When grunge hit in the early 90s?
Not only did a lot of 80s Glam Metal get pushed aside, but a lot of New Wave and original Punk acts disappeared or were driven underground. New Order was huge in the late 80s on the club scene and radio, but, besides their brief spotlight in ’93 with ‘Regret’ they were virtually not heard from again. They and especially their previous incarnation as Joy Division defined a lot of music for the 90s. It was too bad their star was blown out. Billy Idol fell off the map also. Siouxsie and the Banshees fell off the map. Morrissey and the Smiths had already broken up, but Morrissey fell off the map anyway. Fairly new acts that were hugely influential on the Grunge scene like Stone Roses shone for a year through ’89-90 and then completely disappeared. It was too bad for me. I loved 80s music, and though I came to like Nirvana very much, I resented them at the time for blowing the kind of music I liked totally off the radio.
