Saturday, January 13, 2007

No, you're not wrong, Bri. In fact, I'd say yours was a far more eloquent clarification than my call for same. Still not sure how an album that features a song like "Judy Staring at the Sun" can carry anything close to a grunge label but I take your point that bands like CW and others were both influenced by, and owe some degree of their success to, their brethren from the Pacific NW.

In the spirit of reliving the great music of that period (91-94), perhaps we could each come up with a playlist of 20 odd 'quintessential' tracks that define the period for each of us, regardless of whether these tracks are 'classic grunge', 'grunge pop', 'brit pop', 'shoegazer', or 'egregiously bad frat-boy dance music', though I doubt anybody here would stoop to include offerings from the likes of C+C Music Factory or Snap. We could then possibly vote on which tracks we'd like to include in a 2-disc collective, which could then be produced for the group.

I'm thinking this would address Stuart's plea for a schoolin' in all things grunge and would allow us all to relish another list making exercise, with all the preening, pontificating and tough decision making entailed therein. Plus, we haven't put together a box-set in awhile and this seems like a worthy theme.

Whadda you tink?

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