sidewinder

"Along one day came Nirvana..." Coincidentally not 5 minutes ago I just finished watching the documentary Hype about the Seattle music scene (aka grunge) and posting about it in the movie thread. Nirvana didn't ruin music, nor were they the first to make the kind of music you're bitching about. They were just the ones that big labels and the media exploited the most.

Aside from that, how is it their fault that no one after them has made rock music that YOU like?

Plus honestly your opinion doesn't hold much weight when you're praising bands like AC/DC, Van Halen, and Def Leppard. I don't really have anything against them, I liked each one at some point in my life, but come on...they're hardly worth calling "awesome talent." And for the record I wouldn't use the phrase "awesome talent" in reference to grunge bands, either. I just happen to enjoy some, doesn't mean I think they have "awesome talent."

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I'd love to see your signature/links too, but the huge and obnoxious ones have caused me to block all signatures.

Captain Awesome

Van halen is undeniably one of the greatest guitarists in the history of rock. AC/DC are one of the most consistent bands to have ever existed (they have over fifteen platinum albums ffs) and def leppard are good to.


I agree that the genre "grunge" (or whatever it's called) isn't as good as the old 80's metal/hard rock but there's a couple of bands in that genre who are okay.

I still say the best rock was in the late seventies - late eighties. Most of my favourite bands/artists fall under that time line. There's a few exceptions but not a whole lot, maybe a dozen bands after the late eighties I consider on the same level as people like Van Halen, Guns n Roses, Metallica, RHCP etc

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"If we're all merely players in a play on this great stage,
the problem is the script writers ain't on the same page,
I echo through the mountain when I'm singing in the air,
from my lab a lad with lavish lyrics living in his lair."


"Wake up and listen, hear what's not for the public's ears
Pinocchio poets played by profiting puppeteers"

sidewinder

Still doesn't mean shit to me.

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I'd love to see your signature/links too, but the huge and obnoxious ones have caused me to block all signatures.

Captain Awesome

So being one of (possibly THE) greatest guitarist of all time doesn't mean **** to you? That doesn't reflect talent? What exactly are you looking for, a guy who can juggle lions while simultaneously smoking a cigar clenched between the ass cheeks of a monkey and humming the entire score of Hector Berlioz's: The Trojans.

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"If we're all merely players in a play on this great stage,
the problem is the script writers ain't on the same page,
I echo through the mountain when I'm singing in the air,
from my lab a lad with lavish lyrics living in his lair."


"Wake up and listen, hear what's not for the public's ears
Pinocchio poets played by profiting puppeteers"

Highwayman

having "the best"() guitarist ever and selling platinum albums doesn't make one band any better than another. Sure, Eddie Van Halen was probably better than Kurt at guitar, but that means nothing. They served different purposes in their bands. A solo by Eddie would have sounded like crap in one of Nirvana's songs. They were totally different musicians and totally different bands, trying to say that one is "better" than another is totally ridiculous. They made totally different types of music, so how would you even begin to judge?

As for ACDC selling platinum albums, that means nothing. Seriously, since when does selling lots of records make your band good? It just means people either like it, or the group is well marketed.

This is a really stupid thread in general. Rock music can't die (Neil Young told me so). It is too broad a genre (if you can even call it that anymore) and is too inscribed into our culture and the music that is made and listened to today.

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