No one could possibly be THE voice of Gen X, but Cobain was certainly A voice of my generation. In their seminal 13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?, published in 1993, Neil Howe and William Strauss argued that the only thing Generation Xers really agreed on was that there was no such thing as Generation X. Given the inherent irony
Read moreAndy Rooney is dead. When Kurt Cobain died in 1994 Rooney launched perhaps his most infamous rant. From the Wikipedia summary: “I’d love to relieve the pain you’re going through by switching my age for yours.” In addition, he asked “What would all these young people be doing if they had real problems like a Depression, World War II or Vietnam?” and commented that
Read moreOn September 24, 1991, a little-known band from Seattle released a CD called Nevermind. Nothing was ever the same again.
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