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Original poster

to question the sanity of those who worship Kurt Cobain/Nirvana?

295 replies

SequinsAndSparkles · 18/02/2011 13:00

I must be missing something.

But why is Kurt Cobain such an 'icon'? Why do people think Nirvana are brilliant?

To me, it sounds like depressing nonsense, and I cannot understand what anybody gets from it. And it appears that some people worship Kurt Cobain. What is there about him to worship? From what I can tell, he was a bit rubbish!

But maybe i just don't 'get' it. I have however just been spoken to very rudely by my aunty when I said that the best thing to come out of Nirvana was Dave Grohl forming the Foo Fighters.

OP posts:
PegsonaNewNose · 18/02/2011 15:39

Mollys Blush me too Grin

PigValentine · 18/02/2011 15:40

Ooh Smash Hits - I remember Lars Ulrich doing the Biscuit Tin interview. And the free stickers and posters.

Original poster
SequinsAndSparkles · 18/02/2011 15:43

I'm perfectly aware of the devastating reality of suicide thankyou. I just have no idea why people would listen to such harsh music, life is hard enough as it is.

OP posts:
CountessVonKnackerstein · 18/02/2011 15:47

apocalypsecheesetoastie pre Black album or post Black album Metallica? Some great music on that album but prior to that a totally different sounding band, weren't they?

TondelayoSchwarzkopf · 18/02/2011 15:48

You should no better then, than to dismiss someone's contribution in life because of the way they met their death.

NerdyFace · 18/02/2011 15:52

I have to question the Sanity of people who Worship Robbie, the women who faint when they see take that. The little girls who send Death Threats to Kim Kardashian because she poses for photos with Justin Bieber and kisses his cheek.

Two simple thing's I live my life by.

  1. Like whatever you like, regardless of the mass "Popular Opinion"

  2. If it's too loud, your too old.

[Devil Horns Emoticon]

MollysChambers · 18/02/2011 15:55

I do wonder, if I was growing up now would I like Justin Beiber?

hogshead · 18/02/2011 15:55

I loved nirvana - ah I was only a young teen in their heyday!

If anyone starts on Tom Petty though strong words will be written!

Whatnamechange · 18/02/2011 15:57

Nerdy face if it's too loud your too old , love it , i remember when I used to play smells like teen spirit in the car and my dad always turned it off near the end (to put magic fm on instead)

LessNarkyPuffin · 18/02/2011 15:59

You just don't get it.

hogshead · 18/02/2011 15:59

My dad used to shout up the stairs "who is committing crimes against music up there!"

From the man who saw The Who and Black Sabbath live in his youth

pagwatch · 18/02/2011 16:01

Well perhaps I could express it better by saying that if my dd grows to adulthood too stupid to grasp that 'rape me' is not actually a request for rape. And that ' love the way you lie' is the musical version of ' I hit you because I just love you so much. It is your fault. You make me do it''...I will have failed.

NerdyFace · 18/02/2011 16:01

WhatNameChange

I went to see Motorhead for my 23rd and I ended up getting so close to the speaker I was deaf in one ear for a week and burst a blood vessel in my right eye..The white of my eye was literally blood red!!

Nothing beats loud music, when the bass kicks in and you can feel it bouncing around inside your lungs...The best Natural high..

MollysChambers · 18/02/2011 16:01

I used to be the one shouting to my Dad to turn it down!

The Band and Bruce Springsteen are fab but not at 9am on a Sunday morning when you're nursing a hangover!

LessNarkyPuffin · 18/02/2011 16:02

"I just have no idea why people would listen to such harsh music, life is hard enough as it is."

Avoid Morrisey Grin

spatchcock · 18/02/2011 16:03

'Rape Me' was actually about the media's intrusion into Cobain's life.

Something Rihanna doesn't seem to be too bothered about.

LuluLozenge · 18/02/2011 16:06

"I just have no idea why people would listen to such harsh music, life is hard enough as it is."

Maybe you missed out on being an angsty teen? I remember writing quite emo poetry and listening to Nirvana and really GETTING it - no one understood me or knew how I was feeling.

Now I'm a very upbeat 30-something who loves a laugh and is generally very upbeat - but still listens to Nirvana on ocassion.

ApocalypseCheeseToastie · 18/02/2011 16:08

Pre black album, don't mind some of the more recent stuff but kinda feel they sold their soul a little, almost like two different bands. Avin said that the 'one' video gave me nitemares for a while Blush

My dcs have good musical taste, they have been brought up on pearl jam, metallica, rammstein, slayer, jean michel jarre (or mr plinky plonk as I call him) smashing pumpkins etc and so on.

DD has no idea who justin beiber is thank god and my sons first way of communicating (he's autistic) was via metallica. (he used to spend hours lying on the floor tapping a wooden brick, one day he was lying their we had metallica on, he used to like feeling the vibrations from the speakers when out of the blue he started tapping his brick to the music. He later progressed to copying jean michel jarre note for note on his little keyboard)

For that reason I will always love metallica, in particular 'fuel' the song which opened our gateway of communication that day.

LessNarkyPuffin · 18/02/2011 16:11

That's lovely Apocalypse.

Pearl Jam though Hmm?

mozette · 18/02/2011 16:13

If you actually listen to some Morrissey lyrics you will find that he is not all doom and depression!

"So I broke into the palace
With a sponge and a rusty spanner
She said: I know you and you cannot sing.
I said: That's nothing you should here me play piano."

"Let me get my hands
On your mammary glands
And let me get your head
On the conjugal bed
I say, I say, I say"

dfairy · 18/02/2011 16:13

Cobain was an icon because he did not conform to what society said he should be and in turn we believed the same of ourselves, he gave us the courage to be proud of being different. Your talent and intellect is more important. I would much rather my children have a role model because what they say is important, regardless if they look like 'they need a wash'. It's important, I believe, to show our children not to judge people by what they look like.
DH is a musician and we do not subject our children to shit manufactured pop, nearly sang by someone nearly wearing something, as a woman I find it offensive and as a musician DH finds it offensive.
Sequins, you need to listen to what the musicians are saying not think something is good because the video looks expensive and glossy.
Can't wait to show DH this thread he will piss himself.

MollysChambers · 18/02/2011 16:14

Nought wrong with Pearl Jam. Alive is one of my fave songs. Have a bit of a crush on Eddie Vedder too...

Rammstein though? They are just scary. Don't think OP will like them..

ApocalypseCheeseToastie · 18/02/2011 16:14

Oi, I like pearl jam. And james Blush

Oh and pulp radiohead

mozette · 18/02/2011 16:16

don't be embarrassed about liking James! They're latest stuff is not much cop but Goldmother is still a fab album.

You can keep Radiohead though!

dfairy · 18/02/2011 16:16

When I first met DH he was attracted to me because I liked Soundgarden and Pearl Jam. Still a huge part of our lives.