When I was in high school in the 1980s, it was kind of unthinkable that anybody would listen to anything other than rock. For me, it died with the rise of grunge, Cobain's angry attitude rubbed me the wrong way. I departed for country which was entering a 90s golden age courtesy of artists like Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson and Randy Travis…
When I was in high school in the 1980s, it was kind of unthinkable that anybody would listen to anything other than rock. For me, it died with the rise of grunge, Cobain's angry attitude rubbed me the wrong way. I departed for country which was entering a 90s golden age courtesy of artists like Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson and Randy Travis. It's nice to see the graphs confirm my recollection of how that went down. It's interesting to me that pre-1990 virtually no one listened to country.
I don’t think it’s not that no one listened to country, it’s that it wasn’t competing on the charts. I’d bet most people had a country artist or two that they listened to while also being into the Beatles.
And your Cobain comment makes me smile. I was born in the 80’s and don’t enjoy hair metal and synth bands. Nirvana was what gave rock life for me. To each their own!
When I was in high school in the 1980s, it was kind of unthinkable that anybody would listen to anything other than rock. For me, it died with the rise of grunge, Cobain's angry attitude rubbed me the wrong way. I departed for country which was entering a 90s golden age courtesy of artists like Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson and Randy Travis. It's nice to see the graphs confirm my recollection of how that went down. It's interesting to me that pre-1990 virtually no one listened to country.
I don’t think it’s not that no one listened to country, it’s that it wasn’t competing on the charts. I’d bet most people had a country artist or two that they listened to while also being into the Beatles.
And your Cobain comment makes me smile. I was born in the 80’s and don’t enjoy hair metal and synth bands. Nirvana was what gave rock life for me. To each their own!