Kurt Cobain is the most overrated rock star ever. You couldn't even understand the guy's lyrics.
His bandmate, Dave Grohl has made much better music with the Foo Fighters, than Nirvana ever dreamed of.
Yeah but before Cobain, punk rock was pretty much still an underground music that really hadn`t been pushed to it`s limits. It was all pretty much "Punk rock is defined as playing as fast as you can, wearing a pin trhough your nose, and slam dancing.. the end."
What Cobain did was bring a new slant to it by slowing it down, blending hippie culture with the punk image and making it sound more explosive. Probably not intentionally, but when they first came out it was like a breath of fresh air, relief from all the MTV hairspray bands. Nirvana just completely laid to waste that whole horror show that was going on in the `80`s, bands like Warrant, Poison, Extreme, just nightmare la di da bands. But of course the result was 9 gazillion Nirvana imitation bands which has brought us right back to those la di da bands of the `80`s.
If there is anything that suprised me about Nirvana, it was the fact that they were signed at all, not that they sucked, but that they didn`t fit the current cookie cutter mold. I think it was just a buzz they created by touring, getting out there and record companies wanted them.
I completely agree.
Since I first saw the video, I thought that Weird Al Yankovick's spoof on "Smells Like Teen Spirit" ("Smells like Nirvana")is far better than the original, both the song AND the video! Here are the lyrics:
What is this song all about?
Can't figure any lyrics out
How do the words to it go?
I wish you'd tell me, I don't know
Don't know, don't know, don't know, oh no!
Don't know, don't know, don't know...
Now I'm mumblin' and I'm screamin'
And I don't know what I'm singin'
Crank the volume, ears are bleedin'
I still don't know what I'm singin'
We're so loud and incoherent
Boy, this oughta bug your parents
Yeah!
*belch*
poing!
It's unintelligible
I just can't get it through my skull
It's hard to bargle nawdle zouss
with all these marbles in my mouth
Don't know, don't know, don't know, oh no!
Don't know, don't know, don't know...
Well, we don't sound like Madonna
Here we are now, we're Nirvana
Sing distinctly? We don't wanna
Buy our album, we're Nirvana
A garage band from Seattle
Well it sure beats raisin' cattle
Yeah!
moo..
baa...
And I forgot the next verse
Oh well, I guess it pays to rehearse
The lyric sheet's so hard to find
What are the words, oh nevermind
Don't know, don't know, don't know, oh no!
Don't know, don't know, don't know...
Well, I'm yellin' and we're playin'
But I don't know what I'm sayin'
What's the message I'm conveyin'?
Can you tell me what I'm sayin'?
So have you got some idea?
Didn't think so
Well, I'll see ya
Sayonara, sayonawa
Ayonawa, hodinawa
Odinaya, yodinaya
Yaddayadda, yaaahyaaah
Ayiyaaaaaah!
Mark