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"without Cobain's specific namedrop in regards to Smells Like Teen Spirit along with the use of Where Is My Mind in Fight Club they'd be about as known as Husker Du"
It's not a controversial statement, but it does seem like an unnecessary hypothesis. You should focus on something else now, unless you want to fight more with chuck.
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for how many days do you think you'd be willing to argue over semantics, give or take
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Woah your last post on the prev page has a definite rift in it. Fascinating.
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calculated
more than we can say about user borgs rationale
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Nooo it's gone ):
And for once it wasn't even me who reported it.
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Who cares about dumb ol alt rock anyway, you wrinkly prunes.
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This is pretty much the ultimate “influenced better bands” band right?
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Arguably made music worse, since grunge blew up right after
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Did these really influence grunge that much though? I hear much more of their sound in indie rock than in mainstream alt-rock.
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Quiet loud dynamic innit
They clearly influenced Nirvana - and Nirvana were seen as the main alt rock band of the 90s
Also the Foo Fighters, even the name, the sci fi thing, Grohl clearly loved Pixies (and the Posies)
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Didn't Kurt say Teen Spirit was him ripping off Pixies?
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I'm talking timelines here, but I'd say alt-rock was the closest relative to grunge in 1989.
Also what these two chucklenuts above said
Unrelated, but does anyone remember when rolling stone called Pixies "thrash pop"
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Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain said that "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was an attempt to write a song in the style of the Pixies, a band he greatly admired:
I was trying to write the ultimate pop song. I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. I have to admit it. When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily that I should have been in that band—or at least a Pixies cover band. We used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then loud and hard.[4]
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I guess the difference then was that grunge took that influence in a silly, meatheaded sort of direction so the aesthetic doesn’t really feel the same.
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Took it in a shitty direction you mean
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ohhhhhhhhhhhhh well
damage is done
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Grunge gave us jar of flies so it can't be that bad. Post grunge is lame tho
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The war may have ended long ago
But I can still feel the sting
Ouchie
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'I guess the difference then was that grunge took that influence in a silly, meatheaded sort of direction so the aesthetic doesn’t really feel the same.'
Don't lump Nirvana in with that - Kurt called out the meatheads, that was his whole thing!
Nirvana were just a bit more relatable and visceral than the Pixies, hence stardom. Cobain was also a more natural song writer imo, sometimes I can hear the Pixies straining a bit.
Good band though.
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As a personal opinion but also objective fact, Black was a much more interesting songwriter.
And they had those vocal harmonies which are still the best ever.
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