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i don't know that i have a consistent favorite genre or anything. to me, there are just moments when music seems to clot up around a sound and i love those moments, so i have fondness for grunge in the early 90s when it seemed like every band that came from the northwest owned it. nirvana, soundgarden, mudhoney, screaming trees, pearl jam ... it just didn't stop. and it didn't hurt that i was in high school. also, the much-hated term emo only seemed like a bad label and not a terrible kind of music back in 1998. sunny day's 'how it feel to be something on,' the promise ring's 'nothing feels good,' jets to brazil's 'orange rhyming dictionary,' braid's 'frame and canvas,' and jimmy eat world's 'clarity' are all solid to great albums. plus bands like texas is the reason, the get-up kids, mineral. i'm not saying that either of these genres necessarily even hold up nowadays, but there was that moment in time when it felt like a movement, and that's gotta count for something.
Does "Anything with Bernie Worrell Playing On It Except for that Talking Heads Live Album" count as a musical genre?
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