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Originally Posted by Halen
Pearl Jam refused to do music videos for a long time and boycotted Ticketmaster. Eddie and co. had a colossal set of balls, and that's rock and roll to me.
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They also conveniently waited until they had one of the fastest selling album debuts ever to make that decision public (Vs. set some serious sales records). It's also not like they didn't fully capitalize from the popularity they developed by exploiting the industry and media during the early days of their career. Is it really ballsy to give the public a lot of anything then limit the availability to increase the demand and create a false sense of exclusivity? Or is it just shrewd business sense?
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Originally Posted by Halen
As I said before, Nirvana was just another MTV band. Remember when the MTV executives didn't allow them to perform Rape Me at the VMA? Cowards..
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Yeah I remember watching that 20 years ago, do you? I also remember that they chose to play Heart Shaped Box instead and the Novoselic gave himself a concussion on stage by throwing his bass up into the air then catching it with his face. Sounds totally like corporate cowardice to me....
Then again there's the fact that Rape Me is a scathing retort to the label and industry demand for Nirvana to write a 2nd Smells Like Teen Spirit. Same riff, new words, substantial change in meaning. Care to explain how deconstructing your biggest hit in a way that guarantees it can't be exploited by mainstream media is an act of corporate cowardice?
I understand you like Pearl Jam better, that's fine, no one really cares. But the fact that you keep trying to belittle Nirvana as a way of proving that PJ is somehow a 'truer' rock band just makes you look foolish.
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