Nirvana

one of my absolutely favourite bands. their style, their melody, the music they play in general just blows my mind away. it's a shame Kurt committed suicide, he'd have tons more to give. lots of people have told me that when I reach the ABC age my music taste will change massively. I found out about Nirvana when I was around 14, still loving them and I still am a metal or rock fan. nothing seems able to replace that for me, music in those genres makes my hair tingle. I'm still a music freak and search for new bands daily. gotta agree with others who said that today's stuff is.. whatever. I really hate how America forces promotion on talentless people like Justin Bieber and such but unfortunately the audience doesn't have a big enough iq to know what's actually good music, even in this particular genre of pop. anyway, to those of you liking Nirvana, I wanna recommend a band I found that's really good and may remind you of Nirvana in some of their songs. their name is Marion Crane, check them out at myspace.com/marioncraneband
 
Nirvana is for me, one of those bands I have a love-hate relationship with. They were very, very popular and around when I was younger. They came around at just about the time I was old enough to figure out that giving authority the finger was fun (if kind of immature). I still liked them through my high school years. In fact, whenever I listen to them today, it's usually only for nostalgia purposes. I don't think they're particularly good, or able players...okay, Krist and Dave sort of got off the hook, but by my standards, they're both fairly average.

What I'll never understand are the kids getting into it today. It was a band largely defined by the time they came to fame. The 1990s were a huge reaction against hair, speed, and thrash metal and 80s balladry/soft rock/new wave...hence bands like Nirvana, Silverchair, STP, etc. Actually, Nirvana is just about the only grunge band I can stand. I pretty much despise every other band to add its two cents to the 'movement' of staring real hard at the ground and playing braindead chord progressions. There are plenty of mainstream rock-radio bands around today that I think are better songwriters and musicians than Nirvana.

To me, they're far, far from the best band ever to come around. Not by a long shot. I don't mean to poke anyone in the ass by saying that, but it's what I think, and I actually like them.
 
Nirvana was a huge band for me. They were the first band I really got into deeply. Of course I was 11 and suffering the early stages of teen angst. And connected heavily with the anger, depression and sometimes apathy that Kurt Cobain brought to the music. When your the age I was its the point where you're finall questioning authority, religion, life, love. You start noticing that things aren't as bright and happy as you may have thought. You start to notice the human condition. And this band spoke to me. While I agree with Freyith that Kurt was by no stretch of the imagination a technical guitarist nor were Dave and Krist great players in that sense. Then again neither were the ramones, the misfits and the sex pistols. But those bands changed music and so did Nirvana. Wether or not it was for the better is a matter of perspective. While he wasn't Eddie Van Halen, no one else played the way he did. Music isn't just a string of notes and movements. To be truly great there has to be a meaning, a feeling, a motivation behind it. And that's where Nirvana excelled. A problem I feel many bands suffer from is not having that fire and heart behind what they're playing. You can be as good as yngwie without emotion you are shit. Bleach was a revelation when I first heard it and there are still songs like Paper Cuts and Negative Creep that hold up today. From the muddy banks of the wishkah was my first experience with this band. And I still remember hearing scentless apprentice and aneurysm and losing my ****ing mind. I learned how to play because of this band and while I never listen to them today they will always hold a special place for me. They weren't the greatest song writers or players. But they had it where it counted. Verse, chorus, verse may not be pushing the boundaries of song structure. But sometimes less is more. And in their case it was.
 
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