They tried to kill rock - while metal grew stronger.
They didn’t want Nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or rage against the machine to gain broad appeal, because the frontmen were all smart and had a positive message. An alternate rock scene involved the dead, phish, MMW and the Almans, but that was easily dismissed as hippy shit even though the tunes were solid. Bon joli was making shitty slow songs.
Enter ice T’s Original Gangster album, literally out of nowhere. Movies are being made glamorizing something in Harlem in the 30s that never happened. Arsenio is on top. LL wants to knock you out and the hip hop scene is taken from it’s height of consciousness to the ground floor within a year. The radio plays what they want you to hear.
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They tried to kill rock - while metal grew stronger.
They didn’t want Nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or rage against the machine to gain broad appeal, because the frontmen were all smart and had a positive message. An alternate rock scene involved the dead, phish, MMW and the Almans, but that was easily dismissed as hippy shit even though the tunes were solid. Bon joli was making shitty slow songs.
Enter ice T’s Original Gangster album, literally out of nowhere. Movies are being made glamorizing something in Harlem in the 30s that never happened. Arsenio is on top. LL wants to knock you out and the hip hop scene is taken from it’s height of consciousness to the ground floor within a year. The radio plays what they want you to hear.