Nirvana

I do like a bit of Nirvana :)

The MTV unplugged album, is fantastic. 'Come as you are' on that album :cool: :)
 
Indeed, Cobain singing 'Where did you sleep last night' is fantastic stuff.

J'adore that album, my Dad has an old video of the performance some where too.
 
I never got the whole Grunge scene. Some how the music seemed a bit simplistic and dumbed down. Sort of heavy metal pop.
 
I like some of their stuff but I didn't 'get' them when they came out and still don't consider them to be seminal in any particularly strong way. I was more of a fan of Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, AIC and Screaming Trees. I can listen to them though.
 
Dimple said:
No they were too soft.
At that time I was into Slayer, Anthrax, Testament, Metallica & Megadeth and Nirvana were just soft girly music.
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I liked Nirvana at the time, but their music hasn't carried forward for me, I don't listen too them now, I find smells like teen spirit now so unbearably cheesy, and I also was big into those bands you mentioned, but earlier than Nirvana, seen them all in concert and even remember Slayer, testament and Megadeth being on the same bill.
 
i don't hate them and i don't love them - i like them and they were a good band but there were a lot of good bands around at the time. They seem to have been hyped beyond their station due to an untimely death - happens all the time in music/film.
 
I lived in Seattle from 1985 to 1999. Let me tell you, it was an awesome place for music! Not just the big hitters like Pearl Jam, Nirvana, etc, but loads of other great bands like Green River, Candlebox, Mudhoney, and Motherlovebone, and a little known gem in a band called Super Deluxe. There were always free gigs to go to, including KISW's "Pain in the Grass" series at the foot of the Space Needle.

I've always loved grunge music, and probably always will, but to stay on topic, I sort of quit listening to Nirvana from 2000-2010, as technically they just didn't have everything that more complete bands like AIC and Soundgarden had, and I thought they had been "played out". With that being said, these last 18 months or so, I've been having a mini Nirvana revival, and they did make some awesome music.

As for Kurt - spokesperson of a generation? Not at all! He's not freaking Bob Dylan (heck, even Bob Dylan wasn't the generational deity he was made out to be), but did have one hell of a voice and did write some seriously wicked tunes. I think had Kurt not died though, that Nirvana would have sort of flamed out, as I feel they were sort of on a downward slope at the time - for me, In Utero didn't check all the boxes that they're previous albums did, but I'm sure it probably resonated better to the britpop culture you had over here than the original Seattle grunge scene.

just my 2p
 
They were my favourite band when I was in my early teens and they still existed.

As I've gotten older, I don't find I can listen to them like I did when I was a teen. Not sure whether its a case of having listened to them too much, or whether some of it was the whole grunge, rebellious thing and just not being into that anymore.

I think one of the greatest unanswered questions of modern music is what Nirvana would have been like today if Kurt hadn't killed himself; maybe they would never have released anything good again, but there is always that thought that they could have released something even better in future.
 
So badly in two minds about them its just silly. On the one hand the whole grunge thing appealed, like that sort of music a bit, but hated the people involved (everyone got far too above them selves about it and early 90's music will always suffer form the musicians thinking they are still great now). The music though reminds me of being a teen and finding about music as a wider thing, not just what was on tv, so despite being a bit clueless it was liberating 10-15 years after it was first written and generally a bit of fun to be into something different.

On the other hand I listen to it now and think that it was their 15 mins of fame, nothing written is technically any good or revolutionary. In my mind if Kurt had bothered to stick it out a few more years he would have faded into nothing either way. In reality its not my thing because it ultimately is just angry pop music.

To me its just like your first pint, its always Carling, its always nasty (because you are new to it), but it is an event and liberating. Years later you never want a by choice Carling again (because its horrible) but once in a while you'll end up with one and have that teenage thrill from what it resembles. Nirvana are the same (like a collection of things everyone used to listen too), can have it on once every so often but not something to base your entire music appreciation around (which this week is back to Sabbath for an off topic digression)
 
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