This series looks back at the 1990s and its influence on the generation of people who came of age during the decade. Mazzy Star's "Blue Flower" has always sounded exactly like the early 1990s felt to me. Ah, back in the day. The halcyon years of modern rock, alternative rock, whatever you want to call it—those final, peak years, before it all drifted off into the ether, to be replaced in the public consciousness by Britney and the Back Street Boys. Many of us aging Gen Xers believe that it was the last, truly great era of rock music (Get off my lawn). Music played such an enormous part in our lives back then, in the way that it only can when you're a teenager. It seemed to soundtrack every waking moment. Hearing those '90s songs today floods my head with memories of friends , girlfriends , school, work , play , dreams , anxieties, everything and everyone that influenced who I was and who I was growing up to be. Mazzy Star's sublime, dream-pop mast...
we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars