yeah. it was the last flash or visceral raw rock energy left in the musical medium before the whole thing petered out and an age of empty corporate driven preprogrammed pop took over. And no the 80’s were just as vacuous. And I grew up in the 80’s and I was always SO jealous of those people who grew up as teens in the 60’s no fucking fair! The 80’s was a musical waste land speckled with a few treats that you really had to search for (U2, GnR, some others). It was a desert of empty synthesizer driven garbage combined with perfume metal and flash dance like post disco pac man pop. It was an era when black music went bad, rock became a skeleton on the edge of collapse and New Kids on the Block type corporate formula dreck had its genesis. So yeah thank god for grunge. For a few years there the phoenix of rock rose again and screamed in primal furry before burning itself out in a bang. But for a moment it was so nice. Rock music was actually the POPULAR music. Not just outer edge stuff or going through the motions geriatric rock. It grew quickly and quietly in the northwest then in 91 Nevermind hit like a nuclear bomb. And it blew away EVERYTHING else. Clean slate. No more hair metal. No more culture club-like euro trash. Just primal hard edged punk/metal/rock grunge. With REAL feeling. And a REAL pulse. Beautiful. Then POP it was gone like that. It certainly couldn’t sustain itself. But then the good stuff never does. The slime is a lot easier to sustain.