blackspots

metalheads are definitely on my list . . .

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Alfred

^lmao.

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Dmizz

Metalheads and MTV

jackhammer

Not all Metalheads are idiots. Most are but not all.

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Urban Hat€monger ?

I already posted this before but I'll re-use it here because i'm lazy.

My personal opinion is that grunge is one of the biggest fallacies in music history.

I don't have a problem with the ideal of grunge, The thought of someone putting Black Sabbath style riffs with punk/indie ideals & attitudes appeals to me.

Grunge was supposed to be the great break out of the American Underground , but that wasn't what happened. All that happened was record labels signed up any scruffy band that looked and sounded miserable , in a lot of cases ex hair metal bands (EG Alice In Chains & Pearl Jam) There were a few exceptions like Mudhoney who run out of ideas shortly after their first album came out , and Soundgarden who despite showing some signs of promise on Ultramega OK decided to be some crappy Sabbath tribute band instead.

But other than that the whole grunge thing led to the whole 'alternative' thing where people actually believed that by listening to major label stadium rock shit like the Smashing Pumpkins & Bush that they were under the deluded impression that they were listening to the alternative to the mainstream when in reality real independent labels and bands struggled to compete against the growing monopoly of the big 4 labels.
The whole thing was a lie , and the music was mostly rubbish and thats why I hate it.

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WaspStar

This thread is brilliant. Picking a favorite post is like trying to pick my favorite song from Who's Next, but if I had to, it would be this one. Grunge annoys me far more than other genres simply because it should be good.

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Cobe Kai

You're just a closed minded twat for thinking that. The alternative thing was a great thing in music, because it told bands that they could be heard too! And post-grunge bands are STILL in the mainstream, influencing more people. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

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Urban Hat€monger ?

If i'd not listened to any of it and reach that assumption then yes I would be a closed minded twat for thinking that. However I lived through the grunge era and listened to dozens of grunge albums with an open mind , and this the conclusion I have reached because of that.

Alternative to what? Mainstream rock on major record labels ? I already covered that in the original post go read it again. I can assure you that being someone who does actually listen to music on small labels both then and now that a lot of them were taken over by the big four major labels in the 90s meaning that those 4 labels had a even bigger monopoly on the music industry and getting heard while being on a small label became even more difficult. So please explain how this is a good thing.

Name 10 and tell me who they are influencing

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Alfred

People who like certain music almost entirely because of the lyrics.

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jackhammer

I blame David Geffen and Cameron Crowe. Both knew sod all about the scene and proceeded to make money out of a scene that Dinosaur Jr and Big Black did better and five years earlier.

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