While today’s rock seems all but dead in a sea of pop and hip-hop, three decades ago it was the force of youthful rebellion and culture-moving creativity. That year was a perfect storm of metal, alternative rock and grunge that all came together to dominate the music industry. It’s the old people’s music now.” Lyndsey Parker, host of SiriusXM’s “Volume West.” “Unfortunately rock music kind of became known to Gen Z and millennials as their parents’ music. They were still playing a lot of videos, and ‘120 Minutes’ and ‘Headbanger’s Ball’ were getting behind a lot of newer rock bands.” Metalliica bangs heads on the Monsters of Rock tour in 1991. “Obviously, there was something in the water,” said Lyndsey Parker, host of SiriusXM’s “Volume West.” “I think MTV had a lot to do with it. (“Out of Time”) and U2 (“Achtung Baby”) - not to mention the first Lollapalooza 30 summers ago - and there’s no doubt that it was a golden age for the genre. The week before that, Guns N’ Roses dropped not one but two blockbuster LPs: “Use Your Illusion I” and “II.” And in the previous month, two monster rock albums arrived in Pearl Jam’s “Ten” and Metallica’s self-titler, known as “The Black Album,” which turns 30 on Thursday.Īdd to that other seminal 1991 albums by the likes of R.E.M. In 1991, rock was on such a roll that Nirvana’s “Nevermind,” the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Blood Sugar Sex Magik” and Soundgarden’s “Badmotorfinger” - now considered classic albums of the era - all came out on the very same day: Sept.

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