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As a final send-off, 1991 was ‘The Year [The Music Scene] Broke’ – Smells Like Teen Spirit & the “Alternative” scene culture-dam broke & we enjoyed a very fun, much-needed departure from Axel Rose’s “Welcome To The Jungle” & 80s music & culture; this counterculture was loosely, & at times playfully, kitsch-ily, based on the ’60s & ’70s counterculture, like more liberal art & Peace & Love . . .

It was also an act of vandalism against the iron curtain of corporatism & commerciality we were bombarded with, evident every commercial break that we felt co-occurred with much 1980s music. (Truth be told, U2 & especially some variably-more underground acts from The Cure to The Cocteau Twins, & The Pixies were very lovable, & congruent with our ’90s mentality that would soon ‘break’.)

But this is already widely recognized – today, I am giving an affectionate ‘lift’ to the year 1997, as, from me, getting the nod for a ‘grand year’ of our culture in the escapades that were The Nineties.

Thanks for reading this.
Joe