Nirvana died with Cobain.

FTFA:
Titled 'Life Takes No Prisoners', the gig sees the band play 27 songs including covers of 's 'More Than A Feeling', Fang's 'The Money Will Roll Right In' and 'The Star Spangled Banner'.


Methinks that the writer meant to go look up who wrote "More Than A Feeling" and forgot to come back to it.

BOSTON.

Ahh the weekly Nirvana hate thread. Right on time.

I've heard of that band.

Weren't they from Seattle?

Nirvana was Cobain. Grohl was just a hanger-on.

And Nirvana was rather mediocre.

This has NOTHING to do with the report the other week about Courtney losing those millions while on being strung out on heroin all these years. NOTHING I tell you.

More unreleased Nirvana material. Be still my beating heart.

Courtney Love's in need of beer money, I presume?

ZeroCorpse: Nirvana was Cobain. Grohl was just a hanger-on.

And Nirvana was rather mediocre.

This is like saying Bonham was a "hanger on" with Zeppelin . . . you sir, are an idiot

//not comparing Grohl to Bonham
//grohl:cobain=bonham:page/plant

ZeroCorpse: Nirvana was Cobain. Grohl was just a hanger-on.

And Nirvana was rather mediocre.

I tend to agree from todays standards, but they did help make grunge mainstream, which they deserve some credit for

ZeroCorpse: Nirvana was Cobain. Grohl was just a hanger-on.

And Nirvana was rather mediocre.

sir, without nirvana, we'd still be listening to guns and roses and bret michaels...oh wait.
/at least ratt and winger are no more
//and great white...oh wait

btw: nirvana's best work was in utero
/not elementary lyrics
//much more powerful than nevermind

Nirvana was better than your band.

Hey guys! If you like Nirvana, you should check out Braintree!

/just kiddin'

carmody: Nirvana was better than your band.

THIS

Checked and there's some YouTubery of the Boston cover...it's about as bad as you can imagine. That being said, the song flows into "Teen Spirit" and ...wow. It's one of those performances.

Pyynk: Checked and there's some YouTubery of the Boston cover...it's about as bad as you can imagine. That being said, the song flows into "Teen Spirit" and ...wow. It's one of those performances.

Was Grohl riffing off Devo's cover of Satisfaction there at the beginning? That's just awesome.

If he lived would he do "dancing with the stars"?

LeroyBourne: If he lived would he do "dancing with the stars"?

If Hendrix had lived he would have been on Hollywood Squares.

If you want a Nirvana reunion, we're gonna need two more bullets.

Pyynk: Checked and there's some YouTubery of the Boston cover...it's about as bad as you can imagine. That being said, the song flows into "Teen Spirit" and ...wow. It's one of those performances.

"Wow" as in "I didn't think it could possibly get even worse"? If so, I agree. I don't mind Nirvana, but jesus christ they were awful live.

I don't care for Nirvana, but at least I have enough sense to realize that they where an extremely influential band brimming with talent.

Anyone who says otherwise is a 12-year-old trying to look cool by being contrary to what they have been told their entire lives.

Jonathan Hohensee: I don't care for Nirvana, but at least I have enough sense to realize that they where an extremely influential band brimming with talent.

Anyone who says otherwise is a 12-year-old trying to look cool by being contrary to what they have been told their entire lives.

I'm 29 years old, and you're half right. Nirvana lowered the bar for musical proficiency required for a popular band. But it was everywhere and everyone wanted to be them. I couldn't stand that shiat in high school.

Where the hell was Biggles: Pyynk: Checked and there's some YouTubery of the Boston cover...it's about as bad as you can imagine. That being said, the song flows into "Teen Spirit" and ...wow. It's one of those performances.

Was Grohl riffing off Devo's cover of Satisfaction there at the beginning? That's just awesome.

Nirvana a did Devo cover or two in their time, so I wouldn't be surprised. Glad someone else noticed it though.

Jonathan Hohensee: I have enough sense to realize that they where an extremely influential band brimming with talent.

Anyone who says otherwise is a 12-year-old trying to look cool by being contrary to what they have been told their entire lives.



I still question how influential they really are. I mean, if your lasting legacy is you helped cement the careers of Husker Du, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr and Big Black... exactly how influential is your actual band?

