Happy Birthday - Fucker!

Been going through my playlist and getting into some heavy nostalgia. I loved 1995. In 1995 I firmly declared myself as someone who did not fit into my conservative private school culture and set about pissing everyone off as much as possible. The education department nearly took out our Internet connection after a certain incident where someone *cough cough* got access to the webserver and replaced the lovely website with a curious mix of Giger and Tankgirl pics, and links to the (few) porn sites around at the time. I got drunk. I hung around with streetkids because I found I had more in common with them than my school counterparts. I got a big colour photo of my friends and I in The Age on the big concrete block next to the old gas and fuel building opposite Flinders St station (known as flatties or flatlands) causing the school minister to hold the picture up to his class and demand to know who I was (I had mentioned my school in the article) because I "wasn't the sort of person who should be attending our school".
Memories of a party where one of my skater friends hopped around the house miming Beasties into his friends Mums glow-in-the-dark dildo. Way before I discovered raves or even liked electronic music.
All of this punctuated by the music I was listening to at the time and what I am listening to now. Here is my favourite 1995 artist nostalgia list (note: probably not from 1995, but what we were listening to).

Faith No More (Particularly the King For a Day album)
Smashing Pumpkins (You know which album).
Elastica (oh shut up)
Hole (oh shut up)
Stone Temple Pilots
Nirvana (not by choice at the time - I didn't like them then, do now)
The Cure
Beasties
Chilli Peppers
David Bowie (much to my own ridicule)
Garbage
Rage Against the Machine
Nick Cave (I met his son Cain, poor kid)
A bunch of 60s stuff related to pot smoking.

There was more, but those are the ones that stand out in my mind. I'm not, and have never been a tribute to obscurity but that year sticks out in my mind because everyone was angry, the music was angry, people were angry and I came out of my shell, and yes I was angry too. I dont find the same power and well channelled rage and powerlessness in music now that I do in these artists. Fuck man even Billy Corgan is singing about finding love now. That generation grew up, got mortgages and switched to conservatism to keep their debts under control. They've taught the younger generations to focus on the money and imprison themselves with it.
No Greenday is not on there. I have never liked Greenday and still to this day argue that they are crap. I dont care when grunge was, or when it was supposedly over - if the crowd for RATM in 1995 filled up the entire showgrounds, it was still alive and kicking then. Mainstream shmainstream ;) I dont think there's anything wrong with that amount of people identifying with music that had such a strong message. God forbid music should contain such a thing now and reach out to the masses. I wish it did. I really really wish it did.