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  1. 9 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Sounds late.  The song was released to radio in August 1991, and the album came out a month later.  By year's end the whole thing was massive.

    It mighta been sooner.  

  2. 22 hours ago, oSuJeff97 said:

    I think most of us here are around the same age (I graduated HS in '93), but for those who may happen to be younger and weren't experiencing Nirvana "real time," it's hard to not understate how different they sounded from everything else out there when they burst onto the scene in '91.

    Yes, of course they were highly influenced by the Pixies and other punk/underground rock bands, but for most of us kids living in the suburbs, we weren't listening to any of that. We were listening to whatever was on MTV and top 40 radio, and when Nirvana happened it was like, WHAT. IS. THIS.  It really did blow my fucking mind.

    It's hard to separate their music from the legend now and also from the dozens and dozens of bands who were influenced by their sound/attitude/everything.

     

    One of my classmates dropped "Smells Like Teen Spirit" into his boom box after gym class in early 1992 or so.  Cranked it all the way up.  EVERYBODY in ear shot stopped what they were doing and just listened.  Hair metal, simply, syrupy riffs and all the "W Bands" (Warrant, Winger, Whitesnake, White Lion, etc) were all killed on that day.  I'm not sure there has ever been a sharper break between 2 musical eras.

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  3. The book went into that with a lotta detail. Fuisz may or may not have patented a key process that machine would need, before Theranos knew they needed it. He may have intended to hold them hostage with it. There had been some...bad blood...between the 2 families leading into all that.

    Fuisz was portrayed in the book as a general ahole. He was purported to be estranged with at least one of his sons. Over an entirely different thing.

    Or not. Might all be spin and perspective.

  4. On 3/9/2019 at 12:05 AM, Buffsoldier said:

    While being pleasured by Kate Beckinsale and Sofia Vergara.

    Seriously though, I'd love to know that my death provided others the opportunity for life.  Therefore this is the way I'd like to go.  On my way to have my organs donated:

     

    There are a bunch of these on Youtube.  Never heard of it before.

     

  5. I finished the book in record time.  No details about the sharting dog, but it's still an incredible read.  My take:

    She's a sociopath; like clinically crazy sociopath.  It's the only way she could do what she did, and the only way a person could keep all those lies going for over a decade.  A flury of bodyguards (more than Rupert Murdock had.)  Office visitors had to sign non-disclosures.  She had former employees followed by private investigators.

    Rich people going all Game of Thrones with weaponized money instead of weaponized dragons, and I liked this part the best.  The Holmes family had a major throwdown with their rich friends, the Fuisz family over literally nothing about hurt feelings.  They tried to bankrupt eachother with lawyers.

    Tyler Schulz's story was the saddest.  After Holmes found out he blew the whistle to the WSJ, she sent Silicon Valley's most assholish lawyer to his grandfather George Shultz's house to get him to convince Tyler to sign some kinda "cease and desist" order.  Grandpa took Holmes side and berated Tyler for DAYS.  To hs great credit, Tyler Schulz never folded.  He and his grandfather have parted ways.

  6. Ten years ago I went through a stretch where I thought their music had aged poorly.

    I was wrong. Their best song is Heart Shaped Box.

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