The History of Alt Rock Chapter: 13
If you were around in the early 90s, you probably remember it as a time of awesome new music...it seemed that every single day, there was a cool new band, a great new sound, a scene you didn\u2019t know about...\nGrunge was king with nirvana and Soundgarden and pearl jam...green day and offspring had brought punk back...Manchester led into Britpop with Oasis and the Stone Roses\nNine Inch Nails, Ministry, Chili Peppers, Beastie Boys, Tool, Stone Temple Pilots, Smashing Pumpkins, all these bands and more grabbed everyone\u2019s attention...hair metal was dead!....classic rock?\xa0\xa0Over!....Lollapalooza was the coolest event of the year...\nThe alternative nation had triumphed!....no more bad, boring, mainstream pop and rock!...\nWell, hang on...rock music has always run in a series of cycles that can be traced back to the 1950s...we\u2019ll get into that later, but all I need to say is \u201cwhat goes up must come down\u201d...and the alt-rock party came down...hard...and it hurt...\nThis is chapter 13 of the complete history of alt-rock...\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices