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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
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.
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It's interesting how cities get marketed because of various mentions of buildings, spots, bars, shops etc where iconic bands appeared at one point or another. At the time the Velvet Underground were out and about New York had around probably 1/100 of the bars and cafes it has now. A lot of the ''art'' life was still based on the streets, in parks, and privately rented spaces. In London's case it's probably even more drastic because of the stricter licensing laws of the past and the geography of the city.