I grew up in the very same time period. Nirvana's guys were about a year or two older than me. And I can't think of a rock band in history who officially RETIRED AN ENTIRE DECADE to obscurity other than Nirvana. They burst on the scene, and basically said, No More 80's and All Your Bullshit Pop Culture -- Here We Are Now!
And that totally Rock'n'Roll attitude had little to do with "Iran Contra" and rebelling ONLY against gop-ers and right-wingers. I LIVED that era as an 18-20-something, and I'd like to officially inform Michael Stipe -- who obviously was asleep and more infatuated with such influential material as blacking out his breasts (pic immediately above) during that same period -- of the following:
We were angry with EVERYTHING, Asshole (CHECK, e.g., the Awesome Group Called N.W.A.) -- everything authority -- including idiot leftists like you Stipe, and not merely your fellow idiot right-wingers. Most of the rage, like Nirvana, was distinctly non-political. And fortunately, many of us STILL ARE VERY ANGRY with ALL OF YOU!
We have NO respect whatsoever for group-thinking leftists like Stipe or right-winger world views. We say Go Fuck Yourselves, the whole Fuckin' Lot of Ya partisan ideologue morons, goofs, goons, loons, kooks, fools, ghouls, and louts!
So here I still am now. Enter-Fuckin'-Tain Me! Or just bore and irritate the hell out of me like a talking-points-spouting, never-individual-thinking, garden-variety leftist like Stipe and basically every other leftist 20 percenter I've ever encountered (BIG YAWN!!!). Finally, a Memo to the Kids: Never Be One of Those Guys -- You're A LOT Better Than That, Kids!
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/read-nirvanas-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-acceptance-speech-20140411
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