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dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001

Horace Kinch posted:

when are they going to write songs about the other 49 states

Lol at this absolute fool who thinks other states exist.


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Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
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dr_rat posted:

Lol at this absolute fool who thinks other states exist.


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but what about Las Vegas?

Baron von Eevl
Jan 24, 2005

WHITE NOISE
GENERATOR

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Waltzing Along posted:

It's funny how your opinion can cloud your memory. Nirvana were already huge before he died and were just getting bigger. All his death did was make people feel sorry for Courtney Love and buy her lovely albums for a little while.

Live Through This is a better album than either Nevermind or BSSM

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
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Baron von Eevl posted:

Live Through This is a better album than either Nevermind or BSSM

courtney love did have that one pretty good song

Baron von Eevl
Jan 24, 2005

WHITE NOISE
GENERATOR

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Can we drop the "Kurt wrote all of Courtney's good songs" thing? She wrote most of that album before they met, and he hadn't even heard a lot of it when he was hanging out in-studio with the band. It's dumb and sexist.

Billy did write the good songs on Celebrity Skin though

blight rhino
Feb 11, 2014

EXQUISITE LURKER RHINO


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AcidCat posted:

This might be a discussion for normie tools. The real question of 30 year old album anniversaries is what was better, Just for a Day or Loveless?

The Black Album

Colonel Cancer
Sep 26, 2015

Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
While Kurt wrote the songs, Courtney was studying the gun

runnypoops
Mar 26, 2016

been there. done that. prove yourself to me.
Courtney loves premeditated murder

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
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runnypoops posted:

Courtney loves premeditated murder

who doesn't?

wontondestruction
Dec 3, 2012

I'm a piece of human waste who supports a culture of using gendered slurs, that leads to 78.1% of women in STEM fields experiencing sexual harassment

Another Bill posted:

Hey fellow old person, I had the chance to see Nirvana around the time that Nevermind came out but I was really going because I wanted to see the opening band Cracker. I didn't go because it was raining that night lol

The way I remember it, Nirvana were big after Nevermind but In Utero and Unplugged were kind of flops. The band was headed the way of Stone Temple Pilots or Mudhoney in terms of mainstream success (ie just on the fringes) but then Kurt died and they went astronomical.

Yeah, you are right about the band's trajectory for sure; grunge was kinda waning a bit although Soundgarden kept banging out good stuff....Melvins ofc but you can't call them grunge. Sorry you missed that show, Cobain had insane stage presence and they were just a freight train.

pop fly to McGillicutty
Feb 2, 2004

A peckish little mouse!
The only good RHCP song is the one where someone other than Anthony sings.

Nevermind is better than you, op.

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
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pop fly to McGillicutty posted:

The only good RHCP song is the one where someone other than Anthony sings.

Nevermind is better than you, op.

I think you forgot about the bass drop on this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9eNQZbjpJk

Rupert Buttermilk
Apr 15, 2007

🚣RowboatMan: ❄️Freezing time🕰️ is an old P.I. 🥧trick...

All this 90s music talk makes me think of the most 90s song I know, and I only heard it for the first time in 2016. And I was born in 83, so I was around for pretty much all of this stuff. No idea how I missed it.

gently caress, I love it so much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXvthgkZ2yQ

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

Blood Fart Sex Trauma

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:

All this 90s music talk makes me think of the most 90s song I know, and I only heard it for the first time in 2016. And I was born in 83, so I was around for pretty much all of this stuff. No idea how I missed it.

gently caress, I love it so much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXvthgkZ2yQ

no no, this is the most 90s song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYsMjEeEg4g

Lord Decimus Barnacle
Jun 25, 2005


Hell Gem

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

All this 90s music talk makes me think of the most 90s song I know, and I only heard it for the first time in 2016. And I was born in 83, so I was around for pretty much all of this stuff. No idea how I missed it.

gently caress, I love it so much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXvthgkZ2yQ

The album this came off of is my favorite of all time. I still remember going into media play in 1996 and buying it when it was released.

gently caress, I love it so much too.

