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  "description": "I'm nostalgic for the 90s and alternative music but I wasn't there for any of it. I was 4 and a half years old when Nevermind was released and was introduced to Nirvana by my dad playing MTV Unplugged in New York on repeat in the tape deck of his manual, hatchback Honda Civic. I wasn't a part of it, but I was alive during it and hold dear memories of that time. The music remains core to my memories of that time despite the fact that I really became invested in it as I got older. Alternative for the Masses isn't an author driven narrative about the the music or the time. There's a clear demarcation between topics and everything is covered in detail, driven by interviews with countless musicians, producers and pioneers in the genre. There's an art to guiding conversations, at length, with this many different people and weaving parts of those interviews into a coherent narrative. This sits nicely alongside books like Our Band Could Be Your Life and Corporate Rock Sucks , populated with vignettes from luminaries like Fred Armisen, Lou Barlow, Mike Watt and on and on. It's not a definitive discussion of the genre, nor does one exist. It was too expansive and too import to too many people to ever allow for that. But it's a nice addition to the historical discussion of it.",
  "path": "/reading/books/9780760398425/alternative-for-the-masses",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-27T00:00:00Z",
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  "tags": [
    "music",
    "nonfiction"
  ],
  "title": "Alternative for the Masses"
}