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Thinking that I was too old for nu metal. I had NIN's The Fragile to listen to on repeat.

Woodstock '99 is worth a watch, if only for the nostalgia. It's pretty unclear what it's trying to say but there's enough presented that I feel like I came to my own informed conclusions about the questions they're raising. Also it caused me to respect Fred Durst for the first time ever.

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And fine, what he wrote may never win any MacArthur Genius Grants, but name a single other songwriter who was as prominent in those days and working his empathy muscles even half as hard.

I feel like Bosstones and Everlast both put out albums that were primarily 'Hey here's some hard luck stories about regular people with no happy ending and no moral beyond, cut folks some fucking slack once in a while' songs and they also sold big and 'culture' also backlashed hard on them.

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