The Alt-Culture and Grunge-Ridden Era of the Nineties
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- Опубликовано: 2 янв 2018
- 50 Years of Style and Music: from grunge gods to regal rappers
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Vodka?
Yes, I love vodka.
Lol
same.
He really did love vodka. I saw a clip of Kurt just knocking it back and my jaw dropped
The 90s was truly a time to be yourself , expressing yourself and speaking your mind and nobody ripping you apart for it. Special time to be alive. Mentality was very healthy back then.
The mentality is so different today. Yesterday on the NBC Nightly News they only had three stories:
1.) Damage from tornadoes in and around the Kentucky area
2.) The death count from the coronavirus
3.) Court drama about the January Riots.
I am not exaggerating that either, there were only three stories.
To put that in perspective, the Nightly News potentially covers all the news in the entire world and that is what they focused on.
rose tinted af
Grunge want't bought into the mainstream by Nirvana it was many bands that brought 90's Grunge into the Mainstream. Grunge was huge and poured out of Seattle to the rest of the World!
Nah smells like teen spirit basically brought it to the mainstream.
@@nateplant Really didn’t though, Alice in Chains and Soundgarden both were getting signed and bringing their music into the mainstream with songs like Man in the Box. Pearl Jam released the album Ten afew months before Nevermind, sure Nirvana really broke into the mainstream but bands were already getting signed and making great music.
@@user-zi5nv8sj7m what I’m saying is no other band made a impact like nirvana. They were mainstream, at the top in a matter of one week after the smells like teenspirit video. Everyone into grunge after that video. I’m not discrediting the other popular grunge bands. They were very good too if not better than nirvana.
@@user-zi5nv8sj7m I agree. I think the people just picked Kurt and Nirvana (of all ppl & bands right? Lol) as the stamp of approval into the mainstream but AIC and Sound garden were already pretty big before nirvana came along. Tbh idek what it was that made them the face of the grunge movement but it was well deserved. Great albums, and timeless sounds and influences came from them so I guess it’s a blessing in disguise lol.
i find it interesting that grunge existed at the same time of east coast rap since grunge was about being anti corporate and buying flannels and band tees from second hand stores while east coast rap was about buying the most expensive items from the highest brand stores and showing off how much money you had- the two were the biggest genres of music in the 90s yet were total opposites of one another
The excess in hip hop didn't start until the mid to late ninties. In the early ninties there was wu tang, nas, das fx, redman, and other rappers who were more likened to grunge.
Don't believe everything you read.. so to speak. Rappers weren't sporting Versace and shit until mid to late 90's. If you pay attention real close or do your own research (if you weren't around) Tupac was the first rapper to sport expensive suits then Biggie followed after. Watch the first video by Biggie called Juicy, which came out in 1994 (right after grunge).. biggie is wearing a jersey.. it was after Bad Boys blew up in 1995 that Biggie started to sport tailor made suit. In the early 90's rappers on both coast were still sporting hood clothes. That dude Joe Levy don't know wtf he's talking about. My brothers and I have been hating on that dude since the 90's. A typical pretentious journalist who thinks he knows it all from how he talks and what be coming out of his mouth all the time. Can't believe that dude is still alive.
@@maxsilver8148 exactly! Hip hops flashyness didn't began until mid to late ninties. Money and flossing(showing off) really didn't start being apart of the culture as a whole until jay z became popular. Jay Z is the first rapper who was all about buying bottles and driving expensive cars 98-99. Biggie spoke on it but it really wasn't his persona just like Pac. Jay z was the one then cash money then everyone
Well it was not all just a trend rich kids like bling and poor kids don't care then even kids who got money were used to just not caring still liked thrift stores sometimes you could like both too and like some grunge was expensive doc martins were not cheap I had a pair and they were not comfortable either could not break them in gave them away wore knock offs that did not hurt my feet. We wore jeans but I would only wear levis or calvin klein for a while that red tab on your ass used to matter. Wore guys shirts all the time but with a tight crop top under and choker necklaces.
Rap scence in 90s just become flashy about money when it become too competitive because of many beefs and rivalries.
Meanwhile Grunge doesn't had any beefs with each other the only beef they had so far is with non 'grunge' or 'alternative' bands like Guns N Roses but if it's a beef between two grunge bands, no so much.
and also 'grunge' scene was very political and nihilistic vibe, Rap meanwhile although talks about political and social issues like police brutality and racial tensions they weren't very political in most cases.
0:45 Oh Kurt, you legend
- you like fatherhood?
- vodka?
