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Post by tristramshandy on Sept 24, 2021 18:10:13 GMT
Thoughts on the album or how old it is?
I listened to it so much early on and it became so saturated, that I probably haven't really listened to it in 20 years now. I was a punk/indie rock kid, so I was into that kind of music pre-Nevermind, so it hit me more in that something that sounded like that could be popular, played on MTV, etc. While I liked the album a good deal for the music, I liked it more by killing off bands like Poison and Whitesnake.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Sept 24, 2021 18:32:53 GMT
Loved it when it came out, I was already sick of them by the time the next album came out though. It's really the only Nirvana album I like, most of the songs still hold up for me. (Can't say I've listened to the album in forever, but the songs still pop up on the radio all the time, I enjoy the songs from that album for the most part.) Ironically, 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' put them on the map, and that's a 'turn the channel' song for me at this point.
For the record, I think Soundgarden was the best band to come out of the grunge era by a mile, and I hate Pearl Jam with a passion.
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Post by fjenkins on Sept 24, 2021 18:40:41 GMT
Thoughts on the album or how old it is? I listened to it so much early on and it became so saturated, that I probably haven't really listened to it in 20 years now. I was a punk/indie rock kid, so I was into that kind of music pre-Nevermind, so it hit me more in that something that sounded like that could be popular, played on MTV, etc. While I liked the album a good deal for the music, I liked it more by killing off bands like Poison and Whitesnake. I remember a couple of my friends and I being blown away by it. Loved Nirvana.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Sept 24, 2021 18:56:21 GMT
One of the few songs that hooked me on the first note was Smells Like Teen Spirit. Heard it on a college radio station downstate. I had to find a phone, call the radio station to find out who that was, then went out and grabbed the CD. And they might have been the last band that I looked forward to their new releases. Yeah, that lasted a long time.
Was Nirvana the band that brought about the biggest and quickest change in music since The Beatles? Seemed like they changed he game overnight
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Post by NJtoTX on Sept 24, 2021 20:56:45 GMT
Still love it, though I listen to the MTV Live album more often.
Initially when I heard Smells Like Teen Spirit, I was like "Why is my station playing this screamy shit?" I got to like the song, but not all that much.
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Post by nutsberryfarm đ on Sept 24, 2021 20:58:00 GMT
Thoughts on the album or how old it is? I listened to it so much early on and it became so saturated, that I probably haven't really listened to it in 20 years now. I was a punk/indie rock kid, so I was into that kind of music pre-Nevermind, so it hit me more in that something that sounded like that could be popular, played on MTV, etc. While I liked the album a good deal for the music, I liked it more by killing off bands like Poison and Whitesnake. whitesnake the is music of champions!!!!!
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Post by Winston Wolfe on Sept 25, 2021 3:26:03 GMT
Nirvana's best album. In Utero is grossly overrated imo as Cobain just mumbles through some of it.
Listened to it at the gym tonight. One of the albums I can get though without skipping a single track.
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Post by Midi-Chlorian_Count on Sept 25, 2021 9:55:37 GMT
Thoughts on the album or how old it is? I listened to it so much early on and it became so saturated, that I probably haven't really listened to it in 20 years now. I was a punk/indie rock kid, so I was into that kind of music pre-Nevermind, so it hit me more in that something that sounded like that could be popular, played on MTV, etc. While I liked the album a good deal for the music, I liked it more by killing off bands like Poison and Whitesnake. whitesnake the is music of champions!!!!! Indeed! Midi-chlorian Count Jnr is bizarrely a huge fan of Whitesnake đ. Think it's an 80s revival thing among "the youth" of today...
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Post by Zos on Sept 25, 2021 11:20:12 GMT
Good album although I personally prefer In Utero. Probably lead more than any other "scene" to a bunch of hopeless no talent followers though.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Sept 26, 2021 11:11:14 GMT
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Post by nutsberryfarm đ on Sept 26, 2021 17:18:34 GMT
whitesnake the is music of champions!!!!! Indeed! Midi-chlorian Count Jnr is bizarrely a huge fan of Whitesnake đ. Think it's an 80s revival thing among "the youth" of today... Here I go again is a top 10 song.
