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IrishBuckeye Donating Member (336 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 11:18 PM
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Nirvana knocked Michael Jackson out of the top spot on the Billboard 200 chart in 1992
I always loved the fact that Nirvana (my favorite band as a young teenager) knocked the King of PoP's Dangerous album off the #1 billboard spot with their album Nevermind in 1992. But less than 10 year earlier I was rocking the MJ stickers and still remember watching the making of Thriller with the fam and I made sure that I was around to catch the premier of the "Black or White" music video after a Simpsons episode in 1991. Hey maybe Kurt and MJ can collaborate on something if that kind of thing happens after death...
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paulsby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 11:27 PM
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1. at risk of being flamed
i think nirvana is wildly overrated and has not stood the test of time.

and i really LIKE that genre of music. i grew up with ramones, dead kennedys, fishbone, adolescents, social distortion, the damned, the misfits, the jam, etc.

i like the fact that nirvana reinvigorated rock, but as a band... meh

i find it sad that i usually change the channel when nirvana comes on the radio. it just does NOT stand the test imo.

and i live in frigging seattle for pete's sake!
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inthebrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 11:31 PM
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3. Most likely cause your sick of em
I feel the same way about the Ramones have grown up in NY.

Location might have a thing to do with it.
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paulsby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 11:37 PM
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6. the ramones?
well THAT"s sacrilege!

i quote anthony bourdain... greatest ... band... ever

:)
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IrishBuckeye Donating Member (336 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 11:43 PM
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7. I enjoy their unplugged album the most these days (minus all apologies)
Nirvanas raw feel and misdirection gave kids like me with "teen agnst" some direction. Don't get me wrong I loved the music then (and still do) but looking back that was just part of the greater experience that was Nirvana.
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paulsby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 11:53 PM
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8. i do think that was a good unplugged
i also liked the fact that they used Pat Smear on guitar

here's a fun fact.

pat smear used to play with the germs. the germs ORIGINAL drummer was BELINDA CARLISLE, playing as "dottie danger"
.
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-26-09 07:05 AM
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11. No flames, just disagreement. I think their music has held up very well.
My teenage sons have them on their Ipods, in fact. I will always remember the first time I heard and saw the video for "Teen Spirit"--I was about twenty, and it was like rain finally falling on the desert, musically (feel the same about Pearl Jam--their stuff has held up too). And, they killed 80's hair-band "metal". That's an awesome legacy.
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frylock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-26-09 02:00 PM
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13. i still think that the nevermind album is one of the greatest all-time..
despite it's signaling the death knell for the Seattle music scene, which Pearl Jam effectively killed off. the first five songs on that joint are incredible.
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inthebrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 11:29 PM
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2. Eddie Vedder has to be devastated
strangely enough he calls MJ one of his influences.

"Rats" was a tribute to him.
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Oregone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 11:31 PM
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4. I thought Rats was a tribute to capitalistic America
shows how much I know
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inthebrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-25-09 11:35 PM
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5. I think MJ was in some movie called "Ben" or something
The chorus in the song is taken from a MJ song.

Really strange, eh?

EV mentions living in a group for a time and discovering Jackson there. Weird stuff.
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Merlot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-26-09 12:07 AM
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9. MJ sang the theme song to Ben, and it was very famous
Might have won or was nominated for an Oscar.
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NoQuarter Donating Member (532 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-26-09 12:19 AM
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10. Oscar nomination (1972)
Edited on Fri Jun-26-09 12:20 AM by NoQuarter
was for the songwriters: Walter Scharf (music) and Don Black (lyrics)
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JackRiddler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-26-09 02:07 PM
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14. "Ben"? The movie about the rat? The sequel to "Willard"?
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inthebrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-26-09 05:03 PM
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16. Never saw the movie
Alls I know is that it was about a Rat.

From Wiki

The band Pearl Jam makes a reference to the song "Ben" on their 1993 album Vs. on the song "Rats", with the line "Ben, the two of us need look no more" repeated several times at the end the track.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_(song)
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JackRiddler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-26-09 05:15 PM
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17. Yup. Totally spooked me as a child - the first one, "Willard" that is.
He was a lonely guy who made friends with intelligent rats and set them on his various nemeses. The lead rat, Ben, escaped for a sequel in which he helped a lonely child recovering from open-heart surgery, which of course warmed all of ours.

;)
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ellie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-26-09 07:54 AM
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12. Love Nirvana!
I am going to listen to Negative Creep right now.
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-26-09 02:13 PM
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15. In that era, those into Nirvana were immediate, recognizable...
...as where the MJ crowd represented something completely alien and unwanted within the social circles I ran in - that was like pussy disco music for the shopping mall and jock crowd. Doesn't mean that's how it actually was in any absolute sense, of course. But generally I think it's fairly accurate of youth culture at that time ...at least for how it was for myself, the bar bands i played in, people I knew, circles I ran in. There weren't any MJ fans.
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girl gone mad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-26-09 05:17 PM
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18. :)
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