Ryan

I get some jokes.

[Ryan @losethebeard]

@JayOnrait @JayOnSC

[Ryan @losethebeard]

@JayOnrait @JayOnSC Will we get a Craig Button Shot of Love segment?

[Ryan @losethebeard]

@jtbourne As a minor hockey parent that as “invested” far too much money in way too many “high end” hockey sticks, I have a considerable sample size built out over many years to unequivocally verify that they do indeed “just give out.

Ideally inside two weeks.

[Ryan @losethebeard]

@CanaduhOh This is hilariously accurate.

[Bernie Thoma @BernardThoma_]

happy 37 year anniversary to this insanity

[Ryan @losethebeard]

@NightShiftMD My wife is a teacher, in a GTA school that has an extremely challenging student body.

Many ESL students, transient populations, students on ILP’s that require disproportionate resources.

A very challenging environment to say the least.

Teaching becomes a secondary task.

[Raoul Duke @batcountry1980]

A lot of people not happy with this statement but reading what he actually says it’s definitely true. I always thought of Nirvana as more of an impactful band than an influential one. Not that they weren’t influential. Of course they were. But their impact, how they changed and reset things, far outweighs their influence.

And if we’re talking three years either side, a six year radius of Nevermind, then the albums stack up and up.

I’ll get the easy one out the way first, and I’ll not waste anyone’s time by even explaining this. If you know who the Pixies are then you know exactly what I’m going to say. It’s been said a million times. Remember, we’re talking about influence, not impact here. Let’s just say that Surfer Rosa is released in 1988, followed by Doolittle in 1989, both before Nevermind.

Next, a big one over here. The Stone Roses’ debut is released in 1989. An entire genre, Britpop, can trace a large chunk of its roots back to this album. It is hugely influential.

Their partners in crime, the Happy Mondays, can’t be left out either. Between their albums in this radius, plus New Order’s Technique, Screamadelica, and The White Room by The KLF, they are instrumental in getting indie kids dancing.

This leads to the 90s dance band explosion where you’ve got artists like The Prodigy and Chemical Brothers who are respected album artists while making electronic music.

But these records aren’t just influential on bands. They’re part of the process by which dance music stops being a specialist underground movement and moves into mainstream pop culture. You’re eventually watching Top of the Pops and hearing a pop strain of dance, as electronic music switched from club sound to something that was everywhere. They play it at the darts, for fucks sake.

There’s two Trip-Hop albums, Blue Lines and Dummy, released in this six year period, that I’d say are more influential than Nevermind. Much of UK hip-hop, it’s many strands, take inspiration from trip-hop. It showed you could take the building blocks of US hip-hop and construct a very British version that’s credible and respected.

And speaking of hip-hop, this is where the list gets a bit ridiculous. Because if hip-hop is practically America popular culture now, the influence of these albums far outweigh Nevermind. Here’s a few that are all in a six year radius of it:

Straight Outta Compton

It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

3 Feet High and Rising

Fear of a Black Planet

The Chronic

Enter the Wu-Tang( 36 Chambers)

Illmatic

That’s just scratching the surface, but considering where music is now at, let’s get a bit of perspective here.

None of this takes away from Nevermind’s brilliance or the impact it had. I remember when it was all happening, the kids in bands in my school cutting about with their undercuts and flannel shirts. It was a massive moment. A special moment. But it was a brief one. And the impact of that album far outweighed its influence.

[Ryan @losethebeard]

@batcountry1980 @XMartinsMusicX His exploits in and around Montreal are interesting to read. As are the intersection of Canadian folk families - such as the McGarrigle‘s, Wainwrights and so forth.

[Ryan @losethebeard]

@Hebsyman What a combo. You’re definitely not wrong.

[Ryan @losethebeard]

@catandwall @DylanRevisited Hahaha. Never a dull moment when it comes to Bob.

[Ryan @losethebeard]

@DylanRevisited @catandwall So you’re telling me that Bob is the Star Wars to Sony’s Disney?

[Ryan @losethebeard]

@DylanRevisited @catandwall That is only a guess at best.

[Ryan @losethebeard]

@DylanRevisited @catandwall It is certainly Sony’s business. I’m definitely not privy to the particulars of that sale, and whether it was for all material released up to the point of sale, or all recorded material in its entirety.

Something tells me, that Bob would retain some interest in “new releases”.

[Ryan @losethebeard]

@DylanRevisited @catandwall Bob - no stranger to maximizing his ability to monetize stuff.

[Ryan @losethebeard]

@ArashMadani Congrats man. Keep up the good work.

[Ryan @losethebeard]

@thefedexpresss You could also make an argument that any one of those four players would win this US Open.

[Ryan @losethebeard]

@SportsnetBen In previous iterations of Must Win as Decided by Ben, does this typically result in the team actually winning?

[Ryan @losethebeard]

@PeteyHarrison @RealDonBradshaw @Sportsnet @BlueJays @Rogers Life in general.

[Ryan @losethebeard]

@batcountry1980 Hard to top.

[Ryan @losethebeard]

@JokermenPodcast Jimmy Reed indeed.