Rock Genres In the 90's
Rock music was decaying in the late 80's. The rock scene was suffering from a repetetivepattern of big hair, flashy clothes, long guitar solos, and lyrics that weren't relating to thelisteners. The music industry was begging for something new. This is the beat up state that rockwas left in during the early nineties. But little did anyone know what was in store for rock in the90'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 bandhad bred the first genre of the 90's, "Grunge". After the fall of Grunge a new genre had to takeplace. So once again the music industry was in need of something new. And so dawned the era ofAlternative Punk, the second genre. Leading the scene were Green Day and Offspring. The punkscene brought on a whole new vibe of raw energy and anarchy. When the punk scene started todie down, a new breed of rock was surfacing to the mainstream. The Metal/Hardcore was thefinal 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.
As Rolling Stonessaid in an interview with Green Day's Billie Joe, "Many polls have called you the voice of the 90'sgeneration, what do you think about that?" and Billie Joe replies "I don't know about the voice ofa generation, more like the butt of the generation". The final product of thisalbum was three million album sales. In 1994 Kurt Cobain ended his lifeand the first era of the 90's, Grunge. In 1998 they kickedoff their third album "Follow The Leader". With songs such as "Super Beast", "Dragula", and "Livin' Dead Girl" Rob Zombie offof his album "Hellbilly Deluxe", he has managed to break himself into the mainstream and freakmillions of parents out. Insomniac pulled off an astonishing eight million album sales world wide. Itwasn'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 previousalbum, 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 millionalbum sales. They made two videos "Freak On A Leash" and "Got TheLife". Nimrod lackedthe 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 theirappearance, but in their music.
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