My post wasn't really intended to be a pro-Metallica post...I haven't listened much to them since 1989. Just pointing out that what Nirvana was doing image-wise wasn't all that new, revolutionary, or counter-cultural.
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Do you own Nirvana - Nevermind
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My post wasn't really intended to be a pro-Metallica post...I haven't listened much to them since 1989. Just pointing out that what Nirvana was doing image-wise wasn't all that new, revolutionary, or counter-cultural.
Ha, no worries, and mine wasn't an anti-Metallica post; just pointing out how Nirvana and their ilk were influential enough to change even anti-fashion stalwarts like Metallica. It's probably an exaggeration anyway, but that's what TB is for!
FWIW, I heard Nevermind and the Black Album on the same day. I hadn't been a Metallica fan prior to that, but I liked it.
I thought it was a requirement to own this in the nineties. Grew bored with it extremely quickly though.
There's a local radio station that occasionally says the artist and song title after a track which always made sense to me for the newer stuff but when the say "Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana" I realize that there ware actually people who don't that song yet. At some point I had to be initially exposed to "Black Dog - Led Zeppelin."
There's a local radio station that occasionally says the artist and song title after a track which always made sense to me for the newer stuff but when the say "Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana" I realize that there ware actually people who don't that song yet. At some point I had to be initially exposed to "Black Dog - Led Zeppelin."
I have a feeling that was more about Metallica having become rich and famous by that point and being used to living in luxury.
eh, right offhand i couldn't tell you what black dog sounds like..but i probably heard it but dont know it by name. I didn't know what Stairway to heaven sounded like until about 4 years ago because id never heard it (or didn't consciously know that's what i was hearing, i've been told its in a bunch of films some of which i must have seen). i still don't cause i heard it maybe twice and i forgot how it goes. My point i guess is...if you're not into certain genres (and don't listen to radio), you might not know certain songs that might be considered classics. I still would consider myself a music lover.
Anyone from my generation was definitely overexposed to smells like teen spirit, it is absolutely impossible for me to ever enjoy this song ever again.
Haha, I've seen similar things. For example, I enjoy reading graphic novels and comics written by chaos magician and punk fan Grant Morrison. But one time I was struck by the exceeding stupidity of one of his character's responses to a mass genocide of students, something along the lines of: "We could have lost the next Einstein, the next Mozart, the next Kurt Cobain...."
Besides the problem of lumping a talented songwriter in with a brilliant physicist and a genius composer as if his mark will be as lasting, Cobain was a famous suicide which means he cut his career short before he could finish honing his talent. Bottom line: flash in the pan lumped in with much more important people by hipster.
No. The only Nirvana I own is the best-of that came out about 10 years ago. And personally, I think him blowing his brains out what the "smartest" thing he could have done to immortalize himself. Otherwise, he would have just faded away and Nirvana would be a footnote in Rock history instead of being held in such high regard. JMO of course 
Alice in Chains was the best of the "Grunge" bands that came out at that time, IMO.
Alice in Chains was the best of the "Grunge" bands that came out at that time, IMO.
I was a senior in high school when this album (CD) came out so it was a big one for me. I wasn't the biggest Nirvana fan of their later stuff but Nevermind and Bleach were both really good albums.
Yes, but it is not on my iphone, it is buried in a box of CDs somewhere. The album has some great songs, with Drain You as my favorite.
But I have not listened to Smells Like Teen Spirit in years. If it comes on the radio I turn it. If it comes on at a bar I'll go outside for a few minutes. It has just been overplayed until I can't stand it.
But I have not listened to Smells Like Teen Spirit in years. If it comes on the radio I turn it. If it comes on at a bar I'll go outside for a few minutes. It has just been overplayed until I can't stand it.
I bought it when it came out. Still got it stuck in one of the old school cd binders somewhere. I was into it at the time because it was what was popular. Now its meh... The grunge scene for cool for a minute to me back then but I was way more into metal. Still am.
Pretty much my thoughts to a T...and I was also born in 69
This was the "Death" of music to me, and also the first time that I felt like I now sounded "like an old man" when I would talk about the 90's stuff (even thought I was in my early 20's). I would rant on about "music now sucking; it's not metal enough; corporate sell-outs etc" and then be like...."wait, I sound like my dad....THAT is also not metal..."
the only Seattle group from the 90's I could stomach was Alice In Chains, and only for their first album. To me grunge was re-hashing every thing that the early 80's hardcore scene had, except with less talent, and less actual socio-political awareness and involvement. People were saying Grunge was like punk....I was like, not the punk I know.
I remember thinking: "Wait a minute...these guys are the best thing that has come out of Seattle? What about Queensryche
"It is so funny now about how many of my buds from back then who jumped on the Grunge bandwagon are now ashamed of it. The ywill quickly deny ever owning the albums, or seeing the groups live
