Greg!

[dissention]

Originally Posted by GateandGarden

Is this including Geri? 'Cause they're nothing without Geri.

Yes, with Geri.

[GateandGarden]

Originally Posted by dissention

Yes, with Geri.

Well, that's something. I mean, they still can't sing but they're no worse than those Backstreet Boys and they actually made a comeback.

[ontheEdgeof17]

Originally Posted by GateandGarden

Well, that's something. I mean, they still can't sing but they're no worse than those Backstreet Boys and they actually made a comeback.

I like both of these groups. You should thank them for leading us out of the grunge era.......

....but that lead into the TRL era. (Which is still better to me)

[dissention]

Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

I like both of these groups. You should thank them for leading us out of the grunge era.......

....but that lead into the TRL era. (Which is still better to me)

Fech, grunge was over by '96, thankfully. Flannel shirts are a crime against humanity.

[amber]

Originally Posted by dissention

Fech, grunge was over by '96, thankfully. Flannel shirts are a crime against humanity.

to my brother in grunge hate.
And, BTW, I think the spice girls are nothing without...scary spice. Mel.

[dissention]

Originally Posted by amber

to my brother in grunge hate.
And, BTW, I think the spice girls are nothing without...scary spice. Mel.

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

thanks for that - I feel redeemed and vindicated because I have been saying that for years. I mean on a farm - maybe. At SFA

Flannel shirts make me see stars and vomit. I mean, they are just so fugly that even the words fugly or whoreanus are understatements when applied to them. You know you're in the presence of someone who must dress in the dark if they're wearing one of those bastards.

And the music is just as wretched. I fail to see the big whoop-de-doo over Kurt Cobain. His music was obnoxious to the Nth degree.

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by dissention

Flannel shirts make me see stars and vomit. I mean, they are just so fugly that even the words fugly or whoreanus are understatements when applied to them. You know you're in the presence of someone who must dress in the dark if they're wearing one of those bastards.

And the music is just as wretched. I fail to see the big whoop-de-doo over Kurt Cobain. His music was obnoxious to the Nth degree.

I like some of it. I also thought the band with the bee girl deserved to be exhalted just for that brilliance

[amber]

Originally Posted by dissention

Flannel shirts make me see stars and vomit. I mean, they are just so fugly that even the words fugly or whoreanus are understatements when applied to them. You know you're in the presence of someone who must dress in the dark if they're wearing one of those bastards.

And the music is just as wretched. I fail to see the big whoop-de-doo over Kurt Cobain. His music was obnoxious to the Nth degree.

I "did" the clothes for a minute, until I realized I looked ugly... Never, ever, ever, did I "do" the music, though. That's the time when I first turned heavily to Mac. Unfortunately the "new" purchases that started that out was "Timespace" and "Street Angel"...

[ontheEdgeof17]

Originally Posted by dissention

Fech, grunge was over by '96, thankfully.

Exactly....when these groups emerged.

Wow. That was a long time ago.

[dissention]

Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

Exactly....when these groups emerged.

Wow. That was a long time ago.

Backstreet Boys ain't that old!

[ontheEdgeof17]

Originally Posted by dissention

Backstreet Boys ain't that old!

Just about. They been together almost 9 years.

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by dissention

. . . Flannel shirts are a crime against humanity.

thanks for that - I feel redeemed and vindicated because I have been saying that for years. I mean on a farm - maybe. At SFA

[GateandGarden]

Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

I like both of these groups. You should thank them for leading us out of the grunge era.......

....but that lead into the TRL era. (Which is still better to me)

I don't like grunge either but I have this thing about groups/artists with no vocal/songwriting skills. None of those people can carry a tune in a bucket and whenever I think about that I get all angry (just like I do when I think of Britney) because those people got money for no talent and there are so many talented singers who aren't rolling in it like they are. Like I said in another thread, I'd like to give all of Britney's money to Mikki because she's SO much more talented.

It's one of those things in life I take too seriously, which is almost everything. Of course, I had the Spice Girls' first two CDs and the Backstreet Boys' second two. I wasn't immune to the appeal of either group at the time. I liked the catchy tunes but now I can't take the lack of talent.

[/end pointless rant]

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

I like both of these groups. You should thank them for leading us out of the grunge era.......

....but that lead into the TRL era. (Which is still better to me)

See, I'm more of the ilk that wants to flip 'em the bird for that. Love it or hate it, at least the grunge artists actually wrote all of their own material AND played their own instruments! Nirvana especially gave rock a much needed kick in the ass. But, I live in Dayton, which is home to one of the big groups of the grunge/alternative era, the Breeders. I graduated from high school in 1993 and started college a few months later, so this musical movement was really all the more significant for me. Good times. BTW, the movement was ending more like in 1994, with the onset of Sheryl Crowe, Hootie & The Blowfish, and Dave Matthews, to name a few, and with the death of Kurt Cobain. But, honestly, by 1995 I really stopped paying attention to popular music altogether.

[amber]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

AND played their own instruments!

I would use the phrase "played instruments" in only the very, very, loosest sense.