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I was a Nirvana fan as a teen. I liked a lot of crappy music back then like Bush and Primus. To be honest Nirvana's music doesn't hold up so well compared to Pearl Jam or Tool. And those hair old bands put on great shows at the Brandon Amphitheatre. I have to say I miss the nostalgia of 1990s MTV more than any specific band.

Oh, Gawd, who cares about that druggie loser, who snatched a bit of fame, then offed himself. Mourned by nobody, except perhaps his little daughter. But, then, he wasn’t thinking of her, was he?

I’m sorry, and I know he’s popular, AND I’m a rock n roll lover, but to me, this is just garbage. I mean you can’t sing along to it, you can’t dance, it has no melody. I guess I just never got the whole grunge thing. But before you assault me with “that’s just your opinion” and “we have a right to like whatever music we want,” let me just say, You’re right!!! So you keep him, God rest his tortured soul, and I’ll keep the Stones, Zeppelin, J. Prine, Carole King, Billy Joel, etc.

It was destiny. If Kurt didnt die then the truly great Foo Fighters may not have ever existed.

Tragic stuff, a la Chris Cornell and Scott Weiland, from the same general era. Nonetheless, all very talented with tracks that still regularly play on Sirius/XM and Apple Music.

That having been said...”just say no to drugs.”

Left-handed, yo.

I saw that there were 2 comments to this post, and the only reason I clicked on the link was to see if both of them were bashing Cobain or just one of them.

Giving 9:23 the benefit of the doubt, it's really painful when someone close to you commits suicide and I'm guessing this is some misplaced anger. Having experienced it, my only advice is to try and forgive them. The brains of people with major depression are completely, chemically out of whack. Often, they're so imbalanced that they don't even know they are depressed. We all just need to cut each other some slack.

Anyone bitching about Kurt and drugs, you got it all wrong.

I won't say he was a libertarian, but when he was living, he openly stated his ambitions. One, He liked playing guitar (really didn't care for writing lyrics-he didn't even try and then after the Rape Me blow up, he felt betrayed after people had asked for introspective writing), two, he liked drugs. And he hoped to make enough money doing the first on the PacNW scene to do the second. NO ambition to be global rock star or anyone's hero.

You may not approve of that. But if a man has a choice to live his own life, well, it is an exercise of liberty. A dark side of yet? Yes, but freedom without danger and darkness is no freedom.

Kurt's life is not what I want for myself or my kids, but people bashing this guy are a bunch of totalitarians.

Nirvana was awesome. Great memories flood back to me when I hear their music, too many memories.

If KF posted a video of Jimi Hendrix or Chuck Berry the usual suspects would be pissing and moaning about the lack of talent and so forth. That's a fact Jack!

The official video of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Nirvana on YouTube has 1 Billion views!!

One billion idiots,

9:23- feel all better now?

And in the mean time, our old Boomer friend. . . Keith Richards is still going strong at 105.

He did cut back on the heroin a bit, but he's still partying hard and falling out of palm trees on
South Pacific Islands . . . while playing entire concerts with Mick and the boys.

A perfect example of the difference between men and boys.

But could he survive Courtney?

LOL.

You're right.
Keith may have called it quits too if he had live with Courtney.

@39:00 From a life long professional air guitar player.......but on this one, I am drummer. Get your YA YAs OUT and forget perfected talent.

Life long touring musician here... Just my two cents (OPINION for those who can't count):

Nirvana may have not been a bluesy based soul band like The Stones or the hard rock ballad writers of GNR (both which I like) but they did change the entire landscape of music in the 90's and ushered in a completely different genre of rock (just as rock was dying). Like most revolutionary bands, the previous generation just "didn't get it". Seems like there was another little band from Liverpool that had a similar experience from the previous generation. Changing the complete landscape of popular music takes talent... That alone offers some serious gravity to Nirvana.

As for a group, Nirvana was a more technical group than they get credit for... they had a great live sound for a 3 person group. They also wrote what they felt instead of being programed by a record label to "do what it takes" to push records. I have a lot of respect for that.

As for the genre, I'd put grunge inspired bands from the 90's like Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Soundgarden, STP, Alice in Chains, ect... up against anything from the 70's, 80's, 00's, or 10's in musical composition. It's pretty complicated stuff especially compared to the label polished, hair metal stuff (There were several hair bands in the late 80's whose band mates were hand picked by labels for their "image" even though they couldn't play an instrument. They figured that they'd "pick it up as they went along".) I was refreshed and happy to see the grunge movement if only for the purge of "image" rockers. I wish the same thing would happen now to these "hip hop" guys who can't even play an instrument and use autotune on top of that. Geeze.