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Started by efilnikufesin in Other Bands & Artists

Obviously Nirvana are still big, which is a bit odd considering its nearly ten years, but i was wondering if any of you people still listen too them. I was a big fan when i was younger, i listen to incesticide and bleach now andthink there is some great songs particularly “big cheese” from bleach. But i cant buy that “most important rock band ever” stuff that was on the tv when they brought out that greatest hits collection , a bit OTT perhaps?
But definately i love a lot of their songs.

Posted on Fri, 19 December 2003 at 23:28

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Denim Demon wrote:

Well I’m 18 years old but I still listen to Nirvana. I don’t own much of their records (Nevermind, In Utero & Unplugged in NY) and I believe they have made some really good music. I don’t know what it was like to really grow up with Nirvana, but after all those years, well they’re still immortal…

Posted on Fri, 19 December 2003 at 23:40

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hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:

I still listen to Nirvana, they were one of the first bands I got into (along with Ugly Kid Joe and Guns ‘n’ Roses :D) and they really were bloody fantastic, no denying it.

I don’t think they were the greatest band in the world and if Kurt was still alive I doubt they’d be held in such high regard, but they shouldn’t be slated for being popular.

Posted on Fri, 19 December 2003 at 23:50

#3

msd wrote:

A great band, but over-rated.

Posted on Sat, 20 December 2003 at 00:00

#4

hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:

But are they only over-rated retrospectively or do you think they were at the time?

Posted on Sat, 20 December 2003 at 00:04

#5

msd wrote:

I think they’ve always been over-rated. Kurt Cobain was a fuck-up idiot, and their best music is heavily influenced by other bands (i.e. The Pixies)…

Posted on Sat, 20 December 2003 at 00:06

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JSar666 wrote:

I appreciate what they did for the music industry more than the music they released. Kurt NoBrain wrote some good songs, but they were never THAT good in my opinion.

Still, without Nirvana, T? would have been less likely to get a deal with a major label, and without a major label deal there’d be less of us into T?…

Posted on Sat, 20 December 2003 at 00:54

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hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:

I agree they did do a lot of good for the genre as a whole, and a lot of bands (and fans) benefited from their success. It’s a shame that’s the way it is though, one band get the right marketing and suddenly every label in town jumps on the bandwagon (Limp Bizkit>Papa Roach>Linkin Park etc)

Posted on Sat, 20 December 2003 at 01:06

#8

Erk Junior wrote:

everyone to their own opinion but i loved them back then and i love them now, class band. never was one to follow trends so it don’t bother me none that they are hyped…
important rock band? not the most important, but they opened alot of doors for good music, they made punk “cool” again.

thin lizzy and led zep would probably deserve that title…

Posted on Sat, 20 December 2003 at 02:12

#9

JSar666 wrote:

Erk Junior wrote:

never was one to follow trends so it don’t bother me none that they are hyped…

You own a copy of a Nirvana album don’t you? So do about 40 million other people. Of course that’s not trendy ;) It’s like those people at an Offspring gig singing along with “I’m not a trendy asshole, do what I want, do what I feel like”… well, you’re following the lead of the band, so.. I’m not having a dig, I’m just stating a point.

@hooch. I agree. I’m so annoyed that any rock band with a DJ and a rapper has a much better chance of getting signed than one without.

Posted on Sat, 20 December 2003 at 10:51

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Bad Karma wrote:

I still listen to Nirvana every now and again,i mainly just listen to bootlegs.I think if Cobain was still around today Nirvana would probably have been seen as one hit wonders,i don’t think In Utero would have been as successful as it has without his suicide.Nirvana would probably have followed the same career paths as SoundGarden and the Smashing Pumpkins etc and split up,maybe Cobain might have released a solo album like Evan Dandos.

Posted on Sat, 20 December 2003 at 17:32

#11

Dermot wrote:

Well, if it wasn’t for Nirvana introducing me to good music, I think my CD collection would be a lot different. For a start, there wouldn’t be any Therapy?…

Posted on Sat, 20 December 2003 at 17:52

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prisonbreaker wrote:

i got nevermind and in utero, but i don’t really listen a lot to them, i find them both fantastic records though
for some reason their music isn’t really that attractive to me

Posted on Sat, 20 December 2003 at 18:47

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not that kind of guy (Richard) wrote:

i like nirvana though have to agree with other people here that they are still over-rated by a lot of people. having said that, i didn’t get into them until “in utero” and the whole seattle “grunge” thing was never that appealing to me anyway. i very rarely listen to them at all now. as for the legend of kurt (or is it curt, i can never remember), to be honest, and i’ll probably get in trouble here for saying this, i think he was a good frontman and that but he was a bit of a bastard to commit suicide and leave his wife and baby daughter to deal with it. and don’t start with that conspiracy theory stuff…

xxx

p.s. please don’t shout at me anyone, i’ll cry.

