Bands And Albums.

Kurt was a great musician! He was great at rhythm and vocals. I still remember being boggled when I first read the lyrics to Teen Spirit.

okay, Nirvana was a great band, but they coppied everything they did off of other bands that came about 10 years earlier.

here's a short list:

the Wipers - Nirvana sounds JUST LIKE THEM!

Black Flag

Mudhoney

the Melvins

Flipper

Neil Young

the Replacements

Husker Du

Beat Happening

and many, many, many, more. Nirvana was not that origional, but still a good band.

I like "Dive". one of my favorites. I like almost everything Nirvana has. in the years to come, I may come to like all of Nirvana. Curt Cobain. I think [in my own opinion] In the years to come , Surely will not be overlooked as, An all time, Great song writer & Lyricist. He wasnt afraid to tell on his self. It is really a shame what he did. IT ONLY TAKE 1 SECOND, Not To Think! when drugs are involved. & NEXT; Nothing. He did break new bounderies and at the same time. Set new ones. could've done alot with his life, if he would've lived.

Bleach is the best Nirvana album to me. it sounds less like all of Kurt's influences and more like Nirvana.

my friend is really into Incesticide. i hav't heard it.

ahhh Nirvana... good times.

Bleach is the best Nirvana album to me. it sounds less like all of Kurt's influences and more like Nirvana.

my friend is really into Incesticide. i hav't heard it.

I'd say Bleach is probably their worst record... I think it's a very unfocused and scatter-shot effort. I think that album, being their first, sounds most like their influences... I think their influences eventually coalesced into the perfect mess that is In Utero. I love how it's so inaccessible and alienating - they wanted to get rid of their newfound Alternative/Pop-children fans (after Nevermind's Alternative took over the Pop world).

And you spoke before of how they sound just like some groups that came before them. It's very easy to trace every acts' influences, especially those of Alternative bands... Everyone's sound is made up of what came before them. However, none of Nirvana's influences kicked Michael Jackson from #1 and ushered in/popularized a new era of Pop music - Alternative Rock. That's not exactly a good thing, though, all of the Nirvana sound-a-likes aren't very good and garbage Alternative bands like Creed and Nickelback got record deals... I think Alternative from the '80s was a million times better than the '90s or today. Albums like You're Living All Over Me and Daydream Nation make my mouth water haha!

And Incesticide is a great record, too... I'd say that's even a lot better than Bleach

Nirvana kicks ass!!!!! My favorite band of all time, Kurt Donald Cobain is the god of grunge. My all time favorite Nirvana tune would have to be Lithium, YEAH!!

Smells like teen Spirit always gets me pumped!! YEEEEAAAHHHH!

Nivarna?? hmmm, everyone has there own personal taste of coure but to me they were untalented, poor musicians who wrote average tunes with hopeless lyrics.

I find them boring and unimaginative. In fact they mark for me the beginning of the end of the real the Rock music industry and the move into record company pressured sales. We were told by the music press that it was uncool not to like them and the were heralded as the new Rock Rebels!

As if!!

They were merely pawns of the music business big wigs.

To describe them or Kurt Cobain as a rock legend to me is like comparing Jimi Hendrix to Limp Bizkit and is a slant on the great talented performers of the past and present

However like I said this is all IMHO of course which I am entitled to

I agree that Nirvana mark the end of the last important movement in rock music - alternative/underground rock. The genre was at its best throughout the '80s and was gone by the early '90s - when Nirvana hit it big. There were some great records following the alternative era - albums by Pavement and Oasis, just to name a couple - but the industry became officially dead when Alternative became mainstream. I think Kurt Cobain was a great songwriter because he melded his influences of punk, hard rock, heavy metal, and blues into something interesting and new. Also, his lyrics paralleled the Generation X hopelessness that characterizes 'slackers' from their time. I don't know of one modern band (since the demise of great alternative rock) that will be revered some time down the road as 'geniuses' or makers of 'masterpieces'. In fact, I think the very best and most artistic records in the '90s were in Rap/Hip-Hop. And I haven't heard more than a few records from the 21st century that are even good. Nirvana are considered important because they brought mainstream interest to underground rock acts that were struggling to record their music on other independent labels, and because they marked a new turning point in the evolution of Pop music for that reason. I think that is why Rolling Stone magazine listed their album 'Nevermind' as top 20 in the 500 greatest records of all time list - for its profound influence. But if their influence was for better or worse I would definitely choose worse.

Nirvana is pretty good. I like Nevermind and Smells Like Teen Spirit

Nirvana was an amazing band. in fact a good 80% of bands that came after nirvana, especially alternative rock bands that were popular during the mid nineties just reeked of nirvana. even bands like my chemical romance and the used are heavily influenced by nirvana. the riffs and the screaming vocals, the barely distorted guitars. its all nirvana. my favorite outing is probably opinion, or aero zeppelin. i cant have a favorite.

Nirvana was important because they killed the crap metal of the 80's. Kurt was intelligent but troubled, like many great artists in history. Many people believe their performance on MTV Unplugged was that series' best.

runcers... if only you held your own music to the same standard you hold others'...
but then you wouldn't be a musician... (then again I'm not sure you are anyway)
that's just my opinion btw.

not a big fan of nirvana, but I will say that half the reason the guy was popular was his interesting choice of chord movement. Nothing too technical but certainly a departure from 90% of the rest of the other boring crap of the day. I wouldn't credit him with killing metal either... it was long dead and played out by that point... just many didn't know it yet.

MrMike, I did not mean to imply that Nirvana killed heavy metal. They certainly did put the spike in the heart of bands like Poison and Cinderella (80's metal). Metal music will never die, there will always be kids who want to head-bang. Kurt helped to morph the music it into modern metal, but he also change the style - lipstick and hairspray were replaced with holey jeans and cardigans. Nirvana was as important to the 90's as Van Halen were to the 80's and Black Sabbath was to the 70's.