myhatbroke said:
ARE YOU SERIOUS? Dave Grohl even came out with some cd as a tribute to metal cus HE himself said that Nirvana put an end to metal.
See, that doesn't matter. Just because Dave Grohl says something about Nirvana, or Hetfield says something about Metallica's influences DOESN'T MAKE IT TRUE!!!
Look, the Black album came out the same year as Nevermind. It sold 14 million copies, way more than any '80s Metallica record. And when you look at sales figures for those albums now, it includes all the sales to fans they gained after the Black album.
Now it's true that most of the great old metal bands no longer had big album sales after 1991. But you know what? That is because they were pretty much done. Ozzy was done after Bark at the Moon (some would say before). Maiden, Seventh Son. Priest, Turbo (or Painkiller, but that's still 1990, and it didn't sell as much). Nirvana didn't kill those bands, they just got old.
The newer metal bands that came along didn't want to play the old style, it was a race to be a) heaviest and b) fastest. Not as popular with the older fans, and it didn't get as many new fans. Again, not Nirvana's fault.
When I mean by end I mean that you can't hear it on the radio anymore. Ofcourse the beauty of GOOD metal, even back in the 80's, you always had to stay up late to listen to it on the radio or on tv
That sounds nice, but in most markets you could NEVER hear metal on the radio. Ozzy got a bit of airplay, Sabbath less so, Priest and Maiden, maybe the night before they came into town. When MTV came out with Headbanger's Ball, that was pretty much the most exposure metal ever got. And you know what was the highlight of every Headbanger's Ball? Metallica's "One". So was it Metallica's fault for making metal popular? Because the situation on radio now for "real" metal is no different than 1983.
So again, how does that mean Nirvana killed metal? If anything, Nirvana primed former top 40 fans to listen to heavier music.
Theres no solos in any of the music you hear today.
Nirvana had solos, so did Pearl Jam. STP, not so much, but Velvet Underground does . . . 'cause Slash kicks ass
AAHHH Id rather have an 80's trend, at least they had true talent, and that s what I mean by that. Ofcourse you can find good metal if you look for it but I wish it was like back in the 80's
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IT WASN'T LIKE THAT! Damn, I wish you were in my HS, with all the chicks dressing like Cyndi Lauper and listening to Simply Red and Mr. Mister
If you listened to metal, you were probably a future dropout who skipped class to smoke dope behind the shop room. And no girls would give you the time of day, unless you played a Dokken song for them. Not that I know anything about that
