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The part about Kurt becoming the face of such a huge shift in music really stood out to me, It's easy to forget how much the scene changed almost overnight



That's true. It absolutely did. And that has bought his legacy more longevity.

To that point, I think of Jimi Hendrix. Before him, maybe Buddy Holly. The likes of Louis Jordan and Glenn Miller before that. Go as far back as Helen Kane and Billy Murray and I doubt no one knows those names let alone their music!Β 

I wonder what more Kurt might've given the world. And what other directions he might have taken us.Β 

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honestly, i think about that a lot too! the idea of hendrix or cobain eventually being completely forgotten is so sad to me. but i really love how you turned that around at the end. using it as a reminder to live your life for you is a great takeaway :)Β 



I'm PLEASANTLY SURPRISED that a 19yo like Hendrix. That's already increasingly rare. Go on back farther and discover more old, dead artists! There are worlds to dive into!Β 

Contemplating the dead should never be the solemnity of the mausoleum but should be a herald of joyous voices from the past beckoning us to love our present and future!Β 

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i'm already deeply down the rabbit hole with oldies. i love 60s garage rock, 50s rockabilly, psychedelic stuff... the list goes on! :)

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Yes! Good! Let me know if you need any recs!

Go back farther. My gods, there is SO SO MUCH from all eras! πŸ₯°Β 

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it will slip into nothingness soon enough yeah.Β 
however i think something about the 60s and on exists in a weird limbo that gets trend repeated cyclically for a while.Β 
I am almost certain, as it has a young community of aesthetics enjoyers etc, that eventually the 60s will style trend again and for a moment millions of kids will listen to Hendrix again,
and then after that has come and gone, it will leave like 20,000 of them that will be lifelong, but much quitter fans.Β 
But yeah it will all generally be a niche nerd thing.Β 


Idk i think there is something different about 60s-2000s.Β  something about then, even 26 years after the fact, has people expressing their elements, mixing them etc, living them despite having not been there. and far more than anything before, or after.Β 
So i dont know what it is,
but i think you are mostly totally right, but maybe slightly wrong, because that 40 years of history seams to have a weird magic to it that makes itself known to those not even there.Β 



Maybe. Or maybe you and I are merely the right age to want to believe that.

But there might just be an indirect influence. After all, I posit that the 50s revival of the late 60s - early 70s greatly influenced the birth of punk.

As for the 60s coming back, I doubt it. If it does, it would be purely kitsch value like the swing revival of the late 90s. Here, interesting for five minutes, gone.Β 

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