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Originally Posted by Savage Clone
Spacemen 3 also started a year before JAMC.
(And were also only "noisy" for a short part of their overall time)
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Yeah. I said that. “One noise album followed by several pop albums.”
The noise element they started with — essentially riffing on VU — was done to perfection by Spacemen 3, even if S3 started earlier (not sure about timelines off the top of my head). Ditto for Spiritualized. It’s all very VU. J&MC added some Beach Boys and new wave into the mix with Darklands, but none of that has much to do with Nirvana.
Hooks aren’t what set Nirvana apart. It’s hooks and delivery and the method of writing.
Again, who sounds like them? Not J&MC. Not Dino. Nor does Nirvana sound derivative of either. At all. Surprised nobody threw Melvins out there. Would have been much closer. But none of these bands wrote three-chord pop songs that struck the tone of Nirvana.
Just saying, Nirvana doesn’t really sound like any of the bands they were influenced by, nor do the bands they influenced truly sound like them.
Nirvana was musically interesting as hell.