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- barbtastic0
some might be excited to know that the breeders are recording new stuff now
[a little birdie told me]
- Jaline0
yeah, Rand kind of got what I was trying to say.
There are just too many so-called Nirvana fans (ie. douchebags who claim that Nirvana is their life, even though they're like 15) out there right now that it makes me lose respect for the band sometimes. No offense.
But Kurt obviously had an impact on music. I just have to block out some things. My view is more filtered than everyone else since I wasn't really around when he was in his prime.
- rafalski0
Funny how people attribute a band's music to the leader.
"Do you like Red Hot Chili Peppers?"
"Yeah, but he looked better with long hair!"Foo Fighters prove it wasn't just Kurt.
And Keith Richards didn't disrespect Cobain, he said Kurt was this fragile introvert kid who entered the dirty world of professional rocknroll and didn't sustain the pressure.
The money, fame, drugs, fans can fuck an unstable personality up real bad.
- rafalski0
..and when you begin your career with a milestone album like Nevermind or Ten that you'll never get even close to later.. this could be terribly frustrating.
- letters20
well put rafalski
- -sputnik-0
I like his music....but he and his music was hailed more for and after his death. His band didn't have that much music out at the time of his death, and therefore it is strange to just claim that he was one of the greatest artists ever.
Jaline
(Apr 5 07, 10:04)he was absolutely not hailed more after his death. i really think you had to be there :\
- morilla0
those were exciting times in music. Something that hasn't been seen in decades.
- Jaline0
he was absolutely not hailed more after his death. i really think you had to be there :\
-sputnik-
(Apr 5 07, 11:18)seriously? I'm pretty sure his sales have gone up...
- blaw0
on a personal note, my life sure has changed for the better in the past 13 years. fucking mess i was in my early twenties. no wonder that music worked like a soundtrack.
- Mimio0
They were really hyped up after they released Bleach. That's why you saw Nevermind for sale at the malls. I always love how they followed it up with Incesticide which were basically b-sides to Bleach and other experimental songs. Seemed like they were having fun back then. Too bad he couldn't hang on.
- -sputnik-0
he was absolutely not hailed more after his death. i really think you had to be there :\
-sputnik-
(Apr 5 07, 11:18)seriously? I'm pretty sure his sales have gone up...
Jaline
(Apr 5 07, 11:23)sales may continue to go up, but that has no bearing on their phenomenon and the impact they had on music at that time. it's hard to describe what was around before them, and then how all of a sudden everything changed because of them.
i really hate to say "you had to be there" cause that always sounds condescending, and i don't mean it that way. it just might seem like something in retrospect which is inaccurate. at least IMO.
- morilla0
yup,
you had to be there. Experience what was happening, it was unreal. Friends that are old enough say they equate it to the 60's.
- Jaline0
I know what you're saying.
You probably had to be in a certain age group as well...just as how many people don't get the music of "today".
- morilla0
it really wasnt about getting the music, the music today .. ugg thats a whole other thread.
The bands back in that era changed things, in monumental ways. In such ways that mosst bands around today are still riding their coat tails.
- -sputnik-0
i hate saying that you had to be there since i know i sound like a twat :\
i know i can appreciate a lot of what happened before my time, but i definitely know there are some things i had to be there for. like i missed the late 70s punk scene...i love the music and still listen, but i don't kid myself. i wasn't really there when that was making a difference.
- rafalski0
I remember spending winter 96/97 in California, what left of Nirvana was Bush, with Gavin Rossdale styled to look like "Kurt, just pretty". That was pathetic.
I had this feeling i was late for something.. and the techno/turntable thing was only beginning to spin. I'm not even mentioning indie crap.
I kept buying old Prince err.. O(+> cds and Bowie's Earthling was released on my 23rd birthday.
Rollins was doing ok too as far as I remember..
Other than that, dull times of anticipation of something new to come and 28.8 modems.
- M0NEYCIDE0
i was like 12 and i didn't even know who he was but i loved nirvana and i had practically everything on tapes and listened to it constantly while playing nintendo...when my sister told me she had say it was the singer in nirvana, i still didn't give a shit. i do now because they had at least another album left in them
- Rand0
"Nevermind became Nirvana's first #1 album on January 11, 1992, replacing Michael Jackson at the top of the Billboard charts.[29] By this time Nevermind was selling approximately 300,000 copies a week.[30] "Come As You Are" was finally released as the second single in March of 1992; it peaked at number 32 on the Billboard charts. Two more singles, "Lithium" and "In Bloom," were released from the album. Nevermind eventually spent two hundred and fifty-two weeks on the Billboard 200."
- Jaline0
Sadly, there isn't much good music in my time.
- pascii0
cried 1 week