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  • BovidaeB Offline
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    I've never been a Nirvana fan but I can remember exactly what I was doing at uni when I heard the news about Cobain.

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    @mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:

    @jegga said in What are you listening to, right now................:

    @nepia said in What are you listening to, right now................:

    @jegga said in What are you listening to, right now................:

    @nepia the preamble while waffling sets up the series well imho, it gets better and better after that

    Maybe part of why I found it less interesting was the Nirvana focus as I'm not a big Nirvana fan. I just clicked at the end of part 3 that the series was written 8 years ago.

    Yeah I was never really a fan either , I’ve worked with a few guys who were born around the time the article starts off and when you get talking about music and concerts you’ve been to they start frothing about Cobain and asking what it was like to be around when Nevermind came out. I can remember the first time I heard it and I didn’t hate it but there were other bands around like Soundgarden that I thought were a lot better.
    He nails Pearl Jam though , Vitology is self indulgent crap on a par with Pink Floyd’s the final cut, I completely lost interest in them after that.

    to be fair he nails most of them (if a little forgiving of Nirvana, but he obviously loves them, so i am cool with it). I found myself nodding away, especially from about 7 on. I can see why i got in to dance music in the late 90s.

    I'd pretty much forgotten about Live till I read this, christ they were awful . There were other bands around at the time on the periphery of the grunge scene like Our lady peace and Mudhoney you had to look reasonably hard to find at record stores . The appeal of Oasis and Radiohead was lost on me, stoked that Thom Yorke hates creep because its the only song I like of his apart from Harrowdown hill.

    I never got into dance music.

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    On topic with the thread title, this came up on a random shuffle while riding to work this morning and still a top track.

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    @bovidae said in What are you listening to, right now................:

    I've never been a Nirvana fan but I can remember exactly what I was doing at uni when I heard the news about Cobain.

    Without clicking on the links I'll name 10 bands of that era who were better than Nirvana.

    Stone Temple Pilots, Faith No More, Chillis, Alice in Chains, Metallica, Rage, Janes Addiction, GnR, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden.

    Getting dead sure builds a reputation but in saying all that learning 'Smells like Teen spirit' on the axe got me laid so I guess I have Kurt to thank for that.

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    @mn5 I should have added that I didn't give a fuck. Smells like brain fluid...

    Grunge wasn't my thing in the 1990s but I did like some songs from the other big 3. Of the bands you list AIC, Soundgarden and FNM are my favourites. I've seen all three live in recent years.

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  • MN5M Offline
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    @bovidae said in What are you listening to, right now................:

    @mn5 I should have added that I didn't give a fuck. Smells like brain fluid...

    Grunge wasn't my thing in the 1990s but I did like some songs from the other big 3. Of the bands you list AIC, Soundgarden and FNM are my favourites. I've seen all three live in recent years.

    I've seen none so I am extremely jealous.

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  • NepiaN Offline
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    @jegga said in What are you listening to, right now................:

    @mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:

    @jegga said in What are you listening to, right now................:

    @nepia said in What are you listening to, right now................:

    @jegga said in What are you listening to, right now................:

    @nepia the preamble while waffling sets up the series well imho, it gets better and better after that

    Maybe part of why I found it less interesting was the Nirvana focus as I'm not a big Nirvana fan. I just clicked at the end of part 3 that the series was written 8 years ago.

    Yeah I was never really a fan either , I’ve worked with a few guys who were born around the time the article starts off and when you get talking about music and concerts you’ve been to they start frothing about Cobain and asking what it was like to be around when Nevermind came out. I can remember the first time I heard it and I didn’t hate it but there were other bands around like Soundgarden that I thought were a lot better.
    He nails Pearl Jam though , Vitology is self indulgent crap on a par with Pink Floyd’s the final cut, I completely lost interest in them after that.

    to be fair he nails most of them (if a little forgiving of Nirvana, but he obviously loves them, so i am cool with it). I found myself nodding away, especially from about 7 on. I can see why i got in to dance music in the late 90s.

    I'd pretty much forgotten about Live till I read this, christ they were awful . There were other bands around at the time on the periphery of the grunge scene like Our lady peace and Mudhoney you had to look reasonably hard to find at record stores . The appeal of Oasis and Radiohead was lost on me, stoked that Thom Yorke hates creep because its the only song I like of his apart from Harrowdown hill.

