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[Jabberwocky]

Nirvana was alright for me, a breath of fresh air for a while. But I was already leaning towards other styles more heavily...

such as?


After Nirvana for me (I know this is a bit of a random jump) the next cool band was Dinosaur Jr

[What's Burning?]

There are cool bands and then there are perpetually cool bands. I think Nirvana touched a generational thing but the genre in general to me felt very much like a musical phase.

[darwin dali]

Nirvana was alright for me, a breath of fresh air for a while. But I was already leaning towards other styles more heavily...

such as?


After Nirvana for me (I know this is a bit of a random jump) the next cool band was Dinosaur Jr

You get a general idea in the Now Playing thread, sorta, kinda. But for this type of music, I'd go more with industrial.

[killem2]

I think the other reason I was so late to the party was I am from the midwest. EVERYTHING before the mainsteam explosion of the internet was always delayed by years in popularity. Example. Kid Rocks cowboy came out in 1998, we didn't start rocking to it until 2000. It was so strange.

[Jabberwocky]

Nirvana was alright for me, a breath of fresh air for a while. But I was already leaning towards other styles more heavily...

such as?


After Nirvana for me (I know this is a bit of a random jump) the next cool band was Dinosaur Jr

You get a general idea in the Now Playing thread, sorta, kinda. But for this type of music, I'd go more with industrial.

Is that like the sound of jackhammers, JCB's that sort of thing?

[darwin dali]

Nirvana was alright for me, a breath of fresh air for a while. But I was already leaning towards other styles more heavily...

such as?


After Nirvana for me (I know this is a bit of a random jump) the next cool band was Dinosaur Jr

You get a general idea in the Now Playing thread, sorta, kinda. But for this type of music, I'd go more with industrial.

Is that like the sound of jackhammers, JCB's that sort of thing?

Sometimes.
Here's a list of bands:
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[darwin dali]

Teenyboppers going insane for Justin Bieber? Music is the same and most generations will claim that their generation's music was great and that music today will suck or inversely based taste that the music of yesteryear was so much better than the crap played on the radio today.

There is phenomenally good music/bands/songs that are released year after year, you just got to go looking for them as what is sh!t is the same boring driver played on the standard generic top 40 music stations.

That being said, in my opinion, I'll put 1977 as the single greatest year for music released.

You had a culmination of the peak or birth of of musical genres, the height of disco, the birth of punk rock legends and the ever chugging classic rock bands of time. here's a sample of some of the songs out that year, I'll put it up to any other year in music!


Ca Plane Pour Moi - Plastic Bertrand
American Girl - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Baby Hold On - Eddie Money
God Save The Queen - The umpalumpa Pistols
I Feel Love - Donna Summer
I Want You To Want Me - Cheap Trick
Lust For Life - Iggy Pop
Lovely Day - Bill Withers
Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett
Native New Yorker - Odyssey
New York, New York - Frank Sinatra
Night Fever - Bee Gees
One Love - Bob Marley
Only The Good Die Young - Billy Joel
Paradise By the Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf
Psycho Killer - Talking Heads
umpalumpa and Drugs and Rock And Roll - Ian Dury
Sheena Is A Punk Rocker - Ramones
Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
We Are The Champions - Queen
We Will Rock You - Queen
Paradise By the Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf
Lucille - Kenny Rogers
I'm So Bored With The USA - The Clash

Especially for you:

Couldn't find the current Time Warner commercial featuring this song on YouTube, so here's Kim Wilde's version. Doesn't matter it's not him since he didn't sing the original in the first place
Here's the actual singer of the song from back when:

[LazorRamone]

Its not about Ayrton?

The only difference between Nirvana and other really great (I mean Nirvana was not great band, good, but not great) HC/punk/alternative rock bands was Nirvana's appearance on MTV imo. Cobain was an idol of teenagers and young people, crowd-puller. During era of Nirvana's biggest popularity Fugazi releasd FOUR albums, Rollins Band two (with some cool videos) and these bands were played (if they were) after midnight on MTV. Bad Brains' Rise, Flipper's (KC was big fan of them) American Grafishy, plus many many cool bands and albums, none of them werent so catchy as Kurt Cobain, sorry, Nirvana ---> no interest from MTV, no chance to become popular. Music has been more watched than listened since late 80s by majority, thats weird.

