Not even close.
I'm not disagreeing that the whole Grunge label was just media hype. But rather I disagree (strongly) with him saying the music sucked, and for dissing The Smashing Pumpkins who are one of my favorite bands. Nothing I haven't heard from Urban before, I just get rather tired of him talking trash about 95% of the music I like.
And saying "Pearl Jam used to be a hair metal band" is just a pathetic distortion of the truth. PJ originated from 2 different bands, Green River and Mother Love Bone, and the former certainly weren't hair metal and the latter while looking like they were trying to be GnR didn't really have a sound that I would call hair metal. Besides the only guys from that band who joined PJ were Gossard and Ament. I mean give me a break, who even cares what band PJs bassist and rhythm guitarist used to play for?
Bush certainly do suck though, I won't argue that.
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