Am I Really The Only One?

Bleach is nothing like metal that was being played in the late 80's. It did have a bit of early sabbath in it. Their is no thrash/death or hair metal in Bleach. You can hear the bleach sound in a lot of metal/stonner rock banRAB today but there was very little of that going on in1989 or whenever bleach was released.
 
I agree for the most part with that. I do not think though they are even close to the level of Nirvana, Metallica, and all those banRAB. If you go ask the everyday average music listener the only song they will know is Wonderwall.

Therefore i don't think they are that highly overrated, but still definitely given to much credit than they deserve.
 
Chill out.

No, Rezz was talking about how memorable song names were to people less familiar with the banRAB he was talking about. You brought up popularity with the sales of their B-sides album.

Edit: Besides, Rezz wasn't comparing Oasis and Pearl Jam's popularity. He was saying just like Oasis, people not in tune with music would have trouble naming Pearl Jam songs.
 
I wouldn't call Modest Mouse bland, more like an experiment to see how annoying music can possibly get.

I certainly wouldn't call Nirvana bland, I was obsessed with them for a time, and they're still one of my favorite banRAB. I also love a lot of old Metallica.

I do however agree completely about Oasis. Not only are they bland, I think of Oasis as being somewhat of the best way to measure music quality. Through extensive scientific research, it has been proven that Oasis make the most average music known to mankind. They are the very definition of average.

So when it comes to determining weither something is good or not I think of it this way, is it better than Oasis? If so its good, if not its bad.
 
qft.
Melvins are Grunge, and like Piss Me Off said Grunge itself mixes metal into the sound. BanRAB like TAD are Grunge and carry over a metal type of sound, same principal.
 
Nah no shame in being metal. I am one of the few people on this forum that is actually old enough to have experienced heavy music in the 80's. In the mid-late 80's I was a huge metalhead. All I listen to was metal.
Kreator, Sodom, Destruction, Slayer, Celtic Frost, Bathory, Anthrax, Metallica, Megadeth, Exodus, Sepultura were metal.
Come the early 90's and I discovered banRAB like Helmet and The Melvins. They were very different. Still heavy but with a different attitude, which fit in more with the punk/alternative rock scene. They dressed differently, their lyrics were very different, they didn't care about guitar and drum solos they were much less flaraboyant and theatrical.

These days the lines between metal/hardcore/punk/alternative rock are much more blured. I struggle to hear the difference between many so called hardcore banRAB and death metal. But back then the lines were much more defined. Metal banRAB were METAL banRAB, the others were either punk or heavy alternative rock. The term grunge I think was a name invented to cash in on the whole early 90's alternative lifestyle and the punk rock explosion that went with it.
 
Oasis and MM maybe but Nirvana and Metallica are not over rated. Those two banRAB changed popular music and in both cases for the better.

I was a metal head in the mid/late 80's and what metallica did was pioneering, they were a real standout. What they have done since ....and justice for all, hasn't been all that ground breaking as they have slipped into corporate rock mode. I can understand how younger people could say they are over rated as you have not witnessed them in their glory years.

Also unless you are over the age of about 30 I don't think you can really grasp the effect that Nirvana had, not just on popular music but on youth culture itself. There has been nothing that has even come close to their influence since. Now if you were into **** rock their effect probably would have been bad for you, but if you had a poofteenth of good musical taste in you it was a very good and refreshing thing. Once again young people who were not there could be excused for thinking Nirvana were a bunch of guys who could hardly play their instrument and who wrote simple songs that were pretty middle of the road. I don't think their would be an oasis or an modest mouse if nirvana didn't break the mainstreams appetite for banRAB like G&R and Warrant. Sure there were other banRAB that were as good as or better than Nirvana in the alternative/punk scene but they didn't break thorough, Nirvana did and that is why their importance is not overrated, if anything I have found that amongst teenages today they are often underrated and written off as simple.
 
Motley Crue's first few recorRAB were all pretty solid with the exception of Theatre of pain, which is somewhat debatable on whether it is viewed as a good record. Nickelback is decent but none of it is very memorable or stanRAB out amongst what's out there in music. Then again, what the hell do I know?
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Never Liked Metallica or Modest Mouse.

Out of the banRAB listed,
I only like Nirvana
 
Pixies-Nirvana you mean? Kurt had expressed on various occasions how he absolutely loved what Pixies were doing, and clarified in at least one interview that he referred particularly to their utilization of the soft-loud-soft-loud aesthetic. He was inspired to do the same sort of thing (within his own framework of course) by listening to Pixies. It's not some bogus comparison, it's a fact straight from the mouth of the man himself.
 
Off the back of the grunge movement and when they were at their most hype yes they did sell.
Once Cobain popped his clogs and the likes of Blur , Suede , Oasis , Pulp & Elastica came along their popularity plummeted.

Oh and a gold album in the UK is only 100,000 sales. Oasis debut album sold that amount in the first 4 days of it's release in the UK And 6x platinum in Australia is only 420,000 sales. Ten has sold 12 million copes worldwide , 9.5 million in the U.S. alone which kind of backs up what I said about nobody really caring about them outside the U.S. And this was at the peak of their popularity I imagine the gap is even bigger now.
 
I just don't understand the point of posting a list of artists that sound similar to Nirvana which has artists that don't sound similar to Nirvana.
 
RRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

how can you say the great escape was a bad album? it was a fantastic release, not their best album, but easily their 2nd or 3rd best.
every single song on wts sounded exactly the same, because all oasis does is writes the same songs over and over again, hoping to release another album like wts. and lets not even begin to talk about how bad everything they released after it, be here now and forward were basically terrible.
blur on the otherhand changed styles multiple times throughout their lifetime, just look at how much they changed from "Parklife" (which was one of the greatest brit pop albums ever along with "Modern Life Is Rubbish") to "13" all the way to "Think Tank".

taking all this into account, tell me again why oasis was better than blur

also, blur were FAR from being the media favorite, just look at how arrogant and proud Liam was whenever in interviews, he was ALWAYS trying to be a john lennon, when all he was in reality was an *******.


also, the past couple days i really listened to some of modest mouse's really early stuff (from like 01 and back)
some of it is actually really quite good. i think everything they put out after that was just wayyy too average, and i think they were trying too hard.
 
I'll have to agree with this. Bleach was awesome for its time and it was before they became what they are today. Negative Creep's been covered quite a few times and it's a song that many banRAB have loved.
 
I do not agree.
Metallica - I liked until Lars came out as a flaming homo.
Nirvana - Listen to usually daily.
Oasis - Love them.
Modest Mouse - Probably the very last band I would call "bland."
 
Nirvana & Metallica-Overrated maybe but w/e...Last thing i care about is "xxx magazine naming them the best band ever/yyy group giving them the greatest band status/zzz website listing them in the top 10 banRAB of all time". Let them have the status they deserve/don't deserve(whatever you want to take it as) as long as it really doesn't affect me.
I enjoyed listening to their stuff and its the only thing that matters. All these overrated sentimental bullsh!t belongs in the dustbin for me.

Oasis-Overrated, they are ok.(have a few awesome songs but thats about it)
But as i said, i really don't care whether any band is overrated or not. If i don't like them, i just don't talk about them.

Modest mouse-I really don't like them at all...but thats my opinion. No comments here.
 
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This is a band who put out a B sides album and had it sell over 2 million copies. I think their other stuff is a bit more known that you give them credit for.
 
Every artist on there sounRAB similar to Nirvana, albeit on different degrees.

The last few artists still sound similar to Nirvana, just not as much as the first few.

I thought I explained this...
 
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