Am I Really The Only One?

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Hence the alternative metal?

I don't see how who they went on tour with varies directly with what genre they are.

Helmet has influenced the likes of System of a Down and other current artists.


Heavy grunge?

They are grunge, but they are also heavy metal and alternative metal



You talk like there's shame in being labeled metal. If they aren't metal, what are they? Enlighten me.
 
Actually it was the other way around.

It was Blur who were hyped to death. Blur were from London and were middle class. The people who worked for the NME & Melody Maker were from London and middle class. The last thing they wanted was a bunch of northern working class oiks muscling in. Most of the Oasis hype came from Noel & Liams mouths.
Blur were the media darlings , while Oasis were the people's favourite.

The whole Blur vs Oasis thing was all down to Damon Albarn & his buddy Steve Sutherland who just happened to be the editor of the NME. They thought they could sell more papers & recorRAB by instigating the whole thing. It was Blur who moved release dates so that their stuff would come out the same day as Oasis.
Sadly it backfired on them badly , Blur released easily their worst album ever in The Great Escape while Oasis went on to become the biggest selling British band in the UK ever and have 10% of the entire population of the UK apply for tickets to their 2 Knebworth gigs.

These days Albarn refuses to even discuss what happened during that whole time while Noel just laughs about it. Which for me says everything.
 
Band's who achieve a certain amount of success will always garner an overated tag. In the case of Metallica I agree a little. I listen to lots of Metal banRAB instead of them, yet growing up they were my favourite band for a few years. As for banRAB like Nirvana and Oasis, their albums hit at the right time regarding the populace although Bleach is far superior to Nevermind IMO.
 
Do you have the attention span of a goldfish or something?

Rezz was comparing the two banRAB popularity and I pointed out just how popular Oasis were and that it was probably more than what he gave them credit for THATS ALL.

If you bother to actually read the thread instead of trying to point score you might see this.
 
Man, there is a ton of Modest Mouse hate here. Have you guys listened to their stuff previous to these last two albums? They are a pretty decent alternative band, and they deserve some acclaim.

I don't know if Oasis is overrated, they don't really get any critical acclaim. They are a pretty awful band, that's for sure.

Nirvana's only good album was In Utero, largely in part to Steve Albini. Nevermind is a joke, and "Smells Like Teen Spirit" doesn't belong anywhere near any top songs of the 90's lists. It's a really mediocre Pixies rip-off that fails miserably.

And Metallica...lol.
 
boo boo can't comment because we've restarted our Zeppelin/Modest Mouse pact however I will respond for him.

I just don't like Modest Mouse man. - boo boo.
 
You've obviously never met an Oasis fanboy. "Be Here Now is just as good as Definitely Maybe!!!!"
Agh.

EDIT: I just realised this doesn't really argue my point well, but never mind.
 
Not only that, but they had Dr. Feelgood. Nickelback, well, their best album (am I breaking a law by putting "Nickelback" and "best" in the same sentence?) is probably Silver Side Up. Pretty laughable in comparison, actually. :rofl:
 
Yes i plan to travel the world in my search. :ar_15s: In all seriousness though you are correct, i was only talking in the US.
And no im not really aware of how big they are worldwide. Do you know why that is? (referring to why they are not big outside of US) Because i really have no idea of quite a few banRAB popularity outside of my own country. (being the USofA)

edit: Also I would assume they would be at least semi-popular since there are quite a few other grunge banRAB that have made it big elsewhere.



Also i am looking now at sales and Ten went Gold in the UK and 6x Plat in Australia. it also went pretty high up in the charts in a plethora of other countries.
 
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