At 10:12 PM 4/5/2004 -0600, you wrote:
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>I think Nirvana was an interesting band who deservedly earned their place in
>history for "Nevermind" and, more specifically, "Smells Like Teen Spirit."
>But, then again, I thought a lot of bands that came out of Seattle were
>interesting...and, frankly, the Posies had more of a lasting effect on me
>and my musical tastes than Nirvana ever did.

They did too - and I heard about them before Nirvana hit, along with The
Smithereens (the group that freed Power Pop from its "Skinny Tie" association)
Chris Von Sniedern, Matthew Sweet and the first Yellow Pills comp, "Dear 23"
was one of re-entry CD's to the Power Pop scene I had forgotten about since
the
early 80's. 

I remember heaing "Teen Spirit" on my local CHR station in the car. It was a
very strange song to be heaing on a station that was usually spinning
Wilson/Philips. And when "Nevermind" knocked off Michael Jackson from the
number one position and thinking "the home team won - finally". It was a great
exhilarating feeling to see something new breakthough to the mainstream and
knock off the prefab junk, but what it ushered in and got tamed down into was
nothing what I wanted. 

I still wonder what would have happened if Kurt lived - would he have become
the "genus" MTV-Rolling Stone proclaimed him as or a guy who just got lucky? 
Billy G. Spradlin
http://listen.to/jangleradio