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MTV Unplugged seemed way too gen-x and serious

Never watched it, were they self aware at all or was it real...
the wife guy cinematic universe
  08/23/26
https://x.com/DirtyFlannel90/status/2091141716757676294 To m...
the wife guy cinematic universe
  08/23/26
yeah the only one i saw at the time was nirvana and was conf...
Brother Peter Dimond
  08/23/26
The candles everywhere are killing me
the wife guy cinematic universe
  08/23/26
the unplugged format generally made songs a lot worse than t...
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the wife guy cinematic universe
  08/23/26
it was the Coke Freestyle of the 90s
which is what makes time travel possible
  08/23/26
It was still better than the original Layla
le heckin raperino
  08/23/26
the Unplugged versions are the best versions of most of Alic...
peeface
  08/23/26
the man who sold the world was basically played on The Marti...
cowgod
  08/23/26
with a distortion pedal lmao
Metal Up Your Ass
  08/23/26
cr, also “Alice in Chains” is overrated slop
le heckin raperino
  08/23/26
(angry self loathing homosexual)
peeface
  08/23/26
Outed as Gen X trash. Reality bites, maaaan!
le heckin raperino
  08/23/26
Lmao
the wife guy cinematic universe
  08/23/26
No one knows why they're so Serious. it's cringe af.
cowgod
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Bites_(soundtrack) ...
peeface
  08/23/26
As a kid I remember playing the nirvana unplugged for a fri...
a rich inner world
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The Unbearable GenX Earnestness of Natalie Merchant’s ...
Emperor CRISPR Chad von Neumann III
  08/23/26
Watching now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AQByCFr0gs
the wife guy cinematic universe
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Why were gen x singing these Weighty Important Angst filled ...
the wife guy cinematic universe
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"A surprising number of famous alternative musicians we...
the wife guy cinematic universe
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AND THE SIGN SAYS YOU GOT TO HAVE A MEMBERSHIP CARD TO GET I...
hotel children
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Nobody was going to make an iconic 1994 alternative record c...
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Oh, you retrieve?
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a rich inner world
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Oh, you retrieve?
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It seems like the pretentiousness of 90s rock has all but di...
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Date: August 23rd, 2026 12:49 AM
Author: the wife guy cinematic universe

Never watched it, were they self aware at all or was it really all tryhard weighty perfomances that Mattered.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896190&forum_id=2Elisa#50086555)



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Date: August 23rd, 2026 12:53 AM
Author: the wife guy cinematic universe

https://x.com/DirtyFlannel90/status/2091141716757676294 To me this is hilarious

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896190&forum_id=2Elisa#50086559)



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Date: August 23rd, 2026 12:56 AM
Author: Brother Peter Dimond

yeah the only one i saw at the time was nirvana and was confused like i thought they were cool but this seems really faggy

i like theirs now though and the alice in chains one is also credited

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896190&forum_id=2Elisa#50086564)



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Date: August 23rd, 2026 1:34 AM
Author: the wife guy cinematic universe

The candles everywhere are killing me

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896190&forum_id=2Elisa#50086588)



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Date: August 23rd, 2026 2:36 AM
Author: ,.,..,.,..,.,.,.,..,.,.,,..,..,.,,..,.,,.


the unplugged format generally made songs a lot worse than their studio versions. it usually just deflated them, and seemed kind of pointless. i remember boomer critics going berserk over eric clapton's lifeless unplugged version of Layla, and thinking that the critics were wrong, and that it just sucked.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896190&forum_id=2Elisa#50086645)



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Date: August 23rd, 2026 10:25 AM
Author: the wife guy cinematic universe



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896190&forum_id=2Elisa#50086864)



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Date: August 23rd, 2026 10:28 AM
Author: which is what makes time travel possible

it was the Coke Freestyle of the 90s

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896190&forum_id=2Elisa#50086867)



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Date: August 23rd, 2026 11:15 AM
Author: le heckin raperino

It was still better than the original Layla

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896190&forum_id=2Elisa#50086949)



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Date: August 23rd, 2026 11:16 AM
Author: peeface

the Unplugged versions are the best versions of most of Alice in Chains. some solid Nirvana stuff as well.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896190&forum_id=2Elisa#50086950)



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Date: August 23rd, 2026 11:29 AM
Author: cowgod

the man who sold the world was basically played on The Martin acoustic-electric guitar iirc, and everyone was like "I'm going to allow this."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896190&forum_id=2Elisa#50086969)



