Jonathan Hohensee: I need another Nirvana album like I need a hole in my head.

Yeah, I need another like I need...another...one

Dammit! You took the good one

Why would you remaster Bleach? It's supposed to sound like it's being played through shiatty headphones on a half worn out cassette.

Eat_At_Milliways: Can we get some more articles about how Kurt Cobain was the misunderstood voice of a wayward generation?

I want to see Gen X turn into the boomers as fast as they possibly can and this is just one more way to speed it up thanks

tards


Whine all you like. The fact is, Cobain was very influential on the music scene in a very short time. You may not remember the state of music in the late 1980s, but outside of punk and rap, it was a pretty moribund collection of hair metal, derivative, recycled dance pop and not much else.

Whether you like their music or not, you have to admit that Nirvana were damned influential.

But go on and bash them if you like. If that's what it takes to make you feel good about your own taste in music, then have at it.

FloydA: Whether you like their music or not, you have to admit that Nirvana were damned influential.

this is Nirvana's lasting influence:


Japancakes: I won't dismiss kurt entirely because through him (through "Incesticide") I did discover the genius of The Vaselines.

that's it. He influenced people to pick up records by arguably better artists. I like Nirvana, but I'm hard-pressed to think of anyone they really influenced beyond 1996. I see Nirvana as more iconic of the 80s indie underground finally gaining mainstream acceptance, but that's about it.

Eat_At_Milliways: Can we get some more articles about how Kurt Cobain was the misunderstood voice of a wayward generation?

I want to see Gen X turn into the boomers as fast as they possibly can and this is just one more way to speed it up thanks



tards

You sound angry.

Eat_At_Milliways: wouldestous: people still want to talk about kurt cobain as a beautifully tragic lost genius soul cut off in his prime.

Thaaaaaaank youuuuuuuuuu



See the shirt? There's a reason the stereotypical angry young man from the 90s is wearing the shirt.

Nirvana was good. Not my own cup of tea, the only of their albums I still have is Unplugged.

I'm much more of a fan of the 80's alternative stuff, early REM, Replacements et. al. Nirvana was not the end-all be-all of alternative rock, or even grunge, and the more I hear about the tragic genius that was Kurt Cobain the more all I can see in my mind's eye is baby boomers who still aren't over their own youth.

A little perspective, that's all I'm asking for.


Ha ha. OK, you got me. I fell for your troll, hook, line and sinker until you mentioned REM.
Good one.
9.85/10

Bhasayate:

This is the myth, but there were many bands out, even before Nirvana, that were breaking the mold. Jane's Addiction. Red Hot Chili Peppers. Faith No More. Lots of other stuff, but I'm lazy.

There were certainly other bands and artists doing things outside of the derivative, boring rehash stuff of the late 80s. I'm not sure I would have included those three on my list, but I can understand why you do.

But to say (as some, not necessarily you, have said) that Nirvana were not influential in changing the music scene of the US is just false. Whether you liked them or hated them or were completely ambivalent about them, you were aware of them. You can't say that about a lot of the other really talented acts of the time.

Some, like the three you named, did cover ground that nobody else had and went on to be very big. Others (many that were far more radical departures from mainstream) vanished. But very few are being talked about 15 years later in as much detail as Nirvana is today.

Seriously, Pearl Jam, Hole, L7, Foo Fighters, Soundgarden... if Nirvana hadn't broken out into the mainstream, those people would all be working at used record stores or as night shift welders at Boeing right now. (Except Courtney, who would probably be a hooker up on Aurora Ave.)

The Cobain-bashing is fashionable now, and that's fine, but denying that Nirvana helped make "alternative" into "mainstream" is simply not historically accurate. That's all I'm saying.