Not really a massive fan of either band. Nevermind is a fantastic record and for me Exile is a slightly better than average one.
On that Nevermind wins.
It's personal opinion, of course. For me Nirvana (like The Stone Roses) are a band that everyone is supposed to revere. But I just don't get the Emperor's New Clothes bollox.
Nirvana good, Stones the best (for me). Everything is relative as Albert would say.
Nevermind. Wasn't into music as a young child (think early 90s pop like Kylie and Jason, Chesney Hawks, Timmy fucking Mallet etc.) Heard Smells Like Teen Spirit, liked music.
Not really a massive fan of either band. Nevermind is a fantastic record and for me Exile is a slightly better than average one.
On that Nevermind wins.
It's personal opinion, of course. For me Nirvana (like The Stone Roses) are a band that everyone is supposed to revere. But I just don't get the Emperor's New Clothes bollox.
Nirvana good, Stones the best (for me). Everything is relative as Albert would say.
As someone who never bought into the chart music thing in general, and never followed trends or fashion, I have to say from a standing-back-and-observing point of view that both The Stone Roses and Nevermind were fantastic albums, the only "pop" albums that I thought enough of to buy (my musical taste has broadened since) in about fifteen years. I like the Stones too.
Don't matter what anyone on here says, Exile is the better album by a country and blues and Rock n Roll mile. Musics equivalent of The Shawshank Redemption.
Don't matter what anyone on here says, Exile is the better album by a country and blues and Rock n Roll mile. Musics equivalent of The Shawshank Redemption.
Don't matter what anyone on here says, Exile is the better album by a country and blues and Rock n Roll mile. Musics equivalent of The Shawshank Redemption.
Don't matter what anyone on here says, Exile is the better album by a country and blues and Rock n Roll mile. Musics equivalent of The Shawshank Redemption.
Don't matter what anyone on here says, Exile is the better album by a country and blues and Rock n Roll mile. Musics equivalent of The Shawshank Redemption.
Overrated film, amazing acting makes up for an average storyline.
Don't matter what anyone on here says, Exile is the better album by a country and blues and Rock n Roll mile. Musics equivalent of The Shawshank Redemption.
Overrated film, amazing acting makes up for an average storyline.
I was referring to the way both were initially received.....
I've counted ten apiece. As it was a tie, the two have been separated by the amount of initial votes, which was 6-3 in favour of...
I make it 12-10 to Nevermind
There were some in there that were comments about liking Nevermind that didn't actually seem like votes saying that they actually thought it was a better album, so I didn't count those, but do feel free to recount my scores as I'm utterly useless at it and got different results on my first three counts.
I've counted ten apiece. As it was a tie, the two have been separated by the amount of initial votes, which was 6-3 in favour of...
I make it 12-10 to Nevermind
There were some in there that were comments about liking Nevermind that didn't actually seem like votes saying that they actually thought it was a better album, so I didn't count those, but do feel free to recount my scores as I'm utterly useless at it and got different results on my first three counts.
Unusually I have both of these despite them being outside my core 1979-87 musical range. If I had not fallen out of love with music in 1987 I would probably have loved Nevermind and seen Nirvana. Never mind as they say. It does reference quite a lot of the stuff I was into (and people I knew at that time like Dan Treacy of the TV Personalities) so it's going to get my vote. It's not in my top 5, but there again I wrote my top 5 while on holiday and missed out what is my favourite album because I had nothing to refer to.
Exile on Main St is one of only 2 Stones records I have. It should probably be more, but by the time I was getting into music the Stones were, well, a bit naff. This is well before Start Me Up was used by Microsoft to advertise Windows and the crap cover of Dancing in the Street with Bowie and ... Anyway, the 2 Stones records I have are "Their Satanic Majesties" (though I've no idea where it is) and Exile. Both were bought under the influence of the sort of conversation that begins "if you like that, you'll love this". TSMR was because I liked psychedelia. Exile it was from a love of Americana. And it's a pleasant enough record, but it really doesn't do it for me in the way that The Byrds did, or the first couple of Wilco albums, or Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels.
Unusually I have both of these despite them being outside my core 1979-87 musical range. If I had not fallen out of love with music in 1987 I would probably have loved Nevermind and seen Nirvana. Never mind as they say. It does reference quite a lot of the stuff I was into (and people I knew at that time like Dan Treacy of the TV Personalities) so it's going to get my vote. It's not in my top 5, but there again I wrote my top 5 while on holiday and missed out what is my favourite album because I had nothing to refer to.
Exile on Main St is one of only 2 Stones records I have. It should probably be more, but by the time I was getting into music the Stones were, well, a bit naff. This is well before Start Me Up was used by Microsoft to advertise Windows and the crap cover of Dancing in the Street with Bowie and ... Anyway, the 2 Stones records I have are "Their Satanic Majesties" (though I've no idea where it is) and Exile. Both were bought under the influence of the sort of conversation that begins "if you like that, you'll love this". TSMR was because I liked psychedelia. Exile it was from a love of Americana. And it's a pleasant enough record, but it really doesn't do it for me in the way that The Byrds did, or the first couple of Wilco albums, or Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels.
Beggers Banquet has more of an Americana feel to it than Exile IMO
I've counted ten apiece. As it was a tie, the two have been separated by the amount of initial votes, which was 6-3 in favour of...
I make it 12-10 to Nevermind
There were some in there that were comments about liking Nevermind that didn't actually seem like votes saying that they actually thought it was a better album, so I didn't count those, but do feel free to recount my scores as I'm utterly useless at it and got different results on my first three counts.
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cos if not you might still swing the vote to the correct decision.
Move on and give us the next tie: Kind of Blue v Metal Machine Music
Exile on Main St is one of only 2 Stones records I have. It should probably be more, but by the time I was getting into music the Stones were, well, a bit naff. This is well before Start Me Up was used by Microsoft to advertise Windows and the crap cover of Dancing in the Street with Bowie and ... Anyway, the 2 Stones records I have are "Their Satanic Majesties" (though I've no idea where it is) and Exile. Both were bought under the influence of the sort of conversation that begins "if you like that, you'll love this". TSMR was because I liked psychedelia. Exile it was from a love of Americana. And it's a pleasant enough record, but it really doesn't do it for me in the way that The Byrds did, or the first couple of Wilco albums, or Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels.