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So anyway back to music:
I was thinking about this too, a lot of the “grunge bands” that were around when the “movement” gained public recognition, they weren’t as independent as they’d have you believe.
Well I don’t know, I was thinking mostly of soundgarden, nirvana, Alice in chains and pearl jam. The biggest bands of that era. I was mostly thinking of Pearl Jam, like Ten is one of my favorite albums of all time, but I think Pearl Jam straddled the line between commerciality and being an underground band. I guess they all were signed to somewhat a major label somewhat. Ha, I was right here’s a quote “ On many occasions, Kurt berated Pearl Jam for what he perceived to be their wanton commerciality. This stance by Kurt softened after talking to Eddie by phone. Kurt said about a feud between bands: “There never was one. I slagged them off because I didn't like their band.”
So out of them all Pearl Jam was actually a little mainstream. I think basically around that time, there was the underground music scene, and then (especially since it was the start of a new decade, the corporations always do this) they tried to mass produce a style and say it’s the 90s style, because there was underground artists making it big around that time it seemed like it was totally organic and what was viewed commercially and in the mainstream as “grunge” wasn’t completely true. There was the underground which was different and then the 90s era style and aesthetic that was developed by the corporations for the decade and you have bands like Live and Collective Soul and a lot of others, even like sarah mclachlan (crash test dummies lawl) that molded their sound to these sensibilities.
But in the process a lot of these bands lost or didn’t truly have underground sensibilities. But the underground is sort of a mixed bag I don’t know how I feel about it
