Nirvana

My favourite band.

Their live performance are awesome, so varied and rough. I love listening to old demos of them too, Kurt has such a unique voice.

Into the Black
Outcesticide series (5 albums)



The two other bands that you'll like if you like Nirvana.. Bush, JJ72. Simple, effective guitar with good solid songs.

I have the complete discographies of all these bands, including as far as I can see, the main bootleg/live albums too.
 
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the album Bleach - dynamic, back in 1991 - Nirvana are the 'geeks' it was very exciting, but bear in mind that era, spoilt, we had Guns and Roses, ALice & Chains, Soundgarden, Peal Jam. and Street Fighter 2 :)
 
Never got the huge hype surrounding them.

I do like quite a few of their songs however, with In Utero being the album I like the most. I few mates of mine were huge Nirvana and Radish fans (they were a bit like Nirvana with Ben Kweller as frontman).

Much MUCH prefer Soundgarden and Alice in Chains.
 
Maybe for 15 year old girls who buy a Primark Nirvana t-shirt without ever hearing the band.

Top trolling. You mentioned "girly music" in an earlier post, like it was some kind of slur. Are you really that insecure about your sexuality ? I pitty you.

Truth is, Nirvana were massive, and still are hugely influencial. I guess there are too many "girly" men in the world huh ? :cool:

Take the hate somewhere else m8.
 
Top trolling. You mentioned "girly music" in an earlier post, like it was some kind of slur. Are you really that insecure about your sexuality ? I pitty you.

Truth is, Nirvana were massive, and still are hugely influencial. I guess there are too many "girly" men in the world huh ? :cool:

Take the hate somewhere else m8.

The OP asked for opinions so I gave mine.
I'm sure you probably wouldn't like a lot of the material I listen to but I would never call you out for it so grow up.
As far as I'm concerned Nirvana are girly rock music and the Foo Fighters even more so.
Not as much as Bon Jovi though.
 
They were the biggest commercial success of the Seattle grunge scene (due to label push), but in the same time one of the weakest if not THE weakest offering of said scene. "Bleach" is a good example of just how weak, lost and in deep need of other band influence to find its groove Nirvana was compared to the rest of the Subpop catalogue of 1989/90.

There are few things about Nirvana that most of people probably missed:

One. The Nirvana sound, as you know it, is not really Nirvana sound. When Nirvana recorded "Nevermind", they couldn't agree on a mix with producers and label and after numerous engineers they brought in Andy Wallace (the dude behind Reign in Blood by Slayer) who did final mix. Cobain stated many times in release interviews that the band was unhappy with the sound Wallace created, few years later Cobain even stated he was embarrassed about what "Nevermind" sounded like. The sound and tone that brought fame to Nirvana was a result of agreement between producer Butch Vig and the mixer.
Cobain was also unhappy with the sound and mixes of "In Utero" and lack of agreement between him and label nearly shelved the album.

Nirvanas shot at stardom, between Paul King playing "Smells Like Teen Spirit" video on his "120 Minutes" show for the first time and stop of 94 tour in Rome, lasted two and a half years almost to the day. Most of which Cobain spent retrospectively screwing his bandmates out of money (lookup album royalties true story). After his death, his wife tried to screw them out of remaining and unpublished releases money (lookup Courtney Love vs Nirvana LLC true story). In 2006 she sold her share of the catalogue to EMI.

Cobain was a copycat. Examples everywhere. "Smells like" riff was ripped off Boston and mixed with Blue Oyster Cult, the rest was still Blue Oyster but different song. Nirvana even joked about it. "Come as you are" was grabbed from Killing Joke. To name but few. Cobain publicly claimed they were trying to sound like Pixies.

The dollar chasing kid on the cover of "Nevermind", Spencer Elden was on Never Mind The Buzzcocks last month.
 
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One of my favourite bands.

In utero by far and away their best work, followed by bleach.

Check out pen cap chew from the Live on Air album, it's a longer version than on the lights out box set. I've been listening to that a lot recently.
 
Cobain was a copycat. Examples everywhere. "Smells like" riff was ripped off Boston and mixed with Blue Oyster Cult, the rest was still Blue Oyster but different song. Nirvana even joked about it. "Come as you are" was grabbed from Killing Joke. To name but few. Cobain publicly claimed they were trying to sound like Pixies.

I don't think that counts for much since nearly all bands rip somebody off.
My all time favourites Led Zeppelin were known for ripping everybody off and the likes of Metallica would be nobodies without the ripping off of Diamond Head & Budgie.
 
I don't think that counts for much since nearly all bands rip somebody off.
My all time favourites Led Zeppelin were known for ripping everybody off and the likes of Metallica would be nobodies without the ripping off of Diamond Head & Budgie.
Erm, metallica covered diamond head and budgie.

Unless I'm missing something.
 
Great band, never really listened to them the first time round but a few years ago I picked up a Nirvana biography which I found very interesting, so bought a compilation CD and loved it.
 
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