As he mentions in his introduction, author Prato is determined to prove to his readers that Nirvana didn’t “come out of nowhere” in ‘91. The building blocks for an alt-rock explosion were well in place as the youth rebelled against “big rock,” just as they had through punk in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Prato takes the Please Kill Me approach of telling the story through quotes; he’s gone straight to the mouths of multiple big-name horses, and the book benefits as a result. The definition of the term “alterative” (in a musical sense) has always been a bit messy, and so it is here. But the fun outweighs any genre semantics.
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