http://www.multimediamouth.com/2012/05/26/everybody-loves-our-town-a-review-interview-with-the-author/ We talk, we'd love you to listen Wed, 22 May 2013 11:41:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.multimediamouth.com/2012/05/26/everybody-loves-our-town-a-review-interview-with-the-author/comment-page-1/#comment-1178 business Wed, 30 May 2012 08:46:27 +0000 http://www.multimediamouth.com/?p=5472#comment-1178 Considering grunge’s reputation for gloom – “complaining set to a drop D tuning”, quips DJ/journalist Jeff Gilbert – many of the key figures were goofily irreverent, with a love of excess (a typical anecdote ends: “I think there were psychedelics involved”) and print-the-legend myth-making. It turns out that grunge’s untutored blue-collar reputation – reductive at best for a scene that included college graduates, Shirley Temple’s daughter and a teenage prodigy who once played jazz drums at the White House – was deliberately fostered not just by journalists but by the men behind pivotal label Sub Pop . “I just thought it was hilarious that everybody lied,” says British critic Everett True. During the post-Nevermind media fever, when even Vogue ran a spread on grunge fashion, Mudhoney’s Mark Arm mischievously fed the New York Times a list of bogus grunge slang including “swingin’ on the flippity-flop” (hanging out) and “harsh realm” (bummer).

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