One of the most generic albums I've ever heard

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Also Alone + Easy Target
it's a sequel to Drain You

There was a moment in the 90s when preppy ass kids that used to shit on skater & "alt" kids, stopped listening to primarily hip hop & r&b shit, & started listening to """"alternative music"""" due to the fact that it was all mostly polished squeaky clean & super-commercial by 1996-7. Foo Fighters was a part of that, particularly when this album dropped.

In fact, most Gen Xers you see today like to act like they were in this or that alt scene in the 90s but they were actually mostly these preppy ass normies

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Starting to hate these kinds of dumb gay threads.

Addendum: Sure there was also this moment where time did not move as fast as it does now. Things came in waves (always does), and those waves gradually affected everyone jock sk8er barbie alt goth c/hick, can't speak for yous, but where I grew up the waves were constant and unrelenting and to be on top of one wave was akin to early "FIRST" Message board comments before YT, grew up in a town with one street light, riding high or submerged with these waves, or in some cases meeting in the middle, every click got along; drugs sex and ideas all met in the middle, is that how it is now. But all of these clashes of styles/waves always met, gathered, no matter how far away they existed (CANT HARDLY WAIT party) yet no one had the distinctive pulse of what was happening/going on, they just had a feel. Which is still true to to-day but less physical which thrives on meta-roids, riding in places like this, it's data and copying/dl that for persona. There are reaction vids, 4 second videos that people base their whole personality on a subject, and speak like it is theirs nigga fr fr

I wholewheat 8grain agree with your desertion of Gen X
:) THX 4 READING, dumb pretty be which your own ass niggas

Foo Fighters was a part of that, particularly when this album dropped.

Yeah. Foo Fighters is complete shit and akin to just radio music. Easily digestible.
I'm surprised they still are popular at all, I know some rock "fans" that swear by them. But to me they just suck and all their songs sound formulaically the same.

This album released before post-grunge was a thing

My Hero is also a great song, OP is a Nirvana faggot

monkey wrench is still one of my favorite songs even if it's only because I played the fuck out of it on guitar hero as a kid

Exhausted is the best song he has ever made.

First album is so good. Has a raw sound and more passion and fun. After that starting with op album Color and the Shape, he got more and more generic. This and the next is still good but after Nothing Left to Lose it is complete mediocre generic rock shit. He had such a great start with the debut and potential as a songwriter but he's a pussy and played it safe all his life

One by One is not that bad, it has 4-5 really good songs in it (basically the singles). Too bad the rest is very mediocre. It could have been a great 20-minute EP instead.
then you had Wasting Light, which was surprisingly decent at that point.
everything else is generic pop-rock slop, apart from a few decent tracks here and there.

There were some decent songs for sure here and there and Wasting Light seemed okay. It was cool krist is on the album even if for one or two songs.
But yeah one of those rare bands where I really love the debut but don't like all that much of the rest but don't hate it either

The 2nd album had some really nice songs like February Stars though

they are a solid straight forward rock band. nothing overly groudbreaking, but are still capable of putting together a couple of solid tracks. The best song they have ever done is A320 for the Godzilla movie.

youtube.com/watch?v=EGzmda6umNs

Yes, you would say that. Unless they put in some messy recording fuzz, maybe they could sound low budget enough for the approval of the alt ideologues. Dave just couldn't have done Nirvana, could he?

Everlong is the most unique and best Foo Fighters song imo. Every other Foo Fighters song sounds exactly the same, but Everlong is a bit subdued and mournful.

I hate Nirvana and Foo Fighters equally

Well you're a fag and no one asked

Not sure what A.I. demon you’re currently using, zoom-zoom, but it’s got it’s wires crossed or something because that is a whole lot of gobbledygook…

On the subject of foo fighters and the alt scene and smashing pumpkins and jocks… no fucking shit those bands were mainstream pop. No fucking shit popular kids were rocking those tracks. Grunge was popular, its best band died with Kurt, Layne died and the others started meandering. So there was a space to be filled and in came silverchair, bush, everclear, live, Rollins band, tool and a whole host of other quality bands to the mainstream.

Everlong was just Sonic Youth's Mildred Pierce rearranged into pop rock slop.
youtube.com/watch?v=3-jp4hk7VIU

I haven't listened to most of their songs, but frankly I can't think of any 2 that sounds similar let alone the same.
My Hero, The Pretender, Learn to Fly, Show Me How, All My Life, Best Of You. All pretty different except maybe My Hero and Best of You. And frankly all good except Best of You.

