![]() You could surely prefer the style or production values of one to the other, but adoring one and detesting the other? Come on. I'm disparaging the notion that you could think Bleach was a fantastic record and Nevermind an abhorrent one for any reason other than the relatively popularity of the two. One of the first songs I ever learned to play on guitar was "About A Girl," and I think I once knew all the words to "Swap Meet" or at least believed I did. I've got European bootlegs containing outtakes from the Nevermind sessions and throwaways from the Bleach era. It doesn't mean anything except that we listened to different music. I'm not sure why you'd disparage people who knew and loved the band before that. You decide to get over it and be pleased that you have all sorts of great memories of bands playing in garages and shows getting shut down and everyone going to drink down by the river instead. Then you remember that your parents told you this exact thing would happen and you would feel this way because it happens to every generation of people. And you get to be slightly miffed that the dumbshits who teased you in school for wearing thermals under your torn-up jeans have all run out to buy flannels and thermals for themselves. Then you get to be annoyed and old and cranky at all the people who have newly discovered the stuff you've been going to see in people's garages and shows that get shut down in the middle of the first band. My first thought was, "They're playing this on the radio? " When the kind of music you've listened to for years suddenly gets non-college airplay, you wonder what it takes for that particular song to make it when so many other good bands apparently had no luck. Still remember the first time I heard Smells Like Teen Spirit. ![]()
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