Nirvana gets a pass for helping destroy hair metal (though they're not alone in that endeavor) and shine a light on the underground and helped raise the profile of bands who would've been left by the wayside a few years earlier. But I do not hear their influence, at least musically. If anything, I hear lots of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam in modern rock...

oh, and I am not 12. Not that being 26 gives me much more leverage, but still.

FeedTheCollapse: I do not hear their influence, at least musically.

Did I see what subby did there?

/Kurt obviously didn't

I remember seeing Nirvana live at the tail end of the 80s, maybe 1990, they hadn't really hit it big yet. I also remember hearing a few tracks on a Memorex cassette passed on to me by a friend. It had a few singles on it, Love Buzz I think, I can't remember what else, but eventually Bleach would be released.

After being near comatose from the twat rock of the 80s, it was like hearing a foghorn and being blasted awake. Wasn't quite punk, wasn't quite rock, wasn't quite like anything else out there.

Sort of like how AfD by GnR wasn't quite metal and wasn't quite blues, but better. Much better.

Pyynk: Checked and there's some YouTubery of the Boston cover...it's about as bad as you can imagine. That being said, the song flows into "Teen Spirit" and ...wow. It's one of those performances.

How the fark can anyone on here watch that and think they were even a passable live band? As bad as some hair metal was, none of them were as pathetic as that crap. Not even Pretty Boy Floyd.

Veteran of the Cola Wars: ort of like how AfD by GnR wasn't quite metal and wasn't quite blues, but better. Much better.

Much better than the blues? Hell no.

Eufah Kennidiets: Pyynk: Checked and there's some YouTubery of the Boston cover...it's about as bad as you can imagine. That being said, the song flows into "Teen Spirit" and ...wow. It's one of those performances.

How the fark can anyone on here watch that and think they were even a passable live band? As bad as some hair metal was, none of them were as pathetic as that crap. Not even Pretty Boy Floyd.

Because there's emotion and energy in that music, there's no posing or posturing or prettified "one for the ladies" kinda crap. If you enjoy hair metal, by all means go right ahead. Nirvana wasn't meant for you anyway.

shadowself: Pyynk: Checked and there's some YouTubery of the Boston cover...it's about as bad as you can imagine. That being said, the song flows into "Teen Spirit" and ...wow. It's one of those performances.

"Wow" as in "I didn't think it could possibly get even worse"? If so, I agree. I don't mind Nirvana, but jesus christ they were awful live.

There are some very good bootlegs out there. If you are interested start with Happy Halloween.

I think Seether is the band most influence by Nirvana. I saw them on some late night show once and the singer was basically Cobain. He had the look down anyway.

There really is a fantastic amount of energy to that performance, though Cobain blatantly isn't exactly taking it seriously.

Makes Van Halen looks like comatose Disney animatronics.

Pyynk:

Because there's emotion and energy in that music, there's no posing or posturing or prettified "one for the ladies" kinda crap. If you enjoy hair metal, by all means go right ahead. If you're a hair metal fan, Nirvana wasn't meant for you anyway.

Edited because in re-reading it, I sounded like way more of a pretentious dick than I actually am.

Marla Singer's Laundry: Veteran of the Cola Wars: ort of like how AfD by GnR wasn't quite metal and wasn't quite blues, but better. Much better.

Much better than the blues? Hell no.



Er, no. I was saying that Nirvana was much better. Sorry.

Yay!

/would rather have the DVD

I stand corrected.

/DRTA

danduran: Where the hell was Biggles: Pyynk: Checked and there's some YouTubery of the Boston cover...it's about as bad as you can imagine. That being said, the song flows into "Teen Spirit" and ...wow. It's one of those performances.

Was Grohl riffing off Devo's cover of Satisfaction there at the beginning? That's just awesome.

Nirvana a did Devo cover or two in their time, so I wouldn't be surprised. Glad someone else noticed it though.

I noticed it, too. That was the best part of the performance, IMHO.

Devo redid "turn around" well.

I can't think of what else they covered atm.

Mirrorz: I think Seether is the band most influence by Nirvana. I saw them on some late night show once and the singer was basically Cobain. He had the look down anyway.

Bush is the first to be "influenced" by Nirvana. The worst? Nickelback.

Nickelback is to Nirvana as Blink 182 is to the Sex Pistols.

Or something.

This is a bootleg release.

DGC has been working on a Reading DVD for years, but the rights have been cumbersome. (Among other issues, the BBC owns the video, I think NHK owns the audio - the recording wasn't made for an intended release, so they've had to go about it retroactively.)

