Posted - 2011.08.05 19:44:00 - [3]

 

I REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THIS THREAD.

Posted - 2011.08.05 20:19:00 - [5]

 

Damn, I'm old....

Posted - 2011.08.05 20:42:00 - [7]

 

Originally by: Kijo Rikki

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I want to call BS so bad, that makes me feel really old. I was in high school then.

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Ditto.

Just a few years ago I was working with a kid and Smells Like Teen Spirit came on and I looked at the kid and thought to myself, this kid was not even alive when this song came out. The kid was 9 so it did not really kick in that it was close to 20 years old when I had the thought.

That being aid it should just go to show how fast time really goes as we get "older." Luckily I work with people in their 90's as well a good bit of the time. That gives me a good bit of perspective.


Slade

Posted - 2011.08.05 22:13:00 - [9]

 

So...that means the baby on the Album cover is 20 years+ now? Jeez

Posted - 2011.08.05 23:48:00 - [11]

 

Originally by: Bane Necran

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Originally by: AlleyKat

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So...that means the baby on the Album cover is 20 years+ now? Jeez

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Here he is at 17.

It also means Curt would be something like 45 if he were still alive. Probably staggering around making an ass of himself for the paparazzi regularly, and keeping TMZ busy with rehab drama.

I'd like to think he'd turn his life around, but he seemed pretty committed to it.

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To this day I still think he was murdered.

Even if I didn't like the grunge genre and was not very entertained by his music, there was something about his character that I liked. Sad to see him go.

Posted - 2011.08.06 17:01:00 - [13]

 

Originally by: stoicfaux

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<grump>

Bah. Nirvana was just another passing fad boy band.

</grump>

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Yes they in no small way defined the early 90s and contributed to a music scene that was about music with great lyrics and not big hair, spandex and evil chants. Or as it is now, product placement with some hands in the air, like we just don't care...

Don't come here dragging your Rush skeleton, just accept it that they never were a global hit.

Posted - 2011.08.06 17:14:00 - [15]

 

Originally by: M'ktakh

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Ugh, the album that spawned the whole watered-down shallowness of commercial grunge, and is responsible for much of the mid-to-late-90 mainstream crap.

No, thank you.

:puts on Dehumanizer:

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Newsflash! Every commercial success in every field is followed by watered down halfwits trying to cash in. Is the music scene better now?

Posted - 2011.08.06 20:35:00 - [17]

 

Yeah, how years fly by....
I still remember the first time I saw the "Smells like teen spirit" video clip on MTV.
Too bad Kurt Cobain was actually a clown and Nirvana was one of the most overrated bands of all time.

Posted - 2011.08.07 11:55:00 - [19]

 

Edited by: Astenion on 07/08/2011 12:01:16

Originally by: Herzog Wolfhammer

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Edited by: Herzog Wolfhammer on 05/08/2011 20:58:03

It was the beginning of the end.


You see, music is all about ass.

In the '80s, the music was about:

- kicking ass
- getting our ass out of whatever rotten life you were having
- being tired of getting your ass kicked and doing something about it
- getting a piece of ass

But in the 90s, upon my return from points outside of the US, I come back to find everybody acting like a dumpy loser and being proud of it (they called it "grunge") and noted that the music changed too. Still about ass, but:

- being an ass
- sitting on your ass
- accepting looking like an ass ("I'm ugly. So are you...")
- finding comfort zones for your ass (the Oprah generation cometh)
- having a fat ass and acting like you're special because of it (hello *****palooza aka "lilith faire")


America was better during the heavy metal years. You cannot kill the metal!!!!

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The 90's were better for metal than the 80's. There was much more experimentation and much, much heavier bands that were doing really interesting things. In the 80's there were a bunch of butt rock drag queens who wrote insipid, trite music. Granted, it's still nice to reminisce and remember when you were 10 years old listening to Motley Crue, but the 90's were so much better.

