I'm a fan of Rush too (as evidenced by my bolded quote above) and can play La Villa Strangiato. Hair metal bands could replicate or come closer to replicating La Villa on their respective instruments more than Nirvana, guaranteed. Hair metal bands could probably cover ever single Nirvana song note for note MUCH faster than Nirvana could cover every single hair metal band's songs.
Mostly, yes, I can't disagree here.
Couldn't disagree more. While I think Mellon Collie tends to be a bit underrated, Siamese Dream is a fucking masterpiece. In fact, it might even be my favorite "grunge era" album ever. Hummer is probably the only song on that entire album that I'd put into the "meh" category. You have shit like Soma, Luna, and Mayonaise as amazing, "slower" songs. Disarm is fantastic from a lyrical standpoint, and of course the massive hits like Cherub Rock, Today, etc.
You should listen to Billy Corrigan's JRE; I have way more appreciation of him as a person and Smashing Pumpkins as a band after hearing that. I don't think that anything they did is overrated but sometimes, people are more excited about an artist's first work, or the first work in which they discover an artist, even when later works are better/more developed/more mature. I am guilty of that just below.
I saw NIN in 1989/90 in Houston at UH when he opened for Peter Murphy and got mistakenly seated in like the 6th row. It was awesome until the Goth couple showed up to see the former Bauhaus guy, although "Cuts You Up" is a great song and we watched from our real seats in the nosebleeds.
Pretty Hate Machine will always be my favorite NIN album. It was an explosion of something (at least for me) something all together new. Pretty Hate Machine essentially was proto-electronic grunge but really tapped into that anger that would define the first half of the 90's.Personal taste and all that, I have a varied history with U2. They had the Protest Trilogy and then Rattle and Hum, and then every other album was good: the Joshua Tree (meh), and then Achtung Baby (great) then Popmart(terrible) the How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb(really good) then No Line on the Horizon (terrible). They just became rockstars and mostly started phoning it in; In between those good albums were tour/live albums and movies of the tour and unreleased singles and the machine kept churning out product to be consumed and keep the profit engine running to allow Bono to do his charity work. TLDR: They aren't overrated, they just quit trying and are mostly coasting at this point. At that point, though, they were just finding a new sound and still making music and not going through the motions.
One of my best friends was a die-hard PJ fan, would fly someone to see them every time they toured. This was the only album of theirs I liked. I don't know if it was because of my age when it came out (19?) but I just connected with this album. When Vs. came out, I was thrilled... until I listened to it, and couldn't find a single song on the whole album that I liked. Ten remains the sole album of the band with which I found any connection. To me its also one of the best *albums* of all time, with almost no filler; Almost the whole album is good start to finish.
Pretty sure Corgan was the only talented musician in the band to begin with. Remember reading he had to record most of the parts himself for the albums, either because the rest of his band sucked or were too strung out on H to do it.