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

Lord Decimus Barnacle posted:

The album this came off of is my favorite of all time. I still remember going into media play in 1996 and buying it when it was released.

gently caress, I love it so much too.

Control yourself

Rupert Buttermilk
Apr 15, 2007

🚣RowboatMan: ❄️Freezing time🕰️ is an old P.I. 🥧trick...


Yeah, but this song sucks and is bullshit.

Lord Decimus Barnacle
Jun 25, 2005


Hell Gem
No!

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:

Yeah, but this song sucks and is bullshit.

uhh, welcome to the 90s?

Revins
Nov 2, 2007





tune the FM in to static and pretend that its the sea

that isn't No Rain though??

Rupert Buttermilk
Apr 15, 2007

🚣RowboatMan: ❄️Freezing time🕰️ is an old P.I. 🥧trick...

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

uhh, welcome to the 90s?

The 90s were a time of contrasts.

The Downward Spiral.

The Macarena.

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
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Revins posted:

that isn't No Rain though??

it is not.

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

The 90s were a time of contrasts.

The Downward Spiral.

The Macarena.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypkv0HeUvTc

Rupert Buttermilk
Apr 15, 2007

🚣RowboatMan: ❄️Freezing time🕰️ is an old P.I. 🥧trick...


You ever hear the 'cover' of it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifCjTAo_M20

:haw:

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

no i hadn't. Now I hate you

Revins
Nov 2, 2007





tune the FM in to static and pretend that its the sea



lmao

Rupert Buttermilk
Apr 15, 2007

🚣RowboatMan: ❄️Freezing time🕰️ is an old P.I. 🥧trick...

Something tells me they missed the point of the original.

Funky See Funky Do
Aug 20, 2013
STILL TRYING HARD
I've listened to Nevermind maybe twice in the past 20 years and can still remember every single song off it word for word beat for beat. I never owned Blood Sugar Sex Majik and can't remember a single song off it.

Revins
Nov 2, 2007





tune the FM in to static and pretend that its the sea
wanted to hear christina aguilera sing "you can't smell your own poo poo on your knees" and I am sorely disappointed :mad:

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

Revins posted:

wanted to hear christina aguilera sing "you can't smell your own poo poo on your knees" and I am sorely disappointed :mad:

she couldn't see the forest for the trees, what do you want?

runnypoops
Mar 26, 2016

been there. done that. prove yourself to me.

Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:

Blood Fart Sex Trauma

lol drat that's a good rear end post

LazyDivey
Jun 18, 2004

Orange crush momma is a laugh laugh laugh.


The first of the many times STP broke up was in the 90s and we got two records as a result


Scott got high on coke and heroin and made an artsy album called 12 Bar Blues. Got arrested buying smack while on tour.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrPN_booSrQ


The rest of the band hired some guy and made a band called Talk Show



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVwji0wWCc8

Both were commercial flops. I still dig them though.


Thanks for coming to my tedtalk please subscribe for more useless STP facts.

LazyDivey fucked around with this message at 03:40 on Sep 26, 2021

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
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LazyDivey posted:

The first of the many times STP broke up was in the 90s and we got two records as a result


Scott got high on coke and heroin and made an artsy album called 12 Bar Blues. Got arrested buying smack while on tour.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrPN_booSrQ


The rest of the band hired some guy and made a band called Talk Show



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVwji0wWCc8

Both were commercial flops. I still dig them though.


Thanks for coming to my tedtalk please subscribe for more useless STP facts.

I went to a Velvet Revolver concert at the Spectrum. They were a half hour late. I made a joke that Scott died. When they were an hour late I thought my joke came through. They eventually hit the stage

LazyDivey
Jun 18, 2004

Orange crush momma is a laugh laugh laugh.


