Yep! You are going into my foes list.Choujin Daizenshuu wrote:As someone who was forced to listen to Nirvana all throughout elementary to high school, I just never saw their appeal. I never saw Cobain's band as being a masterful mixer of alt-rock, punk rock, heavy metal and pop. I just saw them as incessant screamers that just lucked out on a record deal because the record companies wanted to shift direction in the industry and because of that, every last amateur felt they can succeed in getting a CD deal just by screaming into the mike and backing it up with drums and guitar rhythms. If you want to talk punk music, bands like The Ramones and The Sex Pistols had Nirvana beat by a good decade and they at least provided some catchy good rhythms and vocals that you one can recite in the open.Yuli Ban wrote:In another thread, I compared it to heavy metal band Black Sabbath for the same reasons, just to show how hitting all three can essentially allow you to take over the world. This time, I'll use Nirvana.
How did Nirvana get so huge considering there were other alt-rock and punk bands who did what they did many times better? Because they hit it off at the perfect possible time by combing loads of different worlds and weren't poppy and jangly like most post-C86 indie bands nor were they inaccessibly heavy and challenging like the Melvins. They were poppy themselves, but they were also heavy. REM and Jane's Addiction did the fuzzy guitars before them, but that was in the '80s. We were still into hair metal party anthems and love ballads, so we weren't yet tired of the status quo and looking for something new. Something like Nirvana could never have taken off in 1986. And they were able to work by combining alt-rock, punk rock, heavy metal, and pop into one package while selling it as punk and playing it with more energy than most metal bands. And through that method, they were able to get on pop radio. Interestingly, they first broke through on Headbanger's Ball, but that was enough to infect the airwaves. Metalheads who would never have gotten caught dead listening to punk were now listening to Nirvana. Punks and hipsters who thought metal was all caveman guitar pop or thrashing nonsense suddenly found themselves enthralled by the heavy guitars and thrashing drums. Because they didn't sound like anyone else and record labels loved them, they quickly earned many copy-cats. They didn't follow trends— they started them, and thus fundamentally altered the direction of rock and pop music for the next 27 years going.
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