Word: punk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Punk rock ponders the personal destiny of suicide...
...Punk rock seemed to erupt from the dour social fabric of recessionary Britain in the mid-1970's. The blasphemous music was loud and furious, the clothes and hair were ripped and dishevelled, and the pioneering Sex Pistols lasted less than ten months...
America's recession of the early 1990's would spawn a resurgence of punk--but with a terrible twist. "Grunge" rock expresses the frustrations of a generation who feel they have "no future." As the Sex Pistols named their only album Never Mind the Bollocks, America's punk idols, Nirvana, dubbed their 1991 national debut Nevermind...
Like most young Americans, Nirvana's leader, Kurt Cobain, sensed the attraction of living out the fantastic myths of his punk heroes. He decoded his simple mission in the booklet for the 1992 compilations album Incesticide. "To pay tribute like an Elvis or Jimi Hendrix impersonator in the tradition of a bar band." Yet, both Elvis Presley and Jimi Hendrix were rock gods who succumbed early to tragic drug overdoses. So wouldn't chance departure form this life be a pathetic cliche...
...talent and influence, however, the reaction was understandable. Nirvana came from the music-industry equivalent of nowhere, with a rough-edged first album recorded for a chiselly $606. The next, Nevermind, released 2 1/2 years ago, contained a series of crunching, screaming songs that also had catchy melodies, part punk, part Beatles. Selling almost 10 million copies and knocking Michael Jackson's Dangerous from the top of the charts, the album fibrillated the psyche of a generation. It also launched the commercial vogue for grunge and made Seattle famous for something other than cappuccino, rain and bad professional sports. Before...