idiggory the Fussy wrote:
I have a theory about 90s music (grunge in particular). By and large, most of it isn't really all that good, but the 90s were a period where culture was really heavily linked to the music scene, which means that nostalgia elevates the importance of that music for people who actually associate songs with, say, the summer of '94.
That's... every modern genre of music and era. 50's, 60's, 70's... up through today. Most of it wasn't great in retrospect. A sliver of good stuff lasts and the rest of it is remembered fondly by the people who were there.
Hell, not just music. You still have dopes swearing that every **** game released on the NES was superior, for instance, and drooling over emulating crap from the late 80's because that's what they grew up with.
Then again, I was already in college (i.e. "grown up") when Nirvana hit so I wasn't post-Cold War. I was in the late-Cold War,
War Games,
The Day After,
Red Dawn, 99 Luftballons, Star Wars Missile Defense System generation