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Post by petrolino on Sept 26, 2021 17:33:25 GMT
Great album.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Sept 27, 2021 10:05:53 GMT
Thoughts on the album or how old it is? I listened to it so much early on and it became so saturated, that I probably haven't really listened to it in 20 years now. I was a punk/indie rock kid, so I was into that kind of music pre-Nevermind, so it hit me more in that something that sounded like that could be popular, played on MTV, etc. While I liked the album a good deal for the music, I liked it more by killing off bands like Poison and Whitesnake. I was only 6-7 years old, when it came out, and the only things I remembered of Nirvana, was probably some t-shirts, a few kids in my school dressing like Kurt Cobain and yeah, I did not pay much attention to what went on radio or MTV back then. I was most of the time, outside with friends, playing and just not that interested in music, beside maybe a few compilation CDs. However, when I much later on, decided to pick up the 2002 Nirvana compilation, I got immediately hooked, and it did not take me long, until Nevermind became a huge favorite, one that stayed with me, for most of the 2002-2003. I guess, I kind of overplayed it at times, so much, that I have not heard it the whole way through, since maybe 2004-05. Never quite hit off that well with In Utero, but I did hear Bleach again, last year, and surely liked it much more, than back in 2003. Might go through them, one by one, later this fall. But my favorite Nirvana release, was actually the live compilation (from different shows) Live at the Muddy Wiskah, which I loved, mainly because of how "raw" several of the songs sounded, compared to the studio versions. About 80s bands like Poison and Whitesnake being "killed off", were not most of these acts already done, by the time before Nirvana and the whole grunge era exploded?
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Post by staggerstag on Sept 27, 2021 10:20:20 GMT
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Post by twothousandonemark on Sept 27, 2021 13:08:02 GMT
I think it's very good, though I don't ever do a full replay of it. As for its age, I think by 2005 or so it began feeling old.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Sept 27, 2021 13:09:10 GMT
While I liked the album a good deal for the music, I liked it more by killing off bands like Poison and Whitesnake. I think that's why it sticks on so many top all-time lists, for its cultural impact. That's fine.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Sept 27, 2021 13:19:57 GMT
While I liked the album a good deal for the music, I liked it more by killing off bands like Poison and Whitesnake. I think that's why it sticks on so many top all-time lists, for its cultural impact. That's fine. Isn't Poison still touring? Meanwhile they're still pulling chunks of Cobain's head out of the wall.
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Post by tristramshandy on Sept 27, 2021 15:38:14 GMT
I think that's why it sticks on so many top all-time lists, for its cultural impact. That's fine. Isn't Poison still touring? Meanwhile they're still pulling chunks of Cobain's head out of the wall. Which is fine - - they can play at county fairs and the like all they want. Back then, they stopped being played incessantly on the radio and MTV. Now, since neither of those two things exist in a 1991 fashion, it doesn't really matter, but their careers of being in my ears was done.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Sept 27, 2021 16:08:12 GMT
Isn't Poison still touring? Meanwhile they're still pulling chunks of Cobain's head out of the wall. Which is fine - - they can play at county fairs and the like all they want. Back then, they stopped being played incessantly on the radio and MTV. Now, since neither of those two things exist in a 1991 fashion, it doesn't really matter, but their careers of being in my ears was done. Yeah, grunge was definitely a turn of the cultural page. Though I thought it was lame when hard rock bands (not even glam rock like Poison) suddenly felt like they had to change their image. Even Metallica got haircuts. I remember Riki Rachtman getting the Metallica short haircut and joking about how lame they all used to look with long hair. Really? So you thought it was lame but you were just following the crowd like you are now? I was certainly never a fan of glam rock from a fashion sense, but shit, look how you want to look. At least be honest with yourself. Grunge ushered in a new, more responsible from a lyrical standpoint, style of rock music. The biggest downside is it took rock from goofy fun to depressed whining. I think I've mentioned this in the past, but it's funny to track rock history and how it coincides with the drug of choice of the era. 1960s-70s, the music was trippy and psychedelic (acid, marijuana); Later 70s into the 80s, high energy ripping guitars and glam (cocaine); 1990s is all self-loathing and depression (heroin). Post-grunge 'alt rock' in the 1990s was almost universally terrible. I think everything since has been some kind of variation of a previous era.
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