Amy Grant is super nice. Like, amazingly stunningly nice.
― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
some folks here in need of a raggetting
― lynndie englisher (country matters), Monday, July 6, 2009 4:55 PM (1 hour ago)
otm. loveless DOES have huge hooks and lots of them, but i'm not entirely sure that's even the point
xp
nirvana begat stp who begat creed who begat all the other horrible constipation rock that gets played ad nauseum on the radio. there is definitely a line from nirvana to nickleback.
― scott seward, Monday, July 6, 2009 6:05 PM (4 minutes ago)
alright but so what, MBV gave rise to a bunch of shitty indie all around us presently. i'm not gonna go to perry-length challops and say nickelback arent god-awful, but it's not like everyone influenced by MBV is any good at all
― unbandictionary (k3vin k.), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't care if bands rip off other bands till the cows come home! as long as they have something of their own to bring to the table. like a good song. jack white just reminded me of the pixies and the gun club and lots of other people, but he had some catchy tunes. thus, i allowed him to live.
― scott seward, Monday, 6 July 2009 22:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Voted for Nevermind. I listened to bad Robyn Hitchcock instead of Teenage Fanclub in 1991, and didn't discover Loveless until six years later. I'm amazed that I knew Inspiral Carpets, Blur, Slowdive, etc and heard no MBV at all.
― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link
and to be inundated by dreary bands who ripped off nirvana but who didn't have the talent of nirvana and to hear their horrible moaning for a decade or more is a bit much, thanks. a thousand shitty bands who ripped off unplugged nirvana at that!
― scott seward, Monday, 6 July 2009 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm not hating on Amy Grant.. I know the album well and I appreciate its strong yet timely production values and songwriting, and she's an ok singer, but I was 11 years old at the time and I listened to practically anything my parents brought home.. In 2009 I'm throwing on this CD for nothing more than memories and laughs, as contemporary Christian music normally is not something I can stomach.
― billstevejim, Monday, 6 July 2009 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
strong yet timely production values and songwriting
could say this about Nevermind tbh.
― the shock will be coupled with the need to dance (jim), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't care if bands rip off other bands till the cows come home!
But that's 'cause you like the Cows, Scott! You even said so upthread.
New Nickelback single "Burn It To The Ground" is actually fun (rocking "Children Of The Grave" groove and dorky lyrics about having no shirt or class and all), fwiw. (Though obviously I'm just trying to be "cool" and "subversive" for saying so, right.) Don't think I've liked any previous single by them that much, though.
― xhuxk, Monday, 6 July 2009 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone ensconced in the Christian pop scene at the time, can you describe the furor over Amy Grant going secular? As devastating or as pivotal as Dixie Chicks rejecting Bush?
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 6 July 2009 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Right now I'd rather put up with a hundred Heart in Motion clones.
― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Also: if I didn't know one jot about Amy Grant's beliefs, I wouldn't peg HIM as Christian rock.
― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I listened to bad Robyn Hitchcock instead of Teenage Fanclub in 1991
Perspex Island > Bandwagonesque
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 6 July 2009 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I still own that one!
― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link
I wouldn't peg HIM as Christian rock
Actually, I think they're more goth.
― xhuxk, Monday, 6 July 2009 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link
xhuxk, wasn't so much complaining about you including that album as that it was mentioned in the 2 posts that followed.. Out of all the albums you mentioned.. I like your list.
― billstevejim, Monday, 6 July 2009 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm trying to remember what my favorite albums were in 1991. Have a feeling that what I liked most wasn't anything that had come out that year. Vaguely remember a number of things by bands/musicians I liked coming out that year that were all kinda disappointing -- Out of Time, some Morrissey album, the Ministry album mentioned upthread ...
― incomprehensible Kool-Aid swallower (sarahel), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:30 (fourteen years ago) link
SERIOUSLY can we talk about Yerself Is Steam a bit more here?
― thank you, flipper, for nickelback (country matters), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
"Amy Grant is super nice. Like, amazingly stunningly nice."
i think she's sexy too! in that nice wholesome clean white teeth kinda way.
