Smells Like Teen Spirit

[Harry Seldon]

You're all crazy. Nirvana is the real world equivelant of Wyld Stallions!

[Winston]

Well they aren't delegates to a hairdressers' convention that's for sure.

[Harry Seldon]

[Monk]

Ecthelion, how can you think as Pearl Jam as an overrated band given the fact MTV, VH1 and popular radio virtually never play a Pearl Jam song? Were you thinking about critics, or..?

[Ecthy]

They're quoted among the people I know. And they sound sh!t.

I wouldn't know about their public/media popularity though.

[St Leo]

01) Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

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20) AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long

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36) Joan Jett - I Love Rock ‘N Roll

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52) The Rolling Stones - Start Me Up

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75) The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated

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96) Beastie Boys - (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party!)

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Is there any punk on this list? It's a pity that AC/DC's You Shook Me All Night Long was the only real metal song that made it. Yes, Metallica, NiN, and Def Leppard do suck.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I think it's an ok list. I mean, you have to realize that it WILL be slanted more towards the present, that is also why Eminem was 4. He'd definetly be in the top 10 anyway, but they probably wanted a modern song in the top 5.

#1 was a great choice, IMO. That song was HUGE!

And though I think "Closer" by NIN and "Wonderwall" by Oasis should have been higher (and add a Billy Joel song or two), it ain't a bad list at all.

[Solver]

Eh, if Eminem got #1, I would personally have a fight with VH1.

[Ecthy]

I don't think they'd give a damn, Solver

[Solver]

Probably.

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Harry Seldon


Pearl Jam is probably the sorriest band to ever stand in the shadow and ride the coattails of another band. Eddie Vedder would still be prostituting himself for crack if Nirvana hadn't paved the way for their suckfest music.

You won't believe this, but it's actually the reverse. Sort of.

Pearl Jam is made up of Eddie Vedder and all the surviving members of a band called "Mother Love Bone", which, if you ask around, you will find was at the top of the Seattle Grunge scene before the lead singer ODed.

Mother Love Bone paved the way for bands like Nirvana and Soundgarden.

ACK!

[Jeltz]

Oh my God, it's full of crap!
By the way, am I weird if I don't like Nirvana, but like Pearl Jam (one of my favourite bands ever)? Does Nirvana really have any other "good" songs besides Smells Like Teen Spirit, which is, imho, a mediocre song?

[Jeltz]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
pathetic

Nirvana was the most overrated band EVER

and that song sucks

why not evenflow by pearl jam, not as #1, but at least to replace smells like teen bullsh1t

I agree with you 100%

[Dis]

where's the puke smiley when you need it.

Yuck, Yuck, and more yuck.

And they names some of the groupes worst songs.

Billy Jean

Sweet Child o Mine?

Those aren't their best songs.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I will argue anytime, anywhere, with anyone who pays for my beer that the greatest songwriter of the last 25 years is, without a doubt, Elvis Costello. "Pump it Up," "Radio, Radio," and "Oliver's Army" kick the ass of almost everything on that list (though, technically, "Pump It Up" may be 26 years old...).

Several cases of right singer/wrong song, too: "No Souveniers" is a way better Melissa Etheridge song than "Come to My Window"; "Pink Houses" is a better John Cougar song than "Jack and Diane"; "Freedom, Part 2" or whatever its called is a better George Michael song than "Faith"; and pretty much everything Sheryl Crow's ever recorded is better than "All I Wanna Do."

And, for the record, the best song on that list is actually:
59) Meat Loaf-Paradise By The Dashboard Light