As a pop music nerd of the highest order, I’ve certainly been aware of grunge music for decades now, and back in the day Pearl Jam and Hole found their way into my car’s CD player alongside Tori Amos and whatever Madonna album had just come out. Mark Blankenship: And you were correct! I loved this thing. Bunting: I really didn’t know that much about grunge before I picked up Everybody Loves Our Town - no more than anyone else would, having lived through the early ’90s - but I didn’t get far into it before knowing that you, Mark, should also read it. We talked earlier this week about Candlebox, Kurts Loder and Cobain, and how nobody loved their youth. Mark Yarm’s oral history of grunge, Everybody Loves Our Town, is a fantastic and informative overview of the genre - which nobody involved is interested in calling “grunge,” in fact - and I wasn’t more than a few dozen pages into it before ordering it to my esteemed colleague Mark Blankenship’s house. Mark Blankenship joins me to talk about Mark Yarm’s oral history of grunge.
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