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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 539106" data-attributes="member: 8158">Well, what does that mean exactly? Fans of the mainstream don't ever think of alternative music as cool--otherwise, it would be mainstream. In fact, the 80's was the era that coined the term "alternative music". It was the decade where teenagers started hanging out in coffee shops and listening to depressing mush like Depeche Mode, Souxsie and the Banshees, The Cure, and Sonic Youth. Cobain was not the one who first came up with the idea of music that you take drugs and die to. Then there was the more fun stuff, like Jane's Addiction, Porno for Pyros, and the pre-mainstream REM. Yes, and Whitney Houston too. But that's all mainstream pop crap, and pop will always be simple and safe and bland and formulaic. Thus, people who give a damn about quality will always find it objectionable. At least in the 80's you had alternatives to that. You're selling the 80's short. The 80's still had some frontier left. By mid-90's, they were gone. True, there was much musical goodness in the first half of the 90's, but about the time that Pearl Jam lost its suit with Ticketmaster, all the record labels and radio stations were comsolidated so that they are now owned by about four or five people. Likewise, the costs of producing movies rose so high that low-budget, uncompromising "B" films became near-extinct. Then there's the effect of political correctness on both music and film, as well as TV, video games, and every other medium.</blockquote>

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