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It wasn't Extreme's fault that they didn't do commercially well in the late 1990's.

A new style of music was coming onto the scene with greasy hair and lots and lots of flannel. Grunge was taking over and for some reason there seemed to not be enough room for the style of music Extreme was putting out.

This always confuses me though. I would never put Nirvana and Extreme in the same category of genre even though they are both under the general umbrella of rock. Why couldn't they both exist?

Honestly...this is how I feel about all types of music. Why don't we have music from the 40's and 50's anymore? Where's yacht rock? I'm rambling.

SOURCES:

Music Museum of New England, Extreme history:The history of Extreme

Album review by Mike Ledano:Review: Extreme - The Best of Extreme: An Accidental Collication of Atoms?

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P in D

Nice nails ;) . Sax is a woodwind ... yes, I'm sure you know :p. Notice SENA's woodgrain guitar is an ode to Nuno's famous N4 Washburn. The company called him several times wanting to paint his signature guitar "some color" and he consistently refused stating "This is the way its supposed to look". Nuno singing is VERY RARE ... but he has a great voice. The horn remix of this song is not well known but the original version is and has been covered ... mostly badly, by many ... some of the better covers include SENA seen here and Hyunjung from Rolling Quartz who plays a section of the song live. So ... You have now done 3 songs by Extreme. You did He-man Woman Hater, Play With Me from Bill and Ted's Excellent adventure, and now Cupid's Dead ... a cut from each of the first three albums ... it should be a little clearer now as to why real fans of the band EXTREME did not really care for "More Than Words" ... and I'll just leave it at that :p . You have a Beatles song coming up in your Patreon requests and it is a bit of a deep cut ;) . A chance to redeem yourself with a track maybe many don't know ;) . A very famous song nonetheless.

P in D

Thanks for the links NittPicc ... the song "Hip Today" with video attached at the bottom of the album review is really the chronicle of what the record industry did to the band, and rock in general. If you don't know the song you should have a listen ... and pay attention to the lyrics ;) .

Andrew Hellebrand

Nuno has several solo albums where he's the primary lead vocalist, the Dramagods album being my favourite of those; but I'd agree within Extreme he usually sticks to the lower harmonies, with bassist Pat Badger then taking care of the high parts like Michael Anthony within Van Halen.

Andrew Hellebrand

The pairing of 'Hip Today' and 'Cynical' from the same album is probably the bitterest lyrically the band ever sounded. Pretty heavy too, I think Punchline has sonic-ly aged better than Three Sides & Pornograffiti .

Andrew Hellebrand

Wrong end of the 90s which I'm assuming is a typo; the commercial peak of the primarily Seattle scene that was labelled grunge by the industry was '91-'95/96. Though amusingly Alice In Chains actually toured opening for both Van Halen, Poison and Extreme in 1990 and the sisters from Heart did a lot to support the scene as well. It was always more the industry & press pushing the grunge narrative and abandoning the older groups, choosing to focus their resources to try & capitalise on the new wave. Whilst I'd agree there was a shift trying to reset the worst excesses of hair metal and the style over substance end of the spectrum had certainly run it's course (some of the B & C tier became both visual & musical parodies of the larger acts); older rock bands were still very popular amongst the grunge bands. Take Nirvana, both Kurt & Dave loved Led Zeppelin & Dave also had to hide his love of Rush for years, Soundgarden loved Black Sabbath, Pearl Jam's Mike McCready has obvious Hendrix & SRV influences and grew up on Ace Frehley & Kiss. The Guns 'N Roses bassist Duff McKagan grew up as actually part of the Seattle punk scene before moving to LA in '84 to further his career.