[fr_freak]

I can go back and listen to classic glam tracks and it sounds like a masterpiece compared to what is popular today. Grunge was extremely miserable

One major difference between the heavy metal hair bands and grunge is that the hair bands were unabashedly male (aside from the long hair and makeup). They sang about cars, fighting and sex with pretty girls. The grunge guys, epitomized by Cobain, were the more emasculated, everybody-picked-on-me-in-school whiners. The hair band guys gave you the impression that they were the ones getting all the girls in high school, while the grunge guys moped in their basements because no girls liked them. I wonder if the grunge scene was the first generation of truly brainwashed politically correct lefty nutbags to graduate out of the government indoctrination centers.

[Viennacon]

You really summed that up! haha. The grunge kids were actually more depressed than the goth kids back then! They were essentially trying to seize rock back from the glamsters because they were angry that punk died, and wanted rock to be more rebellious. In the end, they just ended up being annoying. These were also the first of the “I don’t give a sh*t” crowd when it came to stagecraft and performance. With grunge, you could make a music video in your basement. Just throw on a pair of torn jeans and your skating shirt. Laziness followed thereafter. Way back when, musicians looked distinctly different from average joes. No longer. Heck, I could be a musician... if I learned how to play an instrument.

[dfwgator]

One major difference between the heavy metal hair bands and grunge is that the hair bands were unabashedly male (aside from the long hair and makeup).

LOL, reminds me of the classic Beavis and Butthead exchange, while they were watching a Poison video:

Beavis: Whoa these chicks are hot
Butthead: Are these chicks or dudes?
Beavis: Whoa,I don't know
Butthead: Well they better be chicks dammit because they're giving me a woody.