say something about ... yourself!

[Det Som Engang Var]

Way to go! What's your major?

 

[Morbides]

Nevermind.
Hated it.

 

[Det Som Engang Var]

Wha?

 

[Will Bozarth]

they majored in a shitty Nirvana album

 

[Captain Beard]

they majored in a shitty Nirvana album

Isn't that technically all of them?

 

[Brooks]

Nirvana was way better than most even know.
My friend let me borrow his tape of the live record, 'From The Muddy Banks...' and it blew my brain away.

They may have been a little too polished in the studio by label-recruited hot-shot producers, but Nirvana, especially live, was fucking awesome.
Better than most even know.

 

[Captain Beard]

Nirvana was way better than most even know.
My friend let me borrow his tape of the live record, 'From The Muddy Banks...' and it blew my brain away.

They may have been a little too polished in the studio by label-recruited hot-shot producers, but Nirvana, especially live, was fucking awesome.
Better than most even know.

 

[Malergion]

I believe what David meant to say here, my good sir is:
"You make no qualifying remarks to back up your statement that 'Nirvana is better than...' Obviously your explanation involves convoluted logic, so I'd rather end it all than bother to figure it out."

At least that's my take on it.

 

[[KOTNO]Narrot]

wow, david, just wow... that works so extremely awesome together with your current signature. probably wasn't even intended. rofl. looks like they're all staring at you.

 

[Captain Beard]

I looked up and I'll be damned, it does work well.

 

[Morbides]

Damn..look at what my response generated.
<3 this board

 

[derek]

Nirvana were terrible. Saying most simply don't know hardly makes that otherwise.

 

[Morbides]

... Saying most simply don't know hardly makes that otherwise.

*doesn't quite get it*
Edit: Nevermind(HAH), scrolled up.

 

[derek]

It was an, admittedly, poor sentence.

 

[Dreadful]

Nirvana in their raw simplicity were always a good band...quit being a bunch of spocks

 

[Dead Winter]

Nirvana had some good tunes, but they most definitely didn't deserve the adoration they got over bands like AIC and Soundgarden. Most of Nirvana's best songs were ones that weren't released as singles on Nevermind...songs like On a Plain, Drain You, Lounge Act, Stay Away, and Territorial Pissings. As for In Utero, the only songs I liked were Heart-Shaped Box and Pennyroyal Tea. On Bleach, School. That's about it, yet they had the adoration of millions because they couldn't play their instruments very well. Go figure.

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

I never realize how much crap I accumulate until its time to pack it all up and move.

 

[DreamNeonBlack]

I hate the " we will be there between 8 and 12 " bullshit you get with service people.
The furnace needs its yearly tune up and now I have to sit home and wait for some dork to show up at the house.

 

[Brooks]

That's about it, yet they had the adoration of millions because they couldn't play their instruments very well.

Do you really think that's why they had millions of fans?

I didn't 'qualify' my statement, because if one were to take the time to listen to some of those live bootlegs released as the Muddy Banks... record, it'd be pretty clear how powerful of a live band they were.

There's not a person alive that thinks Dave Grohl was, and is, anything less than a badass on the drums. Krist was an in-the-pocket bassist, and Kurt was a Jim Morrison-like charisma, and knew how to rock; they could all play their instruments, and play them quite well.

No, they had the adoration of millions because they cut right through the bullshit of the current popular, pompous cheese metal, hair glam horseshit that was permeating the radio and television at the time.

Like I did say, the studio records were polished by producers, and not a real representation of what the band was - like most bands worth a shit.

Nirvana were the 90's Ramones, bringing rock music back to it's ultimate, original roots: a guitar, a voice, and something to say. Nirvana was a real band in a sea of incredible poseurs.




And this is coming from someone that also hated Nirvana passionately til about 4 years ago.

 

[Dead Winter]

Well I still like Nirvana...but THEY weren't the ones who first cut through the cheesy hair metal, and I'm pretty sick of people saying they were groundbreaking because they simply jumped on the bandwagon that was already established. Soundgarden, The Melvins, Mother Love Bone, and a whole slew of others were doing it better than Nirvana before there WAS Nirvana. Nirvana became so hugely famous because they were more tolerable with radio stations. They wrote catchy, poppy tunes with a lot of angst that resonated with the masses because the masses didn't even know who the other Seattle bands were at the time. They became famous because they wrote catchy, simple songs that were easy to digest...that's it.

They didn't blow the doors wide open on the Seattle grunge scene, they didn't do anything better than anyone else, they weren't extremely prolific and amazing...they just wrote some cool songs and it just snowballed because of heavy radio play and MTV. Nevermind was a great album, but most everything before and after that album sucked.

Nirvana was blown way out of proportion while much better bands were left out to dry. Musicianship-wise, Dave Grohl is an excellent drummer and Krist Novaselic is an average at best bassist...I've seen him play and met him...he's OK and that's about it. Kurt was no great musician but he had a certain type of voice and guitar style that matched...they sounded horrible but together worked for some reason.

And then they blew up and people lost their shit over a few decent pop songs, hailing them as the next Rolling Stones, Beatles, Ramones, etc., and people to this day are still exaggerating about that band. I just don't see it.