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Originally Posted by Irish Pimp
my point is that they walked through an open door.
bleach was a great record. nevermind was catchy and got them that guitar hook that had everyone playing air guitar and the fender mustangs tripled in price over it. i liked the record. i dont know if i ever need to hear it again, but i liked it
didnt one of the guys from soundgarden help start subpop or something? he was buddies with them?
measuring nirvana's place by looking at the popularity of them in the public eye....
in my not so humble opinion, if we only have two to pick from... put Ten and Nevermind on the scale of ground breaking
Ten wins. i remember the first time that i heard that record, i didnt even think that the band Mookie Blaylock could have done something that good.
the song Hunger Strike still rings in my head from time to time. that was a crossover from metal to alternative.
as for S.T.P. "flies in the vasoline we are, sometimes it blows my mind"
fun band to see live, good musicians, they earned a place.
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Mark Arm from Mudhoney was really good freinds with one of the founders of Sub Pop. I belive Soundgarden's manager Susan Silver (who later married Chris Cornell) was also involved with Sub Pop. That record label released a lot of compilation CDs that had early songs on them from Soundgarden, Mookie Blaylock, Screaming Trees, Nirvana, Mudhoney, Mother Lover Bone (and Green River) and a lot of other lesser known Northwest bands. Mudhoney really helped put them on the map and then when the scene exploded they had all these early releases from these now huge bands so they rode the wave to fame. After Nevermind hit they were selling more copies of Bleach each day than they had sold combined up until then.
I would agree that Ten probably had as much influnce nationally as Nevermind did. They were both very big popular records but Ten did seem launch Pearl Jam into its own orbit. Both bands had very good singers but I think Vedder was better able to make a connection with the crowd and the fans that gave thier music an accessibility that Nivana's sometimes lacked.