16 years ago today they found the body of Kurt Cobain.
 

I'll be listening to Nirvana all day. RIP Kurt. You forever changed music with one song.

Damn, am I really getting that old?

Yes, you are. And yes, I am too.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FklUAoZ6KxY

No shit, right. I thought I was getting old when it was 10 years.

time flies fast...

Damn... Time really does fly fast.

Kurt Cobain was a pussy.

When MTV executives almost went to commercial because they thought Nirvana was going to play "Rape Me"

Don't tell me stuff like this. Then I realize I'm getting old. I still play that Nirvana MTV Unplugged album from time to time. Great music always lives on.

I played 5 man acoustic jam yesterday. We are not getting old nor will we ever die.

I wonder if the riff for Rape me came from Nirvana first or Gwar's Pussy Planet.

Ummm, which song was it that "forever changed music"? I must have never heard that one. Hey, I liked Nirvana - that one album was nice grunge pop and very listenable. But changed music forever? Puhleeze.

Nirvana brought a new sound to the music waves. its a good sound that still somewhat exists today. I really liked them. Heck alot of musicians changed music as we hear it today. With every new sound comes a different dimension of listenability

Hmmm, i still don't get it...

Well, going simply by album release dates, GWAR has it by about two years. :thumbsup


Gwar - "America Must Be Destroyed" Original Release Date: September 1991

Nirvana - "In Utero" Original Release Date: September 21, 1993

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Can't wait till his kid turns 18 and gets control of the majority of his estate. Talk about feeling old, that happens in August of this year.

boom, headshot.

I'm going to hell, I guess :(

Not to shit on his memory in a memorial thread, but yeah, he was a bit of a lifter.

I always felt this was the most blatant rip-

He probably means Smells Like Teen Spirit. That song pretty much put the entire glam-rock/glam metal phase that had been ruling rock radio for the previous decade into retirement. Bands like Poison, Winger, Slaughter, Europe, The Scorpions, Warrent even to some degree Motley Crue and Guns and Roses as well as dozens of others were suddenly not the sound of rock. Smells Like Teen Spirit comes out and within months Eddie Vedder is on the cover of Time magazine and bands like Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains and Soundgarden are having their records debut at #1 on the Billboard chart and in some cases are breaking sales records.

Check out a movie called Hype. It is about the Seattle music scene during this time. It is very cool, funny and gives a lot of insight into just how influential Nirvana and the bands that came from that area were.

kurt cobain ruled

Seriously? Smells Like Teen Spirit killed 80s hairbands and brought Seattle grunge to the forefront and mainstream.

In some sense, Nirvana got a little support from the unlikely source of Tesco Vee and the Meatmen. On their War of the Superbikes II cd, they have a song called "We Hate This Riff." The music is almost entirely a knock on Smells Like Teen Spirit, but the lyrics rip into the glut of grunge bands that broke out with the same sound after Nirvana hit it big. I couldn't find it on youtube, but here's the lyrics:

You stole this riff
From Cobain's headless sack
He wants his money
(Watch out) He's coming back
Gotta have a hit
This one can't miss
All the songs on Alternative Nation
Sound exactly like this

We'll hear this riff
Till the end of the world
As we know it
And we HATE this riff
NIRVANAWANNA-BEs
Know that they blow
But they want the cash
Today's flavor
Is tomorrows bitter after taste
It's the little things that kill

Hear it on every juke
In every scumrot bar
An early 90's bass line
And this cheesy guitar
Gotta have a hit
This one can't miss
Bush and Sponge and Better Than Ezra
Will see to it

That we'll hear this riff
Till the end of the world
As we know it
And we HATE this riff
NIRVANAWANNA-BES
Know that they blow
But they want the cash
Today's flavor
Is tomorrows bitter after taste
Just a wasted of musical space

I think they got sued for that, but the lawsuit was dropped when he died. I could be mistaken.

RIP Kurt Cobain (body found on April 8).

blatant rip of what? that doesn't sound like nirvana

Come as you are.

bitch did it

7 years ago today I went greyhound racing then ordered a new car :)

Was never really interested in Nirvana

Time does fly.

RIP.Nice to reminisce and listen to his music!

Junior year in high school...I got off the school bus and walked into the house. For some reason I had left the tv on when I left the house and MTV was on. Just as I got in the house Tabitha Soren broke in with an MTV news alert (weird saying that phrase as an adult) with the news.

The next day in gym class I had a big debate about suicide over a game of ping pong.

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" changed music forever? No, Boston changed it forever when they wrote the song back in 1976. Only they called it "More Then A Feeling".

Shelly, good find on that Killing Joke song. I had never heard that but now I know where "Come As You Are" came from.

" Good artists borrow. Great artists steal."
- Picasso

Agree with it or not, that's pretty much the way it is.

Every artist is a cannibal
Every poet is a thief.

-Bono

Nirvana put grunge into the mainstream. Alice in Chains and Soundgarden were already doing it years before that though. Layne Staley died right around this time too.

Wow I'm old too

Yeah, Layne died around april 5, 2002.

I really fail to see how he changed music with one crappy grunge song........ mildly irritating........ yes....... but historic??? :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

The only clever thing that junky ever did was put a shogun in his mouth and pull the trigger. Made him a legend. Otherwise he would have been mercifully forgotten a long time ago. :2 cents:

Are you channeling Rush Limbaugh on that one?

I would not know as I have never heard Limbaugh speak in my life. Does he share my low opinion of Kurt Cobain? Does disliking that crap music represent a political position I am unaware of? Personally I prefer Miles Davis. Does that make me a Black Panther? :1orglaugh

RIP KURT.... a good song? Yes.... Legend? Maybe...

oh boy........ :(

So am I the only one who thinks that Ms. Love killed him?

Jack

RIP Kurt

Man,where does the time go.I'm an old man

Na lol my fiance said the same thing when i mentioned it to him.

RIP Mr Kurt, I do like your music. At least some of it

FUCK YOU KIRT