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Was this the lowest point in the music industry?

Update:

special thanks to James Spader for donning the yellow robe and standing in for you know who

Update 2:

not Nirvana per se, just Kurt Cobain wearing that hideous thing on Headbanger's Ball

Update 3:

after reading Lucie's answer, my recommendation for "lowest point" takes a backseat to the present consideration

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  • 1 decade ago
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    4 years ago

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  • 1 decade ago

    The grunge was a at a pretty low point...BUT I believe right now is the lowest point. To me, everyone follows Billboard and if there's a song at #1, they force themselves to love it. And most of the time, if someone like Black Eyed Peas or Lady Gaga drops a hit, everyone loves it for about half a month and then leaves it in the past. That didn't happen in the 60's-80's classic rock time period. Not saying I like Black Eyed Peas or Lady Gaga (I hate them to the core) just saying it seems like people only talk about the #1 on Billboard and nothing about anything else in the top 10

  • 1 decade ago

    Oh man, bro. Don't even get me started. There were a few low points, IMO.

    Lol- I think Kurt was just getting a laugh. Guys like David Bowie & Peter Gabriel were doing exactly that sorta thing a good 20 years before Kurt.

    But one low point for me; the late 80s. What'd we have then?:

    -the tail end of glam metal/ hair bands

    -Milli Vanilli, New Kids on the Block & Color Me Badd.

    It just didn't get much lower than that. (well, Aerosmith playing the Super Bowl half time & sharing the stage w/ Britney Spears.)

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  • 1 decade ago

    Haha, I found that quite funny. It is the headbangers ball and you do normally wear gown's to ball's.

    I think now is the lowest point in music, it's the industries own fault though, they sign bands that alot of people think are rubbish, it's just more people think they are good(obviously) because Lady Gaga is at number 1 and not someone else.

  • 1 decade ago

    Are you kidding me? Rock is more than just what happened in the 80's and 90's. According to the history of rock and roll the lowest point is when rock lost its innocence when the plane crash went down in a field in Iowa with the big bopper, ritchie valens, and buddy holly back in 1959. Read up on your history of rock and roll before limiting it to the grunge of seattle to the hair bands of L.A. Nirvana is not alternative. I'm not knocking the band at all, as I listen to them and like what they have contributed to rock and roll, but lets get real here people. Rock and roll has changed quite a bit since the 50's. And yes, it was considered rock and roll in that day, because it pushed the limits further than the what was being listened to at the time. Isn't that what rock and roll is all about? Pushing limits and changing a new generation to more than what we listened to boundaries. Like I said before, ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

    Source(s): http://www.americanheritage.com/entertainment/arti... I am also a self proclaimed music buff. Oh yea btw. Rap is crap. not music at all.
  • 1 decade ago

    Lowest point in music history was when hip hop and R&B got big like 5 years ago. I say the 80's to mid 90's were the best, then started a downfall with the "Boy band era" UHHHH

  • 1 decade ago

    No. Kurt sometimes had the need to make fun of the public, commercial stuff, and about grunge I don't even want to talk. I adore that time in music.

    Music nowadays, emo, sreamo, Lady Gaga, and s..t like that, now we're hitting the lowest point.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Soulja Boy releasing "Soulja Boy Tell 'Em" will continue to be the lowest point in the music industry for at least the next 5 years.

  • floson
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    5 years ago

    i think of each thing to do with the spice females replaced into synthetic crap, yet i think of Oasis, Pulp, Coldplay and Blur are actual gifted bands making stable music. Take That and Blue have been merely writing music to make money, and that i've got in no way heard of the different lass.

  • 1 decade ago

    Stevie Wonder playing at the Grammy's with the Jonas Brothers.

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