Spoofing the Times
Maybe what set me off was watching the movie Hype! on cable the other night. If you haven't seen it, it's an excellent documentary of the Seattle grunge scene. It was made in 1996, late enough that everyone knew it was over, but soon enough after that memories were still reasonably fresh.
Anyway, I learned for the first time from this movie that an article I had read in the New York Times about grunge-speak, long ago, was a brilliant prank.
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Hype! is definitely worth a view, and it did mark the end of the Seattle dominance of the charts, but frankly, I think everyone's relieved. I honestly cannot imagine how the local scene could be improved, and I barely get to see any of it.
It should be news to no one that excessive money screws up music, and if Hype was about anything, it was about the friendship at the heart of these bands.
It also reminds me of one of the best shows I ever saw, in Olympia, with the sweet and silly Beat Happening and the grandpas of grunge, the Melvins, with wave upon wave of growl and beat noise, like the inbetween parts of Zepplin, at the heighth of which a tiny little hardcore girl crawled into the bass drum and camped out.
That IS ROCK.
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