If Grunge hadn't come around and pushed a darker, more cynical, more depressing form of rock into the mainstream, we would have been stuck with several more years of shit like Poison and Whitesnake singing the same cheesy songs with mildly different chords.īut I will never forget what an old stoner at one of my favorite record shops once told me: Thrash bands like Metallica and Megadeth only got one or two songs in regular rotation. Personally, I think the grunge era saved rock because the end of the 80s was basically just hair band power ballad "metal". Or a Radio Friendly Unit Shifter, one might say. A bunch of throw away lines designed to play on the radio. Unoffensive trash pop-rock designed for radio play to sell albums. Foo Fighters is exactly the kind of band Kurt railed against. It's funny because I hear modern day Foo Fighters and know that if Kurt could reanimate he'd absolutely slap the living shit out of Dave Grohl. So many people soured on them with In Utero, which was more in line with what they were about than Nevermind ever was. Nirvana basically had only one and a half popular albums. Like I said Nirvana were a good band and they made some great music but rock suffered from following their lead. Today what passes as rock as softer than what we hear on easily listening stations. Even the last gasp of hard rock in the mainstream borrowed heavily from rap and hip hop. While rock was busy being grungy, sexless and eschewing the things that made rock and roll in past decades so fun rappers openly embraced those things and they became the new rockstars. It's no surprise that rap and hip hop really crossed over to white America in the 90s. Kurt was openly against the masculine swagger that almost defined rock and roll in past decades and the genre turning it's back on that deeply hurt. They took almost all the sexuality, fun, joy and swagger from rock and replaced it with angst and depression. Hair metal was bad but the cure was almost worse than the disease. Gillian G.Yes Kurt was talented and yes they had some good songs but if you ask me they took the fun out of rock. Steve Albini - Famous recording engineer, recorded Nirvana's 1993 album 'In Utero'ĭanny Goldberg - Former manager of Nirvana and the author of the book "Serving The Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain"Ĭharles Peterson - Famous photographer, widely known for his work with Sub Pop Krist Novoselic - Bass player and founding member of Nirvana We want everyone to feel welcome here regardless of who you are, where you're from, or what values you hold true, because that's what Nirvana is all about. We are quite proud of the atmosphere that we have created here, and we hope that you enjoy your visit well enough to keep coming back to us time and time again. Please clear any giveaways, polls, or surveys with the moderators.īring love, spread love. Users without at least 10 comment karma will have all posts or threads removed automatically by AutoModerator. Posting Spam or linking to the site Alternative Nation will be removed and result in immediate ban Please discuss politics on another subreddit instead.Ībsolutely no file sharing of official music No Politics: Unfortunately people have proven time and time again that this can't be a place for civil discussion when it comes to politics. No songs that just sound "grunge" or are "inspired" by the band. Low-effort posts include posts with lazy titles, uncropped screenshots, untrimmed screen recordings, etc.Ĭovers are to be posted at r/rNirvanaCovers & no original music not related to Nirvana or Kurt Cobain:Īny music shared must be somewhat related to Nirvana or Kurt Cobain, including side-projects and related acts. Low-effort posts and frequent reposts will be removed: Please also be respectful to other users. Threads and comments concerning conspiracy theories related to Kurt Cobain's death are prohibitedīe Respectful: Posts/Comments bashing Courtney Love or any other family member/friend will be removed.
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