Just watched MuchMusic’s special on Cobain. Stroumboulopoulos did — as usual — a kickass segment, pointing out the greater significance what was happening in music at the time that Nevermind came out. I’d never really thought about it, but Jaysus, look at some of the CDs that I own that came out in 1991!

• My Bloody Valentine (Loveless)
• Nirvana (Nevermind)
• The Pixies (Trompe Le Monde)
• Red Hot Chili Peppers (Blood Sugar Sex Magik)
• Screaming Trees (Uncle Anesthesia)
• Smashing Pumpkins (Gish)
• Soundgarden (Badmotorfinger)
• Matthew Sweet (Girlfriend)
• Temple Of The Dog (Temple Of The Dog)
• The Tragically Hip (Road Apples)
• U2 (Achtung Baby)

Not to mention 1992:

• Alice In Chains (Dirt)
• Blind Melon (Blind Melon)
• Lemonheads (It’s A Shame About Ray)
• Mudhoney (Piece Of Cake)
• Nine Inch Nails (Broken)
• Nirvana (Incesticide)
• Pearl Jam (Ten)
• Rage Against The Machine (Rage Against The Machine)
• REM (Automatic For The People)
• Rheostatics (Whale Music)
• Screaming Trees (Sweet Oblivion)
• Singles (Soundtrack)
• Sloan (Smeared)
• Sonic Youth (Dirty)
• Sugar (Copper Blue)
• The Tragically Hip (Fully Completely)
• Roger Waters (Amused To Death)

Or 1993:

• Big Sugar (Five Hundred Pounds)
• Juliana Hatfield (Become What You Are)
• James (Laid)
• McLachlan, Sarah (Fumbling Toward Ecstasy)
• Nirvana (In Utero)
• Pearl Jam (Vs.)
• Liz Phair (Exile In Guyville)
• Porno For Pyros (Porno For Pyros)
• Sebadoh (Bubble And Scrape)
• Smashing Pumpkins (Siamese Dream)
• Tool (Undertow)
• Yo La Tengo (Painful)

Watch the segment. Like the man says, let’s get the fuck rid of Britney.