Fur Elise.
Originally Posted by Sting
Love it. All the devilish diminished and augmented, rootless chords and harmonies, then it's all sunshine and C major.
It's my mood swings in a song.
Originally Posted by Sting
Then, the pinnacle of all NMN creation: the arc from Madness and Death to Happy Bridge to Kill Everyone Now. This might be the most sublime (and probably most personally listened) arc of songs I've experienced. It just hits me every time. I'm a loud volume listener.
You know, I'm in the buff / north rage camp of music, that's kind of my home or wheelhouse. Different than those two, but I see some musical similarities.
Madness and Death starts at 19:19, start there. You know, if you want to really understand who the hawg is. Like, the ugly deep down hawg. God I love that dude.
Originally Posted by Sting
I guess everyone wants more NMN
Name a better rock and roll band rhythm section.
Can't? Make sure...
Look, Rob is old as **** (~40) during this tour. But damn if they don't approach Rush and in some ways exceed.
Originally Posted by Sting
Slick, as a Primus/Tool guy, surprised this band isn't in your wheelhouse. Probably too late to get into it now, but for me this sound was adjacent to Primus back in the day. It has aged well for me.
Originally Posted by Sting
Speaking of which,
Rob (of NMN) is the better bassist. But Les has that style..better overall stage act.
Originally Posted by Sting
Last NMN for a while I swear.
Like anyone listens anyway. I'll be be tomorrow with more NMN until everyone tells me to **** off.
Originally Posted by Sting
I'm revisiting Nirvana's studio efforts this evening.
What about Nirvana really turns you on?
Did you know that Nirvana and NoMeansNo played at the same time, 60 miles apart geographically? And that David Grohl is a huge NMN fan?
I never cared much for Nirvana.
In a 2010 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Grohl placed the Nomeansno song It’s Catching Up in his personal Top 10 of all time.
“I thought my destiny was to work at a furniture warehouse,” wrote Grohl, whose previous band, Scream, opened for Nomeansno during a 1987 show in Tacoma. “But then I saw hardcore bands and I realized, ‘I can do this!’ ”
Originally Posted by Sting
Some of it is nostalgia, maybe. As a young man, I remember how life-altering it was to hear this angsty, heavy music compared to the hair metal bands, which just weren't my thing and were my first introduction to rock. Certainly, Nirvana was the least talented band of the era, IMO. Pearl Jam was a much more well-oiled machine and had better songwriters. Soundgarden's members were the most talented of the bunch from Cornell's vocal range to Thayil's guitar playing. Smashing Pumpkins spoke to me more, for some reason, and I have read some stuff on Corgan's songwriting musings that I greatly respect. But something about the rawness of Nirvana is just kind of fun (this is not the right word, but that word is not coming to mind).
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