of the Motley Crues of the world.

adestefan 15y ago
I remember hearing something that went along the lines of, "I knew the music industry changed forever when I walked into the Columbia Records headquarters and all the posters for Warrant were replaced by posters for Alice in Chains."
- mindcrime 15y ago
  No doubt. AiC were pretty good though, IMO. I liked them a lot more than the other bands that one usually associates with that era: Pearl Jam, STP, Soundgarden, Silver Chair, etc. In fact, you just inspired me to put on some AiC to rock out too right now. :-)
  - adestefan 15y ago
    I did the same thing. Listened to Jars of Flies with lunch.
mindcrime 15y ago
> I am glad to be rid of the Motley Crues of the world. LOL... Motley Crue are my favorite band. Guess we're not going to align to closely on the music preference thing. :-) That said, some of the stuff billed as "metal" by the very early 1990's (Steelheart, Nelson, etc.) was either just plain bad music, or - at best - decent pop music, but definitely not metal. Metal went back underground after the grunge/alt revolution, and that serves me fine. If you dig deep, there was a lot of great metal music made during the 90's... you just didn't (mostly) hear it on the radio or hear anybody else talking about it... which is the way things should be, as far as I can tell. Anyway, the fact that I was, and remain, a metal-head is probably one major way in which I never fit the typical Gen-X mold. Not sure what that means, but, hey... whatever. Now, about that party...

adestefan 15y ago

I remember hearing something that went along the lines of, "I knew the music industry changed forever when I walked into the Columbia Records headquarters and all the posters for Warrant were replaced by posters for Alice in Chains."

mindcrime 15y ago
No doubt. AiC were pretty good though, IMO. I liked them a lot more than the other bands that one usually associates with that era: Pearl Jam, STP, Soundgarden, Silver Chair, etc. In fact, you just inspired me to put on some AiC to rock out too right now. :-)
- adestefan 15y ago
  I did the same thing. Listened to Jars of Flies with lunch.

mindcrime 15y ago

> I am glad to be rid of the Motley Crues of the world. LOL... Motley Crue are my favorite band. Guess we're not going to align to closely on the music preference thing. :-) That said, some of the stuff billed as "metal" by the very early 1990's (Steelheart, Nelson, etc.) was either just plain bad music, or - at best - decent pop music, but definitely not metal. Metal went back underground after the grunge/alt revolution, and that serves me fine. If you dig deep, there was a lot of great metal music made during the 90's... you just didn't (mostly) hear it on the radio or hear anybody else talking about it... which is the way things should be, as far as I can tell. Anyway, the fact that I was, and remain, a metal-head is probably one major way in which I never fit the typical Gen-X mold. Not sure what that means, but, hey... whatever. Now, about that party...