Kurt Cobain

[Todd]

Was he the guy in Nirvana? what made him so great in everyones eyes?

If I have the right guy I relly do not see the big deal. the guitar playing was meiocre at best. And the singing if you could call it that wasn't really that coherent or cohesive.

But maybe I am missing something, like a whole truck load of drugs pumped into me, maybe that would make it make sense.

 

[Angel]

I adored Nirvana and yes you have the correct guy.

I guess I could just feel his lyrics and what he was saying at the time. Which is why I adore Nirvana.

 

[Todd]

Did you do drugs while listening to him/them?

If So does/did it help?

I am listening here to SNL classics and trying really hard to like it but, I am straight and sober and its not helping the matter any.

 

[Angel]

No, I did not do drugs at that point in time.

 

[Todd]

darn so that isn't the secret to likikng him.

How bout drinking were you drinking at the time?

 

[cymbidia]

Kurt Cobain:
Nirvana's musical whiz-kid.
More a poet than a musician.
Definitely a tortured soul.

I was teaching 7/8th grade plant science when his song "Pennyroyal Tea" was really big. I brought some into class, along with several other species of mint and other kinds of plants, so my students could do a lab on leaf veination. Most of them didn't know what pennyroyal was, even though they knew all the words to the song. We played the disc while we did the lab.

Leave him alone, Todd.
The guy's dead, for gods sakes; be decent.

 

[Angel]

I was completely sober, sorry.

It proves nothing but people have different views on what is Music, what is entertaining, what they like.

 

[Todd]

Kurt Cobain:
Nirvana's musical whiz-kid.
More a poet than a musician.
Definitely a tortured soul.

I was teaching 7/8th grade plant science when his song "Pennyroyal Tea" was really big. I brought some into class, along with several other species of mint and other kinds of plants, so my students could do a lab on leaf veination. Most of them didn't know what pennyroyal was, even though they knew all the words to the song. We played the disc while we did the lab.

Leave him alone, Todd.
The guy's dead, for gods sakes; be decent.

I am trying to understand the appeal, I am sitting here straight and sober trying to understand the:

"Musical Whiz Kid.
poet
tourtured souled"

thing that he has going on.

 

[Angel]

I am trying to understand the appeal, I am sitting here straight and sober trying to understand the:

"Musical Whiz Kid.
poet
tourtured souled"

thing that he has going on.

Todd, if you don't like it you will probably never understand it.

Like about 75% of the shit that you say

 

[scylis]

people liked the music then b/c they could identify with the feelings of anger, rage, frustration, and whatnot that came through in his songs.. in both the lyrics and the music itself...

Todd..
do you hate yourself?
does life in general make you really frustrated and angry?
do you feel so shitty every now and again that you wonder if it's worth it to go on?
are you fed up with the way things are done? the way your life is going?

if not, then chances are you'll not really understand Nirvana or its frontman...

it may be wrong, but that's how i see the whole situation..
*waits to be told i'm wrong.. nearly always am*

 

[Weevil]

Was he the guy in Nirvana? what made him so great in everyones eyes?

If I have the right guy I relly do not see the big deal. the guitar playing was meiocre at best. And the singing if you could call it that wasn't really that coherent or cohesive.

Actually the guitar playing is very, very good. I'm not sure what you're listening to but Live in New York shows off the fact that he played really well.

 

[Angel]

Scylis, you aren't wrong - that is what it meant to you.

 

[Weevil]

For me(I was 11 when Nevermind came out) it wasn't really the lyrics but the fact that it was such great music compared to every thing else at the time. The heavy half-rock half-punk guitars, the manic drumming, the competent bass playing. Great stuff. An oasis in the desert.

 

[scylis]

i'm not?

well... i.. uhh..

i wasn't expecting that, to be honest. i mean, 90% of the time i'm wrong. man..

ok, i'll just leave this thread now while i'm still ahead..

 

[Andra_Jenny]

Todd, I have read only your message...

I stopped listening to the FM radio when Nirvana hit it big and I did not understand it.


I had been there in rock and roll from the beginning, from when the beatles played municiple stadium because Charly Finley convinced them that they had to since they covered Kansas City.

That is when I knew that the young folk had finally taken over and that I was irrelavent (sp) in music.


That is when I went back to the AM (where I first heard the doors KUDL AM) and talk radio and Rush and Neil...

 

[Weevil]

Re: Todd, I have read only your message...

I stopped listening to the FM radio when Nirvana hit it big and I did not understand it.


I had been there in rock and roll from the beginning, from when the beatles played municiple stadium because Charly Finley convinced them that they had to since they covered Kansas City.

Actually the reason the Beatles played KC was that Charlie O. threw ridiculous amounts of money at them.

 

[Andra_Jenny]

having said that..

like Laurel, I love to listen to him, but only the unplugged album...

then I see the folk roots and the genius,





but by then, it was too late,










like,







la bamba...

 

[Guest]

Nirvana was such a "big deal", Todd, because they completely blew 98% of their contemporaries out of the water. When you compare their music to everything else that was big at the time (hair metal, New Kids on the Block, and Mariah Carey), it makes it that much more amazing and deserving of respect. They (along with bands like the Pixies, Mudhoney, Soundgarden, and the Smashing Pumpkins) truly were the voice of a generation and their music is still as incredible today as it was 10 years ago (the heydey of "grunge" music). They set a new precedent for alternative music and for a brief moment in history the bullshit and mediocrity of pop music subsided and talent was pushed to the forefront. People cared about the music, not what the badn looked like. I'm sorry if we all don't find brilliance in the Christian reworkings of "One Week" or "Twist and Shout" (see "favorite song and lyrics" thread if confused).

 

[OUTSIDER]

Todd stop being an arse , Nirvana where "of their time" and spoke to a lot of people, I'm a minor fan and enjoy a lot of what they did.