The hot takes and unpopular opinions
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Yeah... not particularly hot-takes...
- For whatever reason, Nirvana never grabbed me at the time, but Pearl Jam did.
- In hindsight, I can see why Pearl Jam is considered "boring" - but when Ten and Vs were released... that was it. That was my jam.
- Rage Against The Machine.... whole different level. Fucking amazing. Never "my jam", but if any fluffybunny doesn't have their debut album anywhere near their top 10 rock albums of all time... fuck ya's all.
- Alice in Chains - never listened to them until a decade or two later. And that's probably my bad. 'pologies. From what I have listened to, since... yeah... can appreciate it - but... coming to it after that 'era'... it just doesn't have the same... (impact?)
- Korn, Nu-Metal... always seemed like candied-popcorn. I might enjoy it some of the time, but felt dirty/guilty whenever I did.
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@mariner4life said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@antipodean said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@mariner4life said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@chimoaus said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@Bones said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
Yeah Nirvana are good but I haven't heard anyone say they're fucking super since... well the 90s.
A band that was super in the 90s was Rage Against The Machine, fuck me did I have some fun to that bombtrack.
I consider the game changing albums of the 90s to be
Nevermind
Rage Against the Machine, and
Korn(Caveat, rock music only)
I'd add Dirt.
Cool.
I wouldn't. And I'll give my reasons (again, totally just opinion)
Dirt is awesome. But it didn't create a movement. The Alice in Chains kids at school were probably always going to be the Alice in Chains kids. And thr popular kids didn't care
Nevermind created grunge. Nevermind allowed a boring band like Pearl Jam to be enormous.
Rage bought politics to white kids music. And rap over rock music. And Killing in the Name
Korn gave us Nu Metal.
Dirt is a better album than both Nevermind and Korn though. Way better. Down in a Hole is the best song about drug addiction ever.
I am probably one of the biggest, if not the biggest, Alice in Chains fans on TSF and I'd agree with the above.
Funny thing is that for me the most game changing albums of the era weren't actually albums. It would have to be the The Trip or Singles soundtrack.
Two of my all time favourite songs came off that Singles soundtrack (Drown & Would)
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@Tordah said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@Bones said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
Ana de Amas does nothing for me.
I had to look her up - I think she is extremely pretty but lacks sexiness
Give yourselves an uppercut
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@MN5 said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@Bones said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
Ana de Amas does nothing for me.
She’s no Liz Hurley
I'm not on the Liz Hurley is a goddess train!
Dont get me wrong, she was sexy as hell in some movies, looks good for her age.
I'm not a muso like many here, I like all sorts of random stuff, even some NIckelback, Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock, but also agree with the above re some Pearl Jam being boring, chuck em with REM for how they make you feel, but I also like some of thier stuff.
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@Bovidae said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
I aren't, and never was a grunge fan, so had no interest in Nirvana in the 1990s. AIC and Soundgarden were more popular amongst my rock/metal friends as neither are grunge.
Yeah but they had that “Seattle” sound…..as did Stone Temple Pilots even though they were from San Diego.
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@Tordah said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@Bones said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
Ana de Amas does nothing for me.
I had to look her up - I think she is extremely pretty but lacks sexiness
@Bones @Tordah
You're weird.
(I assume there's a gif/meme/whatever for that, but... fuck that shit)Watch Knock Knock - and then tell me she "lacks sexiness".
For fuck's sake.Now - Angelina Jolie - does absolutely nothing for me. It gives me the shits whenever she's used as the "epitome of an attractive woman".
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@Bovidae said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
AIC and Soundgarden were more popular amongst my rock/metal friends as neither are grunge.
Soundgarden no, they are a metal band that softened
but AIC to my mind are the quintessential grunge act
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@Kruse said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
It gives me the shits whenever she's used as the "epitome of an attractive woman
was suuuuuper hot before she became the sack of bones she is now
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1 Every Fern thread will eventually turn into a discussion about the relative merits of a dozen or so 90s rock bands.
2 The most influential album of the 1990s wasn’t by any of the bands you’ve all been talking about, it was Jagged Little Pill.
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@JC said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
Jagged Little Pill
just enormous, and even the metal guys i knew had a copy
one of those albums that everyone owned, like Moby "Play"
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@mariner4life said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@JC said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
Jagged Little Pill
just enormous, and even the metal guys i knew had a copy
one of those albums that everyone owned, like Moby "Play"
I went to her concert on the North Shore somewhere. I can remember stopping for food on the drive up, the two girls I went with, but nothing else about the night. I assume I enjpyed it.
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@mariner4life said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@Bovidae said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
AIC and Soundgarden were more popular amongst my rock/metal friends as neither are grunge.
Soundgarden no, they are a metal band that softened
but AIC to my mind are the quintessential grunge act
In Jerry's own words:
We're a lot of different things ... I don't quite know what the mixture is, but there's definitely metal, blues, rock and roll, maybe a touch of punk. The metal part will never leave, and I never want it to.
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@JC said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@Nepia said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
I thought grunge was less about the music style/sound and more about them looking dirty.
They’re all just miming to Neil Young’s Mirrorball anyway
fuck Neil Young
