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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out
- Thread starter Korladis
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Not the biggest PJ fan out there, but I will admit the first CD I ever bought was Vs, and the 2nd was Superunkown, which I still love to this day. Blew my 10 year old mind
I remember listening to vitology and the album they did with Neil young a good amount when I was in high school. They were never really my thang, but I always respected their massive following that seemed to last well past their commercial success fizzled a bit.
I had a buddy in high school who was a huge fan of PJ. Member of an official fan club and all that. I borrowed the whole discography from him quite a few times but for the love of me never understood what is so great about this band.
I guess I'll chime in about PJ too...
I was in high school when they got big, but I have never been much of a fan. Some of their stuff I can enjoy listening to but when I'm going to listen to music I never choose to put on any PJ. I don't dislike them, they just never really grabbed me. I do have tons of respect for them trying to fight Ticketmaster.
I enjoyed Vedder's soundtrack to Into the Wild when I saw the movie, but I haven't tried listening to it on its own yet.
With the mention of Superunknown, it does seem to me that I'm the only person in the world that's not a fan of Soundgarden. I never enjoyed Chris Cornell's voice. I'm not saying he's a bad singer, it's just that his voice never appealed to me for whatever reason.
Since we're on the subject of 90s bands...I had a hankering to listen to some Helmet the other day. They had some great songs. And I can't talk about 90s bands without mentioning the greatness of Hum.
I was in high school when they got big, but I have never been much of a fan. Some of their stuff I can enjoy listening to but when I'm going to listen to music I never choose to put on any PJ. I don't dislike them, they just never really grabbed me. I do have tons of respect for them trying to fight Ticketmaster.
I enjoyed Vedder's soundtrack to Into the Wild when I saw the movie, but I haven't tried listening to it on its own yet.
With the mention of Superunknown, it does seem to me that I'm the only person in the world that's not a fan of Soundgarden. I never enjoyed Chris Cornell's voice. I'm not saying he's a bad singer, it's just that his voice never appealed to me for whatever reason.
Since we're on the subject of 90s bands...I had a hankering to listen to some Helmet the other day. They had some great songs. And I can't talk about 90s bands without mentioning the greatness of Hum.
My step dad used to be a huge PJ fan. "Ten" was even my very first album on vinyl lol. I like anything grunge though, it was the first whole entire "genre" that I could really sit and listen to. Soundgarden will probably always be my favorite grunge band though
Diff'rent Strokes fo Diff'rent fokes....Hum kinda leaves me cold, never figured out why people liked Helmet, PJ was unilaterally reviled, etc etc. Everybody's got different tastes, and it seems we got quite a few gen x'ers from the grunge days here. 
I was lucky to grow up in a pretty fertile music scene with good record stores and lots of clubs etc. Saw some legends, but totally missed the Nirvana show right before they really blew up.
I was lucky to grow up in a pretty fertile music scene with good record stores and lots of clubs etc. Saw some legends, but totally missed the Nirvana show right before they really blew up.
When the whole grunge thing exploded I was in high school and at the time I was all for Nirvana and Alice in Chains. Their music and lyrics resonated with my angst
And as far as vocals go, the tortured singing of Kurt Cobain or Layne Staley is still on my favorites list.
Pearl Jam... much more reassuring, I'd say even radio-friendly. Not for me.
Vs was the first album i heard, Blood the first track i had heard too. Blew my mind with the frustration in his voice. I totally get the monotone knock and they definitely do seem to be more radio friendly like a lot of pop punk of the 90s.
What I think PJ did for me was realize I love the heavy groove, which led me to SG, AIC, RATM, and ultimately desert and stoner rock/metal.
Yeah I'm real thankful for the great scene where I grew up. Not sure if its still kicking but it was a mash of everything. Hell as a heavy psych/jam/rock band we did shows with doom metal, psychobilly, punk, heavy garage, jam, indie, alt, and pop punk. Shzt oftentimes in one bill. Everyone was into everything, sometimes even some DJs would join in. Loved those days. There was one band, Narc out the Reds, that was a prog like punk band. Loved their stuff.
Diff'rent Strokes fo Diff'rent fokes....Hum kinda leaves me cold, never figured out why people liked Helmet, PJ was unilaterally reviled, etc etc. Everybody's got different tastes, and it seems we got quite a few gen x'ers from the grunge days here.
Hey! Quit making me feel realllllllly old.
I missed Nirvana's show in DFW on the tour for Bleach. I stood outside and listened to TAD when they came through, though (had no cash at the time). TAD and Mudhoney's records were the grunge records I wore out. One of the parts of way back when that completely sticks in my mind was seeing Foetus cover TAD's Behemoth. Thirwell is an intense guy - kinda thought he was going to get in a fight with the audience during that one.
I don't really listen to ANY of the bands being mentioned. I hear some of them on the radio, and am familiar with the names and the song titles, but simply don't care. None has done anything for me. My brother was a big PJ fan, and his frustration with trying to learn their material without ever actually practicing or trying inadvertently led to me using his guitar to practice bass (and then buying my own bass etc.), but besides that, PJ has done nothing for me.
