Are you saying this album killed music?

Big Hair Metal fan?

Never got the Nirvana love.

I get the Like, not the love

Still a great album despite it seemingly see-sawing between critically overrated and underrated every few years.

The only Nirvana album that matters is

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Tell me about it. Warrant was about to take over the world.

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Pour out a lil Calvert. If he did he'd probably still be around to belt out some Uncle Tom's Cabin at the Brown County fair this month.

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Here I was thinking maybe Taylor Swift was born on this date .

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

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Just chillin' like Garret Quillin.

I grew up in the 80's. I love heavy metal, speed metal, hair metal, and all metal in general. Nirvana did not kill hair bands. Shitty hair bands, MTV, and power ballads killed hair bands. MTV put anyone with long hair, and a shitty, slow, sappy song about a chick, death, etc. in heavy rotation. It was so over saturated that it was sickening. G N' R were out there. So were Megageth, Slayer, Anthrax, and Pantera. The hair metal genre was on life support, and someone needed to euthanize it. Thank God! They saved us from long careers from the likes of White Lion, Trixter, and Firehouse!

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I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out. - Bill Hicks

Let's do it for Johnny!

Keeping Score has a point. Anything Nirvana did to extinguish hair metal is nullified and then some by giving rise to post-grunge, that cauldron of soupy shit, with hundreds of bands playing the same downtuned chords and everyone singing something that sounds like "wehh, weh wuh weh-wuh wehhh wunga wehhhh." We're still not out of those woods, you know.

EDIT: to be fair, I suppose Eddie Vedder is more to blame for "wehhhh" than Cobain was.

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lot of bad going on in this thread....

Agreed. Hair Metal was already dead and alternative was on the rise. Alice In Chains, Primus, Janes Addiction, NIN, Ministry, etc...all had albums out by 1991.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1991

I mean, #1 was Bryan Adams ... #10 was Amy Grant ... you can't tell me Nirvana didn't do a lot of people a lot of favors in the long run*.


*-everyone loves the eagles

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- Henry George

Without even checking, I'm confident that I would take that list over any list of the last decade.

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We did a show with them with the "new" singer. Complete big-timers. They acted like they were playing a stadium show "backstage" instead of a 300 person bar......

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"I'm not smiling because I thought what you said was humorous. I'm smiling because one day I know you'll be dead..."

Not a fan of hair metal in the least. I shy away from Appetite for Destruction GNR in favor of Illusions GNR- the glam and hair thing probably factors into that. If Smells Like Teen Spirit had a hand in ending that era, fine. In Utero was a better album IMO.



The interesting thing about early '90s music is that a handful of those bands were around in the '80s, and they were doing the hair metal thing. I think Alice in Chains has that in their history- you can hear remnants of it on Facelift. Pearl Jam is debatable on the technicality of Mother Love Bone. The best was Pantera, though. It's hard to reconcile the Metal Magic-era Pantera with The Great Southern Trendkill-era Pantera.

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fock this club. I should manayer.

Yeah...that was quite the discovery in the early 90s, realizing that Pantera used to be a step above White Lion.

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Imagine what it's like when you discover it on 9/30/13. Holy shit! @ Vinnie Paul.

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I knew they started off hair metal but I had never actually seen the pic until now. That is awesome.

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well, they named themselves after a shitty car...

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Agreed ks. I hated how it changed my party years too. Everyone went from having big hair and fun to dressing like lesbians and looking like they hadn't showered in weeks. Running around in $100 work boots complaining about how horrible their life was and general angst.

I don't recall the change being that instant and I was 16 at the time.

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I was somehow able to skip most of the grunge. I went from having warrant and poison albums to getting Check Your Head and then on to snoop/dre, the pumpkins, weezer, green day. I was too young for there to be any partying during the transition years.

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