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Without doubt, you've heard a sickening amount about the newest music craze in America, grunge metal. Unless, of course, you're one of the invisible legions of pre-sell-out alternative fiends who slept and ate the likes of Metallica, Nirvana, Soundgarden, L7, Smashing Pumpkins and Jane's Addiction before those annoying bandwagoneers jumped on and spoiled the secret--you still love your bands, but you hate the tag-alongs...
...their hour-plus set still featured their pioneering fusion of hardcore and metal--a hard, guitar-driven sound that has reached mainstream with such hands as Nirvana and Pearl Jam. The audience responded to the music and Gipe's distinctive growl and wagging tongue with appropriate moshing and stage-diving in a bruising display of fan appreciation. At various times, band members jumped into the crowd and floated atop a sea of large, sweaty, tatooed arms...
Mainstream pop success is a difficult cross to bear for avant-garde hard rockers. Their stock-in-trade is assaulting the status quo and ridiculing pop culture, yet suddenly their songs are mixed into Top 40 radio's diet of fluffy, fast-food hits. Bands such as Metallica and Nirvana have scored their share of chart toppers recently without being perceived as "selling out." Now, two years after their critically acclaimed, breakthrough album The Real Thing, the San Francisco-based quintet Faith No More are the latest heavy- metal hitters to arrive at this crossroads...
...Sunday afternoons the city closes riverside Memorial Drive, and the area is transformed into a recreational nirvana called Riverbend Park. Hot dog and pretzel vendors lining the streets add to the festive atmosphere...
From within as well as from without, alternative rock is an interesting jumble or a total mess, depending on your point of view. There is constant infighting among musicians as to who is really alternative and who is merely posing. Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, quoted in Rolling Stone, says he feels the "duty to warn kids of false music that's claiming to be underground or alternative," while his band itself is roundly criticized for selling out. Rampant accusations of cheesiness from all sides give this kind of continuous conflict a kind of Maoist tone--no one is ever revolutionary...