This month is the 20th anniversary of the release of Hole's Live Through This... and some singer's suicide.
I was too busy being excited about Madchester (1990), then Shoegaze (1991-2), then the early signs of Britpop (1992-3) to care about America's attempt at a '90s music genre. It all seemed like new heavy metal to me. I never cared about anything to do with Grunge...except this Hole record, Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream and, tangentially, PJ Harvey's Rid of Me.
I guess it's all the women of Grunge (Courtney, PJ,..umm...D'Arcy Wretzky) and the fey men (Billy Corgan) that I found truly interesting and adventurous.
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