The History of Alt-Rock: Chapter 7
b'Before we go any further with our history of alt-rock, a lesson in cosmology is in order...sometime around 16 billion years ago, there was this infinitely dense and infinitely tiny thing called a \\u201csingularity\\u201d...don\\u2019t ask where it came from or who made it...that\\u2019s just asking for trouble...\\nThe best anyone can tell is that one day\\u2013well, there weren\\u2019t \\u201cdays\\u201d back then because time didn\\u2019t exist (again, let\\u2019s not go there)\\u2013this thing just exploded...astronomers call this \\u201cthe big bang\\u201d...\\nThis explosion moved outward in all directions, stretching space (well, creating space\\u2013but that makes the brain hurt)....then started to cool, got lumpy and clumpy and eventually coalesced into stars, planets, people and goats...\\nEverything we see and perceive is the result of that big bang...sorry, creationists...the world isn\\u2019t flat, either...and don\\u2019t send me emails...\\nNow it\\u2019s time for a wild but very apt analogy...if we look at the punk rock of the middle 1970s, we can think of it as a musical big bang...the ideas and attitudes it generated spread out in all directions and eventually began to coalesce into new ideas and attitudes...they were all made up of the same basic elements, but they combined to form totally new life forms...and there were probably goats involved somewhere, too...\\nThis is the story of some of those new life forms...it\\u2019s chapter seven of the complete history of alt-rock...\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'