I was in my 20s during the 80s and was a huge fan of metal and hair metal music. When that era ended and grunge took over I was a little disappointed at first that my favorite bands wouldn't be putting out new music anymore, but once I heard some of the music coming out of Seattle that subsided and I became a big fan. Especially the first time I heard Soundgarden. They absolutely blew me away. Chris Cornell had one of the most powerful and passionate singing voices I'd ever heard.
“Do you like fatherhood”
“Vodka? Yes I love vodka”
I believe the 90s will go down as the all around greatest musical era
Oh shut up grunge just needs to stay underground and rock on, punk gets to live on, so does goth, and metal, why not grunge?
Says who?
That’s definitely the 60s by a light year
70s we’re solid for a lot of genres. 90s had maybe 5 years maximum. There was a lot of trash in the mainstream
@@reefk8876 90's music was way more versatile than the 60's and 70's. You would think that those decades paved the way for the 90's but instead it became the last decade of originality. Not only were there so many genres hitting mainstream appeal but everyone was into it. I grow tired hearing kids these days talk about how women are more powerful and accepted now when girls from my generation fronted hard rock bands and didn't have to dress provocative to get people to listen to them. Shit, even the vampires in my generation got their asses handed to them by a hot blonde with a steak.
I was Grunge in the mid 70s. I did my own thing. My appearance and attire resembled the likes of Cobain and Vedder. The style just didn't have a name yet. My hair length was lower than my shoulders when the rest of the guys my age were getting feathered hair cuts that barely touched their collars. I wore flannel shirts in the winter and old t-shirts in the summer. I wore dark corduroy pants with either hiking boots or military boots. Mainstream guys usually wore polyester shirts and pants with those girly-looking high-heeled shoes. They were also bopping out to Disco or the other AM radio popcorn music. I was listening to the loudest rock I could find on underground FM radio.
The early 90s was a fabulous period of time... then the late 90s and early 2000s came and everything went downhill
Noodle Soup everything went downhill because of the technology and social media... which is the result of the 2010s
@@Pharaoh_The_Great nope.. dude is right.. late 90's was crap because after bands like Soundgarden and Faith no more broke up it's like real rock went and died with some of these great late 80's early 90's band whom pioneered the way.. by 1997 Backstreet Boys and NSYNC were taking over MTV and in 1999 Brittany Spears and Christina Aguilera were now also solidifying there mark on pop music that has continued to fester into the new millennium in where we are now at 20 years later. The fun of music died in the late 90's.. has nothing to do with technology. By the way were you even around back then? No offense but you speak as if you know too much from reading it off the internet and running with a false assumption there bruh.
@@Pharaoh_The_Great more so the culture, but I get what you mean. I also think now so many kids are addicted to social media and live vicariously through their phones that they don’t get out there and make music like they used to. It’s not as authentic, and a lot of artists now just make music to get on the trending page, and it seems the more shitty a song is the more attention it gets just for being so outrageously bad, and gets shared on apps like Tiktok.
Hahahahaha, yup, what he said.
It got better at some point
In my opinion it has been all downhill since then for the most part.
There are good bands in the indie, stoner, and sludge scenes that would have been huge alternative bands in the 90's but MTV dropped rockcentric programming in 1997 and that was that.
I'd do anything just to get back to the 90's
No you don't
The East coast was not all Puff. Biggie was the face of it, as well as Nas and Jay-Z.
So the video is basically mention kurt cobain for 1 minute and spend the rest talking about Puff daddy
Yeah, just imbarassing Rolling Stone 👎
for real 😂
Ahhhh the 90's was the last time we all shared cultural zeitgeists in music together.
Rap and grunge to me are kinda like two brothers. They both hate eachother because of the sibling rivalry but they both respect eachother, although they'll never admit it
We need to bring GRUNGE music back into the mainstream
Stop playing EDM all over the radio its getting boring day by day
S K isn’t bringing grunge into mainstream counteracting and hypocritical? most grunge artists felt grunge died when it became mainstream in the 90s?
@@okcoolros4121 its all about the perspective... i made my point above because in all over radio stations i only get to hear either hip/hop music or edm music even the streaming services force us to listen edm or rap music ... I'm getting over with it... if grunge make a comeback into mainstream it will be a breathe of fresh air... atleast for me
Edm is awesome
Just close your eyes and imagine what'd happen if Nirvana was still around.
If Kurt Cobain Was still with us.
Not Here88 it would be impossible since he would probably die out of overdose anyways...
Diogenes the drunk What if he overdosed in 2032 or something
Imagine what it'd be like to have him around
Not Here88 I'm pretty sure if he didn't commit suicide somewhere around 2000-2004 he would die out of overdose or worse...He would be like Eminem you know slowly getting shittier.
