Music, culture and mindset: Where the 90s echo into the present
Daddy Grunge explores the music, culture and spirit of the 90s — and why it still matters today. Dive into the soul of Grunge, Alternative, and Electronic Culture. Connect the grit of the past with the drive to stay real in a world engineered for distraction.
If you’re driven by the urge to explore something raw, you’re in the right place.
Dive Into & Explore:
- Music & Culture: Revisit the 90s legacy of Grunge, Alt-Rock, and early Electronic Culture.
- Reviews & Ideas: Get inspired by shared projects, reviews, and unfinished ideas.
- Fatherhood & Contemplation: Real talk on Fatherhood, responsibility, and staying authentic in the 2020s.
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Great Movies of the ’90s: As Good as It Gets – A Retrospective
Five movies I’ll probably try to talk my daughters into watching someday. Any list of great, interesting and memorable movies from the ’90s could go on forever. Classics like Forrest Gump, Good Will Hunting, Dances with Wolves or Home Alone immediately come to mind. There’ll be blockbuster classics here, but also quieter indie movies. The…
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The Denim Hit Machine — a Saga of Pop Culture, Advertising and the Sound of the 90s
From Marvin Gaye to the Muppets, from Madonna to Massive Attack Funny what a random thought can dredge up. This morning, doing the school run after a pointless phone call from my boss, Stiltskin’s “Inside” walked straight into my head — that brutal, unmistakable guitar riff and Ray Wilson’s raw, majestic voice. Don’t keeeep it…
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Why the Gen-X Line Is a Guessing Game
Don’t Speak Anybody remember Napster? Back in ’99, it was this online platform where you could search for pretty much any song and pull it down as an MP3 — not from the platform itself, but straight off some stranger’s hard drive on the other side of the world. Unlike tapes, which got passed hand…
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A Self-Critique, or: Why Principles and Business Always Collide
…and Commerce Always Wins. Wear Sunscreen Right now, it’s very hot in Germany. Hotter than ever before since meteorological records began. And there is a scientific consensus that the Earth’s atmosphere is heating up because of growing fossil fuel emissions. Climate change is, for the most part, man-made — caused by the industrialised nations and…
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Likes, Kids and the Rest of (Online) Life
Somewhere between MySpace and fatherhood, the algorithm showed up. I belong to the generation of internet and social media veterans: dial-up internet in 1995, StudiVZ, ICQ, MySpace, eventually Facebook. Never Twitter, awkwardly Instagram, and even a brief stop at Google Plus. Not as an early adopter or trendsetter—more of a follower, really—but at least never…
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The 90s Cure: Healing a burnt-out world!
Not Nostalgia. Recovery. So here we are now — stuck between the day-job grind, the responsibilities of fatherhood, and the ambitions that never quite faded. In my case, those ambitions were always built on music. Growing older shouldn’t feel like being buried alive, yet here it is: a mountain of routines, bills, and a culture…
