15 years? Holy crap I'm getting old.

Fuggin Bizzy: 15 years? Holy crap I'm getting old.

THIS.

/getting old sucks

Wait until you remember something from a "a few years ago" . . . then realize it was over thirty.

Not getting old sucks more.



/I miss those angsty flannel covered college days.

Were you a grunge rocker back in the nineteen hundred and nineties?

wow - look how young wossy looks!

I was in 8th grade on vacation in Florida with my aunt and uncle when I heard he killed himself.

Thanks, subby - now I feel old as hell.

/turns 30 in 2 months

Wow, that made me feel old. I remmebered when it aired. I was VERY young and impressionable, and after having grown up with an older brother stuck in the 80s, when this hit the news and some friends had told me about it and showed me some mag articles about it(Ross was a farkstick to Kurt, apparently, so Kurt being how he is, decided to piss him off more. This was a distinct attribute of Kurt over the years, and, some say, this is why the beginings of both Smells like Teen Spirit and Rape Me are so similar, personally? I think it's cause Kurt only knew like 4 chords ;) but yeah, he was known to pull that trick many times on many shows and live performances over the years.)

Needless to say, from 1991 on i was a fan. I was pretty young as far as a nirvana fan went back then, too. And remained one for years, not for any life altering meaning(though i still believe Kurts talents were wasted on music, he should have been a writer, might have had another Gonzo on our hands, but even more crazy, with an even larger drug habit)


/and now i feel old
//wanna feel older? My mother is a HS teacher, no student in any of her classes were born before 1991

I used to be with it, and then they changed what "it" was.

:(

That was a good rendition.

These guys were so hit and miss live. They could be sloppy and have terrible sound and have a really lousy set, or be absolutely blistering and powerful and knock your jaw clean off.

In their final year or so, when Kurt was all but dead inside, their performances were largely dead, too. Except Unplugged, which might be the best thing they've ever done.

shoegaze99: That was a good rendition.

These guys were so hit and miss live. They could be sloppy and have terrible sound and have a really lousy set, or be absolutely blistering and powerful and knock your jaw clean off.

In their final year or so, when Kurt was all but dead inside, their performances were largely dead, too. Except Unplugged, which might be the best thing they've ever done.

I saw them in Williamsburg in 93 http://www.nirvanaguide.com/ (details in this cool site)

The audience was pumped and brought a lot of energy, and the show was pretty good, but Cobain seemed fairly disinterested. Oh, and Half Japanese sucked hard.

Between this and the Pumpkins and all the high school kids now who were not even alive when I was a freshman in high school (1991), I feel old. But then I say that in front of my family and they berate me and tell me how young I am. (32 in a week). Is this midlife crisis? I have no idea.

I was driving home from the public library doing a school assignment when I heard it on the radio.

Why is it that with international tragedies, we always remember exactly where we were when we heard about them? For me the same goes for 9/11, Columbine, and Diana Spencer's car crash.

Okay, maybe Kurt Cobain's death isn't exactly an international tragedy, depending on your taste in music.

RIP headless guy.

I would have loved to have seen what Nirvana ended up doing, for better or worse.

I have no temporal concept of when this happened, because I really didn't care too much. I did like Nirvana alright as a band. The only reason I remember this event at all is these three chicks I liked in middle school showed up wearing all blank one day. I asked them why and they reacted as if I had asked them if the sky was still blue. Apparently, I had offended them by not knowing or caring about Cobain's suicide and not following the 'wear all black' directive they had received from (presumably) MTV.

I liked them all a distinct amount less after this event, and I'm no longer in contact with any of them.

/don't even remember what grade I was in

Action Replay Nick: /don't even remember what grade I was in

2009 - 15 = 1994

It cant be that hard to figure out.

Wow.....that was 15 years ago, eh?

Yeah, no. Still don't feel old.


I probably should though......oh, naw screw it.

Today marks the 15th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death murder.

FIFY

Toquinha: Okay, maybe Kurt Cobain's death isn't exactly an international tragedy, depending on your taste in music.

Speaks the truth.

/Tell me again why Nirvana doesn't suck. Because I have no clue.

SPna15: Toquinha: Okay, maybe Kurt Cobain's death isn't exactly an international tragedy, depending on your taste in music.

Speaks the truth.

/Tell me again why Nirvana doesn't suck. Because I have no clue.

Why do they suck?

Gunny Highway: Why do they suck?

Why are they considered good? Probably should have phrased it better.

