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Post by Smallstone on Apr 19, 2006 19:52:28 GMT 1
Asks BBC6. No don't shoot the messanger!! Thorn that means don't shout at me - I'm merely passing on a link here  From BBC6 - Digital radio: www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/music_week/debate_grunge.shtmlObviously depends on what your deifinition of grunge is..... ha ha ha. But worth - for a laugh - watching this develop. |
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Post by brandnewface on Apr 19, 2006 19:58:47 GMT 1
haha i mean, I dont think if I agree completely, but we do know that "grunge TM" was this label hyped by the media. but yeah, that was funny hah  |
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Post by norecess on Apr 19, 2006 22:47:15 GMT 1
Obviously depends on what your deifinition of grunge is And who is overrating. |
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Post by Smallstone on Apr 20, 2006 11:59:06 GMT 1
Bit of a twit by the name of Mark Sutherland.
Ex-Melody Maker journo. Ended up editing it. Ran it into ground.
This is PRE internet boom.
He really did a job on it.
Brit Pop fan.
Mensi from Angelic Upstarts look-alike.
Idiot.
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Post by h8kurdt on Apr 20, 2006 16:27:51 GMT 1
As the old saying goes "Bloody Idiot". The fact that he make's "grunge" kids seem lke they're nothing but a bunch of miserable gimps who do nothing but complain about how shit their life was gives the guy no credit that's emo you're talking about pleb. Beisdes the big four (A.I.C, Pearl jam, Soundgarden and Nirvana) non of the other "grunge" bands were moaning, whiny muppets were they? Tad, Mudhoney etc. never whined more just sang about random stuff. Bloody knobhead more like.
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Post by Thurston_Whore on Apr 20, 2006 17:11:40 GMT 1
Grunge died out thanks to people like him not knowing anything about it Bar the big dogs like Nirvana,Pearl Jam ect...This guy purely knows shit we must laugh at reviews like this as they have no meaning really.
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Post by yoodooright on Apr 21, 2006 12:52:50 GMT 1
this picture scares me.  |
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Post by yoodooright on Apr 21, 2006 13:00:49 GMT 1
i also enjoy his best of's...
Best Gig?
So many contenders: Radiohead at Glastonbury 1997; Richey Edwards' last gig with the Manics at London Astoria; Blur at The Dublin Castle; Suede at Southampton Joiners Arms; Oasis at Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms; Green Day at Reading Festival 2004 ... I could go on. And almost certainly will, if you buy me a pint.
Six records you couldn't live without?
* Pinkerton by Weezer;
* Free All Angels by Ash;
* Modern Life Is Rubbish by Blur;
* London Calling by The Clash;
* Disintegration by The Cure;
* Don't Stop Movin' by S Club 7.
i dunno... maybe he's just being hironic.
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Post by Smallstone on Apr 21, 2006 15:05:29 GMT 1
He's really not being ironic.... thats the saddest part. He edited Melody Maker for about 3 years. Took it from being an ok/pretty good - US Alt-rock friendly broadsheet that was ESSENTIAL weekly (even up to like 1994) reading to a glossy sub standard crap Smash Hits that even makes todays NME look cutting edge. It really was that bad. Then it folded!!! Due to lack of readers!!! Now he has the audacity to lark around as a 'broadcaster' on an otherwise ok digital radio station!! It would be funny if it wasn't so tragic!!! He is all about sub par - over hyped - flash in the pan - all style no substance - awful UK 'indie rock'. Personally speaking the reason I fell in love with Mudhoney / Sonic Youth / Dinosaur / S3 / Loop / Butthole Surfers etc etc was due to reading about them in Melody Maker and going - ooh I like the sound of that! It really was an alternative to the below par jangly nonsense that passed as 'indie' in the late '80s that the NME prattled on about and this guy wrote about!! Rant over  |
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Post by I love Kim Deal on Apr 24, 2006 11:24:19 GMT 1
sorry but I don't agree:
Soundgarden weren't rubbish, they whooped Pearl Jam's ass (sorry if you disagree but it's my opinion)
Nirvana had better songs than Teen Spirit....... like the rest of Nevermind and In Utero (Serve the Servants, Scentless Apprentice anyone?)
and Pearl Jam were and still are: middle of the road rock trash.
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