There was a 10 year or so build up prior to Nevermind where punk (and it's variants) were not being played on the radio (obviously, which was still relevant then). You didn't hear Black Flag, Minor Threat, Hüsker Dü et al. on the radio except perhaps a specialty show or on college radio. That pressure was building every year and so was the fan base. People were tired of hearing The Who all the time..."corporate rock".
MTV's 120 Minutes was essential stuff back in the day.
I grew up in Seattle - friends were telling me for years before Nevermind about Nirvana. They were building a reputation slowly across the US. Subpop was helping, they had a national network, but not fast enough. Once Nirvana had a major label marketing for them - things went crazy.
Nirvana was that magic mix of punk/hard rock and pop that broke the dam - and the audience was ready to go.
> There was a 10 year or so build up prior to Nevermind where punk (and it's variants) were not being played on the radio
The Ramones debuted at CBGB in 1976, The Misfits there in 1977. Black Flag formed in Hermosa Beach in 1976 as Panic. KROQ was airing punk by the late 1970s, as well as alternative radio stations and college radio. The Clash signed with Columbia (then CBS Records), an American label, in 1977, and their 1982 single, Should I Stay or Should I Go, was on wide radio rotation throughout the 1980's. So by Nevermind in 1991, Punk was very well established. Although it is a general rule that any punk bands that formed in the 1980's often didn't get wide recognition until the 1990's, but The Ramone's (Sedated) and The Clash got plenty of airplay from the late 1970's up until today. But I think it is more accurate to put Nirvana with the other Seattle and LA groups and change its genre label to Grunge.
In 2008 I made onemilescroll.com with Daniel Eatock. It was a fun project where we allowed users to post things at whatever height. It wasn't nearly as rigorous as WHW. Eventually it required updates...
Next up: 10K wordle. You have unlimited guesses and must avoid guessing any word not in the final list of 10000 solution words. Your score is the number of right guesses before you miss a guess.
Very corrupt political and wealthy class for starters. If you want to do some research look into the Petrocaribe scandal and the recent assassination of the president. I lived there for five years (until 2019) and everything got a little more worse month after month. By the end, we were lucky if we had 10 hours of grid power in a typical week (when we arrived we had consistently 14 hours per day).
Add me to the list of NYT subscription failures. Sorry NYT, but I will never sign up again (and I think you are a good newspaper) unless you come clean about these lame practices.
Why aren't people talking about this and doing something about it?