Accidental Revolution: The Story Of Grunge

by Kyle Anderson

St. Martin's Griffin

Shaun Hatton (CHARTattack)

07/10/2007 11:12am

This overview of the grunge movement is presented as a series of mini biographies of bands from the era. Those given the most attention are the ones you couldn't get away from in the '90s — Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and Nirvana. Other acts such as The Melvins and Mudhoney aren't given as many pages. Half the fun is author Kyle Anderson's sly slags on multiple bands with lines like, "[Silverchair's Frogstomp] makes Bush and Stone Temple Pilots look like the Beatles and the Stones."