It's basically a backlash against the grunge scene.
The verses from what I can gather don't have anything to do with the overall meaning of the song, the clinch is the lines.
"Cause every Supersonic Jerk-off who plugs into the game"
Referring to the amount of "negative" rock bands coming out of the woodwork after the success of "Nevermind".
"Is just like every subatomic genius who just invented pain"
Basically talking about all the young guys in these bands moping about as if no-one else has ever been depressed and un-happy.
I'm not sure if it's a direct attack on, say Nirvana, or more an attack on the bands that began to appear in the wake of their success. Monster Magnet are very much products of the 60's and 70's, when Rock music was more about rebelling, taking drugs & having a good time. So understandably they'd be critical of the "mopey", "angsty" direction rock was heading.
@laminatedeffec Also, the new alternative rock elite of the 90s meddled with Monster Magnet's career being a retro rock band when "all of a sudden" nobody wanted to hear classical rock music anymore.
@laminatedeffec Also, the new alternative rock elite of the 90s meddled with Monster Magnet's career being a retro rock band when "all of a sudden" nobody wanted to hear classical rock music anymore.
It's basically a backlash against the grunge scene. The verses from what I can gather don't have anything to do with the overall meaning of the song, the clinch is the lines. "Cause every Supersonic Jerk-off who plugs into the game"
I'm not sure if it's a direct attack on, say Nirvana, or more an attack on the bands that began to appear in the wake of their success. Monster Magnet are very much products of the 60's and 70's, when Rock music was more about rebelling, taking drugs & having a good time. So understandably they'd be critical of the "mopey", "angsty" direction rock was heading.
@laminatedeffec Also, the new alternative rock elite of the 90s meddled with Monster Magnet's career being a retro rock band when "all of a sudden" nobody wanted to hear classical rock music anymore.
@laminatedeffec Also, the new alternative rock elite of the 90s meddled with Monster Magnet's career being a retro rock band when "all of a sudden" nobody wanted to hear classical rock music anymore.