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Old 09.18.2008, 07:42 PM   #81
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i like most of nirvana's records in utero and incesticide probably being my favourites.
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Old 09.18.2008, 07:43 PM   #82
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Yeah, I mean in total honesty, there isn't a Nirvana album that I don't love. They're all great in my opinion and I'll listen to them all often enough.
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Old 09.18.2008, 07:47 PM   #83
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They were freaking great. I got into them in 89 when I saw a poster in Salt Lake City for a Melvins show. Opening was Nirvana. I'd just bought a Melvins LP and I asked the store owner who Nirvana was. He said, "One of those hair bands from Seattle. The kids are all into the Melvins though."

I think then I picked up a copy of the Bleach LP, fell in love with the cover, and nothing was ever the same.
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Old 09.18.2008, 07:55 PM   #84
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As much as I love them, and that they impacted my life in a way very few bands ever have or could do again, it must be close to 10 years since I listened to a Nirvana album start to finish.
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Old 09.18.2008, 07:56 PM   #85
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I listened to Nevermind a bunch last winter.
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Old 09.18.2008, 07:58 PM   #86
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As much as I love them, and that they impacted my life in a way very few bands ever have or could do again,
i would never have started listening to good music if it weren't for nirvana.
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Old 09.18.2008, 08:00 PM   #87
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Ha, ha. I'm quoting you on that!
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Old 09.18.2008, 08:03 PM   #88
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why is that funny? i started listening to nirvana and it just branched out from there. i would surely have punched you by now if this were face to face.
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Old 09.18.2008, 08:09 PM   #89
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i would never have started listening to good music if it weren't for nirvana.


samesies.

They're not my FAVORITE band, but they might be the MOST IMPORTANT band to me.
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Old 09.18.2008, 08:10 PM   #90
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Yup, Nirvana seems to be the gateway band around these parts. For most people anyways...
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Old 09.18.2008, 08:12 PM   #91
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I credit Sonic Youth for that. Got into them much before Nirvana. And I often wonder why Goo didn't do for Sonic Youth--and for alternative music--what Nevermind did a year later.
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Old 09.18.2008, 08:16 PM   #92
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Was Smells Like ... getting a lot of TV slots in the US prior to it going mega?
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Old 09.18.2008, 08:17 PM   #93
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Yeah. MTV played the hell out of it almost from the start.
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Old 09.18.2008, 08:42 PM   #94
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Yeah, I've heard the video played a major part in its success. Musically i think it could've just as easily been Freak Scene or even Touch Me I'm Sick - which I actually think are for better songs than Smells Like ... But there you go. Just a case of the right song at exactly the right time i suppose.
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They were freaking great. I got into them in 89 when I saw a poster in Salt Lake City for a Melvins show. Opening was Nirvana. I'd just bought a Melvins LP and I asked the store owner who Nirvana was. He said, "One of those hair bands from Seattle. The kids are all into the Melvins though."

I think then I picked up a copy of the Bleach LP, fell in love with the cover, and nothing was ever the same.
Go home you old man. I hate when you guys do that to us youngsters.

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i would never have started listening to good music if it weren't for nirvana.

yup, same here.
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Old 09.18.2008, 08:55 PM   #96
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Yeah, true. I also think Sonic Youth might have seemed a bit too art scene smug for a wider audience. Nirvana was grittier.
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Go home you old man. I hate when you guys do that to us youngsters.


yup, same here.

Um, what did I do to you exactly?
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But there you go. Just a case of the right song at exactly the right time i suppose.

And the right singer. Even if Freak Scene had been released a couple of years later as the whole wave broke, J Mascis would never have been on as many magazine covers and bedroom walls as Kurt.
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Um, what did I do to you exactly?
Reminded us that you were there and we weren't The time you discovered Nirvana in 89, I was shitting my pants and eating dirt.
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Yup, Nirvana seems to be the gateway band around these parts. For most people anyways...

Yeah, except for those of us who'd been into Sonic Youth for 3-4 years already when we first saw Nirvana in 1988...
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