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Grunge images and mental pictures

musicismylife78musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
edited May 2007 in Other Music
What do you think of when you hear the music made in the early 90's?

When you listen to Nevermind or In Utero, or Dirt or Ten or Vs or Badmotorfinger, what images run through your head while listening?

What things do you picture? Specific memories? Seasons and weather?

For me, the music has always conjured images of a rainy dark, cold, cloudy day, and just anger and rage and all that seep through the music.

I mean listen to Alice's Would, or Soundgarden's Rusty Cage or Immortality or Frances Farmer will have her revenge, I am not picturing a warm sunny summer day, thats for sure!

13 years after grunge ended, the music still brings back strong memories and elicits strong images in my mind while listening.

What do you picture in your mind as you listen to grunge music?
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  • Gremmie95Gremmie95 Posts: 749
    I picture rock and roll that was actually worth a shit.
  • pdh1978pdh1978 Posts: 211
    Jean shorts (long), lumberjack shirts and long hair ftw! :)
    If you all stop hitting refresh for just two minutes, I can buy my tickets...
  • illfatedillfated Posts: 65
    Body surfin...and lots of it...man I miss that.
  • markymark550markymark550 Columbia, SC Posts: 5,177
    If I know what members of the band look like, then I usually get mental images of the band. If I don't know the band, then usually random images.
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    that's actually a really good question because, unlike any other musical movement or scene, grunge is the only one that ever represented anything to me that pervades into my life beond the music or the ideals that it immediately represents. I have a strange nostalgic attachment to a lot of that music that is totall anachronistic. I was only 1 year old when mother love bone released chloe dancer/crown of thorns on shine in 1989 but something about that song meant something to me immediately when I first heard it a few years ago. it was like a weird deja vu kind of shit that I can't explain, so for me, this music goes beyond just images and mental pictures...its a feeling for me, and one that is strangely not dark and depressing because it reminds me, for some reason (since I wasnt old enough to listen to it back then) of my childhood when I had no worries or cares.

    I realise this all sounds like bullshit but its true.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • BlackeyedangelBlackeyedangel Posts: 262
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    that's actually a really good question because, unlike any other musical movement or scene, grunge is the only one that ever represented anything to me that pervades into my life beond the music or the ideals that it immediately represents. I have a strange nostalgic attachment to a lot of that music that is totall anachronistic. I was only 1 year old when mother love bone released chloe dancer/crown of thorns on shine in 1989 but something about that song meant something to me immediately when I first heard it a few years ago. it was like a weird deja vu kind of shit that I can't explain, so for me, this music goes beyond just images and mental pictures...its a feeling for me, and one that is strangely not dark and depressing because it reminds me, for some reason (since I wasnt old enough to listen to it back then) of my childhood when I had no worries or cares.

    I realise this all sounds like bullshit but its true.
    Yeah, that's pretty weird. You're what? Around 18 or so. That's a bit young to be getting nostalgic. Enjoy what you got now.
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Blackeyedangel wrote:
    Yeah, that's pretty weird. You're what? Around 18 or so. That's a bit young to be getting nostalgic. Enjoy what you got now.
    I do enjoy what I have now and is not really nostalgia...its just a sense of connection to the music from that time that I can't really explain. maybe my older brother used to listen to it.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • BrinkofForeverBrinkofForever Posts: 373
    Reminds me of fog. Wierd but true. I was working at McDonalds when the 'grunge' scene hit, trying to earn enought to pay rent and go to college. I remember a manager at the Micky D's (who looked like Butthead with a porn mustache) gave me a cassette (remember those) mix with PJ, AIC, Soundgarden, Screaming Trees, Nirvana, Mudhoney and some other bands on it. I remember vividly walking to my job at 5am in the morning, through foggy San Luis Obispo streets, with those songs playing on my walkman.
    Make your life a mission - not an intermission. - Arnold Gasglow
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