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Originally Posted by ajmccarrell

and I hate his songs because they're so darn cheesy!

Originally Posted by ajmccarrell

Okay, I was referring to "Rockin' in the Free World" and the Farm Aid stuff as cheesy, not the man's ENTIRE body of work.

Originally Posted by skcin

Thanks for the clarification. Quite a difference in saying "his songs are cheesy" vs. 'that one song is so cheesy."

Come on, no backtracking, you did say songs.

Originally Posted by ajmccarrell

The thing about Pearl Jam and Nirvana is fine, except look at where Pearl Jam is now. They're already another Live or some other forgotten band and they aren't on "best guitarist" lists anywhere. They are exactly where Nirvana would be now, except that Kurt Cobain died, so now he's the "greatest".

omg Yeah. Their last album (out in 2006) debuted at number two in the US Billboard charts. They've been constantly touring selling out big arena shows since the early 90s. Their Tom Petty/Pearl Jam double bill was one of the hottest tickets in the summer of 2006 in fact. Last year Eddie Vedder did the soundtrack to Into The Wild, receiving a Golden Globe nomination. They were on VH1 just last week performing alongside the likes of the Foo Fighters and The Flaming Lips in tribute to The Who. You're right no one remembers Pearl Jam anymore. Glad to see you keep up with current music!

Originally Posted by ajmccarrell

Nirvana basically defined a two year period between 1991 and 1992, music drifted a long way from that towards the end of the decade. After grunge, we got post-grunge, like Matchbox Twenty, Fastball and the Goo Goo Dolls, and also it was the beginning of this decade's R & B with TLC and Destiny's Child. We also had a lot of anti-commercial stuff like the New Radicals, Offspring, Blink-182, Stroke-9, Harvey Danger, Lit, and a lot of power pop like Natalie Imruglia, Vonda Shepard, Faith Hill, Celine Dion, etc. Jam bands also became popular like Dave Matthews, the Spin Doctors, and Blues Traveler. It was also the decade of the angry white female, with Alanis Morissette, Fiona Apple, Tori Amos and heck even the Spice Girls. We also saw the boy band era with NKTB, the BSB, N'Sync, Youngstown and even the Meaty Cheesy Boys. LOL! Not to mention, it was also the era of the comeback with the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac and anyone remember "Smooth" with Santana and Rob Thomas? We also had the angry poets like Smashing Pumpkins. There were also just plain great rock bands like Stone Temple Pilots, RHCP, Alice in Chains and many others. You can't really say that Nirvana defined the 90's because the sheer diversity of 90's music rivals only the 1960's. The majority of the 90's sound owes more to REM than it does Nirvana. Whereas in the 80's and today, your choices are pretty homogenous with what gets major label sponsorship.

I do admit I properly laughed out loud when I read your round-up of 90s music, it comes straight off a radio playlist like Paula said! I looked at her post and it said nowhere on it "please give me your roundup of 90s music and keep it to radio bands please as they are the only ones of any importance" Come on you could at the very least mentioned Radiohead, Beck, Missy Elliott or at least one hip hop act!

And The New Radicals were anti-commercial even though they had one of the biggest radio hits of the late 90s? I still hear that song on the radio to this day! Gregg Alexander the main guy in that band actually went on to be a pop songwriter working with ex-Spice Girls, Ronan Keating from Boyzone and Michelle Branch among others.
And Natalie Imbruglia and Vonda Shepherd were power pop? First I've heard of it! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_pop

Anyway to you Nirvana don't define anything, but to a lot of people they do define that decade. I remember the grunge scene so clearly and even though Nirvana were far from my favourite band of that period, they do represent the spirit, the ethos of that time. Their impact is huge, it basically made alternative mainstream and led the way for so many bands that made up the rest of the decade. And of course their demise brought us the Foo Fighters, who are one of the biggest rock bands out there today.

Originally Posted by ajmccarrell

Also, everyone kept saying how great Neil Young's playing was and I asked for a few songs that REALLY show his guitar skills and no one could give me one?!

What's the point? You clearly have you mind made up and would only ridicule anything suggested. The fact you looked on YouTube and found a parody clip put together by a fan (you could easily do one of those for Lindsey or many other guitarists) shows that you are more willing to believe a compilation put together for comedic effect that anything else.

Originally Posted by skcin

I noticed you only named popular acts at the time. Your list read like a "The Very Best of the 90's!" CD compilation.

I love you Paula