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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Nirvana and grunge in general provided a much needed musical douching of late 80s hairband crap.  [/b]Yeah there were fun songs here and there, but it all became a parody of itself with hits like Cherry Pie, Unskinny Bop, dirty rotten filthy stinking rich etc[/quote]

It's so interesting when people say they think Nirvana is overrated or they and their friends didn't like the song...I don't think that's what is meant by a song that is definitive for a generation.

[i]Nevermind[/i] CLEARLY resonated with people when it came out. Yes, the music industry was different then and the industry pushed it...AND people bought it. The record industry has pushed many things that people have said 'no thanks' to. [/quote]

Yawn. It wasn’t organically popular with mass appeal. Nirvana and that genre was astroturfed suicidal crap from Seattle junkies shoved down flyover state’s throat by a handful of media conglomerates.[/quote]

You do realize… Correct that you probably don’t… That Dave Grohl was a part of Nirvana. And he has achieved an extreme amount of success. Not just Foo Fighters , he’s a successful producer and collaborator. But FF tours all year. 60 shows a year, filling arenas. Year afree year. And the tickets aren’t cheap.

You can say these bands are foisted  upon us, but the fact is traditional record studios and the 50 year old men who were running them at the time had no idea what they were dealing with - the stuff coming out of Seattle and the like were so different than what was popular in the 80s.

For what it’s worth I wasn’t into Nirvana and some of those other bands, but I can at least acknowledge their popularity was organic and some things that they did shaped and changed the genre and pushed it in a different direction. [/quote]

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