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Topic: Nirvana Nevermind |
Matt Steindl
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New Orleans, LA, USA
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Posted 25 Feb 2003 6:38 pm |
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I know a lot of you pure country folks wont get this, but I just dug out my copy of Nirvana Nevermind, which I had not listened to in years and played it on my dog walk.
Due to media overkill and 10 years under the bridge, I had kinda forgotten about how amazing this CD was. For once, the critics were right.
I am thinking about doing a slow country cover of "On a Plain", because if you slow it down, it sounds like some old school nashville song.
Sorry to ramble!!! Had to get that off my chest.
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Mattman in "The Big Sleazy"-:
S-10 Dekley, Suitcase Fender Rhodes, B-bender Les Paul
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Bob Hoffnar
From:
Austin, Tx
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Posted 25 Feb 2003 8:30 pm
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I love that Cd also. I was driving home from a country gig when I first heard "smells like teen spirit" on the radio. I hit my search button to get a traffic report and got some rock station by accident. The tune was just kicking off. I listened to the sound of it and then I pulled over and cranked it up. I couldn't believe I was hearing something
so fantastic on the radio. I still get that CD out and I find something new to appreciate each time I hear it.
Interesting thing about that time period was that soundscan was just put in retail stores. So what made it to the charts was what was actually being bought. Rather than based on payoffs by the labels to have CD stores falsify shipping orders.
It was all unknowns at the time that found themselves at the top of the charts. Garth Brooks and some rap guy broke at about the same time as Nirvana.
It took the labels about a year before they could properly manipulate the charts again.
Without market control it turned out that what people liked was grunge, country and rap.
Bob |
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Jason Odd
From:
Stawell, Victoria, Australia
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Posted 26 Feb 2003 5:58 am
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Bob, I recall a major rock mag covering the 'big' releases of 1991 into 1992 and the big predictions were Michael Jackson, Dire Straits and George Michael, all of whom did pretty brisk trade, but I think a good part of that was due to the recognition factor.
U2 also got a thumbs up, and did quite well in the next couple of years, but there wasn't anyone on the planet who could predict how well Nevermind was going to sell.
At the ripe old age of 32 that album pretty much defined a part of my life and remains a favourite.
I think the Nirvana unplugged CD shows how well the material translated into a different medium, and I for one think that Matt's idea is a great one. |
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Dave Van Allen
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Souderton, PA , US , Earth
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Posted 28 Feb 2003 11:31 am
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heard a report on NPR last week about a Jazz Piano trio that covered Teen Spirit among other things:
http://www.thebadplus.com/
not the typical fare for a piano trio but apparently not your typical trio either...
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