Posted on 04/05/2011 12:08:25 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
.... and the question remains: Did he ruin Rock, or was he a musical genius?
He was a musical genius. He is from my hometown and he attended school with my brother (in fact my brother still remains good friends with Novoselic) but Kurt was a troubled young man from a depressed, troubled region.
It showed in his music and in his life. Everytime I hear Nirvana, I hear Aberdeen. That music was the cry of hundreds of kids coming of age in Grays Harbor County, Wa to realize their were no more logging jobs for them, no more jobs in the fishing industry and their parents’ hippy/environmental wacko generation had literally driven their kids’ futures away.
Nirvana’s music was the cry of that generation. It was rebellion against depression.
Who?
Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana Cover)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htR1LFLG8Bg&feature=channel_video_title
They weren’t even the best Seattle band, Alice in Chains and Soundgarden blew them away.
I look it at this way, we got the Foo Fighters out of the deal. A win as far as I am concerned.
Who?
IMO, Kilmer (a true artist) said it best...
To A Young Poet Who Killed Himself
When you had played with life a space
And made it drink and lust and sing,
You flung it back into God’s face
And thought you did a noble thing.
“Lo, I have lived and loved,” you said,
“And sung to fools too dull to hear me.
Now for a cool and grassy bed
With violets in blossom near me.”
Well, rest is good for weary feet,
Although they ran for no great prize;
And violets are very sweet,
Although their roots are in your eyes.
But hark to what the earthworms say
Who share with you your muddy haven:
“The fight was on — you ran away.
You are a coward and a craven.
“The rug is ruined where you bled;
It was a dirty way to die!
To put a bullet through your head
And make a silly woman cry!
You could not vex the merry stars
Nor make them heed you, dead or living.
Not all your puny anger mars
God’s irresistible forgiving.
“Yes, God forgives and men forget,
And you’re forgiven and forgotten.
You might be gaily sinning yet
And quick and fresh instead of rotten.
And when you think of love and fame
And all that might have come to pass,
Then don’t you feel a little shame?
And don’t you think you were an ass?”
So did you wear a “Winger” T-Shirt, like Stewart on Beavis and Butthead? ;)
Cobain's music was not nearly as effective when it came to curing depression as his shotgun was.
He is no more talented than any other dead musician. Just another crybaby dumb kid that thought his life was tougher than any other.
At 57, music doesn’t mean as much to me as it once did. I can go for weeks and months without listening to any music at all, and not miss it. That said, I grew up on rock, and was glad to see grunge come along, including Nirvana. I’m sorry Cobain died so young.
Do you still wear spandex and lipstick?
I can never give enough thanks to bands like Guns and Roses, Metallica, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, AIC, Stone Temple Pilots, etc., for destroying hair-band music. I was embarrased to be in HS in the last 1980s, and looking at photos of the hair-band followers back then, I can only wonder how they feel about looking that ridiculous.
I will give Motley Crue and Ratt credit for making very good music, though, and Crue only went neon for a while because Vince Neil took the band that direction.
Agreed but the conspiracy theorist in me never bought the suicide story.
Kids today owe parts of their music, style, clothing, speech, and even hairstyles directly to Cobain. And most of them don’t even know it.
Neil Young sported that same look 20 years before Cobain.
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