[Nouge]

No way. Tommy? Quadrophenia? Who's Next? My Generation? Won't Get Fooled Again? Baba O'Reilly? Who are You? Or Smells like Teen Spirit and Come as you Are. It's not about how many songs you can name... They did to music what very artists can do... they changed it. Weather you like their music or not, they did change the entire direction of mainstream music. The WHO just turned up the volume and broke stuff...

[dfwgator]

Bullcrap!!!! The "hair bands" were going away one way or another. Nirvana just happened to come along at the right time. I will give Kurt Cobain credit for one thing, he was a big Smithereens fan.

[FreeTally]

It's not about how many songs you can name... They did to music what very artists can do... they changed it. Weather you like their music or not, they did change the entire direction of mainstream music. The WHO just turned up the volume and broke stuff...

As much as I hate the music, I have to agree.

[dirtboy]

They did to music what very artists can do... they changed it.

And the Who did nothing to change music? BWAHAHA. Happy Jack, the first rock song to be more than a short ditty. Tommy, the first rock opera. Baba O'Reilly and Won't Get Fooled Again, which made the synthesizer a viable rock music instrument.

Both bands were influential. No point disparaging one to elevate the other.

[dfwgator]

They did to music what very artists can do... they changed it.

Then we should give "The Knack" the same place as Nirvana, after all "My Sharona" came out right in the middle of disco, and the next thing you know, out came all of these bands wearing skinny ties.