80's music sucks?? Feelies, Volcano Suns, Husker Du, Mission of Burma, Minutemen, Firehose, Black Flag, Pixies, Throwing Muses, the Fall, Dinosaur Jr., Meat Puppets, New Order, Echo and the Bunnymen, Killing Joke, Magazine, Minor Threat, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Public Image Limited, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, The Replacements, Ministry, Revolting Cocks, Rites of Spring, Big Black, The Smiths, Dead Milkmen, Social Distortion, X, Galaxie 500, Bad Religion, Butthole Surfers, the Chills, the Clean, the Clash, Cocteau Twins, The Cramps, The Cure, The Damned, Hoodoo Gurus...oh yeah, absolutely nothing good in any of those.
And for the record, Nirvana may seem overrated and completely played to death, but in 1991 they came in like a huge breath of fresh air. For those not alive or too young to remember it, if you were 16 and heard "Smells Like Teen Spirit" for the first time (even if you were a fan of the Pixies), it still sounded like a revolution of sound. My friends that were into hair metal literally dropped that stuff overnight and started wearing flannel and going to Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam concerts. That's what Nirvana did. They brought an end to the excess of the popular 80's arena rock. A lot of other bands could have done it. But they made the sort of record that was in the right place at the right time. It's still a great LP. And if it didn't sell 10 million copies, nobody would say it was overrated. It'd be another "Loveless".
