![]() ![]() Even now, there’s not much attraction to the music – I own a couple of Nirvana tracks (including their ‘The Man Who Sold The World’ which is AWESOME – that guitar sound on the solo is spellbinding) and a Pearl Jam single (‘Given To Fly’ anyone ? God knows where that came from, although I don’t mind it).ĭespite not really caring too much for the music, I really enjoyed this book. At that time, it was all about R.E.M., Tori Amos, and Crowded House for me. ![]() ![]() Soundgarden’s ‘Spoonman’ made me prick up my ears but again, the interest left as swiftly as it came. Alice in Chains briefly snagged my interest with ‘Would ?’ but I don’t think my parents noticed me playing that dirge at high volume on MTV so it passed without incident. I’d heard of Mudhoney, and Tad, but equally Melvins and the U-Men were new to me. ![]() The same went for Nirvana, without the covers band I suppose no-one felt like taking on Cobain’s howl. Lots of friends were into them, enough that there was an 18th at the local football club that included a sort of 6th form college supergroup doing Pearl Jam covers. I briefly entertained Pearl Jam, although it was a pretty standard bit of teenage bandwaggoning – they were hip, I was trying to be etc. It gradually occurred to me, as I was reading this excellent and enjoyable oral history, that I didn’t, still don’t really like Grunge, or at least, any of the acts that this jerry-rigged genre supposedly covers. ![]()
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