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[ffusco]

Anyone remember Ian Curtis of Joy Division? By comparison, Nirvana seems like silly pop music by an over-rated hack.

[bobjam]

Many in Gen-X had a lot to be fed up with. On the surface, they were fed up with the big-hair bubble gum bands of the 80's. The likes of New Kids on the Block and Millie Vanillie only made it worse. Deeper though, many perceived themselves as having been shortchanged by the social experiments of the late 60's and 70's. The attempt to find solace for the latch-key childhood and broken homes in wanton materialism proved a failure. Gen-Xers as a group felt they had an emptyness with nothing to fill. Later in the decade, many discovered something that would fill that emptyness- God. The rapid growth of contemporary churches is a sure sign of that discovery.

[Wyatt's Torch]

Interesting. I never got into Nirvana as they hit the scene right after I got out of college. There have been other music tragedies of course. Stevie Ray Vaughn was one for me as I saw him play in Atlanta in the summer of 1990 just a week or so before he was killed. Morrison, Hendrix, Bonham, etc. were are genre icons who's losses meant a change in the music itself. Cobain is another in a long list.

[rattrap]

F***ing Barf! Cobain was a talentless hack who played rehashed 70's rock. The only thing that bothered me about him taking the easy way out was that I'd be forced to listed to that garbage 24/7 for awhile. Bah!

[joesnuffy]

The General concurs...

[Chi-townChief]

I think Cobain just listened to too much of his own music and finally said: "A lot of this just really sucks" and KA-BLAMMO.

[snarkpup]

I remember the day Kurt Cobain died. I was in my office and got an email that a coworker had sent to everyone announcing what had happened. The first thought that ran through my mind was "Who's Kurt Cobain?"

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

"If he had lived, he'd never have been able to live up to his publicity."

-Humphrey Bogart on James Dean

[Mudboy Slim]

"Kerry!!"
(To be sung to Nirvana's "Polly")

Kerry is a cracker...enslavin' black folks worst!!
All he wants is Power...still FRiends call him "Lurch"!!

He's Jean Kerry...demon seed...
He ain't hip...to righteous dreams...
He knows Clinton LIED...RE-IMPEACH!!
Right needs yer help...to whup Kerry!!
We hold out hope...that we'll be bold!!
Promise you...fight Dem fools...
We know FReedom's Right...Devolve Power!!
Right needs yer help...Guv'ment devours!!

Kerry's a whipcracker...DemRATS, they're still Clinton's fools!!
Left asks us to entrust them..."Justice Fer Clinton, you Poltroons!!"

So, we must FReep...endlessly...
It's still hip...to laugh and sing!!
Hanoi Jean, he lied...'bout his pals...
In Viet Nam, Jean pussied out!!
I hold out hope...Right'll be bold!!
Promise you...FReep fer Truth!!
We know FReedom's Right...Devolve Power!!
Right needs yer help...help FRee yerselves!!

(bass guitar solo)

Kerry's FRench...
Kerry loves Big Guv'ment...he is our enemy!!
Right must be on guard...'cuz Hanoi Jean, he LOATHES Liberty!!

He's Jean Kerry...effete breed...
Help US whup...RAT's elite dweebs!!
Hanoi Jean, he LIES...marries wealth...
We need yer help...to Unleash HELL!!
We hold out hope...you'll be bold!!
Righteous, show some pride...help yerselves!!
We need yer help...FReep with stealth......

Mudboy Slim (3/24/04)

[Houmatt]

Allow me to go on record and say I could really care less about the man. He was a selfish coward who took the easy way out instead of trying to get help for his problems.

I am sorry, but I do not have an awful lot of respect for people who take their own lives.

[DoctorMichael]

"....? they aren?t striking the sort of nerve Nirvana struck, most likely because not enough people aren?t fed up, yet. Hopefully they will be very soon...."

Is this the same as the Demon-rats wishing the economy tanks so they can come back to power, ie. 'What is bad for America is good for us'?

[F.J. Mitchell]

Hank Williams is still dead too, but his records are still hotter than Junior's.

[dr_who_2]

I didn't think much of him before he killed himself, I didn't think better of him when he killed himself, and I don't care for him now that he's been dead for a long long time. Another famous, wasted life.

[philman_36]

Sung to the tune of "In Bloom" with the new title of "Goes Boom"
Hey - He's the one
Blew his head off with a gun
He's not having any fun
Won't write any more new songs
And the walls just won't come clean
Walls just won't come clean, when I say...

Hey - He's the one

Just for you MS! What a waste of a young life. I can understand the young man was in pain, but that was the wrong way to go about ending it.

[bc2]

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[Wolfie]

Ahhh, nothing like old people trying to comprehend music made for and by young people who are already too old to appreciate what young people like today.

[bc2]

Another Nirvana article. Interestingly enough, another Queens of the Stone Age refference.

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[Richard Kimball]

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