XPost: seattle.general, alt.culture.us.1990s, rec.arts.movies.past-films   
   XPost: rec.arts.tv   
   From: prose9@poisonedrose.com   
      
   hislop  wrote:   
      
   > In the 90s it can't be anything more than a demographic, or a word to   
   > sell with.   
   > I thought one source of the word was the change in trousers in the 60s,   
   > they actually were hipsters, I used to have a pair of those once.   
   > 'Grunge' besides not being a word that began with Seattle, goes back to   
   > the late 80s, with groups like Mudhoney, in the case of Seattle anyway.   
   > It was a word used in Melbourne, Australia through the 80s for groups   
   > related to The Birthday Day for example, along with 'thrash'.  Not much   
   > of anything really began in the 90s.   
      
   I assume you meant the Birthday Party?   
      
   I've pretty much given up on pursuing this sort of topic on Usenet. It   
   inevitably degrades into "Kids today, what with their long hair, drugs   
   and out-of-tune guitars"-type cane-rattling.   
      
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