http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2002-2006 by the authors Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:33:59 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/06/23/063913.php#comment-397544 Thanks folks. Even though I've gotten out of my Nirvana phase, I'd still take them over the fighters of foo. EB, I was a straight top 40 kid. Which having grown up in the late 80s early 90s (I'm 30) meant lots of hair metal, pseudo rappers like Young MC, MC Hammer, and dance pop like Paula Abdul. When Nirvana hit I fell in love with the grunge/alternative scene. I loved Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, the Cure, Dinosaur Jr all that stuff. Now I much prefer acoustic guitars and horns to amped up metal. Nirvana is more nostalgia for me than anything else. Thanks aJ. I think I was a fanboy once, but again my tastes have gone in other directions in the ten odd years since Nevermind. ]]> 397544@blogcritics.org Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:33:59 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/06/23/063913.php#comment-397379 Very nice review, especially because it's a rather different perspective and not a fanboyish review :) ]]> 397379@blogcritics.org Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:41:50 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/06/23/063913.php#comment-397339 It's interesting to hear how people of "our" generation (young Gen X-ers, I suppose, I'm 32) came across Nirvana. It sounds as though your musical tastes and perhaps relative youth put you in a different place with regard to Nirvana as compared to me. I grew up listening to straight classic rock: Led Zep, Hendrix, Cream, Doors, Jefferson Airplane. The hair metal scene turned me off completely, particularly because assholes at my high school seemed to embody everything that was wrong about a band like Guns N Roses... or, more typical of the times, Winger or Firehouse or Cinderella. In any event, my "Beatles moment" came on a day I came home from high school, flipped on MTV, and saw the video for Smells Like Teen Spirit playing on the "buzz bin" (if I'm not mistaken). I was listening to something completely different, and I liked it a lot. I caught the In Utero tour in late '93 in Buffalo New York and it was one of the best live shows I've ever seen. ]]> 397339@blogcritics.org Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:39:03 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/06/23/063913.php#comment-397336 nice review sir brewster. i came to Nirvana sort of late in the game. didn't really love Nevermind all that much, but got hooked when i read an article about them and some of the subject matter on In Utero (especially the creepy "Scentless Apprentice"). then i went back and picked up Nevermind. alla that said, for some reason i still have more fun listening to The Foo Fighters. ]]> 397336@blogcritics.org Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:27:46 EDT