Nirvana

[wtf_wtf]

I Love You Nirvana! that is all.

[justShell]

ive got a friend that grew up with cobain.. their moms are stil best friends. kind of odd.. i have to say polly is my fav song by them.

[Mangle]

^^^If you look in the middle, you can see Napolean on horseback. This was taken from a Nazi propaganda film, if I can recall the liner notes.

[tiedye]

Originally Posted by Mangle

"Rainbow Chaser" is the shit. Of course, that's the original Nirvana (the English psychedelic band from the late 60's). They pioneered phasing with that track by squeezing the master tape reel to reel. Remember, kids?

I didn't know other young people still knew who the original Nirvana was. Classic psychedelia is losing it's appreciation in the digital age.

[Clayton.]

Rest In Peace Kurt Cobain.



Died 12 years ago today.

[Pennywise]

Rip.

I listened to the Cfox tribute all day @ work.

[Clayton.]

So did i......probably the best day of music i've ever heard on that station.




And not just because they didn't once play nickelback.

[tiedye]

Originally Posted by Ever666

Rest In Peace Kurt Cobain.



Died 12 years ago today.

I smoked a big doob with "RIP Kurdt" written on the paper, and then jammed out all my favourite Nirvana songs on my guitar. Today is the anniversary of the day music died. I'm still waiting for music's Second Coming. . . maybe next generation.

[krisamata]

i think i listened to every single nirvana song EVER today....it was awesome

[tiedye]

I just sat down, went through all of my vinyl looking for my favourite Nirvana track, and realized Spank Thru was never released on any of their studio albums. Sad, but at least I've got it on my comp!

[decypher]

favourite songs, Lithium, Drain You, dumb, heart shaped box, Negative creep,Sliver.

[Pennywise]

RIP Kurt Cobain
13 years ago today.

[Pennywise]

also...RIP Layne Staley
5 years ago today (Lead singer of Alice and Chains)

[Gusto]

it's been a bad day for 90's rock

[*SunShyne*]

Alright, so I'm going to assume the majority age on this board is between 18 and 26 years old.

That would make you between 4 and 12 years old when good old of Kurt Cobain got himself dead (Courtney or himself, it doesn't matter anyway).

So I have to ask.. why care if it didn't effect you the way it would have had you been 25 years old when he died?

Hell, weren't a good portion of us just going into grade 7 when this guy died?

Nirvana is one of the most over-rated bands of all times.

If you want to talk about about the "creators" of grunge, look more towards Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam.. hell, Pearl Jam was a million times better than Nirvana could ever aspire to be.

Still though, Heart Shaped Box was a SOLID track... but it's all about Eddy Veddar's lungs than anythign else... now days, they suck, but like 15 years ago they kicked ass!!!

[tiedye]

Pearl Jam? Please. They were big the same time Nirvana was, and basically followed in the wake after his death.

And if you want to look at the roots of grunge, take a gander at Green River or The Germs. Hell, Neil Young is considered the grand-daddy of grunge.

Nice try though.

[mekim]

every kid who was being stepped on (or felt they were being stepped on) by life identified with nirvana. that's why lots of people have cared.

maybe if you make a habit of underlining & bolding some more sentences in future posts it will add some weight to your arguments. not liking a band doesn't make them overrated.

not everyone here was in grade school when he killed himself. it wasn't all that long after i saw them play at the last vancouver concert that he died.

[*SunShyne*]

Originally Posted by tiedye

Pearl Jam? Please. They were big the same time Nirvana was, and basically followed in the wake after his death.

And if you want to look at the roots of grunge, take a gander at Green River or The Germs. Hell, Neil Young is considered the grand-daddy of grunge.

This is exactly what I am talking about.

No one even for a moment considers these bands to be the definition of grunge, the founders of an entire genre of music.

Nirvana made it big. They had some great music, hell, I was a nirvana fan and owned a couple of albums, but they are over rated.

[lildonkey]

being young when kurt died doesn't mean that nirvana couldn't have been a big part in peoples lives

[tiedye]

Originally Posted by *SunShyne*

This is exactly what I am talking about.

No one even for a moment considers these bands to be the definition of grunge, the founders of an entire genre of music.

Nirvana made it big. They had some great music, hell, I was a nirvana fan and owned a couple of albums, but they are over rated.

And they let you out of your cage... why?

Seriously, I never minded your posts in the past but now all you do is blatantly state your opinion without even hinting at the possibility that others have a different one.

Nirvana never claimed to start the grunge movement. Anybody who knows even a little bit about the genre knows that Nirvana didn't just INVENT grunge.

They did, however, make it popular and become the face of it. Just like Bob Marley did, just like Elvis Presley did, just like The Clash did. Did they start it? No. Did they make it popular and media accessible? Yes. Do we thank them for it? Only when Sunshyne isn't posting.

[C_squared]

i stood in line at the a&b sound on seymour st. when nevermind was released. i was an angry 10 year old.