Mumpy Puffinz posted:

I went to a Velvet Revolver concert at the Spectrum. They were a half hour late. I made a joke that Scott died. When they were an hour late I thought my joke came through. They eventually hit the stage

A story someone posted on reddit a few years back about meeting Scott always stood out for me:

quote:

I've worked in Las Vegas casinos my entire adult life. I worked at The Palms during the Real World days and when it was considered "Celebrity Friendly" which really just meant they were allowed to go do whatever they wanted comfortably as paparazzi where not welcomed. Over the near 5 years I worked there I can honestly say I met over 2000 celebrities. The ones who you thought would be the coolest were the biggest douchbags and the ones who you thought would be the biggest douchbags were the coolest. The coolest person I've ever met and got to hang out with was without a doubt Kid Rock. I couldn't stand a single song of his and this being 2007ish it was way before it was widely known how nice he is so it came as a shock.

Then there are those who break your heart. They say never meet your heroes. Meeting Scott Weiland did this to me from growing up a huge STP fan but in end showing me why he was a rock star and not I. There used (is) to be a band called Camp Freddy. It was pretty much a revolving door of musicians who would play each other's songs depending on who was available and they were playing at The Palms one night with Scott Weiland due to headline. My restaurants kitchen had a door that went straight onto to the stage of the club Rain where concerts were held before The Pearl concert venue was built and anytime there was a show we were allowed to just walk through and watch the shows from the stage which I was planning to do the second I was off. Halfway through my shift we got an order for Scott and it needed to be brought to his room which we accommodated to celebrities frequently. As luck would have it I randomly got grabbed and told to take his ribeye up to him. I went up to his room and knocked on the door and heard somebody yell "It's open". I figured I was going to open the door and 30 groupie whores would be inside all coked up, but nope. It was just Scott laying halfway on the bed with a near empty bottle of Jack in his hand watching the movie Last Days which is "loosely" based on Kurt Cobain's life. I'm really good at being a professional and not acting star struck. Celebrities, the cool ones, like being treated like normal people and they treat you much better when you do. As I'm unwrapping his food he starts talking to me and asking me about myself. He was poo poo faced, slurring and emotional. He began telling me about what bullshit that movie was and how Kurt wasn't like he was portrayed in it. He told me how there was originally a different video for the song Creep that was directed by the same director as the movie, Gus Van Sant, and that he made the band dress up like transsexuals and kiss each other and before I knew it I had been up there nearly an hour. His assistant came in and called me outside of the room and thanked me for hanging out with him, no thank you was necessary, but that Scott had recently quit heroin again and that's why he was acting that way. I went back down to work and couldn't believe that just happened but then remembered that he was supposed perform in less than 2 hours. In my mind there was absolutely no way this guy was going to be able to perform and he'd have to cancel further ruining his depleting reputation.

So I finished up work and went onto the back stage. Over the course of an hour I watched Dave Navarro, Jerry Cantrell, Duff Mcaggen, the singer from The Cult, etc perform and in my head I thought I knew some thing nobody else did and that shortly it would be announced Scott Weiland was canceling. When all of a sudden Dead and Bloated starts playing and Scott comes out dancing, singing perfectly and absolutely killed his performance. That night I learned the difference between a rock star and the rest of us. RIP.

kntfkr
Feb 11, 2019

GOOSE FUCKER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7T4OJpLVlA

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
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LazyDivey posted:

A story someone posted on reddit a few years back about meeting Scott always stood out for me:

I forgot to mention I was wearing sunglasses inside and convinced the idiot in the next seat that I was blind.

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

then what is Harvy dangers first best song?

Im Ready for DEATH
Oct 5, 2016

the statement in the op is not correct, and I like the peppers quite a lot

let it mellow
Jun 1, 2000

Dinosaur Gum
NWA is better than both of them.

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Rupert Buttermilk
Apr 15, 2007

🚣RowboatMan: ❄️Freezing time🕰️ is an old P.I. 🥧trick...

I'm sincerely glad Harvey Danger doesn't make music anymore.

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