[Superstar Steve]

...I would like to believe he wouldn't have licensed Nirvana music to Guitar Hero.

I don't understand the lure of that game. It is just Simon on crack.

[PsionStorm]

They're great party games. Even better when you're drunk.

I prefer Rock Band, personally, but then again, the drums in that game do a pretty good simulation of actually playing real drums when you play on higher difficulties, and the singing actually requires you to be on pitch.

It's fairly difficult and as close to the real thing as you'll get in a game.

The guitar, on the other hand... well... that's not.

[Captain Howdy]

PsionStorm wrote:

I prefer Rock Band, personally, but then again, the drums in that game do a pretty good simulation of actually playing real drums when you play on higher difficulties

Have you seen the videos for the drum set in GH4 yet?

[PsionStorm]

Yeah, I have. I do like that set much better, but I'm skeptical of Activision to put it to good use. Rock Band is such a great game because it doesn't lose sight of what it was - a music game where you play songs. Facing off against the devil and throwing spiked notes is just a bit too far-fetched for me, and I strayed away from the Guitar Hero series because of it.

I've become pretty loyal to Harmonix in the meantime. Every single week since RB hit shelves, there has been downloadable content. It's been mostly quality, too. Activision has been pretty sloppy w/ their DLC, in my opinion.

But, that is a pretty sweet drum kit, and the create-a-song could be fairly awesome if it's not just a lame gimmick. I'm just not sure I want to shell out cash to have another set of plastic instruments in my living room - especially when I can play the real thing.

[FlairFanatic]

If Kurt Cobain was still alive, maybe we wouldnt need to hear the same 4 nirvana songs over and over on the radio?

[Who enjoys Family Circus?]

Wow, all I can say is wow"- Steve Martin

[Captain Howdy]

FlairFanatic wrote:

If Kurt Cobain was still alive, maybe we wouldnt need to hear the same 4 nirvana songs over and over on the radio?

I hate to break this to you, but there's a hell of a lot more than 4 Nirvana songs in regular rotation on the radio. I can think of at least 10 off the top of my head....and I'm sure there's more than that.

Try being around when they first came out and ALL you heard on the radio was Smells Like Teen Spirit and Come As You Are every half hour, and then you can complain.

[MAV]

Captain Howdy wrote:

FlairFanatic wrote: If Kurt Cobain was still alive, maybe we wouldnt need to hear the same 4 nirvana songs over and over on the radio? I hate to break this to you, but there's a hell of a lot more than 4 Nirvana songs in regular rotation on the radio. I can think of at least 10 off the top of my head....and I'm sure there's more than that. Try being around when they first came out and ALL you heard on the radio was Smells Like Teen Spirit and Come As You Are every half hour, and then you can complain.

I was. It was rough. I always found it interesting Kobain was so anti-corporate but the video for SLTS played nearly non-fucking stop in a half hour loop on MTV.

Thankfully...while I've never been his biggest fan, his latter work did grow on me to where I could enjoy it.

He pretty much fronted a new style' of music that dominated the airwaves for years and still influences it to a large degree. He kind of comes across very similar to a 90's version of Morrison. Plus...anyone partially responsible for the creation of the Foo Fighters (by launching David Grohl's career) can't be all bad.

Then again, anyone who led to Courtney Love having any credibility artistically can't be all good either.

Mav

[InfamousTIM]

Nirvana is so overrated!

[Skip McGee]

Superstar Steve wrote:

...I would like to believe he wouldn't have licensed Nirvana music to Guitar Hero.

why? he had no problem with making money?

[FlairFanatic]

Well, a station in CT called 104.1 really sticks to 4 or 5 songs of theres and constantly loop them like the rest of there playlist, but, Nirvana is so overplayed its gone from enjoyable to turning my radio off to listen to the highway noise. Staind is also like that.

[DarkJoker]

MAV wrote:

I always found it interesting Kobain was so anti-corporate but the video for SLTS played nearly non-fucking stop in a half hour loop on MTV.

I heard about this myth once or twice. That MTV would play music videos. Was this a long time ago in a galazy far far away?

[MAV]

FlairFanatic wrote:

Well, a station in CT called 104.1 really sticks to 4 or 5 songs of theres and constantly loop them like the rest of there playlist, but, Nirvana is so overplayed its gone from enjoyable to turning my radio off to listen to the highway noise. Staind is also like that.

I feel the same way about Led Zeppelin. It's probably a really good song, but if I hear "Stairway to Heaven" one more time, I'm going to jam an ice pick in my right ear.