/All their songs annoy the shiat out of me.

The Glass Dragon: I was in 8th grade on vacation in Florida with my aunt and uncle when I heard he killed himself.

Thanks, subby - now I feel old as hell.

/turns 30 in 2 months

Listen to ya! I'm turning 34 in 2 months!

/I got more gray hairs than my older sisters do...and they're in their forties and fifties.
//Mah lawn...off it! :D

Today is also the anniversary of Layne Staley's death, too, but no one seems to care about him. :(

The Glass Dragon: Today is also the anniversary of Layne Staley's death, too, but no one seems to care about him. :(

I did not know that. This is a sad day indeed. Layne's greatness seems to be forgotten for some reason. RIP

I sort of miss that style of music or at least the feeling of it. That belief that you could get up on stage looking like you just woke up from sleeping on someone's couch, pick up your guitar that you bought from Goodwill and rock out.

Screw looks. Screw top of the line equipment. If you are a musician, let's see what you can do with this messed up guitar and twenty dollar speaker.

I miss the messiness of rock.

Yeah I remember that day. Very sad. I was/am a huge Nirvana fan. I'm proud of the fact that the first concert I ever saw was Nirvana! Saw them on the In Utero tour. They were supposed to play Lollapalooza in 94.

Juniper Jupiter:

Listen to ya! I'm turning 34 in 2 months!


Me too. Le sigh.

Gunny Highway: The Glass Dragon: Today is also the anniversary of Layne Staley's death, too, but no one seems to care about him. :(

I did not know that. This is a sad day indeed. Layne's greatness seems to be forgotten for some reason. RIP

Indeed. what a voice, what a hottie, what a shame.

My most memorable Halloween...

Jesus Don't Want Me For A Sunbeam (new window)



Mudhoney tore it up that night...

Thanks for reminding me.

Well, I'm off to go post photos of shotguns in random forums.

Cobain was not the next John Lennon. It was 15 years ago, get over it already. Hell, half the people who are all broken up about this weren't even alive before Cobain ate the loud end of a shotgun in a drug-addled haze.

/get over it.

Blind_Io: Cobain was not the next John Lennon. It was 15 years ago, get over it already. Hell, half the people who are all broken up about this weren't even alive before Cobain ate the loud end of a shotgun in a drug-addled haze.

I dont think anyone says he was. Does it bother you that much that people enjoyed his music and would have liked to have seen him make more?

15 years? Yep, I'm old. Get off my lawn.

/RIP Layne

scavenger: shoegaze99: That was a good rendition.

These guys were so hit and miss live. They could be sloppy and have terrible sound and have a really lousy set, or be absolutely blistering and powerful and knock your jaw clean off.

In their final year or so, when Kurt was all but dead inside, their performances were largely dead, too. Except Unplugged, which might be the best thing they've ever done.

I saw them in Williamsburg in 93 http://www.nirvanaguide.com/ (details in this cool site)

The audience was pumped and brought a lot of energy, and the show was pretty good, but Cobain seemed fairly disinterested. Oh, and Half Japanese sucked hard.



I was at the Springfield Civic Ctr on 11/10/93, again, i was young, but even so i wasn't the youngest in the crowd. Funny enough it was a hit AND miss show. Some songs were spectacular, others he seem less interested. All the "popular" or older stuff that people were more used to he seemed less soulful about playing.

/awesome rendition of all apologies, though
//and sliver
///and RFUS, better live than studio recorded always IMO

Blind_Io: Thanks for reminding me.

Well, I'm off to go post photos of shotguns in random forums.

Cobain was not the next John Lennon. It was 15 years ago, get over it already. Hell, half the people who are all broken up about this weren't even alive before Cobain ate the loud end of a shotgun in a drug-addled haze.

/get over it.

Hey, a certified "That Guy"®!!

awww, are people not allowed to enjoy things you don't, and be curious of what may have been? that's so sad for you...

bet you're fun at parties

"WHAT IS THIS FOUL NOISE!? I SAID ADULT CONTEMPORARY! NOT CONTEMPORARY ADULT!"

/wanders back off to do yardwork
//will blast In Utero just a little louder, just for you

15 years !! Fark I am getting old (I'll be 35 in a few months) Oh well, nothing I can do about it I guess.

R I P Kurt and Layne, god do I miss the music the two of you used to make. Can't stand the "new" alternative stuff.

Good god, 15 years ago? Wow.

