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Originally Posted by trackaghost
 Come on, no backtracking, you did say songs.
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!
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.
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.
I love you Paula |
Why the hostility?!
It could be that I'm a bit younger than you. I'm 26, so, when Nirvana was in their heyday, I was 11. So, they didn't define that decade for me. When I think about driving around with my friends in the car, we sang along to the songs I mentioned and not Beck or Radiohead. Beck is a little hard to sing along to. I didn't listen to hip-hop ever, so I can't really name anyone. I never liked anything I heard, although I did find Snow amusing.
As far as Pearl Jam goes, I was referring to airplay more than anything. I mean, Say You Will hit pretty high on the album charts, but both singles basically stalled. The last Pearl Jam song I can recall on the radio was "I Am Mine", which I REALLY liked. I wasn't aware of their new albums. They were never one of my favorites. I have Ten and that's about it for me.
I'm glad you found my list amusing, that's what I listened to during that decade. I'm not a Gen-X'er, so the 90's mean something different to me. I never listened to Phish or Radiohead or anything else like it. For the majority of the 90's, I listened to classical music only. It wasn't until 1998 that I even started listening to music with words!
Who are The Flaming Lips?
I was actually serious about asking for great guitar work by Neil Young. I posted that video because it was funny, so why get offended?
You're right, I don't keep up with the radio anymore. I hate the way it sounds. Too much compression and loudness effects ruin the purity of the sound and makes it hard to listen to. I end up with a headache. It sounds fake as opposed to CD. I mainly listen to talk radio or alternative music radio stations that play b-sides now. No doubt, someone is going to argue with me that the radio sounds great and CD''s have crappy sound. (sigh)