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Nirvana would have been long forgotten if he hadn't topped himself. I mean they were pretty good but nothing special at the time. One successful albumn does not make musical genius.
Anyway ....... I've posted it before, and I'll post it again
What became of Jane's Addiction?
Troublegum by Therapy is one of my all time favourite albums.
Nevermind is a seminal album, it was the album that brought grunge to the masses, I haven't listened to it for a long time though as I felt that the songs had become over played and too familiar.
I saw Skyscraper a few times at little club gigs in london and a couple of times locally to me. Very good band I thought, never managed to track down there second album though.
No mention yet of Catherine Wheel who were a fantastic band, mixing shoegazing and grunge with great chorus too. They were also great live.
As we've stumbled into brit grunge territory its only fair to bring up Bush how despite being labelled (unfairly IMO) as nirvana clones were also very good.
There was also Headswim too, another great brit band that died on its arse with no label support over here.
I was a big Blast First fan. Loved Dinosaur, best gig I saw was Dinosaur at the Venue in Embra. J blew his amp (third in 2 days) setting up for the soundcheck. They sound checked on stage and did Smoke on the water, Minor Threat, Sweet Child o Mine and Barmy Army (I think - J was a big Exploited fan). Lou kept belting out the bassline to Gigantic. Brilliant stuff.
I was a mega Sonic Youth fan too.
Also liked early Mudhoney. They seemed nice guys (from Aberdeen too, but in the pacific north west). Big Black and the horrendously named Rapeman too. Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician still gets an airing now and again.
Nobody's mentioned Killdozer yet. I loved them. 3/4" Drill Bit came up on the mp3 player the other day. I still love that track. Or Swans. same time as SY. Loved the shear power of the antagonism.
Also, but a bit earlier, is the Minutemen. Double Nickels on the Dime is one of the finest albums ever made. D Boone RIP. And lets not forget Minor Threat (okay these are Hardcore).
I still stick to Bleach being Nirvana's best album. Its probably the only one I still have. Had to dig it out to put on Negative Creep the other month as it was whirling through the grey stuff demanding to be heard.
S'all good people.
I was the right age to be into Nirvana (16 in '91) but they never really clicked with me. I was Pearl Jam and Faith No More, though, but then Nirvana fans were always sniffy about Pearl Jam. They are a more traditional rock band that just happened to come from the Seattle area the same time that the grunge scene developed there and the media applied the grunge label to them incorrectly, or so I gather.
I eventually bought Nevermind and In Utero, many years after the fact. I listen to them occasionally but they don't do much for me. To my ears, Smells Like Teen Spirit sounds over produced, with the rawness it seems to want to have smoothed out by the production. I suspect that this is what helped it become the massive mainstream hit that it was, but for me it maybe prevents me from really clicking with it.
I wanted to like Pearl Jam, but Eddie Vedder's voice gets on my tits.
but Eddie Vedder's voice gets on my tits.
Right! Outside NOW!
😉
Come as You Are is better than Eighties
well seeing as you prefer kiddies pop to proper music this is just for you DezB
The dicks and 7seconds were top banana as well
and not forgetting the mighty Gorilla biscuits
Nirvana at the time were causing a massive buzz pre- nevermind. Remember Peel playing Teen Spirit few weeks before their Reading 91 appearance and them tearing it up (was in the pit for that). there were loadsof good bands about. Therapys first 2 mini albums (they went shit when they changed drummers), rollins band , no means no, hole ,babes in toyland, Th faith healers, sonic youth, tool. Other brit bands like senser, swervedriver, silverfish (f'kin awesome), leatherface, snuff.
Jesus Lizard were off the chart (Liar), Big Black/Rapeman , Helmet.
Bleach is raw as ****, typical sub pop.Would have loved to have heard In Utero in its Albini incarnation which was apprently unlistenable. Nirvana had something AT THE TIME that the other bands just didnt have - saw em live a few times and wouldnt have said they were ever that good. Not the best band ever but did alter the face of music for the masses (couldnt have done it without mudhoney, dinosaur jr etc paving the way)
Reading the following year - full of the general public all having a sing along - very shit indeed.
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but Eddie Vedder's voice gets on my tits.
Right! Outside NOW!
Sorry, but I feel the same about Vedders voice.
I remember hearing Negative Creep for the first time round a friends house when I was about 14 and thinking it was the best thing ever. My mum, however wasn't best impressed after i copied it onto a tape played it over and over and over.
I still listen to Nirvana occasionally now and everything still feels as raw and fresh as it did twenty years ago and that is why, in some respects, the critics are right in believing they were one of the most influential bands in recent times.
Tazzy - gorilla biscuits - class
saw CIV at Manchester boardwalk and it was immense. 3 foot high stage , back when no barriers , fans on stage - christ !!!
I used to and still prefer The Lemonheads
runs for cover
any other flipper fans out there in grunge land?
i was never a 'massive' nirvana fan, for me pearl jam, alice in chains, soundgarden and stone temple pilots were way better. but i think bleach is better than nevermind.
i'll never forget my mate bringing pearl jam's TEN round my house and both of us constanltly playing it, i was 16 at the time and we both thought WTF is this!!!!
... i can see the whole raw thing of nirvana, i saw them twice live and they were dire, but i think they were very hit and miss live. pearl jam live on the otherhand are great musicians (the MTV unplugges is epic - (so is nirvanas to be honest haha 😉 and still one of the best gigs ive ever seen was stone temple pilots old scott was totally off his head!
alice in chains did a more mellow album 'jar of flies' thats worth a look if you havent heard it.
i had pearl jams 'given to fly' blasting on the ipod in the car the other day!
