Nirvana

[iluvjeisa]

kurt actually did like catchy songs and admitted to them. Hence, being influenced by the beatles, the knack, the smitereens, a lot of poppy rock. One of his favorite albums was "meet the beatles" which had their earlier, poppier tunes. You can't really blame Nirvana itself for the followers. A lot of the grunge bands have spawned countless, uninspired wannabes. Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam are copied heavily, even maybe moreso than Nirvana. The Beatles spawned talentless creatures aka Oasis. But I don't associate the Beatles with turd like Oasis.

Point taken....I guess my anger comes from their dismissal of Guns n'Roses

 

[Stamoholic]

I really don't know where to start on my first post about Nirvana...

They've been part of my life for basically my whole life. I remember when I was a little kid in 1991- early 1992, my older sister and my cousin turning into grungers basically over night! They would play Nevermind over and over and over again in my sisters bedroom, to the point that by the time I was five years old I could probably sing the whole album from start to finish... and I still can.

I remember that feeling, when I first bought Nevermind for myself in probably 1998-1999 and listened to it again for the first time since 1994-95', and it all came flooding back to me. " Come as You Are" was the one that really got me. I could still remember every word, ever note. It was a really profound moment.

My sister also had a tape version of Bleach that had been made for her by a boyfriend, with a little drawing of a dopey grunger boy on the front. I still have the tape, and it still works perfectly!

Anyway, I think Kurt was right when he said that grunge was a fight against the destruction of rock, and that there would be no great rock movements after it... IMO he was right. Today, rock music is dead.

I also don't believe that popular theory that Courtney had anything to do with Kurt's death, and I haven't believed it since I was about eleven. I won't go into that though, since it's such a gross area.

My favorite Nirvana tunes of all times are:
1. Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle.
2. Something in The Way
3. Come as You Are
4. Smells like Teen Spirit ( The story of this song titles creation is amazing )
5. I Hate Myself and Want To Die
6. Territorial Pissings

I'm also a huge fan of The Melvins, The Vaselines, Daniel Johnston, The Meat Puppets, Flipper... if you've not heard these bands and you like Nirvana, you should get a hold of some of there songs. You'll probably love them!

I also think Nirvana have a real Black Flag feel to a lot of their heavy three-chord grunge songs.

" The worst crime is faking it." -- Kurt Cobain

 

[Stamoholic]

kurt actually did like catchy songs and admitted to them. Hence, being influenced by the beatles, the knack, the smitereens, a lot of poppy rock. One of his favorite albums was "meet the beatles" which had their earlier, poppier tunes. You can't really blame Nirvana itself for the followers. A lot of the grunge bands have spawned countless, uninspired wannabes. Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam are copied heavily, even maybe moreso than Nirvana. The Beatles spawned talentless creatures aka Oasis. But I don't associate the Beatles with turd like Oasis.

True
This quote might be interesting to a lot of people:

" By definition pop is extremely catchy, whether you like it or not. There are some pop songs I hate but I can't get them out of my head. Our songs also have the standard pop format: Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, bad solo. All in all, I think we sound like The Knack and the Bay City Rollers being molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath." -- Cobain

 

[lady stardust]

ebay/vintagerockphotos.com

 

[Stamoholic]

^ I love his t-shirt in the second picture. I bought a copy of it not too long ago ( it's a Daniel Johnston t-shirt.)

This is one of my favorite Kurt pictures:

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[lady stardust]

cute!

 

[iluvjeisa]

Very very cute, from the dried out thin lips to the bleached out stringy hair.

 

[Stamoholic]

^ Hey, we loved him for it!

Also, can't believe I left " Drain You" off my list of favorite Nirvana songs.

That was basically my favorite song when I was five! I remember and cringe now over the memory of my little five year old self in the back of my parents car going, " Chew your meat for you\ pass it back and forth\ in a passionate kiss\ from my mouth to yours..."

 

[Me and Jill]

i feel such a connection from this guy, maybe everybody does...
i've always loved the fact the i'm also a pisces and left handed myself.

 

[Stamoholic]

These are more " kurt" than " nirvana", but here they are anyway:

( He's at the very end of this first video...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUmNHdGuaFU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OuIwRiwDyk&feature=related
guesty356 at Youtube

 

[BohoBelle]

He was beautiful

 

[Me and Jill]

indeed, he was bueatiful boy.

 

[Stamoholic]

^ Those are some great pictures. Feel like I should post some Krist and Dave pictures though! lol! Kurt wasn't the only guy in Nirvana!

My new favorite video of the guys:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvCT-fD-q0A&feature=related

" With a twist o' lemon!" -- Kurt Cobain (lol!)

 

[Me and Jill]

they balanced each other out nicely.

 

[Me and Jill]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pglOL3HYxWc&feature=PlayList&p=08E7770897404AE4&playnext=1&index=51
such a lovely voice
anyone watched 'about a son'?

 

[Stamoholic]

^ Lol, I love how he totally punked the f*ck out of it for that version!

I saw their J Ross preformance, and I'm suprised that Ross was such a dork about them! lol! I thought he used to be hard into the whole Stiff records movement.

 

[lmelanie]

[/quote]
such a lovely voice
anyone watched 'about a son'?[/quote]


About a Son is such a great film. so beautiful and moving.. I highly recommend it...

 

[melfreya]

^^I didn't know this film existed! I'm ordering it now from amazon! thank you guys!!

 

[Me and Jill]

be sure to come back and tell us about it. i remember i couldn't wiat for it to come out.

 

[melfreya]

I will sweetie!!Can't wait for it to arrive!!