[GrayGhost]

there's a lady who's sure, all that glitters is gold
and she's buying a stairway to heaven.
When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for...

Just a little for Mav on a day of severe nerves.

[MAV]

GrayGhost wrote:

there's a lady who's sure, all that glitters is gold and she's buying a stairway to heaven. When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed With a word she can get what she came for... Just a little for Mav on a day of severe nerves.

Y'know, if you insist on singing it...it would be far more effective and less painful to myself to jam the ice pick in YOUR ear.

[GrayGhost]

If theres a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now, its just a spring clean for the May queen.

There are two paths you can go by, but in the long run..there's still time to change the road your on.

PAIN FROM THE ICE PICK

[Kudo Driver]

Interesting that "Stairway" and Cobain are tied together in my little world. It seems the song that ends all middle-school dances, even now, is "Stairway to Heaven". I will forever have the image of kids swaying in each others' arms whenever that song is played, and the inescapable drive to tell said kids to keep their hands in PG-rated places. That part of my job sucks.

I have also found that a lot of my kids, namely the emo crew, hold Cobain on a pedestal as some uncrowned musical god. I was always irked at the notion of Cobain as the John Lennon of my generation (I'll allow that Morrison is a much more appropriate comparison with the self-destructive poet thing); I find it much more fitting that Cobain is an idol for the emo kids of America. I was in high school when Nirvana was huge, and about all I could deal with from them was "Territorial Pissings". Having lived through it myself, in my opinion, they're welcome to him.

I like the Foo Fighters, though. Grohl was the musical talent in Nirvana.

[MAV]

Kudo Driver wrote:

Interesting that "Stairway" and Cobain are tied together in my little world. It seems the song that ends all middle-school dances, even now, is "Stairway to Heaven". I will forever have the image of kids swaying in each others' arms whenever that song is played, and the inescapable drive to tell said kids to keep their hands in PG-rated places. That part of my job sucks. I have also found that a lot of my kids, namely the emo crew, hold Cobain on a pedestal as some uncrowned musical god. I was always irked at the notion of Cobain as the John Lennon of my generation (I'll allow that Morrison is a much more appropriate comparison with the self-destructive poet thing); I find it much more fitting that Cobain is an idol for the emo kids of America. I was in high school when Nirvana was huge, and about all I could deal with from them was "Territorial Pissings". Having lived through it myself, in my opinion, they're welcome to him. I like the Foo Fighters, though. Grohl was the musical talent in Nirvana.

I was always lonely at the dances, and my hand always ended up on my own no-no spot afterwards...and there was no gentle swaying involved. Usually just spit, callouses and shame.

[Captain Howdy]

FlairFanatic wrote:

Well, a station in CT called 104.1 really sticks to 4 or 5 songs of theres and constantly loop them like the rest of there playlist,

I listen to 104 during the day myself, and you are over-exaggerating. Between 9 am and 7 pm if I hear any song repeated I'm amazed, and in an average day I'll hear Nirvana maybe twice.

[enforcer]

FlairFanatic wrote:

Well, a station in CT called 104.1 really sticks to 4 or 5 songs of theres and constantly loop them like the rest of there playlist, but, Nirvana is so overplayed its gone from enjoyable to turning my radio off to listen to the highway noise. Staind is also like that.

According the 104.1's top 100 over the past seven days:
http://www.yes.com/#WURH?chart

Quote:

50Nirvana - Lithium 64Nirvana - All Apologies 78Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit 84Nirvana - About A Girl 92Nirvana - On A Plain 96Nirvana - Dumb 99Nirvana - Rape Me

[Randy Orton]

Too bad, no aneurysm.

[FlairFanatic]

Captain Howdy wrote:

FlairFanatic wrote: Well, a station in CT called 104.1 really sticks to 4 or 5 songs of theres and constantly loop them like the rest of there playlist, I listen to 104 during the day myself, and you are over-exaggerating. Between 9 am and 7 pm if I hear any song repeated I'm amazed, and in an average day I'll hear Nirvana maybe twice.

Im listening at total opposite hours, so, thats probably why.

[lateralus4885]

AIC > Nirvana

[Captain Howdy]

FlairFanatic wrote:

Im listening at total opposite hours, so, thats probably why.

Not so much.

I just looked at the playlist on the web site and between midnight and 8 am today they played 2 Nirvana songs...

12:55 am - Something in the Way

4:32 am - Rape Me


Like I said, you're over-exaggerating.