Rock Genres In the 90's

pattern of big hair, flashy clothes, long guitar solos, and lyrics that weren’t relating to the

listeners. The music industry was begging for something new. This is the beat up state that rock

was left in during the early nineties. But little did anyone know what was in store for rock in the

90’s. What was about to come would redefine the meaning of rock forever.

In the early 90’s a band called Nirvana had made it’s debut into the mainstream. This band

had bred the first genre of the 90’s, “Grunge”. After the fall of Grunge a new genre had to take

place. So once again the music industry was in need of something new. And so dawned the era of

Alternative Punk, the second genre. Leading the scene were Green Day and Offspring. The punk

scene brought on a whole new vibe of raw energy and anarchy. When the punk scene started to

die down, a new breed of rock was surfacing to the mainstream. The Metal/Hardcore was the

final genre of rock in the 90’s. It consisted of bands such as KoRn, Limp Bizkit, and Rob Zombie.

This genre was the hardest of the genres and could definantly cause the hugest mosh pit.

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As Rolling Stones

said in an interview with Green Day’s Billie Joe, “Many polls have called you the voice of the 90’s

generation, what do you think about that?” and Billie Joe replies “I don’t know about the voice of

a generation, more like the butt of the generation”. The final product of this

album was three million album sales. In 1994 Kurt Cobain ended his life

and the first era of the 90’s, Grunge. In 1998 they kicked

off their third album “Follow The Leader”. With songs such as “Super Beast”, “Dragula”, and “Livin’ Dead Girl” Rob Zombie off

of his album “Hellbilly Deluxe”, he has managed to break himself into the mainstream and freak

millions of parents out.

Insomniac pulled off an astonishing eight million album sales world wide. It

wasn’t untill their sophmore album (Nevermind) that they achieved extreme mainstream success,

bringing Grunge to its climax. The later 80’s were emerging and there was no sign of something new. With such great artist’s to mentor from,

it should be pretty amazing to see what new genre arises in the 2000’s. Although having a great previous

album, this was the one that got them really big. This album is still selling very high, but at the end of the nineties it reached two million

album sales. They made two videos “Freak On A Leash” and “Got The

Life”. Nimrod lacked

the energy of their previous albums, but was still a punk classic to loyal fans.

In late 1997 Green Day had come out with a new album called “Nimrod”. Nirvana’s strength wasn’t in their

appearance, but in their music.

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