A Week In September 1991

The last thing i want to come across as is one of those clapped out old 40-somethings venting her fury on the bands of today not being as worthy as the bands of yesterday. The real shame is that the bands of today are NOT as worthy as the bands of yesterday so us 40 somethings have no choice but to vent our fury on the subject. It's your fault kids of today, not ours.
We should have put away our ripped, faded jeans and converse trainers a long time ago but since the early 90s there has been a void in music, a couple of decades of insipid pap offered up and Kurt Cobain predicted it, stating: 'It's sad to think what the state of rock'n'roll will be in 20 years from now'. Well here we are 20 years on Kurt and the state of Rock n roll is depressingly in the hands of Simon Cowell.
As evidence that our oldies music rule and your kids music suck, I offer two of the best albums ever to be shoplifted from HMV and both were released 20 years ago this month within a week of each other, the pinnacle of music coming down to a week in mid-September 1991.
First up was Nirvana's Nevermind on the 17th followed by Use your Illusions 1 & 2 by Guns N Roses on the 24th.
You would have to wait a long time to find another album that came close to Nevermind and songs like Smells like teen-spirit, Lithium, In bloom and Come as you are or, as it turned out, you had to wait a week because Use your Illusions 1 & 2 was released at midnight the following weekend.
Who have the kids today got who can compare to Kurt Cobain, Axel Rose and Slash? Olly Murs? Lady Gaga? The last winner of X Factor?
Of course you can't really blame the kids, they can only buy what is served up to them and we are in a depressing cycle of reality show contestants polluting the charts with bland, plastic pop but with music being so fragmented into so many genres, i can't really see another grunge or punk movement happening which is a shame because it gives people like me the opportunity to say 'your music sucks' to the kids which is exactly what my parents said to me and i hate the way today's uninteresting music and musicians has turned me into my parents.