Dave Grohl: Back To The 90's
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This playlist was inspired by David Grohl’s memoir “The Storyteller: Tales Of Life and Music.”
As I do with every book that I read, however long it takes me to read, the amount of time I spend deep diving into that music. These usually last a week or two. Recently, I have been reminiscing with the sounds of high school, that is 90s alternative rock.
Might as well get this out-of-the-way at the beginning. I did not appreciate alternative rock at the time when I was in junior high and high school in Southern California. Alternative rock was everywhere but it just wasn't my jam.
I was still listening to the adult contemporary that I was raised on i.e. Phil Collins, Elton John, Peter Gabriel, Michael Jackson, and the like. I was just coming out of the MTV 80s era and when I heard the first sounds of what would become grunge music and later alternative, they did not resonate with me.
Why do I feel so sad? Why do I feel so depressed? Why are so many of these songs about drugs?
My Taiwanese Buddhist wife summed it up perfectly while I was listening to Nine Inch Nails at home the other day. “You shouldn’t listen to this kind of music. Bad energy.” I replied, “Well, it's good when you're at the gym.”
I stayed in my time capsule of 80s music because it had the sound of a simpler time. Sounds of joy and happiness. i.e. Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.”
Yes, I knew the music. I knew the songs. I knew the artists. I did listen to the music with my friends, but it wasn’t till years later now that I can go back and listen to alternative and appreciate it much more now for what it is than for what it was .
Here is a collection of 90s alternative rock hits that stands out to me in my memory of junior high and high school. These are the most influential from my past.
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