I take the highlights and escape back into other genres. Mind you I have a library of approx 20,000 songs, so I listen to something for a while... listen to something else... listen to something else... listen to something else... then come back to the first playlist and it it sounds fresh again.

But my kids like them more than I ever did. Go figure.

loved them through my teen years, now all i can stand is unplugged and a few songs off incesticide.

I'm sure it was even worse because Nevermind was bad and that's the one they're remembered for.

In some sense, it feels like the music they'd have made if it were up to them; if they'd never hit it big and had to meet producer and fan expectations. Of their albums, it's the one that sounds the least like the classic Nirvana sound.

Part of the album is a more angry, hardcore sound than Nirvana fans would come to expect from their later albums. Songs like Downer, Scoff and School are straight-forward and brief, punctuated by their surf-thrash guitar riffs straight out of the California hardcore scene and played fast and angry over prominent repetitive bass lines. The lyrics are more angsty and anthemic but forgettable. This isn't a message, it's rage. They want to say something but it seems they don't know what it is.

The other half of the album is at-once a more layered harmonic sound. It sounds more like classical Nirvana but presents as a more complex sound than they'd ever show again, excepting some flashes on In Utero. Tracks like Floyd the Barber and Love Buzz show the actual talent of Cobain as a guitarist and Novoselic as a bassist as they overlay multiple layers of melodic riffs, often building to a crescendo from which it does the only thing it can do in the closing of the song: it collapses into chaos. The lyrics here are more repetitive and less significant but it passes because it's less about the content than the use of Cobain's voice as just one more instrument in the swirling mix. This sound is best captured in the one single from Bleach, About a Girl, a song they'd re-record on later albums and live albums. It's never as good as the Bleach version:

But when are they going to induct Warren Zevon into the HOF? A gross oversight, IMO.

but I love Dave Grohl/Foo Fighters/Probot/Them Crooked Vultures/anything else he does.

I quit trying to figure it out. I just enjoy what I like and ignore what I don't.

I don't think I like much of anything considered "grunge" but I love the Melvins who influenced a lot of grunge bands.

I just got rid of everything by the Melvins that was in my iTunes library. For some reason they just annoy me...

I can completely understand that. They got some flat-out weird stuff. For now I'm OK with the weird but I could imagine a time where I'm just like "WTF?" I get the same vibe from the Butthole Surfers and Swans. Some days I hear something come up in the random winamp playlist and I just get lost in it and sometimes it's just "Huh? skip>>..."

I do think they were incredibly influential and probably did about all they could given the genre's fondness for outsiders and garage grunge.

I'd already fallen hard for electronic music by then. I liked my music crisp and grunge sounded like it was recorded on instruments stuffed with insulation on analog equipment that needed to be cleaned with Everclear and q-tips.

Which is not a bad thing, but it got old pretty fast.

to pop music. Rap sealed the deal.