Nirvana Song Called Best of Past 25 Years

AP (Via Yahoo) ^ | 06/10/03 | Christy Lemire

[F16Fighter]

"The best rock song in the past 25 years has to be 'Rock Lobster' by the B-52s..."

With all due respect to your opinion, the B-52s ought to be demolished by a cloud of real B-52s...

BTW, I'm still trying to figure out which planet Fred Schneider is from.

[habs4ever]

It is video friendly.It is from VH-1.

[cardinal4]

No Dead Heads here, huh?

[mr.pink]

...and the Clash "Should I Stay or Should I Go" would also be right up there.

LOL...I met the late great Joe Strummer in lower Manhattan one evening and told him to his face that I thought that song "flat out sucked" compared to their other work. He laughed and we had a great conversation.

Alhough "Smells like..." is not my favorite by Nirvana, it's a fair tribute for daggering the hair bands. I remember seeing an interview with one hair bander and he said the first time he saw that video he knew it was over.

[HHFi]

You have the "Gomer Sings" LP? A man after my own heart. You need to check this out: http://gimarc.com/Hollywood.html

[habs4ever]

Athens, Georgia...

[Notforprophet]

You're right about that, man. But those "head music" prog rock bands still sell millions of albums, with or without radio airplay.

NFP

[F16Fighter]

"Athens, Georgia..."

And isn't Michael Stipe from the same town?

Wonder what's in that water...

[Dan from Michigan]

No way, although I am very very biased against most grunge. They all sound like whiners that feel sorry for themselves to me and need an ass kicking. Where are the guitars, too?

Van Halen - Running with the Devil.
Ted Nugent - Fred Bear
Guns and Roses - Paradise City
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
Metallica - Seek and Destroy
Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills
Tom Petty - Quit Jammin me
Motley Crue - Looks that Kill
Pink Floyd - Anything off the Wall
ZZ Top - My Head's in Mississippi
Kid Rock - Devil without a cause(Goin' Plantnum)

[Dan from Michigan]

If it ain't got guitars, it's crap.

[Mr. Jeeves]

No mention of any Yes, what about Rush and Genesis? No Dream Theater?

Only a few of us know about those bands any more. We few, we happy few, we band of prog-rock brothers...

Right now for best song of the last 25 years I would pick "The Odyssey" by Symphony X, but I think some people's heads would explode when confronted with the existence of such music.

[Recovering_Democrat]

#1: STROKIN'
by Clarence Carter!

[Drew68]

It isn't an altogether good thing - neither band provided what is loosely termed a "role model" for young listeners

I've never wanted rock stars to be roll models. Rock stars should be outlaws. They should be angry and pissed off. They should be drunkards. The best rock and roll music has been made by drug addicts.

Keith Richards defines the rock star. Guns and Roses knew this.

[Drew68]

Guns and Roses

Guns N' Roses. I should know better!

IMHO, GNR was the best band of the 1980s-early 1990s. It should have been criminal for Axl Rose to decimate the band the way he did. The five of them together were an incredible talent.

[Pokey78]

BTW, I'm still trying to figure out which planet Fred Schneider is from.

Planet Claire. ;-D

[Drew68]

I remember seeing an interview with one hair bander and he said the first time he saw that video he knew it was over.

That would be Brett Michaels of Poison. Poison, incidentally, is currently touring decent-sized venues and making some bucks playing to the nostalgia crowd.

[Drew68]

87) The Who - Who Are You

What an outrage. "Won't Get Fooled Again" is on the same album (I'm pretty sure) and should have been in the top 25 --if not higher!

[garbanzo]

I'm not entirely sure why rock needs that element, but without it the whole becomes meaningless hedonism.

Somebody hasn't been their Camille Paglia readings...heh...apollonian (hair bands, post-Nirvana "alt" rock) vs. dionysian (Nirvana).