I never put too much stock into it, except for the idea that Cobain had too much heroin in him to have lifted the shotgun and fired it at himself. But, of course, it's also been said that drug users can tolerate a lot of their own stuff.

94 - moved on to punk?
Did anyone get the sense that people of this (my) generation had drifted away from grunge and moved on to punk? Not necessarily a full om rejection of Nirvana and Pearl Jam for Green Day and The Offspring, but I recall hearing the cuts from Dookie and Smash (both of which sold ridiculous…

Male pattern baldness is a bitch. It's starting to happen to me, will probably be badly noticeable in a few years, so I'm contemplating the same route.

Ditto, I recall the announcement scrawling across MTV, and Loder intermittently delivering the news in his usual serious manner. I suppose this is the closest equivalent for someone of my generation to know what it was like when Kronkite made the announcement on JFK's death. But I hadn't been a huge Nirvana fan back…

Courtney did it.
Conspired with Billy Corgan. The Pumpkins then rule the mid-90s shortly after Cobain's death. Coincidence? I think not.

Oh, I know why: "KA-BOOM!!!! RATATAT!!!!"

I preferred the shorter, anthemic rock songs on Siamese Dream as opposed to the more sprawling ones on Mellon Collie. And I can't explain why, but a track like Silverfuck worked on Siamese, but XYU just didn't do it for me.

Ditto on Divorce Song, which I can appreciate more being older, rather than when I was just a kid in the 90s. The lyrics perfectly encapsulate a failing relationship, with the petty arguments and deeper meanings behind them. When Pitchfork made that big list of the 500 greatest modern song, I'm glad they put Divorce…

Creep and No Rain
These were technically released in 92, but I recall them being omnipresent in 93, even with Siamese Dream and In Utero both being released that same year. Funny, it seemed to me back then (not having heard the rest of Pablo Honey) that Radiohead was destined for one-hit wonder status while Blind…

Yeah, these columns are excellent.

I thought Iha and D'Arcy both had quiet, pleasant-sounding voices, but I guess neither could sing louder than they did on tracks like "Daydream" or "Take Me Down." Or Corgan wouldn't allow it.

Asian guitarist, female bassist. Smashing Pumpkins were the minoriteam of 90s alternative rock (even though the white guy did practically everything).

I thought Mellon Collie, inevitably because it's a double album, had some filler I could have done without, while Siamese Dream seemed more consistent. Although come to think of it, Siamese could've worked as a double album with Pisces Iscariot as the second part.

According to the wikipedia page, Soma has 40 overdubbed guitar recordings. I was sold on it - it was just this thick sound that saturated your ears, even on cassette and cheap Walkman headphones.

That is proving true. I haven't noticed a longing yet for 3rd wave ska, or rap rock. There's some nostalgia for old Green Day, but that usually occurs after listening to new Green Day.

Now when I first heard The Chronic and Doggystyle - that to me signaled a revolution.

I didn't get the sense it was a major revolution in rock music until a few years later, but I was much younger than the author in 1990, so Nirvana, Motley Crue, GNR, and Red Hot Chili Peppers were all just different versions of loud rock music that I liked during that time.

Perhaps what happened was you changed and the music didn't
I mean there are some people who still listen to the same music or same-sounding music they did when they were 14, but chances are that while the best artists of the genre died, flamed out and/or got boring, you also got bored and grew out of it. And their…

The author's clearly discussing the experiences of growing up in the mainstream American rock music scene 90s, so Madchester isn't relevant to his theme.

Didn't Scully's dad refer to Scully as Starbuck? I can't remember if that's mentioned in this episode.