DreamOutLoud13
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When I was a kid, a lot of the other kids at school were into the Power Rangers... while I was into Nirvana and Pearl Jam
What, you don't like nu-metal or Nickelback? How dare you insult Grunge's long-term legacy, you ass.Snowlock said:Oh yeah thank god that metal was destroyed by Grunge because after grunge, on the radio we had...
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The closest I can get to rock now, living in a city of 1,000,000 is either Goo Goo Dolls knock offs, Hinder, or ELO. Do you have any idea how awful that is? And I'm not gonna go so far as to say it's Grunge's fault or anything, but I'm not going to be happy about grunge taking mainstream hair metal off the radio either.
I'd take Sweet Child O Mine over Iris every. single. day.
Snowlock said:Oh yeah thank god that metal was destroyed by Grunge because after grunge, on the radio we had...
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intedomine said:
Gin Blossoms
Goo Goo Dolls
Live
Nothing wrong at all with those 3 bands, immensely enjoyable rock music......
Snowlock said:Now it's gotta be grunge day on the iPod. Playlist:
2. Rusty Cage - Soundgarden
6. Evenflow - Pearl Jam
11. Say Hello 2 Heaven - Temple Of The Dog
12. Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins
Headache in a Suitcase said:how about hootie and the blowfish? am i right?
david said:Early Goo Goo Dolls weren't bad, but they were way too influenced by the Replacements to the point of sounding a lot like them. I was watching Nightmare on Elm Street 6 the other day (it came out in 1991) and I didn't realize it until seeing it again for the first time in a long time, Goo Goo Dolls had music in that film.. And they sound totally different from how they sound now..
bonosgirl84 said:
Lol, and his band was called "hey, that's my bike"
Snowlock said:
Gin Blossoms were during Grunge and despite a reunion last year, they hadn't put out an album since about 1994 and their big album and breakthrough was in 1992.
Goo Goo Dolls is commercially derivite recycled pre-packaged corporate driven marketing sell-out garbage. They're rock and roll's Pussy Cat Dolls. If you want to hear why they disgust me soooooo much, listen to their Superstar Carwash album, then listen to Let Love In. The difference is appalling.
I've haven't heard Live on the radio since 1994.
However, I'm not saying there aren't any good bands, I'm saying you just can't hear them on mainstream radio anymore and it's even rarer to see them at the of the mainstream singles charts.
Oh, and I do like Nickelback *because* they remind me of those old hair metal bands. I'd never go see them in concert or buy an album, but How You Remind Me & Photograph are good songs.
Grunge (and honest rock and roll on the radio) died the day Creed was born.
While Smashing Pumpkins were signed originally to Sub Pop, the original grunge label, they were far too arty to be grunge.
Plus, it's ironic to hate hair metal and love grunge because most of those bands, with the exception of Nirvana, started out as hair metal bands -> Soundgarden, Alice In Chains & Mother Love Bone (precursor to Pearl Jam). And even PJ were pretty hair metalish at least in look and marketing at the *very* beginning.
We need to do a Grunge survivor!
btw, great thread!
Snowlock said:Now it's gotta be grunge day on the iPod. Playlist:
1. Dumb - Nirvana
2. Rusty Cage - Soundgarden
3. River Of Deceit - Mad Season
4. Would - Alice In Chains
5. Big Empty - STP (I know, I know)
6. Evenflow - Pearl Jam
7. Heart Shaped Box - Nirvana
8. Lithium - Nirvana
9. Grind - Alice In Chains
10. The Day I Tried To Live - Soundgarden
11. Say Hello 2 Heaven - Temple Of The Dog
12. Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins
13. Come Down - Bush (posers)
14. New Damage - Soundgarden (with Brian May)
15. Got Me Wrong - Alice In Chains
16. Dissident - Pearl Jam
17. Creep - STP
18. Corduroy - Pearl Jam
19. Dollar Bill - Screaming Trees
20. Yellow Ledbetter - Pearl Jam
bonosgirl84 said:
It's so true. Like several of the other people in this thread I can remember exactly where I was the first time I heard Nirvana. It sounds ridiculous but by the end of the song I was very aware of the feeling that something had changed. And it was good.
]Snowlock said:
Gin Blossoms were during Grunge and despite a reunion last year, they hadn't put out an album since about 1994 and their big album and breakthrough was in 1992.
Goo Goo Dolls is commercially derivite recycled pre-packaged corporate driven marketing sell-out garbage. They're rock and roll's Pussy Cat Dolls. If you want to hear why they disgust me soooooo much, listen to their Superstar Carwash album, then listen to Let Love In. The difference is appalling.
I've haven't heard Live on the radio since 1994.
However, I'm not saying there aren't any good bands, I'm saying you just can't hear them on mainstream radio anymore and it's even rarer to see them at the of the mainstream singles charts.
Oh, and I do like Nickelback *because* they remind me of those old hair metal bands. I'd never go see them in concert or buy an album, but How You Remind Me & Photograph are good songs.
Grunge (and honest rock and roll on the radio) died the day Creed was born.
While Smashing Pumpkins were signed originally to Sub Pop, the original grunge label, they were far too arty to be grunge.
Plus, it's ironic to hate hair metal and love grunge because most of those bands, with the exception of Nirvana, started out as hair metal bands -> Soundgarden, Alice In Chains & Mother Love Bone (precursor to Pearl Jam). And even PJ were pretty hair metalish at least in look and marketing at the *very* beginning.
We need to do a Grunge survivor!
btw, great thread!
Snowlock said:
They were! Goo Goo Dolls used to tour with the 'Mats and Paul Westerberg wrote a song for them on the Superstar Carwash album - We Are The Normal. In a Spin magazine article in 1993 or so, Paul even went on to declare the Dolls would be the next Replacements... boy was he off.
Moonlit_Angel said:
Heard these guys a little while ago and was wondering...where would Collective Soul fit into all this? I don't think they're really "grunge", per se, but I remember hearing them an awful lot alongside some of these other bands on the radio.
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namkcuR said:There are great bands like Radiohead and Arcade Fire and whatever, but there just aren't many really great ROCK bands out there right now.
I thought Audioslave could fill that void for a while, but they seem to have fizzled out.
Zootlesque said:Collective Soul is I guess post grunge too. But they turned to more conventional pop/rock later, didn't they? I do like stuff from their first 2 albums... Shine, The World I Know, December, Gel.
namkcuR said:Rock music today really needs a few bands to come out and do what these bands did for it back in 1991/92/93/94. Rock music needs that rejuvenation, that reinvigoration, that new life breathed into it right now.
BonoVoxSupastar said:Yeah, I would remove 15, 16, and 17...
Maybe early Hole would work, but not Malibu, and Live I wouldn't consider post-grunge since they started right in the middle of grunge's hay day...