Happy birthday to Nirvana's "Nevermind" album...

[Fresh Tendrils]

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Let's be honest, hair metal bands pretty much killed themselves.

[LionsFanNJ]

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my absolute favorite video of Nirvana ever. first ever show playing Smells like teen Spirit.....maybe its my love of seeing shows at ****** cramped venues...

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[areobee401]

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my absolute favorite video of Nirvana ever. first ever show playing Smells like teen Spirit.....maybe its my love of seeing shows at ****** cramped venues...

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Proud to say I was able to see Nirvana in a small venue in middle school. Small venues are always best no matter the style of music.

[TheMatrix31]

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Can't believe it. 20 years?!

I enjoy all the music mentioned here. Grunge, punk, hair/arena, guitar solos....if music is awesome, it's awesome.

[joshuar9476]

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even though i owned this album, i was never a big nirvana fan until unplugged was released ... then and now i consider nirvana's unplugged one of the best albums ever made.

[Seymour Scagnetti]

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Guns was a dirty hair metal band that played good music. This pic shows the heavy hair band influence in their early days.

When Nevermind was released that was the end of hair metal

Hair bands was more in reference to the style of music being played at the time as in popcentric heavy metal such as the typical tunes being played by Poison, Motley Crue and Bon Jovi and these bands had a large female fan base. It was radio friendly and commercialized hard rock. GnR's music was anything but commercial and radio friendly and their fan base was predominantly male. They brought back the raw and gritty sound into hard rock and metal and made those "hair bands" seem juvenile in comparison. It was likely that Nirvana was influenced by GnR's late 80's sound with it's more raw melodies and chords.

If you classify hair bands by simply having big hair than half the bands in the 1970's could have been considered hair bands.

[LionsFanNJ]

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It was likely that Nirvana was influenced by GnR's late 80's sound with it's more raw melodies and chords.

With the way Cobain absolutely loved to troll Axl Rose, and his love of the Melvins/Mudhoney distorted sound I really doubt that was the case. Besides, Bleach came out in 88 (89 maybe?) and that sounded nothing like what GnR would play. If anything it sounded closer to 70's "metal" than GnR

though i will agree to the point that GnR started the steamroller that Nirvana ran with.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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Plus you had Metallic rolling around and all the other awesome Seattle bands doing their thing and it was just time for hair metal to die one way or the other. The only hair metal band I can stand is Van Halen.

[bd007h]

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The only hair metal bands that I can stand are Van Halen and Bon Jovi

[ImTellinTim]

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I can't count how many times I've listened to this album. Yet, I've never owned it.

Van Halen hair metal? I don't know about that statement. They started in 1974. I think all those bands were trying to be Van Halen and failed miserably.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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I can't count how many times I've listened to this album. Yet, I've never owned it.

Van Halen hair metal? I don't know about that statement. They started in 1974. I think all those bands were trying to be Van Halen and failed miserably.

I consider Van Halen the pioneers of that hair metal sound as they essentially laid the ground work for 80s rock n roll. Like you said, all the mainstream rock bands in the 80s were chasing after VH's sound.

[UNC_Pete]

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I respect Nirvana, I'm a small fan, but I am glad that album took off because the Seattle scene was so awesome. I'm a much bigger fan of Alice in Chains (mostly due to being a metal head, and they were a mix of grunge and metal) but this really spun mainstream music in a different, refreshing direction.

We need something like this, today. Something to come out of the blue and totally rejuvenate the music scene. It's currently pretty stale if you ask me.

[ImTellinTim]

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I consider Van Halen the pioneers of that hair metal sound as they essentially laid the ground work for 80s rock n roll. Like you said, all the mainstream rock bands in the 80s were chasing after VH's sound.

I think that's probably more true. I just think it's funny that when all those bands were busy sucking, Van Halen went in a totally different (not necessarily great) direction. There's also the fact that Van Halen still exists. But that's probably a topic for that rock thread.

Anyways, I gave Nevermind a bit of a listen last night before bed. Yep, still incredible.

Does anyone else think Fugazi kind of got the short end of the stick on all this? Their debut and follow-up albums just before this all broke kind of get lost in the shuffle but were pretty amazing in their own right compared to what was being made. Sure their sound is a little more different and raw, but so was Nirvana's before Nevermind.

[chilli311]

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We need something like this, today. Something to come out of the blue and totally rejuvenate the music scene. It's currently pretty stale if you ask me.

It won't happen again. Not in the same sense and intensity that happened with Nevermind.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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I guess it depends what music scene you're talking about. As far as I'm concerned, the radio is dead (other than local indie stations). The internet combined with tools like Pandora and Spotify make it possible to discover all types of awesome music.