[pepsi_junkie]

I was in my 20s in the 90s so it was the soundrtrack of my bar hopping days. But over the past decade or so I kind of ignored it, my interest in grunge waning.

However I've recently been re-immersing myself in the music and grunge was gigantic but really only for a few years, strictly speaking. Nirvana collapsed, Pearl Jam changed their sound, etc. After that we had brit-pop (Oasis) and trip-hop (Bjork, Portishead) and the rise of hip-hop and a lot of unusual mixes of genres (Pat Boone singing metal? Us3 putting out music that blended jazz and hop hop, etc). And you had stuff that stood on their own like Dave Matthews and Beck and NIN and others.

I Think the 90s was actually a really interesting era for music, now that I have some distance to re-evaluate it properly. Nothing like today, lots of new bands with totally unique sounds and experimentation with cross-genre work, pretty creative instead of the same song autotuned and overproduced over and over with every artist to the point of genericity.

[Rummyfan]

However I've recently been re-immersing myself in the music and grunge was gigantic but really only for a few years, strictly speaking. Nirvana collapsed, Pearl Jam changed their sound, etc.

Grunge was huge but short-lived with the meteoric rise of Nirvana and then Pearl Jam. Cobain's death had something to do with its decline too.