[ConservativeStatement]

"the idea of a hopeful, democratic country had practically been dismantled.."

Typical bumper sticker mentality from the far left.

[hecht]

does just existing guarantee you entrance in the rock Hall of Fame?

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

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.

[Fiji Hill]

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

[M Kehoe]

...by Iran Contra,

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

Farking iceholes.

5.56mm

[Berlin_Freeper]

ping for later

[Dr. Thorne]

Michael Stipe is a perverted homosexual who, at his best, looks like a diseased refugee. He is obviously oppressed by Satanic evil. When he says something, you can make up your mind that the opposite is true.

[morphing libertarian]

If there is one place I get my political wisdom it’s from the R&R Hall of Fame.

[Orbiting_Rosie's_Head]

Ripoff artists. “Smells like team spirit” is a riff from Boston’s “More than a feeling” transposed to a minor key and thrown together with the rhythm line from BOC’s “Godzilla”. Google “Smells like a feeling”. Meh. Dirge music played by junkies.

[Hotlanta Mike]

Good God, it was a counterrevolution against corporate rock and hair bands.

[Darren McCarty]

Pretentious overrated crap.

Motorhead, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, ZZTop. That's real rock.

[left that other site]

Nirvana was as nihilistic and apolitical as it gets.

If AYTHING, they were rebelling against the over-produced corporate big-hair glam rock of the era by going back to a basic, garage-band, “Grunge” sound.

“Here we are now...entertain us. I feel stupid, and contagious!”

[rollo tomasi]

"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."