Where we at with the Nirvana?

[HotDogJoe]

All the talk of Foo Fighters in lit crit made me think how shit they are by comparison. Dave Grohl's obviously a talented guy but you can't compare his best songs to the best stuff Cobain wrote.

 

[Covid19]

Kurt Cobain was a faggot and Nirvana was overrated.

 

[1073waaf]

They were my favorite band when I was in elementary school. I still like them, but it’s probably nostalgia mostly. All of the other grunge music from that era is pretty terrible though.

 

[Slackjawed Cow]

One of the better unplugged performances.

 

[Udders]

Loved em, still do. Cobain was such an amazing songwriter, I don't think anyones done more with simpler chords.

 

[Calculating Bovinity]

Solid band but would rather listen to early Pixies instead, or Husker Du - Makes No Sense At All

 

[Jim Norton’s Wife's Cock]

I like Nirvana, they were a good band. The fanbase and the mystique surrounding them is super gay though.

 

['THE NIGGER MAN']

Hey man, is that skateboard faggot rock?

 

[TokenX]

Never liked them much and I don't know why.

 

[guest]

Interesting article about the Butch Vig mix of Nevermind. This was how Cobain wanted the album released but Geffen wanted a more overproduced version.

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[satanssockpuppet]

Cobain's biggest mistake was treating that grunting, herpes-ridden cum-bucket wife of his like an equal. She immediately set about destroying him and bleeding him dry until suicide was his best option.

 

[JesseTheGovernor]

I liked then a lot in my youth. Grew up in that era. But then I grew out of that angsty, teenage rebellion phase so I don’t listen to them too much nowadays. Still enjoy some of their songs.

I also don’t much care if the band members can be faggy or whatever. Most musicians are, and actors, and athletes, and anybody in the public eye. I love the movie Chinatown and Roman Polanski is a pedo. I still like Casino even though de Niro is a total retard of a human. Etc.

 

[wbgreen]

They were my favorite band when I was in elementary school. I still like them, but it’s probably nostalgia mostly. All of the other grunge music from that era is pretty terrible though.

Same. Alice in Chains has songs that hold up, though. "Rooster" is the better song about the Vietnam war than anything from the '60s.

 

[Riccardo Bosi]

You know how Pacino won the Oscar for Scent of a Woman after all the great shit he did in the 70s, and Scorsese won for The Departed after nearly every other movie he directed that was better? I think the same applies to Grohl for the success he's had with Foo Fighters. Foo Fighters stinks (mediocre at best, anyway) but Grohl does deserve the accolades for Nirvana's success, so if he gets it through being the frontman of a lame band, so be it.

Grohl wasn't originally in Nirvana. Before he was, the band sucked and their debut is abysmal. Grohl reined in Cobain and made sense of his ideas. My favourite song of theirs is Scentless Apprentice. In an interview, Kurt said the riff was Dave's idea and critiqued it first by asking, "isn't this a bit too simplistic/boneheaded?" and Dave had to assure him it would work. Alice In Chains notwithstanding, In Utero defines that decade and genre the best, better than Nevermind.

Grohl also drummed on QOTSA's best album, and it just fucking claps, child.

Same. Alice in Chains has songs that hold up, though. "Rooster" is the better song about the Vietnam war than anything from the '60s.

Jerry Cantrell is the greatest talent out of that period, and he gets no credit for it.

 

[TomFromNawlins]

I liked them, but I put them last out of the big grunge bands of the era.

 

[Upton Baby Sinclair]

Definitely hit their stride after Paul McCartney stepped in.

 

[alkiefuck2]

they might be "babby's first grunge band" but i still enjoy them, i loved lithium when i was a kid

 

[MunchausenByProxy]

They’ve been overplayed to death and for 10 years every band tried to be them, and most did a really poor job. Because of that, people see Nirvana come on the radio and turn it off most of the time. The media took their style and ran it into the ground, which sucks because they were great.
Their Unplugged album is actually my favorite album of all time. Cover to cover gems.
Sure AIC was better, but I think its absurd to say that Nirvana sucks or was never good

 

[DeadWithoutMyDavid]

Pretty funny when Axl Rose told Cobain to shut his bitch up. Also pretty funny when Nirvana spit all over GnR's keyboards.

 

[wbgreen]

Grohl wasn't originally in Nirvana. Before he was, the band sucked and their debut is abysmal. Grohl reined in Cobain and made sense of his ideas.

Grohl worked hard to learn the drums, and other instruments. Cobain came out of that post-punk world where you don't need to actually know how to play an instrument to be in a band (ie It's cool to be lazy. Putting in effort is being sincere, which is something to sneer at.)