Diogenes the drunk I agree with you about the overdose part but not getting shitter,I think he'd know when's the right time to quit
nah, part of his appeal and mystique is that he died. it sealed his legend status. If he was still around today, he would not be nearly as cool... probably like Jerry Cantrell or Eddie Vedder. meh
you can thank seattle for the 90s
0:49 What's that music ?
What the mud?? 😂
my name is mud - primus 🤣
Teen spirits' memoriiiiiaaaaaaa..... 🤟💜
can i still be grunge and listen to west/east coast rap? 😳
Ouch!, Like rubbing the best of times in our face.
Why is everything between 5 and 10 minutes?
Oh How I miss the 90s😔😔
In popular culture Nevermind defines the grunge era, but in my opinion, it actually marks the start of the end ...
Yeah straight up, nirvana is good as shit but it marked the end of a subgenre that was still developing
What did you guy's live under a rock??? It died with Chris Cornell.
This video and it's poorly associated interview choices pretty much was the low point of my entire day.
Nothing against hip hop.
But not a single authoritative musician of punk, indie or anything in this clip
Just a bunch o bullshitting, that reduces musicto fashion.
Came here to understand Grunge music, left half way after being force fed Rap culture and fashion. WTF?
Get over it
It's about all 90s music.
I love vodka too!! Kurt and me are so alike.
If you like grunge, check out the band Drab from New Orleans in my videos. They’re one of a handful of bands still carrying that torch.
grunge died for me in 1994 2002 2011 2015 2017 2018 and still love it and still listen to it and still watch it and for who dont understand it go listen to music the movement that seattle washington and ireland had to offer us and the cranberries are also part of it too even though they were from another country we didnt care bcause grunge will live forever in our hearts and memories even though they are gone kurt cobain layne staley mike starr scott weiland chris cornell and the lead singer of the cranberries we still missed them
I think Kurt was more afraid not to live than not afraid to die.
They really misviewed it.
lol deep
I think it's more like he was murdered
Best era in music. Obviously - to this day -touched a nerve with the media controlled Baby Boomers who hated the "grunge" ear because they didn't change or sell out or redo a tired Beatles song.
Agreed.
PJ Webster I mean even grunge musicians loved the Beatles.
Rip Grunge
mid 80s to April 8, 1994 (died when Kurt Cobain died)
@@colinmiller8824 Nah, Purple by Stone Temple Pilots came out right after Cobain death. In my opinion I think Purple is the album that saved but also killed Grunge. Superunknown by Soundgarden also came out like a month before Cobains death also.
@@idkanymore9869 People who think grunge died when Cobain died don't know anything about rock lol
Grunge, britpop, hiphop, funk/nu metal and emo. Thank god i'am a 90's kid🤘😎☮️
Kuuuurrrt!!
I feel like the ppl talking in this vid are ppl who were on the outside looking in at both rock and rap lmao like do these ppl look like theyd be at a punk concert🤣
Shout out A$AP
Hey you underrated Michael the king!!!
This might have been the last full era of truly great music. Calling my childhood semi-charmed doesn't seem "grunge" enough. 😏
@aofmual but possibly the last era of truly great rock. We get a real artist pop up every now and again. But the Seattle Rick scene in the 90s was stacked.
@aofmual I'm pretty sure everyone's a poser in Jr high.
Ya rappers talking rock
It was the beginning of the end. Us 80s kids could feel it in the air.
I lived it & it was the best bottom line is you had to be there 😎✌️❤️🎸🚬
90s hipsters,but cooler .
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Lol shots fired at the Notorious PUFFY lol I was like damn what did the East Coast do to this guy
Nirvana was post punk. Aic was metal.grunge was just an industry planted term that still means nothing.
East Coast rap and rappers style tried to copy Mob movies. West Coast rappers was street gang culture.
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Yeah it was about how fearless Kurt Cobain was and wanting to feel that, not about him being a compassionate voice for people with mental health issues.. Good job of subtly glorifying suicide Rolling Stone.. noice
People who didnt even born when grunge was popular speaking abour Grunge....mmmm
was this about grunge?! lol
Suplose to be a grunge vid but talk about rap for 80% of the vid
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They said some pretty dumb shit
I agree, yes they did they sound like some sheltered assholes that didn't witness shit go down ever.
Misleading title Rolling Stone 👎
Who else watched this just to see Michael Jackson 😅
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Yes I agree, more like Rolling pile of SH@#!
The 80s was better IMO
80s was cheesy rock and rap wise