Posted on Sat, 20 December 2003 at 19:29

#14

sunshine wrote:

i really like nirvana…the first “harder” music i was into… listen to them for more than 10 years now i think and i just love it!!

well,pretty sh** that i’ve never seen them live…

Posted on Sat, 20 December 2003 at 19:36

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sunshine wrote:

oh, what i forgot to say: i really hate this commercial “wave”… i mean, 7-8 years ago it was hard to find more than 1-2 t-shirts or a nice poster but now you have 10 kurt-shirts and a few band-shirts … and even these little kiddies now think, they now nirvana only by seeing them in the charts (“you know you’re right”)

Posted on Sat, 20 December 2003 at 19:40

#16

Taunty Dan wrote:

well people, in my humble little opinion, i think nirvana piss all over every band of the last 10 years.When a defunct band can release a track (you know you’re right) 8 years after they split and STILL make everything else sound poor you KNOW they’re pretty special. I think the music world is a sorrier place without them.

Posted on Sat, 20 December 2003 at 19:48

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prisonbreaker wrote:

it’s kinda ironic that the music that was written against all those popular and cool kids is now loved by most of those kids though they don’t know what it is all about
i hate it when they play “smells …” in dancings(often with destiny’s child dubbed over it) and everyone goes wild and stuff but no one knows what that song means

Posted on Sat, 20 December 2003 at 19:48

#18

msd wrote:

not_that_kind_of_guy wrote:

i think he was a good frontman and that but he was a bit of a bastard to commit suicide and leave his wife and baby daughter to deal with it

Agreed. I think he was a completely self-absorbed weirdo with little regard for the effect his suicide would have on his kid, wife, bandmates, and impressionable fans.

Strange to think he was my hero when I was a fifteen.

Posted on Sat, 20 December 2003 at 20:00

#19

not that kind of guy (Richard) wrote:

finally, someone agrees with me. i usually get a bollocking for pointing that out to people. “oh, but he was on drugs, he was depressed blah blah blah” they say. so what? he was still a selfish bastard. great showman and songwriter, but still a bastard.

xxx

Posted on Sat, 20 December 2003 at 20:12

#20

msd wrote:

not_that_kind_of_guy wrote:

i usually get a bollocking for pointing that out to people.

Yeah - from miserable Kurt-loving Grungers, I bet. ;)

Posted on Sat, 20 December 2003 at 20:59

#21

not that kind of guy (Richard) wrote:

mr self destruct: yep, they’ll be the ones

xxx

Posted on Sat, 20 December 2003 at 21:02

#22

msd wrote:

Well, you should have realised by now that this place isn’t full of miserable Kurt-loving Grungers, and so you should never have been wary of expressing your opinion :p

Posted on Sat, 20 December 2003 at 21:05

#23

not that kind of guy (Richard) wrote:

yeah i know. i just seem to have been getting a few bollockings recently from various other posts so i thought i’d cover all bases. i’m so paranoid see :) having said that it usually is my fault for being drunk.

xxx

Posted on Sat, 20 December 2003 at 21:20

#24

msd wrote:

I think I am probably irritating people, by consistently turning threads into conversations. ;)

So I shall get back on-topic by saying that Dave Grohl is a great drummer. And a bloody nice bloke, by all accounts.

Posted on Sat, 20 December 2003 at 21:49

#25

soul doubt (an) wrote:

My brother got me into nevermind when I was about 14, after Kurt Cobain died, he gave me his record, he never listened to them eversince. A few years later my cousin and I used to have a kind of Nirvana - Therapy? war. My cousin was a huge Nirvana fan and I was (and still am) a huge Therapy? fan. We used to piss on each other ‘s favorite band… but I have to admid I’ve always respected Nirvana. I don’t think they were overrated back then, but they are now. But after all I still like their music.

Posted on Sun, 21 December 2003 at 10:30

#26

Jello Biafra wrote:

Title: Nirvana

I’m in the mid 20’s so grew up with this band (thanks to a cool uncle who also got me into Dead kennedys ramones pixies stiff little fingers and loads of other good stuff).
I had a ticket for the rds in dublin for that european tour and was WELL pissed off when he shot himself (he was found the day the concert was to take place) . I took up guitar after hearing them and learned NEVERMIND track by track so i can thank them for that. I think cobain had problems and suicide is selfish but i dont know what demons the guy had or invented or whatever so can’t comment. Just glad i was there at the time cause they kinda soundtracked my teenage years. Agree with the guy who said “you know your right” is better than most stuff that came out in the last 10 years it would suggest they were special allright. Hope they relaease more of this stuff cause there’s shitloads of it.

Posted on Tue, 23 December 2003 at 12:08

#27

allroy (Rainer) wrote:

Here is a link to a site where you can download the first ever live show of Nirvana.

Posted on Wed, 7 January 2004 at 13:34

#28

Bad Karma wrote:

I bought a bootleg of Nirvanas last show a few months back the sound quality leaves a lot to be desired,its just for die hard fans only.

Posted on Thu, 8 January 2004 at 21:55

#29

dano wrote:

A friend of mine had a framed ticket for a gig in wales ( fucked if I can remember what venue it was ) which was the actual day he did himself in, I’m guessing the Dublin gig was scheduled for the day after? He was offered over £400 for it by a collector but wouldn’t part with it. I do wonder if he hadn’t shot himself if Nirvana would simply be a relic of a bygone age, a bit like Pearl Jam became?

I can appreciate Nirvana a lot more now than when they first came out, it’s odd how you can get into bands more when the hyberboyle dies down a bit, you end up listening more to the music than journalistic opinion.

Posted on Fri, 9 January 2004 at 02:46

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