Trollheart

Ah, but you have come a long way, Grasshopper. And I'm betting you're younger than our Nick.
Bolded: this is not a sentence.
Let me help you. You could have said
a) In my personal opinion, Nirvana is ****
b) Personally, I think Nirvana is ****
c) Niravana is ****, in my personal opinion
d) I think Nirvana is ****
and many more.
Try to write in English if you can please. It really helps ameliorate your rants. Well, it doesn't, but at least it makes them halfway understandable.

No, he's right. Have you seen any cliffs recently? Basalt? Gimme a break! Back when I were a lad it were granite and I didn't hear nobody complainin'! Bloody new age stone! Not worth a ****.

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Black Francis

I think i am. I was part of that new generation that enjoyed grunge and ruined music for Nick.

By my name you can assume i prefer The Pixies over Nirvana but it was Nirvana that lead me to them and that's because Kurt often cited and praised his influences. Listen to his interviews and you'll hear him say there are better bands out there than Nirvana. It's true that they were popular af but Kurt knew Nirvana was just another band and when they were making In Utero he said "I think this album is gonna alienate some fans" cause in way he wanted to weed out all the poseurs that jumped on the Teen Spirit bandwagon. I think Kurt wanted to be a rockstar but not the most famous rockstar. Just because his fanboys thought he was the 2nd coming of Jesus that doesn't mean he himself thought that.

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Neapolitan

I thought after Rock put away its Maybelline make-up kit, hair spray, and platform boots Rock got interesting again. Take a 13 minute challenge. If these songs don't blow your socks off, then it's all hopeless. There is no convincing a true devoted Hair Metal fan, I guess.

Babes In Toyland - "Bruise Violet"


The Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock


Hum - Stars

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MicShazam

And if yo happen to think of "real rock" as something more sleazy and 80's inspired, then Sweden, for some reason, has been overflowing with bands like this for the last 10 years or more - especially of the sort of metalized, hard rock variety:



Throw a dart in Sweden and you're likely to hit a member of a hard rock band.

Nick1976

I wish Heavy Metal songs could be top 10 hits on the Hot 100 again played along with the pop and rap songs on radio stations. I just wish that rock/metal ruled the world again. Metal's glory years were 1980-1992. I'm a big fan of those years in Metal .'Hair Metal' was SOOO huge that top 10 Billboard charts and MTV most requested videos we're metal almost top to bottom for a few years. That's why I pick up Hair metal over Grunge. I never liked music only to be depressing, pessimist or dull. Never been a fan or existentialism in music

Of course "serious" magazines and bull**** judgements by the comitee (Rolling Stone and others) media only pick up music to depress like indie, grunge, punk, etc

Give me Kiss over Sex Pistols, give me Bon Jovi over The Cure, Def Leppard over Nirvana, Poison over Pixies, Guns n Roses over Sonic Youth, etc. For me the late 80s/early 90s were a great time to be a metal fan. I think it was a lot of fun, got our fists pumping and blood flowing...unlike grunge that came after it, with it's gloomy outlook on life. People can laugh at the haircuts, videos, outfits, lyrics and album covers and the banality of power chords but there was a reason why this stuff was popular - it had some fine hooks, riffs and great singers. How I originally got into metal was through my cousin giving me Motley Crue's "Shout at the Devil" and Metallica's "Ride the Lightning" when I was a youngin in 1985. Also Bon Jovi's "Slippery When Wet" made a huge impact on me. I was deeply into it in my teens,lived the sex ,drugs and rock and roll lifestyle during those years with metal being the soundtrack of said years. You can't just listen to metal as background, like with most other music. With background music it doesn't really matter what is playing, while with metal you actually listen to it and if you like it you will keep going back to it and wanting more and more. After 1994 I found it harder to get excited about newer metal bands. I still love and listen to the older 80's and early 90's metal.

The Batlord

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Nick1976

good old days https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U5IhEAFGwQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA452WYvo-M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8MO7fkZc5o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqQn2ADZE1A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSFvK4Pzasg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tymWpEU8wpM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0J7XnbUN5o

Trollheart

We'd never have guessed, from your previous posts.
* committee
Also, punk? Depressive? Surely the most energetic music you can think of?
You want to commit genocide on the faery race?
Listen, I love Bon Jovi, but in no way, shape or form are they metal. Hard rock at best, pop rock in reality.

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No one is laughing at Power chords. Jesus, weren't you just bashing Cobain for rinky dink powerchords? So power chords are only ok when it's used by Hair Metal?

Black Francis

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