Spaulding wrote:
Hockey Gay wrote:
Kurt Cobain, the man who killked good music.
Love you and all who agree with this!
i'll take "people whose lives peaked in 1985-1990 for $500, alex" =P
seriously tho, nirvana themselves didn't have anything to do with the end of cock/hair metal or whatever great loss we're bemoaning (aside from our 30s =) i mean, if anything they were used by a media system/machine that just shifted gears cuz don't forget that rap/hiphop was drastically changing its pop music MO at the same time, so paradigm shifts were afoot on more than one level here.
if you really think nirvana were a bunch of masterminds who destroyed "your" music
i'd implore you to read this old fanzine article that chicago punk rock icon (somewhere JORR just felt a strange chill run down his spine =) ben weasel wrote about the time he got to interview nirvana during a show @ the good ol brawlroom (aragon). i always got the impression that nirvana themselves, especially kurt, were pretty damn shocked that things worked out the way they did.... hell the big rumor right after kurt died was that nirvana was gonna break up if he didnt die, so insert your conspiracy theories here.
now about nirvana specifically during that time period, coming out of the 80s with all the hair/cock rock and whatnot, in a word rock and roll was decadence. you knew these lead singers had a few VDs, a coke habit, and all kinds of stupid excess that they flaunted in such a way that probably got rappers to step up their excess game (don't forget that even rakim Himself (as many call him "The God MC" or some shit like that) wore a big thick gold rope around his neck on albums named things like "PAID IN FULL") and rah rah rah blah blah blah. even if your cockrock guys were straightup junkies it was still life of the party junkies, not sad miserable existentialist "don't mind me i'm just being elliot smith over here" junkies.
and kurt was more of that type of junkie. i think a lot of kids could relate to teh kid who got picked on eventually writing these personal songs that didn't come off as pretentious and glam as the 80s stuff, and furtyhermore the songs felt like they came from a somewhat genuine place. yeah kurt cobain was arguably the biggest rock star in the world at one point.... but read that article i linked about him at the height of nirvana-mania... he never really acted that way. and i think a lot of kids saw something in that and appreciated it for what it (supposedly) was, especially when you compare it to the heavily manufactured decadence of assembly line cockrock..
but overall big picture the average rock music on the radio went from "HEY I'M AN AWESOME WHITE GUY WHO'S GONNA FUCK YOU TONIGHT, GIRL" to "i'm a pretty crappy white guy with some reala problems who's gonna say 'fuck you, girl' tonight" so i can see why people got pissed. it just wasn't nirvana's fault unless you fault them for being pretty authentic to what they purported to be, and the music media empire/s decided to use them as the flagship of an armada of "grunge" to change up the average rock song on the radio., that decision was made way above their paygrade and they were all pretty much just pawns in a game played by giant monolothic corporations who were evolving their product on multiple fronts to stay "young hip and relevant"
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Les Grobstein's huge hog is proof that God has a sense of humor, isn't it?
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