I'm 41 now, and have recently been coming to grips with how sudden the transition from young to middle-age seems. You're in your 20s, with all the freedom and potential that implies, one minute, then you turn around twice and you realize you've crept into the far end of the life-expectancy spectrum. Definitely having a lot of Prufrock moments these days.

Was Nirvana the best band ever? No. But *harumph* you young ones would do well to put them in context. Way before your MyTubes and whatnot, music with that kind of edge did NOT get any kind of airplay. Was it out there? Yes. But you had to sift through mountains of NKOTB and hair metal to find it. For people who'd championed music with some kind of bite, it was a major cultural victory to hear those opening chords of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" ripping through the commercial airwaves.

Christ - fifteen years ago? I did a radio show at a Seattle-area station that night; the news kinda dictated the show's format for the evening.

/turn 45 this month

Anybody who relates a story about hearing of Cobain's death isn't talking about the 5th - they're talking about the 8th. The 5th was the (relatively arbitrary) date chosen by the coroner's office as his "likely" day of death.

The 5th was a generic Tuesday.

Kids graduating high school this year were in diapers when Cobain died. They don't have any recollection of him being alive.

Gunny Highway: Blind_Io: Cobain was not the next John Lennon. It was 15 years ago, get over it already. Hell, half the people who are all broken up about this weren't even alive before Cobain ate the loud end of a shotgun in a drug-addled haze.

I dont think anyone says he was. Does it bother you that much that people enjoyed his music and would have liked to have seen him make more?

No, it doesn't bother me that people like his music; I'm just weary of him being deified by a bunch of kids who were still shiatting themselves when he was recording. There are many, in my opinion, much more talented artists who have been largely forgotten. Even if I did like Cobain's music I would still be annoyed at having to hear about his "tragic" death every year.

Go out and blast your Nirvana, I like some of their songs - not many, but some. Nirvana certainly isn't as annoying as some of the crap I have to hear today.

Actually, I take it all back. I would happily bring back Cobain and his gargling vocals if it meant no moregansta rap being blasted from donks and emo-shiat-rock about how life is a deep pit of meaningless despair.

Long live Cobain.

Shpubba1: Kids graduating high school this year were in diapers when Cobain died. They don't have any recollection of him being alive.

What is your point? They still have the ability to listen to his music.

Blind_Io:

Actually, I take it all back. I would happily bring back Cobain and his gargling vocals if it meant no moregansta rap being blasted from donks and emo-shiat-rock about how life is a deep pit of meaningless despair.

Long live Cobain.

Always look on the bright side of life.

/Wish Kurt had that philosophy.

Blind_Io: Actually, I take it all back. I would happily bring back Cobain and his gargling vocals if it meant no moregansta rap being blasted from donks and emo-shiat-rock about how life is a deep pit of meaningless despair.

Long live Cobain.




Just back in from the lawnwork.


/I take back some of the meanness of my last post, now. ;)

I'm 32 and remember the best song I've ever heard: Verse Chorus Verse. Yeah I am getting older, but it's a nice ride.


/still get goosebumps when I hear Teen Spirit.
//And I like it that way.
/// Nirvana=timeless.
//// gotta love them slashies.

BlackCat23: My mother is a HS teacher, no student in any of her classes were born before 1991

My dad taught high school up until just a few years ago when he retired. I went up to help him move, and ran across a newspaper listing the high school graduates of 2008, with pictures. I recognized a handful of family names, but didn't know any of the graduates themselves.

A quick calculation in my head told me those kids were about two years old when I graduated from high school. So yeah...well below my radar at the time.

I didn't learn about Nirvana until the turn of the century when I was about 12 or 13, but I played the hell out of Nevermind for a few years there. Still turn up the radio whenever Come As You Are, Lithium, or Heart Shaped Box come on. The majority of my favorite bands come from that 1989-1996 era of alternative music.

theurge14: Between this and the Pumpkins and all the high school kids now who were not even alive when I was a freshman in high school (1991), I feel old. But then I say that in front of my family and they berate me and tell me how young I am. (32 in a week). Is this midlife crisis? I have no idea.

nah...but for the record, the Urge's Master of Styles is one of my top 25 favorite all-time albums.

I remember finding out, it was on spring break around Easter.

I heard people talking about it in Disney World.

I was in second grade, and I really liked the video for Heart-Shaped Box.

deevo I was in second grade, and I really liked the video for Heart-Shaped Box.

My buddy Rex was the old guy in that clip. He wound up hospitalized not long after that, I heard the band actually visited him in the hospital