    I never got into dance music.

    Haha, I'm the same, when I first heard it - on a mix CD (Triple J or the Trip) I thought oh might have to listen to this band. Got hold of one of their albums and realised nope, all their other stuff is shit.

    Live and Counting Crows were constantly played when I was at uni. Personally, I find Counting Crows to infinitely worse than Live.

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    @mn5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:

    @bovidae said in What are you listening to, right now................:

    @mn5 I should have added that I didn't give a fuck. Smells like brain fluid...

    Grunge wasn't my thing in the 1990s but I did like some songs from the other big 3. Of the bands you list AIC, Soundgarden and FNM are my favourites. I've seen all three live in recent years.

    I've seen none so I am extremely jealous.

    fucking what?

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    Fuck me, have missed the whole rag on nirvana band wagon. A big favorite of mine but certainly not the best band of the 90s or best grunge outfit. Kurt's personal following has put another layer on the music side of things.

    All those fuckers should be bowing down to the pixies imo 😁 and I know most of them do!

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    @paekakboyz said in What are you listening to, right now................:

    Fuck me, have missed the whole rag on nirvana band wagon. A big favorite of mine but certainly not the best band of the 90s or best grunge outfit. Kurt's personal following has put another layer on the music side of things.

    All those fuckers should be bowing down to the pixies imo 😁 and I know most of them do!

    God the Pixies are over rated

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    @rocky-rockbottom kinda hating you right now. While I've seen them all, that looked like a great show.

    Metallica are fucking ace live.

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    @mn5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:

    I've seen none so I am extremely jealous.

    It was FNM and Soundgarden back-to-back. Westfest 2015 at Mt Smart with Judas Priest on stage before them. 🤘

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    @nepia said in What are you listening to, right now................:

    Live and Counting Crows were constantly played when I was at uni. Personally, I find Counting Crows to infinitely worse than Live.

    The Counting Crows opening for The Who in NZ in 2009 had to be one of the biggest mismatches in artists.

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  • NepiaN Offline
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    @mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:

    @paekakboyz said in What are you listening to, right now................:

    Fuck me, have missed the whole rag on nirvana band wagon. A big favorite of mine but certainly not the best band of the 90s or best grunge outfit. Kurt's personal following has put another layer on the music side of things.

    All those fuckers should be bowing down to the pixies imo 😁 and I know most of them do!

    God the Pixies are over rated

    Seriously, where is that down vote button mods! 😡

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  • PaekakboyzP Offline
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    @mariner4life dick

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  • mariner4lifeM Offline
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    @bovidae said in What are you listening to, right now................:

    @nepia said in What are you listening to, right now................:

    Live and Counting Crows were constantly played when I was at uni. Personally, I find Counting Crows to infinitely worse than Live.

    The Counting Crows opening for The Who in NZ in 2009 had to be one of the biggest mismatches in artists.

    Remember when Bowie toured with Nine Inch Nails?

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  • mariner4lifeM Offline
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    @Nepia @Paekakboyz this always comes up. The talk is around 90s Alternative music, people will say "yea man, i love Nirvana/Pumpkins/Pearl Jam" and some speccy fuckwit will go "of course, the Pixies are so much better, and without them none of the music you like would even exist" sniffs own fart smugly

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  • BovidaeB Offline
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    @mariner4life No. What tour? A lot of the times it is because they are on the same label.

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    @bovidae for Bowie it was touring his Outside album, which is a pretty weird set of songs. It actually meshes reasonably well with NIN, and i think they sort of combined their acts a bit as well.

    Not sure either sets of fans really embraced i though.

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    @mariner4life said in What are you listening to, right now................:

    @mn5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:

    @bovidae said in What are you listening to, right now................:

    @mn5 I should have added that I didn't give a fuck. Smells like brain fluid...

    Grunge wasn't my thing in the 1990s but I did like some songs from the other big 3. Of the bands you list AIC, Soundgarden and FNM are my favourites. I've seen all three live in recent years.

    I've seen none so I am extremely jealous.

    fucking what?

    It's true.

    Please don't hate me

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