Highwayman

good.
but, Cunning... I'm disappointed. John Lennon's your avatar for crying out loud! He idolized Elvis!

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someonecompletelyrandom

That's pretty much my summation of this. I don't like hair metal, or any of the band's the guy listed as being "fun" rock music. I way prefer grunge music (which as a whole wasn't that great) to what came before it.

I think Nirvana were pretty brilliant actually.

But yeah... I'm pretty sure we've all reached a similar conclusion so time to let this bad boy die.

IWP

All I know is that the rock and metal scene in the 80s ****s on the rock scene in the 90s. Though I do like a few 90s bands (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, 311, Sublime, White Zombie). However, I do agree with the OP somewhat though that Nirvana did somewhat indirectly ruin rock music, not because grunge and 90s alternative music is bad per say (infact I do like quite a few grunge bands), but because of what it would influence later on. i.e post-grunge, nu metal, rap rock, and I'll even go as far as saying that they influenced mainstream emo/screamo which along with "crunk music" would lead to the worst abomination of all, Brokencyde.

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someonecompletelyrandom

wut...the fock.

What?the fock.

WHAT!?the fock.

How did Nirvana lead to nu-metal and rap rock? There are so many things wrong with that statement I want to pull my hair out.

IWP

Simply put, grunge influenced post-grunge which influenced nu metal and rap rock since most of those bands share the "Oh my whole life is horrible, **** everything" attitude. Bands from all three of those genres pretty much fed off of the cash of angsty teens and stupid douchebags who don't know **** about music. Not to mention all of the scene kids who worship Kurt Cobain just because he died.

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someonecompletelyrandom

So by that logic... Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles are all responsible for BrokenCyde. It's called progression. Jimi Hendrix influenced hordes of terrible music that dominated the charts. Punk was a backlash against that. Eventually there were reactions against punk, etc.

I could see maybe blaming Nirvana for post-grunge... but to blame Nirvana for what POST-GRUNGE INSPIRED?! You don't think that's going too far? Not to mention Nirvana didn't even invent "grunge" nor were they the only popular grunge act. Pearl Jam were arguable as popular and would've been as popular with or without Nirvana.

IWP

Strange, I don't remember saying anything about Nirvana inventing grunge, of course they didn't, and no **** they weren't the only popular grunge band, there was Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, L7, Stone Temple Pilots, I could go on. However, Nirvana did popularize grunge. Pearl Jam's Ten album actually came out before Nevermind, but it didn't chart until Nirvana became big. They probably would've still been popular, but I doubt that they along with the rest of the grunge bands would have been nearly as big if it weren't for Nirvana. I'm not trying to **** on grunge by saying that I dislike Nirvana, because I actually do like quite a few grunge bands. I just think Nirvana is extremely overrated.

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someonecompletelyrandom

Every band that's ever been as popular as Nirvana has influenced scores of horrible music. Like I said in my post above.

IWP

Well that's quite obvious. However it's a matter of taste, some bands that you consider horrible, I might enjoy, and vice versa.

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SATCHMO

When I saw this thread I thought that maybe it had resurfaced from five years ago, not three days ago.


Personally I blame Nintendo 64 and Monica Lewinski for the demise of modern music.