― scott seward, Monday, 6 July 2009 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link
has anyone mentioned this album yet?
http://www.touchandgorecords.com/images/catalog/fullsize/277-1.jpg
― Michael B, Monday, 6 July 2009 22:36 (fourteen years ago) link
"Also: if I didn't know one jot about Amy Grant's beliefs, I wouldn't peg HIM as Christian rock."Probably why they were so upset then, if that's the one she went secular on.
"i think she's sexy too! in that nice wholesome clean white teeth kinda way."http://www.worthprotectionsecurity.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/orbit-gum-girl-7264701.jpgwho would win?
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 6 July 2009 22:37 (fourteen years ago) link
nirvana begat so much, so many bands that don't even sound a bit like nirvana...so many kids picked up guitars because of them, friends i know that play electronic music now, or black metal, or weird psych or all kinds of shit...
― bodyguard/publicist Tank (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I voted for Bandwagonesque because I think it will lose anyway.
― billstevejim, Monday, 6 July 2009 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link
No snark intended: what about Nirvana inspired so many bands to pick up guitars? The Pixies and Jane's Addiction were having gold records and lots of college hits. Was it Nirvana's multiplatinum that did it?
― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes.
― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure Motley Crue etc. inspired lots of people to pick up guitars, too.
― xhuxk, Monday, 6 July 2009 22:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Sure, but by and large the bands they started sounded like Motley Crue; also I don't know that MC was as across the board successful as Nirvana was. (Not saying they weren't; I don't know if they were or not.)
― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:52 (fourteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Monday, July 6, 2009 10:50 PM (2 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah no shit but skot was acting like all nirvana spawned was post grunge shit like nickelback and creed
here's a perfect example i found - jay reatard....
Memphis-based punk rock juggernaut Jay Reatard has adopted a fistful of musical approaches since he first began recording in his bedroom, writing and recording frantic punk, synth punk, power pop and straightforward rock & roll tunes at a frantic pace since releasing his debut EP in 1998. Reatard was born Jay Lindsey and dropped out of school when he was 15, owing to boredom with conventional education and a problematic home life. Lindsey became interested in rock & roll when he heard Nirvana via MTV, and in his mid-teens he began writing songs. After seeing Memphis punk blues legends the Oblivians open for Rocket from the Crypt, Lindsey was inspired to try something similar and created the Reatards, which initially was just Lindsey, who sang, played guitar, and beat on a bucket with a stick for the benefit of his four-track cassette machine.
[i]Could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure Motley Crue etc. inspired lots of people to pick up guitars, too.
― xhuxk, Monday, July 6, 2009 10:50 PM (2 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink</i
― bodyguard/publicist Tank (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:53 (fourteen years ago) link
xhuxk you were like getting big black 7 inches sent to you in the mail for free, you don't know the impact nirvana had to kids in 91 in small towns, pre-Internet
― bodyguard/publicist Tank (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:54 (fourteen years ago) link
"yeah no shit but skot was acting like all nirvana spawned was post grunge shit like nickelback and creed"
i'm saying that all the stuff that i actually HEAR is the shitty stuff. like, on the radio.
― scott seward, Monday, 6 July 2009 22:57 (fourteen years ago) link
thing is that probably 90% of the kids who were got into alt-rock/grunge/indie/etc after Nevermind loved Crue or GNR or Metallica or Def Leppard or Aerosmith and might've gone into rock at some point anyway before that stuff gave them a particular direction to go in that might've been a little more DIY and seemingly open to anyone who wanted to try.
― Soulja Boy Pato (some dude), Monday, 6 July 2009 22:58 (fourteen years ago) link
amy grant paved the way for creed more than nirvana, I'm guessing. how many christian acts successfully crossed over before her?
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 6 July 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
kurt talking about shit like vaselines and raincoats and meat puppets and etc etc i think was just as important as nirvana's music
― bodyguard/publicist Tank (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 6 July 2009 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
by and large the bands they started sounded like Motley Crue
xp Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if tons of people in '90s grunge and death metal and rap-rock and industrial and pop-punk and pop-country bands started out covering bands like the Crue and Poison etc. So I'm not sure about "sounded like" part.
Crue (who I don't even like much btw) had a #6 LP in 1985, a #2 in 1987, a #1 in 1989, and a #2 best-of in 1991. So they obviously sold pretty well, though right, Nirvana may have outsold them overall. Less certain Nirvana outsold Guns N Roses or Def Leppard or Bon Jovi, though. (Not denying Nirvana were influential, obviously; they were hugely influential. Just saying they're hardly alone in that.)
