The Facebook popularity of this What '90's Alt-Rock Grrrl Are You? quiz is interesting in itself. Why are we looking into the past, one might ask, for eccentric female songwriters and performers? The answer is, of course, that we are looking back at a peak that hasn't been equaled, and I really don't think that because I'm an old grunger: the empirical evidence is clearly there. And with the internet nowadays you'd think that wouldn't be the case but it is. So why exactly?