"To actually put the time and energy into an album that would be better than Pull would be a hell of a lot of work, because I took that band really seriously, way more seriously than people took us. If you go back and listen to the records, you can hear it"
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The subtext is a veteran’s frustration with the mismatch between intention and reception. “Way more seriously than people took us” points at the Winger problem: a band that became shorthand for an era’s supposed excess, then got frozen there by the backlash. His insistence that “you can hear it” is an appeal to the record itself as evidence, almost a courtroom move. Don’t debate the mythology; replay the tracks. Listen for the choices - the discipline, the craft, the moments where ambition peeks through the genre’s caricature.
Context matters: Pull (1993) arrived when glam’s cultural capital was collapsing under grunge’s moral authority. Winger’s quote reads like an artist arguing that the “serious” work didn’t stop just because the tastemakers stopped looking. It’s not nostalgia; it’s a demand for a re-audit.
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Winger, Kip. (n.d.). To actually put the time and energy into an album that would be better than Pull would be a hell of a lot of work, because I took that band really seriously, way more seriously than people took us. If you go back and listen to the records, you can hear it. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/to-actually-put-the-time-and-energy-into-an-album-113876/
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Winger, Kip. "To actually put the time and energy into an album that would be better than Pull would be a hell of a lot of work, because I took that band really seriously, way more seriously than people took us. If you go back and listen to the records, you can hear it." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/to-actually-put-the-time-and-energy-into-an-album-113876/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"To actually put the time and energy into an album that would be better than Pull would be a hell of a lot of work, because I took that band really seriously, way more seriously than people took us. If you go back and listen to the records, you can hear it." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/to-actually-put-the-time-and-energy-into-an-album-113876/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.

