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The 90s: the rise and fall of grunge music

In late 1991, an unknown band from Seattle released their first album, “Nevermind.” The first track on that album was “Smells Like Teen Spirit”. I’m sure not even the leader of the group, Kurt Cobain saw, “Teen Spirit” became tea anthem for a whole new musical and cultural movement, which would become known as, ‘Grunge ‘.

The Grunge movement originated in the city of Seattle, Wa .. The look was youthful, working class on minimum wage. Long hair, goatee, plaid overshirt tops, and ripped jeans. The music was loud, heavy, and a little dark.

Many bands from the Seattle area came along with the movement, with names like ‘Collective Soul’, ‘Stone Temple Pilots’ and ‘Soundgarden’. But the two bands that stood out at the top of the totem were, of course, Nirvana and ‘Pearl Jam’. Pearl Jam’s debut album, Ten, was released in August 1991. With Eddie Vedder, the singer with a deep and strong voice, the album produced three hits, “Alive”, “Even Flow”, and the suggestive “Jeremy”, about a boy, (the main character ), who is bullied and harassed at school until he lashes out violently at all of his classmates. The video for the song became a fan favorite and was one of the most streamed on Mtv in 1992. As for some of the other bands that shone in this genre, ‘Collective Soul’ hit the charts. hits with “World I Know” and “Run”, a track from the soundtrack to the movie “Varsity Blues”.

The song, ‘Plush’, became a hit on the ‘Stone Temple Pilots’ charts. The band, ‘Blind Melon’, with its unconventional, but very pleasant melodic, “No Rain”, became the only success of the group. On the other hand, there was the dark and foreboding “Black Hole Sun” from ‘Soundgarden’. The song title says it all, but it’s still entertaining. Even the established and successful REM got on the grunge wagon with his haunting and almost hypnotic song, “Drive.”

But tragedy would strike and arguably spell a death nail for Grunge. On April 8, 1994, the body of Kurt Cobain was found at his Seattle, Washington home by an electric company employee who had come to Kobain’s residence to install security lighting.

Cobain had just come out of rehab for a heroin addiction that he had been struggling with since before Nirvana became famous. Following his release from rehab, his wife Courtney Love described the artist as “suicidal” and “deeply depressed.” Cobain was discovered in a spare room above the garage of his house. With a shotgun on his body, a gunshot wound to the face, and a suicide note just feet away, the authorities’ final decision was in fact suicide. However, murder theories emerged, but the artist’s medical examiner and homicide detectives who worked on the case claim the evidence points to the fact that Cobain died by his own hand. The note that was found contained information about the singer’s immediate future plans. Like leaving my wife, Love and the music business. Then the last lines of the note spoke of suicide being the only way out for the troubled star.

Thousands of devoted fans viewed Kurt Cobain as an iconic figure who had ushered in the Grunge movement. Sadly and inevitably, when he died, Grunge died with him. Bands like Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Stone Temple Pilots continued, but by mid-1996, it was clear that Grunge had peaked and was now spiraling into the history books. Like the city where he was born, bathed in rain, Grunge was like that. Grunge clouds came and brought the rain with them. Then it rained that day, the next day, and the next day. Then it stopped raining. The music will live on.

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