[spetznaz]

To be honest with you the whole Nirvana thing tears me up. Why? I abhor grunge and think it is a weird medley between the moaning of a social anxiety disorder induced moan and tomcats in heat screeching for the attention of a female cat (and with some scratchy guitar riffs reminiscent of sasquatch gurgles sounding in the background). And i will not even start on the attires grunge gave birth to (let it suffice to say that i lean toward GQ, hence dirty cargo pants really do not make my cup of tea).

However, with all that said, I love Nirvana! Yeah .....i even like David Grohl and the Foo Fighters (and there is a song by the Queens of the Stone Age that i even like). In essence Nirvana and Nirvana-esque stuff (as long as it is directly related to them ....hence wannabe bands get tossed out).

Ay caramba!

[cyborg]

I used to listen to 'woe is me, I'm wearing black and I cut myself' music. Eh...it was okay for a while but it did get annoying after a while LOL.

[weegee]

See the movie "Hype" about the Seattle music scene in the 1990s. Grunge "fashion" was a hoax but it came with the "crediblity" that gave the corporations something to market.

Poison 13 was another little ol' band from Texas (Austin). They put out several albums and had a quality that spawned immitators. They were a departure from the speed metal thrashcore sounds of the mid-1980s punk scene. Everything slowed down.

They covered blues songs, 70s punk, drunken party songs from the 1960s, etc. Everything from Joy Division to the Troggs, Richard Hell to Suzi Quatro, the Sonics to Buffy St Marie,

Sub Pop considered them enough of an influence on grunge that they issued a best of compilation.

1. One Step Closer
2. Seventh Son
3. My Biggest Mistake
4. Spoonful
5. Out on the Streets
6. Big City Lights
7. Die For Me
8. Codine
9. Grip on My Heart
10. Justice
11. When I Was Young
12. Blank Generation
13. Hellbound Train
14. First You Dream, And Then You Die
15. Strange Movies
16. Can't Cry
17. Parchment Farm
18. She's the One That's Got It
19. What a Way to Die
20. I'm Dangerous Tonight
21. Love Me
22. Strychnine
23. Warsaw

Rumor has it that Monkeywrench was formed to record more Poison 13 songs (even though the bands don't really sound the same at all). Monkeywrench is sort of a grunge supergroup.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I agree - altho I don't like Nirvana, either.

I'm just a pop chick. And that goes for all decades, whatever's actually popular (and not the fringe stuff all the special people on the 'net make seem were the norm these days), I probably liked it.

If you can't dance to it, I don't wanna hear it. I don't care if you think it's cheesy or nerdy or geeky or "gay", if it's danceable in any possible way, I will probably like it. 1 of the reasons I like country, too. People *actually* dance in country places.