@CheeseForEvery1 This is the equivalent of wrestling fans saying you need to be plugged into NXT, Evolve, New Japan, AAA, ROH, and Joshi wrestling to understand anything on Raw or Dynamite.
They say GenX is the passed-over generation, e.g. presumably the Presidency will pass directly from Boomers Trump/Biden/Trump to a Millenial.
But GenX already had their cultural apogee: the 1995 release of this compilation of pop-punk covers of Saturday-morning cartoon songs
On any given day, I'll listen to Toad the Wet Sprocket, Gin Blossoms, or Letters to Cleo, but Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, etc... are all out of the rotation. 90s music has staying power, but its not really grundge music that holds up.
I once was making a similar observation when someone countered something to the effect “but wasn’t it the height of Neo Classic Rock?”
The accurate point being made: Grunge captured the attention of the press, but in parallel, Counting Crows, Blues Traveler, Hootie, Spin doctors, Wallflowers etc etc were matching if not outpacing grunge in sales.