[What's Burning?]

Music has been more watched than listened since late 80s by majority, thats weird.

I agree to a degree. I think MTV really helped to change the perception of what an artist was though, and I think it's done just as much good at is had done bad. It also gave new bands such as the talking heads, ZZ Top, the clash etc. exposure they previously didn't have. On the other hand, it allowed bands such as Duran Duran to explode more from their visual content than from their music.

But I heard a line in a song my daughter was playing that said, "the internet killed the video star" it made me chuckle.

Here's Kim Wilde's version. Doesn't matter it's not him since he didn't sing the original in the first place
Here's the actual singer of the song from back when:

Hey... Kim Wilde is looking good. You forgot to mention the Americanized response of Jet Boy Jet Girl which seems rather devoid of content today.


I head an interview not too long ago on NPR, with Plastic Bertrand where he said that at the time is was a french slang meaning I'm on that plane or that plane is for me... nothing to do with an "airplane" anyway, the term was supposed to be a nod to the drug culture and generally getting high.

[LazorRamone]

Music has been more watched than listened since late 80s by majority, thats weird.

I agree to a degree. I think MTV really helped to change the perception of what an artist was though, and I think it's done just as much good at is had done bad. It also gave new bands such as the talking heads, ZZ Top, the clash etc. exposure they previously didn't have. On the other hand, it allowed bands such as Duran Duran to explode more from their visual content than from their music.

Definitely, I meant that. I like Nirvana's first album, their music is ok, but many bands were (and are now) ignored. At least young people listened to someone who was able to make real music and avoid cliches in lyrics. Its just sad that people think that only music that exists is that rubbish broadcasted on radio and TV. Especially when its so cheap to "purchase" almost anything and so easily - I mean ... prices of cds are low nowadays you know
But thats their decision, they will never listen to great musicians, no matter if they prefer jazz, classical music, rock, pop etc.

[darwin dali]

Music has been more watched than listened since late 80s by majority, thats weird.

I agree to a degree. I think MTV really helped to change the perception of what an artist was though, and I think it's done just as much good at is had done bad. It also gave new bands such as the talking heads, ZZ Top, the clash etc. exposure they previously didn't have. On the other hand, it allowed bands such as Duran Duran to explode more from their visual content than from their music.

But I heard a line in a song my daughter was playing that said, "the internet killed the video star" it made me chuckle.

Here's Kim Wilde's version. Doesn't matter it's not him since he didn't sing the original in the first place
Here's the actual singer of the song from back when:

Hey... Kim Wilde is looking good. You forgot to mention the Americanized response of Jet Boy Jet Girl which seems rather devoid of content today.


I head an interview not too long ago on NPR, with Plastic Bertrand where he said that at the time is was a french slang meaning I'm on that plane or that plane is for me... nothing to do with an "airplane" anyway, the term was supposed to be a nod to the drug culture and generally getting high.

Jet Boy Jet Girl? Meh.

[andrew]

Nirvana? Meh, they’re ok. Listened to them when I was in my teens but I have since grown up. Songs about having spots and being miserable for no good reason bore me now. Looking back at grunge, it was just a bunch of power chords on full blast withthe distortion turned up and someone whining quietly.

For me the real musical travesty of 1995 was the disappearance of Richie James Edwards. Vastly under-rated lyricist but the songs he wrote were powerful and meant something. The lyrics to The Holy Bible were pretty much all him and some of them are really harrowing and others are a real kick to the head. Reading about him, he was really troubled but seemed the sort of chap who didn’t want to worry anyone else or burden his friends with this problems. Sadly the Manics whilst still being a good band, rarely hit the powerful songs as much as they used to, back in the post-punk revival days with their political sloganeering and other such good things that made you think.

Just my tupence worth.

[bud]

Whining quietly? You sure you listened to Nirvana?

[andrew]

Whining quietly? You sure you listened to Nirvana?

Yes. The singing consisted of someone mumbling and screeching and then resorting to mumbling.

[scotty]

Whining quietly? You sure you listened to Nirvana?

Whining quietly: