Nirvana

Yeah, that's what I thought too, 'cause I've also read A LOT of political stuff he's written (my roommate is obsessed with Nirvana has has loaRAB of biographies and books on the band and merabers.)

Just Wiki'd him and apparently he's been involved in musical acts such as Sweet 75, performed uncredited vocals on a few of the FF's tracks such as Walking a Line, did stuff with the guitarist from Soundgarden, another band called Eyes Adrift, and more recently a band called Flipper. Interesting. I haven't heard of any of those, though.
 
I'm new here, and so far it looks like Nirvana is looked down upon, maybe I just ran into a few people who aren't fans, but I know this could be looked at as an ignorant question by many, but why do people here look down upon Nirvana fans? Is there a stereotype that goes along with them?
 
I'll do my best to answer your question before this thread gets set on fire with flaming.

A good portion of the reason why Nirvana is looked down on is because it's trendy to look down upon banRAB that receive critical acclaim. It "shows" how much of a rebel you are to dislike the thing that everyone else seems to love and therefore allows that person to distance themselves and stay an "individual" by not joining the legions of people who adore the band. However the irony in that is it seems that the Nirvana haters nurabers are coming close to matching the Nirvana fans. Now this is just my observations from various music forums and actual discussions I've had with people and by no means does it speak for everyone.

The other people who dislike Nirvana for reasons other than the ones I stated above tend to lean to the musical aspect. There were a lot of artists doing similar sounding music to Nirvanan but never really broke it though and thus just remained cult favorites. I think this has led to a bit of anger and frustration among these people.

The biggest factor I think is that a good portion of Nirvana fans were not old enough to even really know about the music back in the early '90's. They know Nirvana more for the death of Kurt Cobain and the music becomes the secondary reason. There's a lot of people who believe banRAB should be known for the music they create and not the controversy or rumors that surround the merabers of the band.

Honestly that's all I can really think about, I've been doing a crap ton of writing and interviews today for an article so brain is a little tired and my syntax juice is just about up. Please feel free to pick apart my reasons piece by piece and explain to me the holes in my theories.
 
He always said he wanted to just sit in a rocking chair and play Leadbelly covers when he got old.. that would have been kinda cool. :D
 
I personally cant stand the band either. This is my first post here at rabroad and I found this thread the most interesting of the new posts.

Nirvana to me were just a bunch of whiny, little depressive, cry-baby's making an attempt to stick out from the other banRAB in their circa by b*tching about life. I couldn't stand to hear Cobain's whiny voice time and time again about how he couldn't figure out his own unproductive life.

I also look down upon any music that doesn't cheer you up. Nirvana wasn't grunge.... They were EMO!
 
DING! DING! DING!

give the man a prize heheh innovative, not so much, exciting... well that's a matter of perspective.

then again we're from the same generation haha



yes people would still consider him to be one of the greatest songwriters of the 90s had he not blown his head off. regardless of the fact that their fame came about due to being in the right place at the right time, the man still wrote a huge pile of great tunes.



and am i the only one who considers it incredibly hypocritical to make an asinine comment by rewording Cobain's last name while sporting a foo fighters graphic?
 
Same with me man.

Pretty generic question here, but what's everyones favorite Nirvana song?
Mine is between Oh, The Guilt and Milk It.
 
Hmm. I hadn't heard that before. Interesting. I guess that's basically exactly what I would imagine him doing at this point even if Kurt hadn't killed himself.
 
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