Seriously... STOP WITH NIRVANA!

darkcrow

I am getting so sick with seeing a magazine every other week with the front page being about some new unseen/unheard nirvana story. christ what is wrong with people?

facepollution

Nirvana catylised the shift in music in the early 90's, music ever since them has taken on a far more emotional dimension - is that so hard to understand? I'm not saying they are the best band of the 90's or anything, but certainly a very important band. I personally don't like the Beatles but understand and respect why they are deemed so important, ultimately it was them that got the ball rolling.

Aranarth

Because music magazines need to be sold. Nirvana sells magazines. End of story.

But yeah, it's getting a bit too much, it's been downhill since the publication of the journals.

pushmepullme

Whilst i do get annoyed of seeing Kurt everywhere still, my appreciation of Nirvana and the grunge genre as a whole has increased over the years.

What really fucks me off though is when kids say Nirvana invented grunge.

prytocorduroy

darkcrow wrote:

I am getting so sick with seeing a magazine every other week with the front page being about some new unseen/unheard nirvana story. christ what is wrong with people?

But you would have no problem if it was PJ every week...

I personally don't care. Nirvana rocks. Recognize :cool:

darkcrow

danny72688 wrote:

But you would have no problem if it was PJ every week...

I personally don't care. Nirvana rocks. Recognize :cool:

i am not saying i do not like nirvana. they were what got me into pj.

prytocorduroy

darkcrow wrote:

i am not saying i do not like nirvana. they were what got me into pj.

Okay. Sorry about calling you out on it, but put it in perspective. You would be happy if it was PJ all the time wouldn't you?

darkcrow

danny72688 wrote:

Okay. Sorry about calling you out on it, but put it in perspective. You would be happy if it was PJ all the time wouldn't you?

if it was pj at least it'd be new stuff... not rehashed stories/interviews and pics that have been slightly cleared up in photoshop....

prytocorduroy

darkcrow wrote:

if it was pj at least it'd be new stuff... not rehashed stories/interviews and pics that have been slightly cleared up in photoshop....

Touche :cool:
But who knows what Courtney has hidden.

darkcrow

danny72688 wrote:

Touche :cool:
But who knows what Courtney has hidden.

sexually transmitted infections?

DCGARDEN

The Nirvana love fest is probably going to go on for the rest of your life

I agree with you for the most part , though

prytocorduroy

darkcrow wrote:

sexually transmitted infections?

Besides that
How long did that bitch hold on to You Know You're Right?

tybird

danny72688 wrote:

Besides that
How long did that bitch hold on to You Know You're Right?

Hole covered it during their episode of "Unplugged."

prytocorduroy

tybird wrote:

Hole covered it during their episode of "Unplugged."

They also played "their" song Old Age at their concerts.

Jeremy1012

I agree that the nirvana thing is totally blown out of proportion. they just happened to be in the right place at the right time. I accept that kurt wrote some good songs but there were at least 3 far better bands from seattle at that time. Only PJ got anywhere near the recognition they deserved. what about Alice and soundgarden?

tybird

danny72688 wrote:

They also played "their" song Old Age at their concerts.

Got a boot cd of the show...........Melissa Auf Der Maur really made that song, "Old Age." Yes, I'm a Hole fan.

Pearl Jam and toast

darkcrow wrote:

sexually transmitted infections?

hahahahhahaahahaha

oh man..



Nirvana is the most overrated band in history. For sure. No one even comes close.. Also they've probably got to be one of the most marketed bands in history (99% of which came post-humous..).

Cobain is turning in his grave.


p.s. I still LOVE Nirvana, but let's be honest about the credit they receive.

tybird

Pearl Jam and toast wrote:

Nirvana is the most overrated band in history. For sure. No one even comes close.. Also they've probably got to be one of the most marketed bands in history (99% of which came post-humous..).

Finally.....someone else who might remember that the sales for "In Utero" were horrible prior to Cobain's suicide.

Cagey

tybird wrote:

Finally.....someone else who might remember that the sales for "In Utero" were horrible prior to Cobain's suicide.

They were only really over-rated 10 years later, when a hoard of new young fans re-discovered them, and SLTS was on MTV every 5 mins.

They were a great band, they did help bring grunge as a genre to light, whether you like it or not, alot of people actually got into other bands such as AiC, PJ, Soundgarden, The Screaming Trees etc ... after getting into them and reading up on other similar bands in the scene at the time, early 90's. I know I found the screaming trees and alice in chains through listening to them, and I'll never regret them ones

Pearl Jam and toast

Cagey wrote:

They were only really over-rated 10 years later, when a hoard of new young fans re-discovered them, and SLTS was on MTV every 5 mins.