But this isn't DGC's release. The company that's releasing this one has a history of capturing TV performances and making DVDs out of them, releasing them in countries where it's "legal" to do so.

The NME has never been a great source of journalism, but it's gotten notably worse in recent years.

Bhasayate: Bush is the first to be "influenced" by Nirvana. The worst? Nickelback.



Nickelback seems to have much more in common with Pearl Jam. Outside of Bush, and maybe the Toadies (who sound more like The Pixies), I'm hard-pressed to think of any act that seems to be influenced by Nirvana.


Kazaa: The NME has never been a great source of journalism



[insert favorite LOLWUT? picture]

FeedTheCollapse: Kazaa: The NME has never been a great source of journalism



[insert favorite LOLWUT? pictureshiat, nevermind.(no pun intended) I take that back. I misread that as implying that you thought it was a good music mag. my bad.

goddammit, tags farked up...


disregard the last part of my post 2 posts up...

FeedTheCollapse: Nickelback seems to have much more in common with Pearl Jam. Outside of Bush, and maybe the Toadies (who sound more like The Pixies), I'm hard-pressed to think of any act that seems to be influenced by Nirvana.

The Vines were pretty much a Nirvana cover band. You can hear it A LOT in most of their songs.

Believe it or not, Rivers Cuomo credits Nirvana in getting Weezer started.

Streetlight Manifesto is a ska band, but you can definitely hear the Nirvana influence in their music. Not to mention their singer even references Cobain's suicide in one of their songs.

I'm sure there are many more out there.

Also, how many kids when they're first learning guitar learn how to play Smells Like Teen Spirit or any other popular song out of the Nirvana catalog. For the most part they were incredibly simple, 3-chord songs. Cobain was far from the guitarist that some people try to make him out to be like Rolling Stone for instance. (See #12).

Bondidude: Believe it or not, Rivers Cuomo credits Nirvana in getting Weezer started.

as in getting them signed to a major label? Yeah, I can agree there. I think that without Nirvana, a lot of bands that follow in their wake probably would not have been signed. I think Nirvana helped these bands commercially, but I dispute the amount of actual influence they had on the same band's music.


Truthfully, I'm mostly annoyed because Nevermind is a good album, but not a great one, yet it consistently gets Top 10 Albums Evar! lists only because Kurt offed himself.

FeedTheCollapse: as in getting them signed to a major label? Yeah, I can agree there. I think that without Nirvana, a lot of bands that follow in their wake probably would not have been signed. I think Nirvana helped these bands commercially, but I dispute the amount of actual influence they had on the same band's music.

How did Nirvana help Weezer commercially? They're very different musically and I remember at a time they were even kind of considered an alternative to the grunge movement, a little light, fun pop-rock in a sea of grimy, heavier music.

Of course you also glossed over my example of The Vines, who were at one point a Nirvana cover band before beginning to write their own material.

I'm far from a Nirvana fan, I only kinda-sorta-like In Utero, and that's just because it's a bit of a heavier album than their other stuff. I think Cobain and Nirvana are just about as overrated as the next guy, but at the same time I don't deny their influence.

And let's not forget the forgettable Silverchair.

Objection: they're not copying Nirvana, they're copying Grunge.

Reply: You can't copy grunge without getting some Nirvana in there.

Bondidude: How did Nirvana help Weezer commercially? They're very different musically and I remember at a time they were even kind of considered an alternative to the grunge movement, a little light, fun pop-rock in a sea of grimy, heavier music.

because they would've been yet another indie band had Nirvana not made indie to be at least somewhat viable.


Not really familiar with The Vines. But outside of them, Silverchair, and Bush, I can think of few other bands that seem to be actually influenced by Nirvana's music; and none of said bands are at all relevant. Nirvana's influence seems to be less related to their musical side and has much more to do with helping to make bands who would've otherwise fell by the wayside into mainstream acts.

shadowself: Pyynk: Checked and there's some YouTubery of the Boston cover...it's about as bad as you can imagine. That being said, the song flows into "Teen Spirit" and ...wow. It's one of those performances.

"Wow" as in "I didn't think it could possibly get even worse"? If so, I agree. I don't mind Nirvana, but jesus christ they were awful live.

Unplugged in New York was recorded live. I don't know how you can listen to that album and say they were awful live. If you don't like their songs that's one thing, but the performance is top notch. Never actually got to see them live, but I thought that they were generally considered a pretty awesome live band.