Nice post. I too have many, many rose-tinted memories of 90’s (i’m 31 – was a teenager then and just getting into music) , and last week I was watching PJ20 and realising just how much i missed the bands of my youth that are no longer with us – like Alice in Chains, Smashing Pumpkins – and even REM now. I just have to watch Singles to be transported back in time. And it’s even worse in the UK – we just have no 90’s revival scene at all. I’ll check these bands out. Keep up the good work – love your blog. the mix of beer and music is excellent!
Yeah, those grunge years were pretty great. Singles was my favorite movie back in the day. When I spent a summer in Seattle around 1997, a friend and I searched out the apartment building where it was filmed. We sat at the bus stop across the street and enjoyed a congratulatory smoke.
I don’t know that the 90’s revival scene is a conscious one (aside from this blog), but it’s certainly there. There are bands, fashionistas, taste-makers who seem to be pulling from the decade for all sorts of things. I be it’s more prevalent in the UK than you think. The band Yuck is mostly British, in fact.