Soul Asylum condensed so much about the ’90s in their song “Misery.” And singer Dave Pirner only needed two words to do it. Released as the first single from Soul Asylum’s seventh studio album Let Your Dim Light Shine, “Misery” describes how the mood of a generation was captured and marketed.
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