I knew who the Gallagher brothers were before I knew who Oasis were.

Man when I say influence I don't just mean "Gee that band sounds like Nirvana".

Nirvana changed the music industry. It open up the mainstream to all alternative bands "grunge" or not. It made record companies realise that the old formula for detemining the likely hood of success of a band had changed. It made kids think that they didn't have to be a guitar shredding guru to play in a successful rock band. It showed kids that guys in bands didn't have to be mucho, sleezy, ****heads.

You really think there's a difference in quality between Motley Crue & Nickleback?

F*ck it , i'd rather have Motley Crue , at least they were funny.

Not only that, but they had Dr. Feelgood. Nickelback, well, their best album (am I breaking a law by putting "Nickelback" and "best" in the same sentence?) is probably Silver Side Up. Pretty laughable in comparison, actually. :rofl:

Motley Crue's first few records were all pretty solid with the exception of Theatre of pain, which is somewhat debatable on whether it is viewed as a good record. Nickelback is decent but none of it is very memorable or stands out amongst what's out there in music. Then again, what the hell do I know?
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I think if people would listen to all of Silver Side Up and forget there previous bias they might actually enjoy it a some degree.

Songs like Hangnail, and Where Do i Hide which actually have pretty decent solo's.

(and yes im ready to be flamed)

meh they are both sh.it , I guess in certain situations sh.it can be funny.....it is still sh.it though.
I was not saying that all rock post nirvana was good, I was just saying that Nirvana did open things up for some very good bands.

metallica and nirvana are bands that were the first of their kind. metallica was too punk for the metal clubs and too metal for the punk clubs, so they combined the two and went big. as far as i know they were the first to do so on such a large scale. in the late 80s nearly all the good hair metal bands went soft and started writing ballads, and thats when nirvana came and kicked the sh*t out of all the puss ballad bands. it was something nobody had ever heard before.

so please understand that those 2 bands were the first of their kind and deserve more respect than you're putting out. modest mouse is also a good band but that's my opinion so i'll keep that to myself.

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I think you confused Metallica with Nirvana. Nirvana were the ones to mix metal with punk (i.e. grunge) that was what grunge was, a mixture of punk and metal. Metallica was always metal-esque and if memory serves me right.

that line i stole staight from a metallica documentary.:bonkhead: