rendakuenthusiast:

kontextmaschine:

Just finally getting a broad enough view to realize how weird it was that Tom Petty and Aerosmith were mainstays of MTV when I was in middle school in the 90s

What artists could’ve been mainstays of MTV when you were in middle school in the 90s that you would not have said this about?

Uh… Soul Asylum?

Pearl Jam?

There was kinda a period in the early 90s where they couldn’t tell what white kids should listen to after hair metal, when “alternative” had “Alternative Nation” like rap had “Yo! MTV Raps”, but “kids love ‘70s rock comebacks!” was still a weird angle