Or, Thursday night with youtube.
Thanks to an abandonment of academic responsibility and a large bottle of "Bohemian" wine, I have a newfound appreciation for the first half of the 1990s, during which my older bro grabbed the remote and flipped from my chosen Nick at Night to the depraved MTV, as I reluctantly witnessed what it was to be cool in 1995.
Whoa!!! Anger! Dissafection with the deteriorating American Dream! Long hair that is badass and well-conditioned!!!
Lessons learned in retrospect:
1. Eddie Vedder is sex personified (thanks Keh).
2. Gavin Rossdale is a beautiful human, even prettier than Kurt Cobain but probably less talented (or too well-adjusted?). But Glycerine is an awesome video. Good god. Extra points to G. for NOT marrying a model. (ouch, Vedder.)
3. Anthony Kiedes (sp? I don't care) is a shit-eating vulture (see video for "Danny California") and if there was any justice in the world, his lack of talent would eat him from the inside. SoCal rock has always been an embarrassment (see Ratt, etc).
4. Green Day's 90s vids are as cool now as they were 14 years ago. Wow!
5. It's probably a sign of the times that the Offspring's "No Self Esteem" still sounds awesome. So does Live.
6. 90s rock (Nirvana, etc.) was based on an hatred of hair metal that was distilled for major labels into a poorly articulated vendetta against the norm (Stone Temple Pilots) and turned into a cliche critique of suburban businessmen and housewives. See Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun." You can almost see Chris Cornell channeling Dali.
a) Was the 1990s the beginning of the end? Is this the sound of the Regan era eating its own?
b)Why has 90s rock been rendered null and void by bandana-wearing hipsters? Is it because 90s bands were concerned with writing ill-conceived songs about things (ie the human condition, a nebulous version of the Man) , and contemporary artists write better songs about nothing (ie themselves, boring parties)?
7. Kurt, why did you kill yourself? Actually, I can see why.
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SERIOUSLY!
can we call our course "The 90s: The Decade Ahead of its Time"?
required reading?
thaxxx for the tutorial, as always.
and maybe a little tiny clause in your book, "i told you so: 101 ways the world will end and i was right about" you could say, "elsa told me so that eddie vedder is hawt."
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