THE GRUNGE MOVEMENT
90's ROCK BY: THE ONE AND ONLY BRITNEY ANDERSON
Central Question
What influences from 90's rock music impacted society?
How did 90's rock commence?
- Alternative rock is a genre of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980's and became widely popular in the 1990's.
- In the early 1980's, Los Angeles ' paisley underground revived the sounds of the 1960's, incorporating psychedelia, rich vocal harmonies and guitar interplay of folk rock as well as punk underground influences.
- By the late 1980's, the American alternative scene was dominated by styles ranging from quirky alternative pop to noise rock to industrial rock and grunge such as Sound Garden (Seattle sound).
- By the end of the 1980's magazines and zines, college radio airplay and word of mouth increases the prominence and highlighted the diversity of alternative rock.
Wack slacks: Old ripped jeans
Fuzz: Heavy wool sweaters
Plats: Platform shoes
Rock music was the most important aspects of America's youth culture.
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS 1999
The song tells a story about the plastic unrealistic image that Hollywood sells to the world and yet how obsessed people are with attaining that fame and that forever young image.
SOUNDGARDEN 1994
The song illustrates the seemingly hopeless fantasy, revealing the darkness hidden underneath the smiling face of the white-picket fence American life.
XD BLINK-182 XD 1999
The song is actually based on Tom DeLonge (previous guitarist) and his girlfriend, he wrote the song after she complained that he always writes songs about other girls. He was afraid it wouldn't be good so he kept telling her it was terrible.
THE OFFSPRING 1994
The song is about a guy who lets his girlfriend walk all over him. The reason: he has no self esteem.
NIRVANA
His parents divorced when he was nine years old which had a profound effect on his life.
The Beatles were an early and lasting influence on him. He was married to Courtney Love and had a daughter Frances Bean Cobain. He hated the fame and the attention.
Cobain said the song is based on a man who, after the death of his girlfriend, turns to religion as a last resort to keep himself alive. To keep him from suicide.
THE 27 CLUB
Mystery of the white lighter- generates bad luck.
Amy Winehouse, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison.