Yuck - It Is All The Past To Them

Recently I was in London I heard about a band called "Yuck" that was getting a lot of hype. The lead singer is young (only 20 years old) and the band builds on the grunge rock of the 90's and you can hear Dinosaur Jr., Nirvana, and all the rest spread throughout. Their album (CD?) is great and highly recommended. Here they are playing "Get Away" live on an English TV show.



Here is their CD cover... this is an image that they kind of use throughout as you can see on their blog site here (they even have a horse-and-buggy blog just like us at LITGM).

I remember growing up and there was an endless talk of "influences" on band. Led Zeppelin "borrowed" liberally from the blues especially on their first album and were even sued a few times. We argued about what influenced the metal bands; some like Sabbath were obviously based on part of the blues but then Metallica had a big dose of classical music instead. These are the kinds of drunken disputes that you have when you are a kid with time to kill and a beer in your hand.

But now you have a band like Yuck that is based on the 90's grunge bands that were some sort of second derivative of the metal bands / punk bands with a bunch of other stuff thrown in. The first time I thought of someone basing a band on 90's music it seemed insane to me; but the more I thought about it, to someone like "Yuck", the famous line from Seinfeld comes to mind (when George is arguing about clowns and his predilection for Bozo):

You're living in the past, man

To someone who is 20 what is the difference between original blues, hard rock, metal, and grunge? It is ALL IN THE PAST. What for us was once new is just detritus waiting to be rediscovered and repackaged, one as good as the next.

Check out that album, you'll laugh seeing all the 90's influences repackaged for the second decade of the 21st century.