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Re: 30 years since Kurt Cobain passed away
He at least rushed away.
He at least rushed away.
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Re: 30 years since Kurt gave himself the ultimate haircut
She's a total lightweight compared to Hillary.
Courtney Love is responsible for one of the great put-downs. She had an affair with Trent Reznor that apparently didn't end well, and when she was asked about this by a reporter, she said "Nine Inch Nails? More like Three Inch Nails"
I was a massive fan of Nirvana and the entire grunge movement and his death had a profound effect on me at the time. Looking back at that entire scene now (and only with the benefit of hindsight), it was almost the birth of the victimhood culture that is unfortunately so prevalent today. Multi-millionaire musicians writing about how awful their lives are must have grated on the billions of ordinary everyday people who had real-world problems to deal with, and yet myself and millions of other fans at the time revelled in this musical catharsis. To be fair to Kurt, he was a troubled soul who clearly found life too difficult to endure and legitimately (tragically) lived his words, which is as authentic as you can be as a musician - I find it incredibly sad now rather than something to celebrate. His daughter never had the chance to have a loving father in her life.
There is no doubt that Smells Like Teen Spirit was one of only a handful of songs that completely changed the world in an instant. It was a call to arms and revolutionised music and popular culture at the time."Look at me mate. Look at me. I'm flyin'"Comment
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Re: 30 years since Kurt Cobain passed away
It actually took me ages to listen to Nevermind cover to cover because of how massive the singles were. There’s some truly awesome music on there.
You guys heard the shovel that sounds like Smells Like Teen Spirit? That’s good stuff too.- I'm a visionary - Only here to confirm my biases -Comment
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Re: 30 years since Kurt Cobain passed away
He was lying he did have a gun.But then again, I'm an Internet poster and Bevo is a premiership coach so draw your own conclusions.Comment
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Re: 30 years since Kurt Cobain passed away
It was a tank of an album from start to finish. The deep cuts are as brilliant as the singles and there is no filler at all - the unstoppable energy of a new movement was absolutely palpable, and it was completely organic at the time.
Funnily enough, the hair metal scene was the one genre that suffered the most with the ascent of grunge (and then indie) but I now probably gravitate more to the sheer fun and frivolity of that scene over the self-important and overly serious grunge/indie scenes that I idolised in my early 20's - I appreciate the honesty of those hair metal bands who single-mindedly chased fame and all the trappings by deliberately creating music to connect with as many fans as possible to escape dead-end lives, as opposed to the conceit of grunge/indie bands wanting to retain 'cred' and not be seen to be chasing fame and money (even though they secretly had the exact same motivations as the hair metal crowd). I love listening to the likes of 'Hysteria' and 'Appetite for Destruction' from start to finish today, every bit as much as I do 'Nevermind', 'Ten' ,'Vs', 'Superunknown', etc..."Look at me mate. Look at me. I'm flyin'"Comment
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Re: 30 years since Kurt Cobain passed away
It was music for each era.
Hair bands and the excess of the 80s. Grunge and the last real recession we had in the early 90s (in Australia anyway, the GFC really rocked the USA, but was not really felt here).
The Simpsons said it best. Homer to Billy Corgan.
"You know, my kids think you're the greatest. And thanks to your gloomy music, they've finally stopped dreaming of a future I can't possibly provide.?Comment
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