Originally Posted by Janszoon

-1 for America.

Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog

Normally I'd give you that, Alex my man, but I've had everyone from musical scholars to the check-out guy at the supermarket tell me too much about all three of those guys.

To me there a big detraction.

Originally Posted by Alex/

Yes, I know it's very cool to post some kind of one-liner like that. It makes you look very cool. Some actual effort wouldn't hurt anyone.

I'm not talking about Creed, or Nickelback, or Godsmack, or any of that other garbage that grunge spawned. I'm talking about the real stuff. Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Temple of the Dog, Mad Season, Nirvana. The list goes on.

Did it go a little overboard in popularity? Sure, yeah. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is one overplayed song. But you can't deny that Superunknown, Ten, and Dirt are some of the best rock albums ever produced. Especially in the last 20 years..

Originally Posted by Alex/

Yes, I know it's very cool to post some kind of one-liner like that. It makes you look very cool. Some actual effort wouldn't hurt anyone.

Originally Posted by Alex/

I'm not talking about Creed, or Nickelback, or Godsmack, or any of that other garbage that grunge spawned. I'm talking about the real stuff. Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Temple of the Dog, Mad Season, Nirvana. The list goes on.

Did it go a little overboard in popularity? Sure, yeah. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is one overplayed song. But you can't deny that Superunknown, Ten, and Dirt are some of the best rock albums ever produced. Especially in the last 20 years.

Originally Posted by Janszoon

Thanks for the advice twenty-posts.


Yes, I understand what you're talking about when you say grunge. And, no, I don't think any of the albums you mentioned deserve to be described as some of the best rock albums ever produced. I was in my teens during the heyday of grunge and it didn't seem particularly exciting or groundbreaking to me at the time. Needless to say I haven't found that gotten any fresher in the intervening two decades.

Originally Posted by Live Forever

What are your favorite bands/artists?

Originally Posted by Janszoon

I have a pretty a hard time summing up my tastes but since you ask I'll give it a shot. To start with I would say that really anything that's unique and well done is most likely something that will appeal to me. Various kind of electronic music make up a sizable chunk of my music tastes, this ranges from older stuff like Kraftwerk to new wave to late 80s/early 90s electro-industrial and EBM to trip-hop and dubstep to IDM and breakcore to electroclash. I'm also big fan of loud music and/or music that rocks out pretty hard, this encompasses quite a bit—hardcore, grindcore, thrash, noise rock, stoner metal, death metal, etc. Some longtime favorites of mine are also singer-songwriter types like Tom Waits, Nick Cave, and Leonard Cohen. Aside from that I'm a pretty big postpunk fan too, with Killing Joke, PiL, Gang Four and Wall of Voodoo being some favorites. Then there's the jazz; I'm not a huge jazzhead but I do listen to a fair amount of it, mostly stuff from the 40s through the 70s. Beyond that I have a wide variety of stuff that I dabble in substantially—everything from hip-hop to 50s and 60s pop rock to latin music to african music.

Originally Posted by Janszoon

Thanks for the advice twenty-posts.

Originally Posted by Alex/

Oh, but you're also one of those pretentious guy who thinks his post count and join date means something. That's good, man. Very cool. I'm glad you've established yourself as such an internet badass.

Originally Posted by Alex/

Oh, but you're also one of those pretentious guy who thinks his post count and join date means something. That's good, man. Very cool. I'm glad you've established yourself as such an internet badass.