Actually, watershed is a geological term refering to the area of land which drains into any particular river. It is therefore also used to define the BOUNDRY between one river's watershed or catchment area and that of a neighbouring river.Z3R0T0N1N wrote:to the person who said "watershed is a foo fighters song", the term watershed is actually a way of describing something as seminal, or groundbreaking i think, and it was in that context that the poster was using it. you will notice he wrote watershed Nevermind album - meaning that Nevermind was a watershed album.
nothing like a little bit of pedantics late on a sunday night.
as per that bit of conversation: Albini's production on In Utero is far superior to anything butch mtv or whatever his last name is has done.
imo, that is.
although i do like a lot of his work with Garbage.
Naturally, this dividing line tends to run along high ground, either an upland, hilly or mountainous ridge where the rain that falls on one side will drain into one river and the rain that falls on the other side will drain in the other direction into the other river.
Used as a METAPHOR the term 'watershed' therfore describes any boundry point, or turning point where things that flowed in one direction, or were associated with one particular area now flow in a new direction or are associated with a whole new territory.
....ie after Nevermind every guitar band on the planet, it seemed, was a (usually piss poor!) tributary to the River Grunge...
BTW do you remember how every fking summer for the whole of the later half of the 90's bedroom guitarists would open their bedroom windows on a sunny day and play Nirvana solo's from TAB , mainly 'Smell like...'
...anyway, I digress
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