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Nirvana Anyone?
Luke:
I haven't had the opportunity to listen to Nirvana in more than probably a dozen instances, but I like what I've heard.
This shouldn't be the kind of forum where we smell shitstorms every time someone starts a thread about a popular band. Seriously, we're better than that.
Addition: I dig.
Storm Rider:
--- Quote from: drpepper_phd ---I mean, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was a great song no matter how you look at it.
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Except for, you know, the boring and crappy stuff.
Nirvana itself wasn't bad, but all the shitty Nirvana knockoffs (aka: grunge) is the part that bothers me. Bringing back minimalist music was not good.
Outshined:
Building off what Moose said: Nirvana kind of symbolized the end of one era of American musical taste and the beginning of a new one... they may not have been the best band, but they struck a chord somehow and shook things up. I imagine, eventually, another band will emerge and play a similar role when contemporary music changes faces again (I'm kind of waiting for an indie band to go massively popular... that genre of music seems to be moving into the mainstream as a replacement for rock, or at least it seems so from my perspective.) Then everybody will get tired of the new genre, start ragging on it's major figures, and the musical circle of life will continue.
practicality:
I like some of their songs... Smells Like Teen Spirit, Lithium, Heart Shaped Box, Polly, and Rape Me (despite the unfortunate name and lyrics). The others are okay... if I listen to too much, it just starts sounding like shrieking.
TrueNeutral:
I always preferred Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains. Nirvana, to me, was always the weaker of 'the Seattle Sound'. Doesn't mean I don't like it. I've recently, for some reason, gotten back into a grunge phase so I think I'll like all grunge. Yay Mudhoney.
Not sad that Nirvana broke up. Without that happening, I don't think The Foo Fighters would be where they are today, and I'm a big Foo Fighters fan.
Also, Kurt was kind of an asshole. Not to say that Cornell and Vedder weren't.
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