blame Nirvana :p


seriously - they are in a large part responsible for bridging the gap between 'alternative' and mainstream music.
there isnt such thing as alternative anymore.
I know thats a shitty label people hate but 20 years ago there was a definate division between top 30 rock and alt-rock... and radio stations played one or the other.

Nirvana became bigger than the flavour of the week .. they became the bad boy media darlings and made alt rock financially viable .. thus completely and forever melting the line between the 2 music factions.

there are still 2 main types of music radio .. dance stations - and everything else. (dance has become the new top 30)

Nirvana didnt do this on their own of course - but intentionally or not - they were the spearhead.
maybe this is why Kurt couldnt live with himself.

Music eventually slips into the mainstream. I think the big issue here is bands not keeping their integrity.

Well the thing is Metallica can't be expected to get older and keep making a Kill Em All album after album -- their music tastes and direction will "grow"... however, I just didn't care for the direction they were growing into... I think that's how a lot of people feel and it's not so much about the integrity thing, it's just been easier to dismiss it that way. ah well... I lost interest after And Justice For All. Hammett is the only dude from that band I'd want to be sat next to on a long plane trip.

Re: Metallica
 

St. Anger Blows:)

I felt Black was a great album but like others said it was Metallica's last. IMO there are more than a few good songs and I don't mind listening to it and knowng that it will be the last album from Metallica I had ever bought.

Fuck the black album

Get Kill 'Em All instead. You won't regret it.

Metallica is mad but there movie was shit

this has been said a thousand times but the black album was indeed the begining of the downward spiral of mettalica's song writing tallent.


but did anyone see them play iron man at the rock and roll hall of fame. imo it wasnt half bad.

They're never bad live. What's bad is everything they've released after the black album.

Id give him a guitar lesson

hehe