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August 20, 2018

Best Article Music

Whatever Happened to Alternative Nation?

A year-by-year walk through of the decade that birthed a mainstream culture called ‘Alternative’ and the bands that were deified and destroyed by it.

  1. Part 1: 1990: “Once upon a time, I could love you”

  2. Part 2: 1991: “What’s so civil about war anyway?”

  3. Part 3: 1992: Pearl Jam, the perils of fame, and the trouble with avoiding it

  4. Part 4: 1993: Smashing Pumpkins, Liz Phair, and Urge Overkill forsake the underground

  5. Part 5: 1994: Kurt Cobain is dead! Long live Soundgarden!

  6. Part 6: 1995: Live, Bush, and Alanis Morissette take the pop path

  7. Part 7: 1996: Layne Staley and Bradley Nowell are the living dead

  8. Part 8: 1997: The ballad of Oasis and Radiohead

Steven Hyden AV Club Oct 2010 2h15min Permalink