Not knocking anything - everybody should like what they like. I managed to go from Metallica, then to Sabbath (because I heard Metallica idolized them), and then went straight to underground metal when I found Blind Guardian at the record store while searching for Black Sabbath. Skipped over everything else commercial and went straight underground. To this day, I don't know much of anything about "mainstream" heavy stuff, and when I listen to it, I'm thoroughly unimpressed.
In reference to people mentioning their first purchased album - mine was quite the nerd-fest. Star Wars: Episode 1 Soundtrack...
Not knocking anything - everybody should like what they like. I managed to go from Metallica, then to Sabbath (because I heard Metallica idolized them), and then went straight to underground metal when I found Blind Guardian at the record store while searching for Black Sabbath. Skipped over everything else commercial and went straight underground. To this day, I don't know much of anything about "mainstream" heavy stuff, and when I listen to it, I'm thoroughly unimpressed.
In reference to people mentioning their first purchased album - mine was quite the nerd-fest. Star Wars: Episode 1 Soundtrack...
Hehehe, I have no pride there. My first album purchased with my own money was Styx's Paradise Theater. Even that was too heavy for my elementary school classmates when it came to "record day" in music class. Borrowing my older sister's copy of British Steel for the same purpose went about the same way, we didn't get to hear a full song of either before it was pulled.
Apart from some pirated Metallica cassettes, my first real album was Offspring's "Smash", but I mostly bought cassette tapes, lots of them. I still have around 200 in my parents' house, and that's after my brother in law helped himself to all black metal ones.
Just re-relized that the atmosphere in this thread reminds me of that scene. Next to zero hate, real welcoming, and acceptance of people having different opinions.
Its refreshing to see all this after the BS I deal with all day at the shop. Maybe its just the metro area but there seems to be a lot of bigotry and lack of acceptance that people view things differently. That lack of understanding how someone can think differently is so dangerous.
Its refreshing to see all this after the BS I deal with all day at the shop. Maybe its just the metro area but there seems to be a lot of bigotry and lack of acceptance that people view things differently. That lack of understanding how someone can think differently is so dangerous.
Weezer's Blue Album was the first album I purchased with my own money. No regrets.
Memory's hazy now as to which one was which, but I know 2 and 3 were Linkin Park's Reanimation and Queens of the Stone Age's Songs For The Deaf. One of those I immediately regretted, while the other remains in my car's CD player to this very day. You'll never guess...
Memory's hazy now as to which one was which, but I know 2 and 3 were Linkin Park's Reanimation and Queens of the Stone Age's Songs For The Deaf. One of those I immediately regretted, while the other remains in my car's CD player to this very day. You'll never guess...
After my start with "grunge" bands, a few years later I saw the Beatles anthology on TV. Swore off modern music, and the Beatles opened the door to Hendrix, Cream, Zeppelin, Floyd, and Sabbath. I was a bit of an insufferable music elitist, the type to insist that everything made after circa 1980 was rubbish.
Then I discovered punk via high school friends, then took to Detroit's so-called Garage rock scene. I also started to branch out. I remember circa 2000 being a lot of White Stripes, Strokes, Radiohead, and Weezer. And a little Tool too. Plus older stuff if course. I was a big Ramones and Clash, MC5, Stooges fan too.
My biggest love was old 70s hard rock proto metal stuff. Still is in a lot of ways.
Then I discovered punk via high school friends, then took to Detroit's so-called Garage rock scene. I also started to branch out. I remember circa 2000 being a lot of White Stripes, Strokes, Radiohead, and Weezer. And a little Tool too. Plus older stuff if course. I was a big Ramones and Clash, MC5, Stooges fan too.
My biggest love was old 70s hard rock proto metal stuff. Still is in a lot of ways.
I started my adolescent listening with Nirvana and Metallica, then branched out into NYHC and picked up Sabbath and Jimi Hendrix somewhere along the way. That was mid to late 90s. There were also things like Tool, Primus, Type O and many more. Then, early 2000s there was Neurosis, Electric Wizard, Seep and all the rest.
My first music purchases with my own money were cassettes. (Man, do I not miss cassettes...absolute garbage technology.) I can't remember exactly what cassette was first, but it was one of these: Number of the Beast, Powerslave, Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, or It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.
After dealing with cassettes for a while those CD club ads started showing up in the mail (9 CDs for a dollar from BMG or something like that) so I was able to start getting CDs. I still had to deal with cassettes for live music recordings for a while though (I ended up with many many Grateful Dead, Phish, etc. shows on cassette).
After dealing with cassettes for a while those CD club ads started showing up in the mail (9 CDs for a dollar from BMG or something like that) so I was able to start getting CDs. I still had to deal with cassettes for live music recordings for a while though (I ended up with many many Grateful Dead, Phish, etc. shows on cassette).
I remember buying Songs for the Deaf and Sky Valley on CD after seeing the "No One Knows" video on Much Music, and my musical taste was never the same again.