Therapy? mention above too, saw them on tour last year, bloody
brilliant has as much energy as when i saw them 12 years earlier!
maybe im getting old and have my rose tinted specs on but most of the music around these days is utter sh*te!
I remember this
"Bleach" got me into Nirvana
to be honest the hype around Nevermind ruined it and I went back to listening to Mudhoney
Does this qualify, not grunge I suppose? certainly of that time I recall.
No mention of the Smashing Pumpkins yet? To me, they were the greatest band of the 90's, though Nirvana/Pearl Jam/Alice in Chains/Mud Honey/Sonic Youth [i]et al[/i] were all way up there 🙂 What a track this is though, absolutely flawless!
silverfish -ha ha.....memories.
anyone remember DRIVE from Wigan (Mega City 4's mates), and Jacobs Mouse with singing drummer
Siamese Dream is the perfect album - chamberlains drumming is a piss take. Soon after Corgan disappeared up his own arse, surfacing breifly to assist Courtney Love with some songs.
I could never get to grips with Sonic Youth, their alter ego Ciccone Youth did some stuff I could cope with.
Siamese Dream is the perfect album
Agreed... 🙂
I love nirvana, I love pixies and tool too.... loads of great bands out there, but I have to admid that Nirvana just have that something, Im not sure why but it just engages on a much deeper level , that sounds so crap but for me nobody hits that spot like nirvana, I guess thats what all this music 'speaking' bullshit is about- Pixies have great LPs, Kurt only mentioned the pixies when asked his inspiration for teen spirit, he said he wanted to write a pixies track....... I dont think he had these aspirations, he just wanted to make his music and probably didnt look at others, i'd guess this was his sarky way of making a joke about music reporters...... but I actually like all of Nirvanas LPs, they are all different, bleach is raw, nevermind is nicely produced and has an almost classic tone about it, in utero is interesting is so strange, so undone and yet so 'nirvana'. I couldn't pick a favourite. Best thread for a long time STW.
ah yes, Buffalo Tom and the Vase-lines... how could i forget.
Or My Bloody Valentine. What was that kinda crossover ep they had that kinda went mega for a bit? That was good!
And the first Galaxie 500 album. Man I loved that soooo much at the time.
Sugar:
Beaster and Copper Blue
Bob Mould showing the young 'uns what grunge was all about...effortless
no Tad fans?
Marginwalker, had a silverfish and a Jacobs mouse ep 🙂
Some great bands and memories mentioned here. Loved the whole era.
The Descendents/All
The Posies
Black Market Flowers
Black Flag
Urge Overkill
Kyuss
Screaming Trees
With the mention of Soundgarden it would be good see them play live this year for old times sake. Maybe Download? Just to hear the opening to 'room a thousand years wide' who knows!?
Regarding the other posters on here regarding Dinosaur Jr. I went to Reading 93. My first ever festival. It was possibly the loudest band ive ever heard. right at the front and it was amazing. I also remember being transfixed by Mike Johnson playing bass with bleached white hair and him looking very tall!
They just blew my mind.
Ahh Kyuss, now theres a band. I saw the Kyuss Lives show last saturday at Kentish Town forum and they were absolutely fantastic. No Josh Homme but other then that the original line up, best gig I've been to for a long time 8)
For me a band that are just as exciting as Nirvana are System of a Down . Although they have now split they have a number of brilliant albums and Serje no has some great stuff coming out.
just as awesome yet a little tamer
some gems being posted here, i saw Silverfish,Chumbawamba and Fugazi in an amazing triple bill in the Barras in 92. Lived in Germany in 91 and my girlfriend at the time was heavily involved in the local hardcore scene to the extent that we used to house bands who were touring europe on a budget.
had the following crashed at our place during the summer of 91:
Gorilla biscuits, snuff,chumbawamba, No use for a name,Sick of it all, Alice Donut, Cro-Mags,and NofX.
i scored many a free gig entry and tour tee. good times indeed.
Oh and lets not over look the mighty Hard-ons. ozzie nutters!
tazzymtb - MemberCome as You Are is better than Eighties
well seeing as you prefer kiddies pop to proper music this is just for you DezB
Only just seen this. 😕
Maybe it was a joke, if so I don't get it.
regarding Dinosaur Jr. I went to Reading 93.
Was that the year that Lemonheads and Fishbone played? Good times.
There was a comedy tent and I saw Eddie Izard
The Hard-Ons!
Cripes. I haven't even thought about them since accidentally seeing them in Belgium. first time I ever stagedived - IIRC Mega City 4 were on the same bill.
[i]There was a comedy tent and I saw Eddie Izard[/i]
Vedder you mean? 😉
This thread has got me fizzin, listening to some stuff I havent touched in ages.
Also realised that both Jesus Lizard and Fvgazi are f'kin amazing:
Jesus Lizard - Live mouthbreather
Fugazi - Live Song#1
Jane's Addiction are ace! Like a modern day Led Zeppelin.
I saw them at Leeds Festival in 2002 and Manchester Apollo and both gigs were class. Might even be worth forking out the 80 odd quid 😯 to see them at Leeds this year.
Haven't seen them live, but tried to watch a live show on Sky Arts. Perry Farrell was such a knob-end I couldn't watch it all! Wearing a black glittery outfit waving a bottle of wine around or something.
Guitar on that new track is great though eh?
He's a rockstar Dez! A bit of flamboyance always goes down well and the red wine thing is a bit of a trademark. 😉
I do quite like the new song, and the last album was great too. The guitars are great on this:
Too right - Strays probably my fave rock album of the last x years 🙂
(x = 10?)