They were a great band, they did help bring grunge as a genre to light, whether you like it or not, alot of people actually got into other bands such as AiC, PJ, Soundgarden, The Screaming Trees etc ... after getting into them and reading up on other similar bands in the scene at the time, early 90's. I know I found the screaming trees and alice in chains through listening to them, and I'll never regret them ones

I found every band i've ever listened to stems back to Nirvana being first.

Granted, after my month or two stint of listening to nothing but Nevermind I picked up a certain cd I got with it for christmas called "Live on 2 Legs" (thank GOD a Jammer must have been working when my mom asked which cd she should get me)... after that I was like.. "What is this crap called "Nirvana"?? FUCK THAT. PEARL JAM PEARL JAM PEARL JAM..."

Well i didn't say "crap" or "fuck that" .. still love them... but point is that at least 3 of Nirvana's peers (soundgarden, alice, and especially Pearl Jam) were just soooooooo much better than they were.

brain_of_jas

Its funny that most of the Nirvana threads around here are from haters or people complaining about them. Surely posting about it only means they're talked about even more. They're like that lump on my balls, if i ignore it, it'll go away!!

luxpjamer

darkcrow wrote:

I am getting so sick with seeing a magazine every other week with the front page being about some new unseen/unheard nirvana story. christ what is wrong with people?

I'm not a big fan of nirvana but they've done great stuff. I don't buy magazines with those things you mentioned but I think the new generation of 12 years grown-ups certainly will. Look around there are a lot of kids wearing t-shirts with the nirvana logo. It's a good thing because if the beginn to listen to nirvana they won't listen to hip hop, trance and sh*t like that. The most of them will listen to good rock music. If one day I have kids i hope they will listen to nirvana and asking me who Nirvana was and not asking me who 50cent's was...(nothing against good hip hop there are a few good artists like Kayne west but i can't stand 50 and his wanna-be-a-gangsters)

Pearl Jam and toast

brain_of_jas wrote:

Its funny that most of the Nirvana threads around here are from haters or people complaining about them. Surely posting about it only means they're talked about even more. They're like that lump on my balls, if i ignore it, it'll go away!!

I get what you're saying, but I think he was talking about Magazines and such things. There aren't really a lot of Nirvana threads on this forum.

prytocorduroy

Pearl Jam and toast wrote:

I get what you're saying, but I think he was talking about Magazines and such things. There aren't really a lot of Nirvana threads on this forum.

I can fix that
I looooove Nirvana!

bryanfury

just a guess here, but maybe its because a lot of people still care about nirvana. call them overrated, or whatever you want, but you can't take away their impact. very few bands have that type of impact, just the press is justified.

as with everything else in america, if you don;t want to read about it...don't.

Pearl Jam and toast

bryanfury wrote:

just a guess here, but maybe its because a lot of people still care about nirvana. call them overrated, or whatever you want, but you can't take away their impact. very few bands have that type of impact, just the press is justified.

as with everything else in america, if you don;t want to read about it...don't.

I think it's more that Nirvana is an extremely easy subject to make money with. It's good music which draws in people with taste, but marketable to all walks of hot topic buyers, etc.

Most of the people that make money on these kinds of things don't give a fucking-god-damn about music or integrity.

mrwalkerb

darkcrow wrote:

I am getting so sick with seeing a magazine every other week with the front page being about some new unseen/unheard nirvana story. christ what is wrong with people?

I know this must have nothing to do with why there is so much Nirvana around but didn't the 15th anniversery of the release of Nevermind cross your mind?

darkcrow

mrwalkerb wrote:

I know this must have nothing to do with why there is so much Nirvana around but didn't the 15th anniversery of the release of Nevermind cross your mind?

yes... but i was just talking in general. not a month goes by without some magazine doing a "new angle" on the band/kurt

reachdown12

I love Nirvana.....

facepollution

darkcrow wrote:

yes... but i was just talking in general. not a month goes by without some magazine doing a "new angle" on the band/kurt

It's 15 years since Nevermind came out, I think you'll find this is why there is a load of coverage at the moment. Uncut's recent article about Nirvana and the grunge scene was really cool, it had some new interviews with Eddie Vedder and Greg Dulli among others.

The thing is there hasn't been a scene like the Seattle scene since, and it was a pretty phenomenal thing for all those bands to have come from one place and for such a culture to have been created. And like it or not, Nirvana were at the forefront of the scene.

Pearl Jam and toast

every magazine/poster/t-shirt/sticker/etc producing company president in the last 12 years wrote:

Let's milk this cow dry before the general public forgets who Nirvana is or that they were even a band! To the printers!