Brien: Post a PERFECT album from the 90s (I’m not going to bash grunge bands)

Post a PERFECT album from the 90s (I’m not going to bash grunge bands)

post a PERFECT album from the 90s that isn’t nirvana or pearl jam or soundgarden or alice in chains (since none of those belong anywhere near the best albums of the 90s):

Featuring Branford Marsalis!

Grunge was a dead end and you know it! It's also too bad Sean isn't on here to argue with you about 90s Dead versus 90s Dylan.

“90s Dead” is very different from *1990* Dead! But both are better than Dylan after the 60s

And Grunge was not a dead end! Ska, the Swing revival (shudder), and Pop Punk were all a rejection of Grunge! Indie rock of the 2000s implicitly accepted what Grunge said about commercialism and aesthetics!

But that was just cribbed from 70s and 80s punk! Nobody kept the "new" elements of grunge, they just went back further. The real question is whether the weird youth 90s thing that's happening brings back some kind of absurdist take on grunge.

I think grunge is best understood as a mainstreaming of punk. The low fi, high distortion sound is so normal now I think we don’t even recognize the influence.

In a shockingly rare turn of events, I can find nothing to argue about here.