I was just wondering if there were any grungers lingering around. It seems there's less and less of us out there.... I always get so stoked when I meet some. As prejudice as it sounds, They've always seem to be the people I can relate to best. Just curious. If you think about it grungers are kinda the newer age version of hippies, only a bit more effected by their pain, a bit less into the free love and a bit more rough around the edges. Whatevs.... cheers
I am a grunge(of former) But I do not see us as the new age hippie. We often did not see the positive in life. Always looked to the dark side of life and how the world really sucks. Many suicides back then....MANY>
anyone that happened to experience, for the first time, popular music between 1990 an 1994. everyone else is just a person that liked or didnt like Nirvana
I like that last part. I was between the ages of 16 & 20 durring those years. I see a lot of teens wearing Nirvana t-shirts. I guess it's like a Hippie seeing a youngster with a Greatful Dead shirt or something. You wonder if they really understand what it was all about.
I wouldn't say that grungers are people who first experienced music in the early nineties or who waer nirvana shirts. Nirvana got big in the early ninties. Grunge was around before then. It was when grunge was on the way out when Nirvana got popular and brought it back. Nirvana was actually like the runt of the grunge scene... To me, a grunger IS someone who was most influenced by that music, but it's more than that.... hmmm.... For some reason, most grungers I've met have the same kionda outook... Fuck, I don't konw... But I do know that I'm not talking about everyone who wears a Nirvana t-shirt.
grunge doesn't have to be about the music. you can just not give a fuck about your physical appearance. ...and i listened to that music because my older brothers did. i was exposed to it when i was younger, just beacause i wasn't 16 in 1994 doesn't mean "i wasn't there" because i was. and now, looking back, i can appreciate it the music that much more. i always thought everyone went through a grundge phase. i hope i never grow out of it.
I think the whole experience of the early 90's was just something one had to see. Not just in the music. The whole "Me" decade was ending and it seemed many were seeing just how Sh**y life really was. Some called us Generation X or whatever. One teacher at a local high school refer to us as the doomed generation because many of us felt there was no hope. That and there was 4 suicides within two years. Also, keep in mind a lot of kids then were coming from divorced homes. (unlike the hippies who many were from well-off families. not all just a lot) reality sets in soon.
I think your more of a goth then a grunger. Because you seem a bit to hateful and talk about "the darkest" to much,like a goth would do. Also I loved the 90's it was a great time one reson is because for must of it we had Bill Cilton to lead the US after comeing from regan and H.W.
Well I think your right about that Grungers are some what like Hippies, like grungers are a group of people connected by a common taste in music, clothes, shared interests, values, etc. Most are under 20, and in this was they can be compared to hippies or mods - however note the grungers are not similar in style to either of these earlier movements.
i'm a total grunge kid, man. for like, 2 years, all i would listen to was "grunge." nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, temple of the dog, mudhoney. my mum listened to alot of that stuff, so i grew up on it.
... Beat Happenning, Alice Donut .... the grunge days were pretty cool I think. I don't know about all these people committing suicide and what-not, although it's probably because it wasn't going on around me ... then again ... I wasn't really a die hard grunge dude ... just really dug alot of the music and still do.
I personally do not consider Nirvana grunge, they are great, don't get me wrong, but i really can't classify that band, the way i like to say it is that their music fell into some category involving the beatles and the adolescents. Real grunge to me was like soundgarden... Peace and Love, Dan
ah, grunge. you can't really call all of gen x a grunge thing, since many of us weren't. it was just our neglectful parent's way of having a "too little, too late" hissy fit over how we turned out, and finding a way to blame the media and music scene, which was wholly after-the-fact.
Witnessing many, many grunge bands live myself, I truely don't believe that "grunge" is a "genre" of music. I am so greatful that my parents had younger friends who took me to all-ages shows because the music effected my life then, and it shaped who I've become today. I partially agree with those who say that Nirvana is not grunge, but the truth is, they were part of the movement. Grunge consisted of an idea, a motivation, a desire to change (or at least make people aware) of the downer parts of life. I still hold this concept true to me today. People would call me a pessimist, but I'm truely a realist and look at all angles of life at all times... even the horrifying. Also, I'm not sure how the movement is going elsewhere in the country, but it's still alive here. Finally, to whoever said grunge isn't about the music, it can be about appearance... I don't think that's true. The music was/is the essense of the movement. Appearance came second-hand to the message of the music, it was really an effect of it. Well... I'm a grunger, feel free at any time to PM me or what-have-you. Peace.