Wrong, post-grunge began as early as 1994.

I was a young teen when I saw the video for Big Me on MTV
youtu.be/pLdJQFTnZfA

It was a great song and a great video.
Foo fighters made excellent music videos
A lot of young people today miss out how in the 80s and 90s music videos really got us into groups that might’ve been mediocre or really pop rock.

Ultimately these guys need to make money as musicians and that means making hits. Most of them couldn’t work real jobs if they wanted to.

welcome to post grunge.
Grunge becomes commercial, the idealist frontman kills himself because his band is becoming too commercial, the drummer from that band goes on to make even more commercial music. Taking the basic idea of grunge and repackaging it to be the radio and arena rock that grunge was supposed to destroy, just with less frizzy hair and spandex.

nah, Kurt wasn't even dead yet and post grunge had already started. Stone Temple Pilots.

Not really Post-Grunge. I mark the start of post-grunge when every band lead wanted to sing like Eddie Vedder

1997

You had to have been there.

nah, STP was definitely post grunge, every post grunge band sounds like STP, wanting to have grunge's stripped down image while still having slick major label production
if you want to go further you could even say Nevermind was the first post grunge album because Kurt intentionally made it a pop album.

everyone really liked that mentos music video

goes onto my thread to insult me

wrongly assumes I'm a fan

calls me a fag after getting BTFO

Projection. Discarded.

Taking the basic idea of grunge and repackaging it to be the radio and arena rock that grunge was supposed to destroy

No wonder people note Kurt's suicide as the death of rock. He was the last person who at least TRIED fighting commercialism.
After that, a wave of popslop overtook rock and it became complete and utter shit for the most part.

well, not entirely. Rock and Metal have a kind of incestuous relationship with Punk.
First you had rock music, rock music was edgy and rebellious but then becomes popular and mainstream. Punk was a backlash to that, Metal was a development between Hard Rock and Psychedelic Rock and Horror Movies, Punk Rock took inspiration from Heavy Metal to become Hardcore Punk.
Metal borrowed inspiration from Hardcore Punk and evolved into Thrash Metal, which spawned Death Metal and Black Metal and Sludge Metal.

Grunge was a back cross between Hardcore Punk and Sludge Metal (most notably Alice in Chains shows the Sludge Metal aspects), but it has some of the sound of sludge metal while having the attitude and anti-commercial ethics of Hardcore Punk.
That's where Kurt came out of,
But while Kurt was inspired and molded himself out of Hardcore Punk and Sludge Metal acts, he was also always a fan of pop music.
So when he got signed to a major label, he made Nevermind intentionally a pop album. The production is slick and it's full of catchy hooks. I think ultimately he regretted that since that's what commercialized Nirvana's sound and it really was all his own fault. He tried to kinda walk it back with In Utero having a more raw abrasive punk sound, but it was too late, he was on MTV, he was doing arena shows, he was doing the very thing his punk sensibilities hated.
Like he was becoming that guy he didn't want to be. That's how his note came across. He saw himself in the future like the Rolling Stones, just totally selling out and doing shows for boomers until he was old and irrelevant and... still doing shows for boomers.
He didn't want that to be his future, so.. bang.
Kurt wasn't a last bastion of authenticity in Rock, he'd already made the mistake of going against that authenticity himself.

He was the last person who at least TRIED fighting commercialism

Yeah if you just consume mainstream media you'll just find establishment-friendly artists. Lmao

just totally selling out and doing shows for boomers until he was old and irrelevant and... still doing shows for boomers.

He didn't want that to be his future, so.. bang.

I would say he could've went for the more acoustic route like he always wanted to, but people would still come to his shows simply for the Nevermind part of it.
Kurt always wanted to be a big rockstar but hated the establishment. He was a walking contradiction.

his note said otherwise. That he hated dealing with fame and the pressure. He loved fans sure, but he hated what else came with having fans. Perhaps if he could have millions of fans but still play small club gigs he'd have been happier. But yeah that's a walking contradiction.
and the infamous quote of Neil Young "it's better to burn out than to fade away" yeah he was dreading his future of being some washed out rock star playing shows in Vegas and shit