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El Opium:
I must say that I currently have no particular love for nirvana but I'm not going to downplay the influence thay had on my musical taste. Anyway, Kurt downplayed his own band and told people to go listen to bands who had influenced his. I took his advice and became a fan of the following bands:
Sonic Youth
Wipers
Meat Puppets
Flipper
The Pixies

One of my friends is a Courtney Love fan, which is amusing when we meet nirvana freaks.

lastclearchance:

--- Quote from: Inlander ---I'm curious to know how many people who diss Nirvana on this forum came of age in the 90s and grew up with the music.  I think maybe people my age (born 1979) have a much greater affection for the band and their music than for younger folk.
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Outshined kinda touched on this, but as an 84 baby I thought I'd throw in. I was one of those kids you older ones hated for liking grunge without getting it. I don't have music nostalgia really though. The only band I'm I ever really nostalgic for is Smashing Pumpkins. But it probably means something that of all the actual grunge I had the only CDs I kept were Nevermind and In Utero. Beyond that I still have "Black Hole Sun" and "Jeremy" on my computer, but the other grunge is gone.

Liam:
I liked In Utero, but Nevermind didn't really cut it for me, with the exception of Lithium.

I really love the sound of Cobain's voice, and his songwriting is superb and original. He has the Black Francis appeal of being able to write ambiguous wordplay, and I really dig that kind of thing.

Nirvana is a bit dark for me, though, so I don't listen to them too much.

That's my two cents.

RUMBLEMOOSE:
I'm a product of '82, most of my peers had a very serious and intense love affair with Nirvana. After Kurt Cobain parted ways with most of his skull, we all mourned and what not, but somewhere along the line we all got into different music. I think Nirvana was fabulous in context, if you were sick of slick Motownphilly New Jack Swing or oversafe commercial rap or the strung-out dregs of the tail-end of the hair metal movement. I personally had just come out of the phase where one listens strictly to "Weird Al" Yankovic and classic rock, so it was pretty damn illuminating to me.

And more importantly, Nirvana's success really dragged a lot of good indie bands into the spotlight, and even if they were only there for a moment the exposure has changed American popular music for better or worse. Matador getting bought and then dropped by Capitol, the Flaming Lips breaking even on a record for the first time in ten years, Spoon getting signed and then dropped, so forth. And then there's all the bands Cobain would name-check, like Sonic Youth and the Melvins and Boredoms and the people El Opium mentioned.

Without all that contextual importance: Nirvana were a solid Northwest punk band. They were one of the better bands of their scene, and Cobain showed some promise and interest in becoming a talented songwriter.

This is my take on it.

Inlander:

--- Quote from: Inlander ---I think maybe people my age (born 1979) have a much greater affection for the band and their music than for younger folk.
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Don't know where that rogue "for" came from.  Didn't mean to imply that I'm hating on the kids!  Just that the kids don't seem to dig Nirvana.  Ya dig?

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