― xhuxk, Monday, 6 July 2009 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah totally -- I wasn't that into Nirvana and actually liked Pearl Jam more, but KC totally pointed me toward SY, Meat Puppets, etc. and that was in itself a huge deal for me.
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― Soulja Boy Pato (some dude), Monday, 6 July 2009 23:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Motley Crue, Pearl Jam, and GNR all outsold Nirvana.
― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 July 2009 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
imo there's a certain plateau at which sales don't really matter that much -- like those bands all sold more than 5 or 10 million, they all permeated the monoculture so let's just talk about what kind of different impacts they made instead of just comparing numbers.
― Soulja Boy Pato (some dude), Monday, 6 July 2009 23:09 (fourteen years ago) link
xp I mean, the biggest recent hit cover of a Motley Crue song was by Carrie Underwood, who doesn't exactly play the same kind of music. Most widely herd recent Def Leppard covers have been by Taylor Swift.
― xhuxk, Monday, 6 July 2009 23:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Eddie Vedder played Sonic Youth, Slant 6, and Klark Kent on his Pearl Jam "pirate" radio show. Then Jeff Ament or somebody busted out some Outkast. Later Eddie played some Foo Fighter demos and talked about Ms magazine.
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 6 July 2009 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe loveless would be a better album if there were more stuff on it like the b-side of "only shallow" ("sugar" if i'm remembering correctly?), straightforward, dreamy, and hooky, instead of the monochrome jet engine guitar thing blasting all over the place
― kamerad, Monday, 6 July 2009 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
monochrome jet engine guitar thing blasting all over the place
you do get that this is exactly why ppl like it so much, right
― her performance (ie, her pubes) stood out for me (HI DERE), Monday, 6 July 2009 23:19 (fourteen years ago) link
mudhoney peter fonda biker sample intro beats everything primal scream ever did.
even Primal Scream's Peter Fonda biker sample intro?
― Matos W.K., Monday, 6 July 2009 23:23 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^yeah I didn't get that either. like, its cool when one band does it, but terrible when another band does the exact same thing? does not compute
― And the biggest self of self is, indeed, self (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 July 2009 23:27 (fourteen years ago) link
doesn't have to happen every song, is what i'm saying. there are dynamic shifts on nevermind loveless lacks in comparison
― kamerad, Monday, 6 July 2009 23:32 (fourteen years ago) link
The not-so-dissimilar production choices on Loveless and Nevermind were more influential than the songs: the aqueous, briny-rich of the former (Smashing Pumpkins), the quartz-hard thickness of the latter (Sonic Youth, Garbage). At a certain point both sounds converge and turn into goth again.
― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 July 2009 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Neither as cool as when Genesis P. did it on Jack the Tab.
The "neither as cool" bit was a joke by the way [/ILM]
― Bearsport Cockvention (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 July 2009 23:37 (fourteen years ago) link
― Philip Nunez, Monday, July 6, 2009 7:15 PM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
oh man i thought those 'self-pollution radio' specials were the coolest thing ever when i was 13
― Soulja Boy Pato (some dude), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 00:07 (fourteen years ago) link
"even Primal Scream's Peter Fonda biker sample intro?"
yes! the way they used it sucked!
― scott seward, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 00:13 (fourteen years ago) link
scott do you not at least like "burning wheel" or "accelerator"? both those songs bang massively imo
― thank you, flipper, for nickelback (country matters), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 00:15 (fourteen years ago) link
"shoot speed kill light"?
were there really all these kids blindly and sadly listening to cinderella and bon jovi until nirvana showed up? all this "vast pre-internet wasteland" talk. didn't anyone have mtv or access to spin magazine at the very least in 1991? didn't even really lame mall stores carry sst records? or was there no desire to explore other avenues until teen spirit was shoved down the throats of nirvana converts?
i feel like people romanticize this band a weeeeeeeeee too much sometimes.
i get the love. don't get me wrong. and i believe they changed people's lives and all that. but you would have to be living in a pretty deep hole in 1991 to not be at least a little bit aware of alt-rock in general.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 00:22 (fourteen years ago) link