In the 90's, there were no more rules and the music industry was turned on its head. Bands like Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, and others were fantastic and still are fantastic bands. In the underground metal scene, you had bands like Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse, Emperor, Mayhem, Death, Carcass, In Flames, Dark Tranquillity, At the Gates, etc. and they were doing something that had never been done before. The only bad thing that came out of the 90's was nu-metal. Even Megadeth and Slayer's best albums were in the 90's.

That is, early to mid 90's. The late 90's was terrible.

Posted - 2011.08.07 15:45:00 - [21]

 

20 years. I'd love to know where they all went.

Posted - 2011.08.07 18:15:00 - [23]

 

Originally by: Kijo Rikki

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Edited by: Kijo Rikki on 07/08/2011 16:01:53
Remember when Christmas took forever to get here? A month seemed like 3 years, it was excruciating.

Now it feels like every time Christmas rolls around I could swear the last one was a mere 3 months ago.

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Remember when the last day before christmas felt like a whole year?

Posted - 2011.08.07 20:04:00 - [25]

 

Khors...yes.

Sandslinger...don't feel too bad, I was just a child, but I witnessed the death of the 8-track. And Betamax. And ginormous satellite TV's that used to pick up Disney until they learned to start encoding their signal.

Posted - 2011.08.08 14:52:00 - [27]

 

Originally by: Astenion

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Edited by: Astenion on 07/08/2011 12:01:16

Originally by: Herzog Wolfhammer

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Edited by: Herzog Wolfhammer on 05/08/2011 20:58:03

It was the beginning of the end.


You see, music is all about ass.

In the '80s, the music was about:

- kicking ass
- getting our ass out of whatever rotten life you were having
- being tired of getting your ass kicked and doing something about it
- getting a piece of ass

But in the 90s, upon my return from points outside of the US, I come back to find everybody acting like a dumpy loser and being proud of it (they called it "grunge") and noted that the music changed too. Still about ass, but:

- being an ass
- sitting on your ass
- accepting looking like an ass ("I'm ugly. So are you...")
- finding comfort zones for your ass (the Oprah generation cometh)
- having a fat ass and acting like you're special because of it (hello *****palooza aka "lilith faire")


America was better during the heavy metal years. You cannot kill the metal!!!!

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The 90's were better for metal than the 80's. There was much more experimentation and much, much heavier bands that were doing really interesting things. In the 80's there were a bunch of butt rock drag queens who wrote insipid, trite music. Granted, it's still nice to reminisce and remember when you were 10 years old listening to Motley Crue, but the 90's were so much better.

In the 90's, there were no more rules and the music industry was turned on its head. Bands like Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, and others were fantastic and still are fantastic bands. In the underground metal scene, you had bands like Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse, Emperor, Mayhem, Death, Carcass, In Flames, Dark Tranquillity, At the Gates, etc. and they were doing something that had never been done before. The only bad thing that came out of the 90's was nu-metal. Even Megadeth and Slayer's best albums were in the 90's.

That is, early to mid 90's. The late 90's was terrible.

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You refer to the poofy poodle-haired bands that started out with Bon Jovi selling out, Europe (the band) and then came Poison, Whitesnake, and frankly Motley Crew was always considered a glam band.

Prior to that, it was Iron Maiden, Metallica, old Ozzi, Judas Priest, King Diamond, Megadeath, Suicidal Tendencies, Scorpion, Alice Cooper... the list goes on.

I think it was around 1986 that Metal started going downhill - probably the moment MTV started Headbangers Ball. I was a roadie from 1989 to 1991 and saw old school bands get told that the market was all for teenage girls and poofie poodle hair bands were the big ticket.

But perhaps that was, in the long run, better for metal and hard rock to be off the radar of the marketing firms and record companies anyway. It's better that way.

Posted - 2011.08.08 20:10:00 - [29]

 

This version is much better: Smells like Nirvana