" pioneering"
Maybe it would seem pioneering to those who ignored the alternative and noise rock underground of the last decade, sure. Hell, Kurt was upfront about the bands he owed his sound to.
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"I prefer early Pearl Jam or Alice in Chains."
Soundgarden >>
Alice in Chains is about equal to Nirvana for me. Pearl Jam is overrated outside of the first three albums, and even those don't do as much for me as the other big three of grunge.
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Album Rating: 2.5
@ Ghandi: Exactly.
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Album Rating: 2.5
LOL I don't like Soundgarden. And I haven't heard Acid Bath either.
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Album Rating: 2.5
The Acid Bath thing was a flippant comment, honestly AiC aren’t even that much like ‘em, but AB are waaaay more metal.
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Album Rating: 5.0
In the 90s I'm pretty sure my local Our Price didn't stock Acid Bath.
'pioneering'
Taking the sound of the previous decade, adding in Cobain's charisma, refining the writing and weaponising the live performance to become the dominant sound on the planet...writing probably at least ten of the most successful and memorable rock songs of the decade, is not pioneering enough?
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Album Rating: 2.5
I'm guessing I wasn't born in the right time to appreciate the record enough. I've heard them first when I was 16 and I didn't find their music memorable at all. I actually own all three albums on CD.
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Album Rating: 2.5
Yeah I was born a tad too late, but great bands transcend the generations and it’s clear to me these guys only seem appreciated by the ‘90s crowd’. I was around back then, just too young to appreciate them.
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Radiohead were around at the same time & very few people dare to question their lasting impact on music.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Ive never seen people who straight up dont like Nirvana, so this is a first (but also, respect)
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Album Rating: 5.0
Pika - I'd definitely try listening to one of the better live sets really loud and remembering this is just your average three piece rock group and just hear how they tear it up.
If you don't like it you don't like it though.
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Album Rating: 4.0
AiC 4ever
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Album Rating: 5.0
'only seem appreciated by the ‘90s crowd’
They're still pretty much regarded as canon
Also Radiohead, y'know, carried on going through the next decades.
And loads of young souls say The Bends, and even sometimes Ok Computer, are bad or overrated.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Youth culture at the time which was goth, metal and stadium rock was inhibited and fractured by its own sense of self importance. This was even more prevalent in the alternative rock scene.
In the UK the real breakthrough was acid house and rave culture but how the fuck were you supposed to relate to that or absorb it at 12/13yrs old?
Hip Hop was exciting but it was bullshit and again completely unrelatable and detached from reality.
Nirvana was the question, discussion, answer and forgone conclusion all in one hit.
Fucking amazing.
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Album Rating: 4.0
There does seem to be a lot of Bends anti hype these days
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Album Rating: 2.5
I’m definitely on the anti-Bends hype train, having been firmly on the praise train in my youth.
On topic... I just feel that virtually all the praise I’ve EVER heard for this band is based purely on their social impact, anyone would think they invented rock music.
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Album Rating: 5.0
To a certain extent they did.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Crazy how these guys came out of Aberdeen aka the worst place in the world
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Aberdeen won a European trophy under the iron chucking red man I’ll have you know.
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Stop stealing our place names.
Yeah they actually invented rock music, sorry I was clearly mistaken.
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