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Post by Lennon2217 on Mar 1, 2016 11:35:23 GMT -5
They always were punk in name only. Very calculated band that knew how to make a dollar. Real punk bands flush it down the toilet. Part of their inner ethos. I take your point though, and as far back as 1995 i remember an interview with Billie Joe Armstrong regarding Tim Yohannan and the maximumrocknroll major label band article where he, in amongst slagging off Tim, stated "I've never waved a punk rock flag in my life". A band doing it for the money is nothing new, but in the case of Green Day and Nirvana, the latter who I do love musically, the both played up to an image of money means nothing whilst acting the opposite. Still remember Kurt just after signing to Geffen for $350,000 complaining about major labels then in the next breath stating he wanted more money from it! Controversial figure from punk maybe but Jello Biafra sums it up well for me Well to be fair the Nirvana guys were only just starting to get the huge sales money from Nevermind around the time Kurt killed himself. Those guys still wore t-shirts, flannel, converse shoes and ripped up jeans. None of them lived in big mansions, i think they all rented crappy apartments between 1990 and 1994. Kurt always drove his old shitty Volvo anyway. I'm willing to bet Kurt never got to see any of the riches that his music would make. Courtney got it all.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2016 22:47:06 GMT -5
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Post by underneaththesky on Mar 4, 2016 1:22:56 GMT -5
the 5 first albums were fucking amazing back then.
Smoothed Out Slappy Hours/Kerplunk
Dookie/Insomniac/Nimrod
Warning
they should have made Macy's Day Parade their last song ever recorded. or I just got older.. and wiser?
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Post by underneaththesky on Mar 4, 2016 1:26:24 GMT -5
ans as shoreline wrote - they were all about The Kinks, The Beatles... and The Who. they were raw. then they got a bit weird after 2000... to me anyway
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Post by welshylad on Mar 4, 2016 3:56:57 GMT -5
This is an absolute tune! Even though the guitar is blatantly Stand By Me
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Post by Headmaster on Mar 4, 2016 16:55:48 GMT -5
I used to hate that song Wake me up When September Ends, cos it reminded me of this:
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Post by World71R on Mar 4, 2016 23:54:20 GMT -5
This is an absolute tune! Even though the guitar is blatantly Stand By Me Tune, for sure. Although, I hear a little more Coffee and TV in the song than SBM, though, but it does have a bit of SBM's melody.
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Post by beentherenow on Mar 5, 2016 2:00:55 GMT -5
Not at all but Macy Day Parade is a great song, I brought there best of about 15 years ago and it was the stand out track for me
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Post by johnwesleyharding on Mar 6, 2016 9:59:36 GMT -5
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Post by Officer Jim Kurring on Aug 15, 2023 20:26:11 GMT -5
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