My, how time flies....

tlw1

driving home last night at just before 6, so turned it to radio 4 for the news, only to hear a piece about Nivana - didn't expect that!

welshkev

kaiser83 wrote:

Montevideoguy wrote:

Much like the cult of John Lennon, Cobain's talent was vastly exaggerated due to death.


I can't explain the fawning over McCartney though (or his arsepiece daughter for that matter).

very much this, Grohl was the genius in Nirvana, not cobain

i think you're wrong. even though i agree that dave grohl is hugely talented. nirvana would've been nothing without kurt cobain!!

Cleat Eastwood

courtney love was more talented though. Live Through This tops anything Nirvana did imo. And oddly the band Cobain liked, The Vaselines, from Glazgy, were also better than nirvana....witness the original molly's lips

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INVKNhOp ... re=related

and the truly amzinga 'son of a gun'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0qIARkn ... re=related

Northwind

Big John Duncan was the only genius in Nirvana

Dave Grohl's done well though, but it seems like as soon as the Foos got succesful it all went a bit wrong. They're a total mess now, I think they make great music but I got bored and wandered off halfway through their T in the Park set. Is Stacked Actors really such a great song that it should be 20 bloomin minutes long? (no) How many times can you ham up having a drink of beer to get a cheer? (about a million)

ThePriory1978

I was 13, into Guns N Rose always wearing the touring T's and hoods and my mate lent me the Nevermind album. Was alright. All of a sudden everybody was Nirvanas biggest critic with 'yeah its good but too commercial, man' phrases ringing out all over school and all the cool kids disowned it and listened to Bleach instead.
My opinion of, its alright, still stands.
I was always more of a RATM and Smashing Pumkins fan.

Thewaylander

Bout to say Foo fighters don't capture me..

once you have heard one of there tunes you hae pretty much heard them all, very repetetive sound.

welshkev

ThePriory1978 wrote:

I was 13, into Guns N Rose always wearing the touring T's and hoods and my mate lent me the Nevermind album. Was alright. All of a sudden everybody was Nirvanas biggest critic with 'yeah its good but too commercial, man' phrases ringing out all over school and all the cool kids disowned it and listened to Bleach instead.
My opinion of, its alright, still stands.
I was always more of a RATM and Smashing Pumkins fan.

funnily enough i'm listening to smashing pumpkins right now

GhallTN6

Jeez, that's a long time, way back in '91 I was 18, fresh faced bootneck, getting shitfaced and trying to smash some lady pumpkins (incredibly unsuccessfully).. didn't really care about music!

montevideoguy

welshkev wrote:

ThePriory1978 wrote:

I was 13, into Guns N Rose always wearing the touring T's and hoods and my mate lent me the Nevermind album. Was alright. All of a sudden everybody was Nirvanas biggest critic with 'yeah its good but too commercial, man' phrases ringing out all over school and all the cool kids disowned it and listened to Bleach instead.
My opinion of, its alright, still stands.
I was always more of a RATM and Smashing Pumkins fan.

funnily enough i'm listening to smashing pumpkins right now

Can't beat a bit of Smashing Pumpkins

Anonymous

matthew h wrote:

driving home last night at just before 6, so turned it to radio 4 for the news, only to hear a piece about Nivana - didn't expect that!

Almost classical music now.

Find it a bit disturbing that most stuff I listened to back then is on Radio 2 now, and even then it's considered a bit "old" !

And despite thinking I'd never be like old folk who said stuff on Radio 1 was rubbish, I now think most the stuff on Radio 1 is rubbish!

I'm getting old :shock:

(though I do feel modern R&B auto-tuned crap the charts are full of now is well, utter crap and no one has any talent any more).

Muttly1981

deadkenny wrote:

matthew h wrote:

driving home last night at just before 6, so turned it to radio 4 for the news, only to hear a piece about Nivana - didn't expect that!

Almost classical music now.

Find it a bit disturbing that most stuff I listened to back then is on Radio 2 now, and even then it's considered a bit "old" !

And despite thinking I'd never be like old folk who said stuff on Radio 1 was rubbish, I now think most the stuff on Radio 1 is rubbish!

I'm getting old :shock:

(though I do feel modern R&B auto-tuned crap the charts are full of now is well, utter crap and no one has any talent any more).

Thats because 99.99999% of the time it is rubbish.

I work with blokes (well i call them blokes) who are happy with the fact they can spend all day singing along to Lady Guy Guy, McFly, One Direction and many other non discript shite, willingly talk about coranation street, Eastenders, X-factor etc etc etc and still have the brass balls to claim they are straight :evil: Wheres the hatread thread again?

Anonymous

20 years ago, I was 11. dunno how tall, shorter than I am now for sure, and was riding a Kona LavaDome.
I also spent a considerable amount of time up mountains at raves. Ah, happy days and the joys of a rather unorthodox upbringing

bwfc4eva868

20 years ago i was 5. And too busy playing with plastic plane models or Action men and playing Army in the forest in front of my house.

Anonymous

Why aren't we allowed to go play "army" any more without being treated like retards? Sometimes society just sucks the fun out of things.
Last time I got to play army was when I was about 16, helping my sister entertain some kids that she was nanny-ing, if that's a verb.
It was great fun

Northwind

yeehaamcgee wrote:

Why aren't we allowed to go play "army" any more without being treated like retards?

Paintballing? Like playing army except you get to hurt your mates.

<originally I wrote "shoot your mates in the a**e" but I thought better of that>

Anonymous

It doesn't have the same innocent silliness though, does it?

Anonymous

Paintballing these days is the domain of middle aged office folk out on a "team building" event, all of which hate each other and are trying to suck up to the boss to get that promotion.

Anonymous

Like I said, it lacks the innocence of just being silly. Has anyone here seen that pretend gunfight scene from Spaced, that was awesome!

Northwind

yeehaamcgee wrote:

Like I said, it lacks the innocence of just being silly.

You're doing it wrong I think. Or maybe I am. But either way, trust me, it can be plenty silly.

allen.coulson

20 years ago I was pissed. Nothing has changed since.

Clank

Northwind wrote:

<originally I wrote "shoot your mates in the a**e" but I thought better of that>

I would say 'paintballing - running 'round a forest unloading your balls into someones face'.

It's a bit like dogging, but with better bruises.

Does that help?