[anewlife]

Uhhhhhhh, Cobain.....

I did a Nirvana - Nirvana review like 3 years ago.

Took me ages to write it...here it is:

(entirely made up of cob quotes, you'll get the idea...)

Nirvana - Nirvana - 2002 (Geffen)

„Nirvana sees the underground music seen as becoming stagnant and more accessible towards commercialized major label interests. Does Nirvana feel a moral duty to change this cancerous evil? No way! We want to cash in and suck butt of the big wigs in hopes that we too can get high and fuck. Yeah, I know, I'm a confused, uneducated, walking cliché but I don't need to be inspired any longer, just supported. I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own. I love my parents yet I disagree with merely everything they stand for. I am not gay although I wish I were just to piss of Homophobes. I like to fuck sheep. Punk rock means freedom!

I kind of feel like a dork, writing about the band and myself like this as if I were an American pop-rock icon, demi God or a self confessed product of pre packaged, corporate rebellion. But I've heard so many insanely exaggerated wise tales and reports from my friends and I've read so many pathetic, second rate, freudian evaluations from interviews, regarding our personalities and especially how I'm a notoriously fucked up heroine addict, alcoholic, self destructive, yet overly sensitive, frail, meek, fragile, compassionate, soft spoken, narcoleptic, neurotic, little piss ant who at any time is going to O.D, jump off a roof and wig out, blow my head off or all three at once because I can't handle the success! The success! The guilt! Oh I feel so incredibly guilty!

Music journalists are people who are paid to find as many interesting anectodes of a musicians personality, and if there isn't enough they must spice it up and if it isn't still spicy enough which is almost always the case then, in steps the editor. So once again a journalist is almost always at the mercy of the editor. Ironically journalists are the ones who obsessively try to prove that the musician has no control over their own creativity and is dictated by their record company and the biggest and most overly used cliché of the journalists, although it's too true to ignore, is the fact that most journalists have no idea of what it's like to write a song, play an instrument or know what it's like to perform on stage in front of people.

Record store chains and radio play it safe, target audience, what sells, we're completely at their mercy. It used to be the other way around. Programmers and DJs: Get into Real estate! The corporations are finally allowing supposedly subversive, alternative thinking bands to have a loan of money to expose their crusade. We can use them! We can pose as the enemy to infiltrate the mechanics of the system to start its rot from the inside. John Lennon has been my idol all my life, but he's dead wrong about revolution. Sit on your ass and be beaten! Bullshit! Arm yourself, find a representative of gluttony or oppression and blow the motherfucker head off!

Homage or Ripoff? I don't care, uh, I don't know. Seems like finally the appreciation of things are in order. There are a lot of things & bands to be thankful for, yes, and everything sucks. Too many compilations of present day bands paying homage to old influential bands. Six strings, 24 notes that repeat the same scale after 10, usually based on 4/4 time signature, Rock and Roll: 30 years = Exhausted! Ah, the good old days!

Fuck hit records!“

(Kurdt Kobain, professional rock musician)

Try the songs Dumb, About A Girl, All Apologies!

Similar bands: Mudhoney, Meat Puppets

KurDt ;) Cobain...RIP! :-( :(

[*SunShyne*]

Originally Posted by tiedye

And they let you out of your cage... why?

Seriously, I never minded your posts in the past but now all you do is blatantly state your opinion without even hinting at the possibility that others have a different one.

Nirvana never claimed to start the grunge movement. Anybody who knows even a little bit about the genre knows that Nirvana didn't just INVENT grunge.

They did, however, make it popular and become the face of it. Just like Bob Marley did, just like Elvis Presley did, just like The Clash did. Did they start it? No. Did they make it popular and media accessible? Yes. Do we thank them for it? Only when Sunshyne isn't posting.

... i was agreeing with what you had posted....

[anewlife]

Originally Posted by *SunShyne*

Nirvana is one of the most over-rated bands of all times.

Dude, wtf?

Originally Posted by *SunShyne*

If you want to talk about about the "creators" of grunge, look more towards Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam.. hell, Pearl Jam was a million times better than Nirvana could ever aspire to be.

Cobain never said he created grunge.

I know, Nirvana was not the only band that did this sound and not even the first one, there was Mudhoney, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains and others, and yes, Eddie Vedder might have the better voice than Cobain and the Smashing Pumpkins the better songwriting than Nirvana, but hey, it was Nirvana that had all the commercial success, somethng that bands like the Pixies, Replacements, Screaming Trees, Vaselines, Meat Puppets and Pearl Jam did not achieve at the very beginning. The music biz was kinda dead in the early 90s and someone just had to spice it all up, and yeah, that was Nirvana and none of the others.

Cobain made grunge popular, certainly not Pearl Jam...

[*SunShyne*]

So (and not to start anything here) but are you saying that Nirvana "sold out" to be who they are today?