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my recollection of first hearing nirvana was how well they articulated angst-- the fun was the release-- a kind of gallows humor, sorta.

george bush was still president. the era of the pc had not yet exploded the stock market and a lot of young people were overeducated & underemployed. cynicism was rampant. linklater's "slackers" is probably the best documentary of that time. and yet still somehow the cheery 80s mentality kept slapping its asscheeks from pure inertia-- look ma, it's desert storm. when nirvana started playing on the radio it was like a collective sense of relief that finally everyone admitted that things were really shit and there was no point pretending otherwise. it was the first nail in reagan's coffin-- of course they've been trying to resurrect that creeper ever since, but it won't work.