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Pnoom! 
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 Topic: Do you like Nevermind
Posted: February 22 2009 at 20:49 |
 Another historical masterpiece that's often reviled in the prog community. I love it. Definitely does live up to its legacy.
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WalterDigsTunes
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Posted: February 22 2009 at 20:52 |
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I think this album killed popular music. Everything it represents and everything it spawned is indescribably terrible. Grunge? No thanks; I'll take real music.
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Posted: February 22 2009 at 20:54 |
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Taking it for what it is, it's a fairly enjoyable album from what I remember. Haven't heard it in ages though so my 2 cents are really worthless now..
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RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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topofsm
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Posted: February 22 2009 at 21:05 |
I did think your response was a bit harsh Hughes, but maybe I missed some other thread where Walter was bashing some modern music. If that was the case, then why wasn't I there?
Anyway, in response to the topic, I really don't enjoy Nevermind. The first time I listened to it was when a friend of mine was introducing me to music. I must have played that album a million times, to the point where now I can't listen to it all. Now when I hear a song from Nevermind I'm sure to skip it. I really don't see much substance in it. Give me "Dirt" by AiC any day.
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crimhead
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Posted: February 22 2009 at 21:13 |
I'm tired of it. Bored. MTV'd out. Nirvana and RHCP....I am so over them. It had it's time. I liked it but I out grew it. I think that Cobain is overrated as well. I can't see how some think that he is one of the top 100 guitarists of all time as well.
nuff said from me.
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Padraic
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Posted: February 22 2009 at 21:22 |
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Not something I would listen to now, I think - for me, Nirvana didn't stand the test of time as well as some of their Seattle contemporaries, particularly Alice in Chains. But at the time it was a breath of fresh air from the absolute putridity I was hearing from popular (FM radio type) music in the late 80s. I personally think it helped give birth to a resurgence of good rock music in the 1990s, you had Lollapalooza and "alternative rock" stations that played stuff that was actually listenable - I can distinctly remember thinking in say 1989 that I would be stuck listening to 70s music for the rest of my life, but seeing the Teen Spirit video for the first time changed that view. It also helped me establish my own "music identity" and made me a more active fan of music, if that makes sense. So, important for me personally, and a decent album to boot, in my opinion.
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: February 22 2009 at 21:24 |
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As for the album, well I guess I like it, if not a great deal though.
It has to some okay songs, but nothing about it made it special enough to me to have bothered listening to it again since I last heard it years ago.
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Posted: February 22 2009 at 21:24 |
 WalterDigsTunes wrote:
I think this album killed popular music. Everything it represents and everything it spawned is indescribably terrible. Grunge? No thanks; I'll take real music.
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Padraic
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Posted: February 22 2009 at 21:27 |
post-89 silliness? 
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Posted: February 22 2009 at 21:29 |
At one time I got into it. Not so much anymore. From the period I much prefer the narcotic sound of prime Smashing Pumpkins. I miss Darcy in the black leather 
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...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell"
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Henry Plainview
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Posted: February 22 2009 at 21:38 |
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I'm not much of a fan, but the cover has always made me extremely uncomfortable so maybe I am just biased against baby wang...
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if you own a sodastream i hate you
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Pnoom!
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Posted: February 22 2009 at 21:50 |
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For the people in this thread have yet to look up music in the dictionary, grunge
is real music. Just thought I'd let you know before you make a habit stating such blatantly obvious falsehoods.
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: February 22 2009 at 21:54 |
Henry Plainview wrote:
I'm not much of a fan, but the cover has always made me extremely uncomfortable so maybe I am just biased against baby wang... |
Good lord, the last two words of your post made me literally lol. It's one of those posts that should not be funny at all, but it's somehow funny.
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heyitsthatguy
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Posted: February 22 2009 at 22:07 |
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Nirvana's allright
better than every hair metal band in existence at least
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WalterDigsTunes
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Posted: February 22 2009 at 22:17 |
Pnoom! wrote:
For the people in this thread have yet to look up music in the dictionary, grunge
is real music. Just thought I'd let you know before you make a habit stating such blatantly obvious falsehoods.
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Good lord, your post made me literally lol.
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Pnoom!
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Posted: February 22 2009 at 22:23 |
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I'm glad you find facts funny.
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Henry Plainview
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Posted: February 22 2009 at 22:33 |
Nirvana for music-related!
I think it's great that people still fall for Walter every time.
Edited by Henry Plainview - February 22 2009 at 22:36
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if you own a sodastream i hate you
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jammun
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Posted: February 22 2009 at 22:33 |
Hey, I'll step out on a limb here.
Nevermind is one of the great rock albums ever made. Rid your minds of all the media crap that has been spoken regarding this album. Rid your mind of Smells Like etc.
Just listen to one of rock's great triptychs:
In Bloom
Come As You Are
Breed
This is pure emotional rock, of the kind that had been missing in that time. This is an album that destroyed the business-as-usual of the industry as surely as Meet The Beatles or London Calling. This a band careening on some edge not many of us would willingly visit, lest we end up like Kurt.
Take your time, hurry up.
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Easy Money
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Posted: February 22 2009 at 23:03 |
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There are a lot of really good songs on this album: Breed, Lithium, Territorial Pissings, Polly and In Bloom which I believe was influenced by King Crimson.
I really like a lot of the songs, but I have always found Curt's voice and personality to be annoying, also, he should not be using a flanger on his guitar.
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Posted: February 22 2009 at 23:07 |
WalterDigsTunes wrote:
Pnoom! wrote:
For the people in this thread have yet to look up music in the dictionary, grunge is real music. Just thought I'd let you know before you make a habit stating such blatantly obvious falsehoods.
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Good lord, your post made me literally lol.
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It's obvious your sense of humour is completely poor, if you laugh at serious comments that state a fact.
Wake up people... even rap, hiphop, whatever.. IS MUSIC. Maybe not your kind of music, but MUSIC.
About the album, I agree with the OP.. a masterpiece of its own kind. I liked it more now that I'm older and appreciate things qwithout stupid emotions more than a few years ago when I didn't hear the music and all i said was "it killed metal!"
Anyway, it didn't kill metal. It killed the popularity of a particular brand of commercial metal, but metal in all its forms is so alive and breathing... actually, much more than grunge... which is a genre that I still don't understand why people hate so much...
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