I always thought grunge was the absence of talent. Basically it was people dressed up as lumberjacks and actig all suicidal and depressed when they were rich, healthy and happy.
The entire grunge thing was people mistaking a lack of talent for genius.
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"Basically it was people dressed up as lumberjacks and actig all suicidal and depressed when they were rich, healthy and happy." If you were to take all the grunge and change the instrumentation to fiddle, slide guitar and banjo, it's country!