Isn't it a little early for this?
Didn't "grunge" just fade away a couple of years ago?
Shouldn't we let it rest a little before digging up the corpse?
Do we need this instant nostalgia?

Or is time just going that damn quickly?

I've been trying to restart the trend by plugging Superchunk lately.

In Honor -

NP: Screaming Trees - Uncle Anesthesia

That, & the fact that the lag time on things like this has REALLY sped up in the last 20 years or so.

Eventually we'll be nostalgic for things that haven't even happened yet.

i dont' think this is really happening though.

i was in American Apparel the other day and it is hard core 80's in there.
Short shorts, high socks with stripes and Back to the Future style puffy vests.

hardly a come back, and maybe i'm stating the obvious here, but there was a little bit of a resurgance a few years ago with bands like nickelback, seether, puddle of mudd, etc

People are still pretty '80s-obsessed. There's a couple of people/places that are trying to bring back the '90s already but most kids aren't ready for the grunge resurrection yet.

Besides, we'd need better bands than the Vines and Seether to truly start a grunge comeback.

I've thankfully never even heard of Seether, but now I want to play some Veruca Salt.

i think that's more of a little ripple from the first explosion than a comeback.

i still have the 120 minutes that they hosted.

she was so cute.
what happened?

This was discussed in another thread, there was some indication she was on a steroid which causes the excessive puffiness. There was a recent pic posted as well showing her looking more like 1995.

oh good.
crush . . . slowly . . . coming . . .back.

Short attention spans + deteriorating memory = shorter gaps between a "fad"/"rage" and its resurgence.

yeah, what's up with that? "hi, do you have anything that doesn't make me look like I've got Pac-Man Fever? Rollerskates? nah, i'm just gonna go..."

I think much has to be attributed to the fact that the people who grew up in the 80s have now reached a point where they are the ones making music, fashion, media, etc. In about 10 years when the kids who grew up in the 90s have trully facilitated themselves into such industries, we will see a resurgance again in grunge, etc.

i think it's the kids who JUST missed those fashions by a year or two.
so they they think it's ironic and cool.

I think by the middle of the next decade there will be some sort of authentic grunge revival of sorts. Not Candlebox, Creed, Seven Mary Three, Nickelback type grunge. But that's just my own non-Scientific out-of-my-ass forecast.

it takes 20 years.

Yeah.
It generally seems to be about a 20-year cycle
The 1970s yielded 1950s nostalgia (American Graffitti, Grease, etc...)
The 1980s = 60s nostalgia (popularization of "Classic Rock" radio format, the ressurrection of the Greatful Dead)
The 1990s= 1970s (That 70's Show, disco revivals...)
The current 1980s obsession seems to coincide with that pattern.

And yeah, the 1990s should be a couple of years away, still.

Well I thought of that too since late 70s/early 80s post punk came back big by 2004. But it seems like it's a little more than 20 years. It seems like the kids will be doing some variation of whatever music was big when they were tiny. I can't see grunge coming back as soon as 2010. But perhaps 2014-2015? I don't know...I'm sure I'll be wrong...

Oddly enough even when Kurt killed himself, I had enough insight to see that kids would one day be hanging tapestries of him in their dorm rooms smoking a bowl, making out with their gf/bf and listening to In Utero.

I laughed when someone brought up Tad in another post, but it seems like one day kids might actually be wanting to own these albums.

*wants to watch Hype! now*

FLUID!!!!

Ding ding...we have a winnah. Although I'd replace "ripple" with "watering down", if you wanna stick with liquid terminology.

Well, what was it that got people interested in shit like Interpol and Franz Ferdinand? 'Cuz it'll be exactly that same impulse.