![]() ![]() Two years earlier, Woodstock '99 devolved into a fiery orgy of pointless, shirtless white male rage. It was the height of the teen pop movement, and the popular rock bands were Staind, Limp Bizkit, Crazy Town, Creed and Korn. People have been writing obituaries for rock & roll for the last 60 years, but by 2001 it seemed like it might finally be dead for real. The Jimi Hendrix Experience, ‘Are You Experienced’ It took the success of Nevermind a couple years later for fans to go back and realize they had missed out an on absolute classic. Despite very warm reviews, it didn't find much of an audience. ![]() "To be able to just jump out on top of the crowd with my guitar and be held up and pushed to the back of the room, and then brought back with no harm done to me – it was a celebration of something that no one could put their finger on." They cut Bleach in just 30 hours. ![]() "For a few years in Seattle, it was the Summer of Love, and it was so great," Cobain told Rolling Stone shortly before his death. Though they disliked the term "grunge," they were a key part of a Seattle underground music scene that had yet to be detected by the masses. This was the era of Paula Abdul, Mötley Crüe and Bobby Brown, and there wasn't anything resembling a mainstream audience for gritty songs like "Negative Creep" and "Blew." But the group was hardly aiming for MTV. Nirvana's Bleach didn't usher in a musical revolution when it hit shelves in the summer of 1989. ![]()
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