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Date: August 23rd, 2026 12:12 PM
Author: Metal Up Your Ass

with a distortion pedal lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896190&forum_id=2Elisa#50087043)



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Date: August 23rd, 2026 11:15 AM
Author: le heckin raperino

cr, also “Alice in Chains” is overrated slop

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896190&forum_id=2Elisa#50086947)



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Date: August 23rd, 2026 11:16 AM
Author: peeface

(angry self loathing homosexual)



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896190&forum_id=2Elisa#50086951)



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Date: August 23rd, 2026 11:19 AM
Author: le heckin raperino

Outed as Gen X trash. Reality bites, maaaan!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896190&forum_id=2Elisa#50086956)



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Date: August 23rd, 2026 11:28 AM
Author: the wife guy cinematic universe

Lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896190&forum_id=2Elisa#50086964)



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Date: August 23rd, 2026 11:29 AM
Author: cowgod

No one knows why they're so Serious. it's cringe af.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896190&forum_id=2Elisa#50086970)



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Date: August 23rd, 2026 12:58 PM
Author: peeface

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Bites_(soundtrack)

you seem like a real music expert

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896190&forum_id=2Elisa#50087184)



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Date: August 23rd, 2026 1:19 PM
Author: a rich inner world (luis)

As a kid I remember playing the nirvana unplugged for a friend (I had the cassette) to impress him with my musical taste and he said it was putting him to sleep lol.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896190&forum_id=2Elisa#50087224)



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Date: August 23rd, 2026 1:42 PM
Author: Emperor CRISPR Chad von Neumann III ( )

The Unbearable GenX Earnestness of Natalie Merchant’s 10,000 Maniacs Performance of “Because the Night” tp

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896190&forum_id=2Elisa#50087259)



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Date: August 23rd, 2026 1:44 PM
Author: the wife guy cinematic universe

Watching now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AQByCFr0gs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896190&forum_id=2Elisa#50087265)



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Date: August 23rd, 2026 1:47 PM
Author: the wife guy cinematic universe

Why were gen x singing these Weighty Important Angst filled songs when they lived in a 95% white country with tons of jobs and cheap everything and no war and 2 killer 16 bit consoles with huge libraries Lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896190&forum_id=2Elisa#50087269)



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Date: August 23rd, 2026 1:53 PM
Author: the wife guy cinematic universe

"A surprising number of famous alternative musicians were not representative working-class Americans. The alternative scene contained lots of art-school kids, college-radio people, suburban middle-class kids, children of professionals, and people immersed in bohemian subcultures.

Being materially comfortable can actually produce more existential angst, not less. If your problem is "I might starve," your songs tend to be about concrete problems. If food, shelter, and basic security are assumed, you have enormous mental bandwidth for:

"Who am I?"

"Is modern life authentic?"

"Why am I alienated?"

"Why do I hate myself?"

"Why does everything feel fake?"

This is basically Maslow's hierarchy turned into an alternative-rock industry."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896190&forum_id=2Elisa#50087287)



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Date: August 23rd, 2026 1:48 PM
Author: hotel children

AND THE SIGN SAYS YOU GOT TO HAVE A MEMBERSHIP CARD TO GET INSIDE..

*HUNGHHHHH*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896190&forum_id=2Elisa#50087272)



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Date: August 23rd, 2026 1:55 PM
Author: the wife guy cinematic universe

Nobody was going to make an iconic 1994 alternative record called:

"My Parents Have a Reasonably Stable Marriage and I Got a Good Job at Hewlett-Packard."

Millions of Gen Xers were perfectly content. They were going to barbecues, buying Nintendo games, watching Seinfeld, getting married, going fishing, and listening to Hootie & the Blowfish.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896190&forum_id=2Elisa#50087295)



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Date: August 23rd, 2026 2:34 PM
Author: Oh, you retrieve?



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896190&forum_id=2Elisa#50087389)



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Date: August 23rd, 2026 2:35 PM
Author: a rich inner world (luis)



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896190&forum_id=2Elisa#50087393)



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Date: August 23rd, 2026 2:36 PM
Author: Oh, you retrieve?



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896190&forum_id=2Elisa#50087397)



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Date: August 23rd, 2026 7:40 PM
Author: ........,,,,,,......,.,.,.,,,,,,,,,,


It seems like the pretentiousness of 90s rock has all but disappeared.

Once and a while white people will try to incorporate its values into rap music, but it never seems to stick as it just seems stupid to talk about what a genius Kendrick Lamar is for going "blip blap bloom!"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896190&forum_id=2Elisa#50087892)