SD> Uh, the artist's name is Matthew Wilder, I believe... 
 SD> for some reason, that comes to mind.  I agree with you 
 SD> on that... there's not enough creativity IMHO in 
 SD> mainstream music nowadays.
Yeah, that's the problem. Nothing great has come out (with the exclusion of 
Aenima by Tool) since the early nineties. With bands like Nirvana, Alice in 
Chains, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, etc. Come to think of it, there are a couple 
of exceptions, but they are just later releases by those early 90's bands.
 GB> There is music out there today that is original. Just not Rap.
 SD> Yeah, I guess I overgeneralized (I have a bad habit of 
 SD> that) with that.  I've heard all sorts of great music-
 SD> in all sorts of genres that is cool.  Yeah, I have my 
 SD> particular tastes, but I enjoy taking a taste of 
 SD> everything that is out there and settling on what I 
 SD> like best. :)
Yeah, just listen to what exists, and go with what's best. I don't give a 
rat's ass what everyone else is listening to, because it half the time it 
sucks. 
 GB> more re-done. I am 16, and stuck in the grunge era of the early
 GB> nineties.
 SD> Well, I guess you could say that you'd have to have 
 SD> grown up in the 80's to really like them.  Looking back 
 SD> now (!), I can see how silly the songs may sound to me 
 SD> now, but back then, that was the latest thing and it 
 SD> brings back happy memories. :)  As for being redone-I 
 SD> agree-leave the originals alone.
Well, that's what I hear. People who grew up in the eighties like that music, 
and most other people don't. Personally, I think most of the fashions, and 
music is amusing, but you can't argue with nostalgia.
 SD> agree-leave the originals alone.
 SD> I remember back in 1989, I was living in Portland, 
 SD> Oregon (which is about a 2 hour drive south of Seatte, 
 SD> Washington where Nirvana's from).  A friend came back 
 SD> from Seattle with a copy of a band he had heard playing 
 SD> at a local club up there called Nirvana.
 SD> I listened to him and said, "Oh, they'll never make mainstream." :P 

As soon as I heard Smells Like Teen Spirit, I knew they would be big. They 
would have been huge, but Cobain killed himself. 
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