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Nirvana Steals the Show at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Celebration [President Reagan mocked]
Yahoo ^ | April 11, 2014 | Jon Wiederhorn

Posted on 04/13/2014 10:04:22 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

The band was introduced by Stipe, who delivered an eloquent speech that addressed the power and historical importance of the band as part of a counterculture that somehow became mainstream. "Nirvana tapped into a voice that was yearning to be heard," he said. "In the '80s and early '90s, the idea of a hopeful, democratic country had practically been dismantled by Iran Contra, by AIDS, by the Reagan, Bush Sr. administrations. With their music and their attitudes, Nirvana blasted through all that with crystalline, nuclear rage and fury. Nirvana were kicking against the system to show a sweet and beautiful, but fed-up fury coupled with howling vulnerability. They spoke truth, and a lot of people listened. They were singular and loud and melodic and deeply original. And that voice… That voice. Kurt, we miss you."

(Excerpt) Read more at music.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: cobain; davegrohl; halloffame; kurtcobain; music; nirvana; reaganbashing; revisionisthistory; rockandroll; stipe
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To: KansasGirl

Sounds about right. What REALLY impresses me though is that as someone already said, they came from a drpressed area. Sawmill/lumber towns...that were depressed areas SOLELY because LIBERALS put the Spotted Excuse that tens to nest in old growth Kmart signs above the needs of their country and it’s people.


61 posted on 04/13/2014 11:00:15 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: dfwgator

I agree that they were over-rated, but the (completely unexpected) success of Nevermind is undeniable. It was huge, and was an earthquake that changed the music scene at that time.


62 posted on 04/13/2014 11:00:18 AM PDT by KansasGirl ("If you have a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."--B. Hussein Obama)
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To: KansasGirl

Not unlike The Knack, when “Get The Knack” killed Disco dead.

Still, I don’t see The Knack in the Hall of Fame.


63 posted on 04/13/2014 11:01:40 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: KansasGirl

Hair bands werr on third string talent by that point. The scene outlived it’s welcome. Considering it had a 10 year run, a new generation looked on it as ‘old’ music. And by the 90s it sucked. And I say this as a die hard hair band/metal fan.


64 posted on 04/13/2014 11:04:01 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Yeah, and Beavis and Butthead ragging on hair bands like Poison and Winger pretty much did it as well.


65 posted on 04/13/2014 11:05:07 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

I think I read/saw an interview with Kip Winger saying when he saw the name on the T shirt, he knew it was over.


66 posted on 04/13/2014 11:06:19 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: Texas Eagle
Despite your annoying "time's up" replies, Nirvana is still all over alternative radio more than 20 years since they last functioned as a band and cast a large shadow. There really hasn't been an alternative rock band since that had that kind of impact.

I actually miss those days of the early 1990s when you could tune in a rock station and get a lot of great music from bands like Smashing Pumpkins, Cranberries, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Stone Temple Pilots, to name just a few bands other than Nirvana that were putting out great rock music at that time.

Today it seems that 90% of the radio stations out there play rap, dance re-mixes and modern country which has little resemblance to real country music. You can find decent new rock music but you have to subscribe to Sirius/XM (stations like Spectrum, XU, Loft) or go online with Spotify or Pandora and build your own stations.

The music of REM on the other hand (Michael Stipe) just did not age well at all. Songs like "Orange Crush", "What's The Frequency Kenneth" and "Shiny Happy People" sound stupid today. I've wiped all remnants of REM from my iTunes and my music collection is the better for it.

67 posted on 04/13/2014 11:06:26 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

“When I finish my dinner, I’ll tell you all I know about this Tarzan, Flash Gordon person.”


68 posted on 04/13/2014 11:08:32 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
But then I’m a pedal steel player

Have you ever tried Pink Floyd's, "One of These Days"? I saw Australian Pink Floyd perform it on TV, and the steel guitar part was amazing. I found a YouTube link.

69 posted on 04/13/2014 11:09:01 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Norm Lenhart

One of the best B&B exchanges while watching a Poison Video

Beavis: whoa these chicks are hot
Butthead: are these chicks or dudes?
Beavis: whoa,I don’t know
Butthead: well they better be chicks dammit because they’re giving me a woody


70 posted on 04/13/2014 11:09:30 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: ConservativeStatement

The RnR hall of fame is just one more award hijacked by the left to promote leftist agendas just like the Nobel peace prize and the Mark Twain prize for humor. Its credibility is ZERO.


71 posted on 04/13/2014 11:09:44 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Never heard of a band called Nirvana until I read this thread. Doesn’t sound as though I’ve missed much.


72 posted on 04/13/2014 11:11:39 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: dfwgator

That’s the thing about the 80s that is so confusing. The women were balistically hot and looked like women, but the men then were hotter than most of the stick figure/young adolescent boy look women today.

And they could STILL kick the ass of the modern ‘man’.


73 posted on 04/13/2014 11:12:12 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: Blackirish

Yes, Cobain was a leftist and was vocal in his leftist views. He also openly supported leftist causes.

He was a vocal supporter of the homosexual and pro-choice movement. Nirvana played at a gay rights benefit supporting No-on-Nine in Oregon in 1992, in opposition to Ballot Measure Nine, a ballot measure, that if passed, would have prohibited schools in the state from acknowledging or positively accepting LGBT rights and welfare.

Cobain was involved in Rock for Choice from the campaign’s inception.


74 posted on 04/13/2014 11:14:02 AM PDT by KansasGirl ("If you have a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."--B. Hussein Obama)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Athens is disgustingly liberal.


75 posted on 04/13/2014 11:15:02 AM PDT by CommieCutter ("For an idea to be too simplistic, it must first be proven wrong" --Thomas Sowell)
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To: SamAdams76

You forgot Alice in Chains. They were the best of the Seattle bands and grudge metal bands, imo.


76 posted on 04/13/2014 11:16:05 AM PDT by KansasGirl ("If you have a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."--B. Hussein Obama)
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To: dfwgator

Oh yeah, no doubt. Grohl even played at the Odumbo inauguration.


77 posted on 04/13/2014 11:17:48 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: dfwgator

I was in the car with my teen daughter and “All Apologies” was playing on the radio. I said to my daughter, “That guy is going to commit suicide”. He did, and my daughter talks about that sometimes to this day.


78 posted on 04/13/2014 11:18:13 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: KansasGirl

The lead singer had issues, no doubt, but of all the bands from that era, AIC is by far my favorite.


79 posted on 04/13/2014 11:20:06 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: ConservativeStatement
...by Iran Contra,

I'm sure the band members are upset by Benghazi, and Fast & Furious, right?

Farking iceholes.

5.56mm

80 posted on 04/13/2014 11:20:07 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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