[Rosewin]

So there has to be others that consider this band the best band ever ever. So the usual, when did you first hear them, which songs are your favorites, where were you when Kurt died?

I first became a fan when they went national and I bought the Nevermind cassette, before CDs and mp3s were mainstream, the best album ever made IMHO. All their songs are quite good. I was prolly off in lala land when Kurt died. I never cried about it or made a big deal. I was not really a fan to be honest, they had good songs, so did so many other bands, but this year I revisited them, as I do every few years, and I decided they are the best band ever.

[Epithet of Satan]

first heard them in 93' something in the way...i was at home when i saw the news it really upset me lol i was only 10 but kurt was already an idol to me

Favs heres a few

Something In The Way
Heart Shaped Box
Tourette's
Rape me
Come As You Are
Lithium
Polly

[Dr. Peter Venkman]

Rosewin on Jan 27 2009, 10:34 AM, said:

So there has to be others that consider this band the best band ever ever. So the usual, when did you first hear them, which songs are your favorites, where were you when Kurt died?

I first became a fan when they went national and I bought the Nevermind cassette, before CDs and mp3s were mainstream, the best album ever made IMHO. All their songs are quite good. I was prolly off in lala land when Kurt died. I never cried about it or made a big deal. I was not really a fan to be honest, they had good songs, so did so many other bands, but this year I revisited them, as I do every few years, and I decided they are the best band ever.

You're kiddin' me right?

[Neognosis]

I hate Nirvana. I think they are the most overrated band of my lifetime, so far.

[Dr. Peter Venkman]

Harvester Of Sorrow on Jan 27 2009, 10:50 AM, said:

first heard them in 93' something in the way...i was at home when i saw the news it really upset me lol i was only 10 but kurt was already an idol to me

Favs heres a few

Something In The Way
Heart Shaped Box
Tourette's
Rape me
Come As You Are
Lithium
Polly

What color were Kurt Gobangs eyes?.......... Blue, one blew that way, the other blew that way!!! Ba Dump Crash!!!! Don't forget to tip your waitress, I'll be here all week. G'night!

[Cradle of Fish]

Tied with the Strokes and Oasis for most overrated band ever.

[jaylemurph]

Cradle of Fish on Jan 27 2009, 11:15 AM, said:

Tied with the Strokes and Oasis for most overrated band ever.

Currently, they are pretty damned over-rated, but they were one of the most significant bands in recent years, inasmuch as they were the /first/ band to go mainstream that played in a style common to many other bands that didn't go mainstream. There was nothing terribly special or unique to Nirvana that didn't appear in another 2 or 3 dozens bands in the Norpac area in the early 1990s. That's to say, their movement was important; they themselves weren't, terribly.

If you really want to hate something appropriate, loathe the number of crappy major-label spawned bad copycats we had to endure afterwards, like Pearl Jam or Stone Temple Pilots...

--Jaylemurph

[Sweetpumper]

Neognosis on Jan 27 2009, 05:04 PM, said:

I hate Nirvana.

I can handle about 2 songs and that's it. Couldn't tell you where I was when Kurt blew his head off.

[Lord*Kur]

i think nirvana was more of a copycat band then anything. they just made ideas from bands like the minutemen popular

[Splodgenessabounds]

It niggles me when people say "yada yada are the best ever" as if it were a scientifically proven fact when it is just opinion. Even I fall into that trap and nothing niggles me more than getting annoyed with my own actions.

IMO If cobain were alive today I doubt Nirvana would be as big as they're considered now.

[MissMelsWell]

Lord*Kur on Jan 27 2009, 09:40 AM, said:

i think nirvana was more of a copycat band then anything. they just made ideas from bands like the minutemen popular

I totally agree.

Never been a Nir-yawna fan at all. (Heartshape box is the only one of their songs I actually do like)

I live in Seattle, I was a local fan of bands like Soundgarden, Mother Love Bone, The Melvins, MudHoney and Screaming Trees LONG LONG before anyone ever heard of Nirvana, in fact long before Nirvana existed. Nirvana came out of nowhere, no one in Seattle knew who they were until they started busting the charts. We were all standing around looking at each other saying "who the hell are these guys?" Our club favorites hit the charts soon afterward.

If you want GREAT music from that era, revist Screaming Trees and MudHoney. They were true innovators. Nirvana just irritates the crap out of me. I'm not an AIC fan either, but geeze, at least they were around and were a hardworking club band before they were famous.

Nirvana and Cobain threw on the image of a hardworking band, but the reality was that they weren't. They absorbed their sound, image, and style from other hard working bands (I won't say "ripped off" though). I just thought that other bands of that era were MUCH better.

[Neognosis]

Quote

If you really want to hate something appropriate, loathe the number of crappy major-label spawned bad copycats we had to endure afterwards, like Pearl Jam or Stone Temple Pilots...

Hmm... this would seem to indicate that you've never listened to Pearl Jam? And certainly don't listen to them currently? and don't know anything about their problems with major record lables?

[Lord*Kur]

they straight ripped off a riff from the minutemen and used it in "smells like teen spirit"

[Bill Hill]

I like Nirvana, great band. Raw and real..

I still listen to In Utero.

[Splodgenessabounds]

Lord*Kur on Jan 27 2009, 07:30 PM, said:

they straight ripped off a riff from the minutemen and used it in "smells like teen spirit"

Everyone's guilty of doing that.

The Jam ripped off Taxman by the Beatles in their song What You Give is what You Get
Oasis ripped off Get It On by T-Rex in their song Cigarettes and Alcohol
Oasis ripped off My Sweet Lord by George Harrison in their song Supersonic
George Harrison ripped off He's So Fine by Chiffons in his song My Sweet Lord
Travis and Green Day ripped of Wonderwall by Oasis in their songs Writing to Reach You and Boulevard of Broken Dreams, respectively.
Madonna ripped off Gimme Gimme Gimme by ABBA in her song Hung Up
Listen to pretty much all of R 'n B and it's a rip off of someone else.

What goes around comes around. I don't hold it against them.

This post has been edited by Splodgenessabounds: 27 January 2009 - 07:45 PM