Non-Urban Music The Nirvana Thread

[Salar]

Well we can't have a "Don't stop the music" forum without having a Nirvana thread so here we are. Keep all Nirvana discussions in here.

Nirvana is my favourite band next to Green Day, Beatles and Chump (an australian coverband but they also do there own shit which i love). I guess my love for Nirvana started when i was still very young and i heard on the news that Kurt Cobain killed himself, soon after my brothers friend also shot himself because of it. I couldn't believe it. I remember when i went to the funeral and i his funeral song was "Jesus doesn't want me for a sunbeam". It moved me like i've never been moved before. Then i listend to them more, and i really enjoyed the music. It was only when i was older that i started understanding and relating to the lyrics more. But the song "jesus doesn't want me for a sunbeam" till this day fucks me up. It's such a good song.

So how did you first get into Nirvana?
What's your favourite songs?
Has anyone read the Kurt Cobain journals? if not i recommend you to do so? if you have read it, what did you think?

All Nirvana discussions in here

 

[The.Menace]

Well, Nirvana is just classic, u gotta love them......if u are in the right mood, there ain't nothing like Nirvana. The whole MTV unplugged CD is classic, I mean, it's like everyone knows all the tracks by heart....

haven't read the journal and I don't plan to do so, cause it was release by his wife and he never planed to publish his journal.....and it just kinda doesn't feel right.

 

[haunted]

I saw them on mtv unplugged, i think that was back in 94 or something like that. I never liked any music besides rap but i liked the lyrics and the way they sounded.

 

[Mad skillz]

i dont like them, but i saw a program that said the lead singer Kurt cobain or somthing, didnt commit suicide, he was killed.

 

[Salar]

The murder theories are absolute bullshit. Just like the elvis is alive and pac faked his death theories. People can't grasp the truth so they make up things so they have peace at mind.l Whatever that makes them sleep at nights

 

[-Daniel-]

cool, I read a Kurt biopgraphy '... (something).. Heaven' it was called, or something like that, it was a while ago. It said he used to use his seed on his paintings then show them to his mates.

 

[Salar]

I'm bumping this as well for a very good reason
I really needed to clear my head tonight so i went for a 4 hour drive around Melbourne to do just that. The only music in the car i had on was Nirvana (Nevermind, In Utero, Unplugged and Nirvana (best of) album, along with a few other Nirvana compliations which included B-sides tracks that are highly underrated)
Anyway for this entire trip i had Nirvana blasting through my speakers and i just can't explain the experience i had with the music. I was the music. When i got back home and sat down i had goosebumps all over me.
Mind you my throat is KILLING me now because i was singing off the top of my lungs with this one.
Nirvana along-side my panoramic spiritual experience elevated me above everything and anything.
I just had to post this.

 

[ShockA]

Well bud.. good on you to bump the thread.

However, I've said it before and I'll say it again.... Nirvana are over-rated.

I like some of their songs, but I don't think it was anything that was really mind-blowing.

My buddies and I always talk music when we go to the pubs.. and Nirvana and Radiohead are the 2 bands we talk about the most. And we're all split on the "love-hate" relationship.

Anyways.. I just think Nirvana were good.. but not great.

 

[Salar]

you don't like radiohead either? (they're up there with my favourite bands of all time)

and your more than entitled to your opinion

 

[Jeremy]

I saw them on mtv unplugged, i think that was back in 94 or something like that. I never liked any music besides rap but i liked the lyrics and the way they sounded.

Everytime I watch that dvd I so wish I would have been there.

 

[ShockA]

you don't like radiohead either? (they're up there with my favourite bands of all time)

and your more than entitled to your opinion

No no.. I didn't type my sentence correctly.

I love Radiohead, I'm not big on Nirvana.

There's no way I would hate on Radiohead bud

 

[hotmissla]

Anyone who says nirvana isn't great doesn't get music. They started a whole new genre of music in a time when everything else was blending together. Their music united a divided generation. Everyone has an opinion on what "good" music is but if you understand music then you see that wether it is Nirvana or Hilary Duff, if it allows people to escape into that musical realm where your mind becomes free, than it's good. Since Nirvana did just that and they did it to millions of people they are beyond great.

 

[ShockA]

Anyone who says nirvana isn't great doesn't get music. They started a whole new genre of music in a time when everything else was blending together. Their music united a divided generation. Everyone has an opinion on what "good" music is but if you understand music then you see that wether it is Nirvana or Hilary Duff, if it allows people to escape into that musical realm where your mind becomes free, than it's good. Since Nirvana did just that and they did it to millions of people they are beyond great.

Anyone who says Nirvana isn't great doesn't get music??

How many times must I express the music is an artform.. an expression of emotion.. an escape for many many people.

Music is my life sweetheart, and because I don't think Nirvana is great, makes my love for music obsolete? I don't fucking think so.

Everyone has their opinion on musicians and different genres of music... if someone has a difference in opinion, then it should be accepted by anyone else who listens to music.

Nirvana were huge, I agree. And their music touched the lives on many youth across North America and the world, but you have to realize, just because they touched a certain group of people, doesn't mean their music was important for EVERYONE.

So lemme ask you.. do you think Elvis Presley was great? What about the Rolling Stones? The Beatles? Frank Sinatra? What about great song writers like Bob Dylan? Elvis Costello? John Lennon?

Would you listen to these artists everyday and worship their every song and album?? I highly doubt it. These are all great artists, and they had effects on the people that listened to them growing up.

Music is subjective.. and it's different for everyone. I personally listen to many different genres of music, from the 60's to current artists, I know my stuff. Do I know the most?? No... not a chance in hell, but I do appreciate music more than other people do.

So think twice before you make such an ignorant comment like that. Because you're insulting my intelligence.. and many other people who love music as well.

Cheers

 

[-=ArtofWar=-]

^ lol you spited it right in her face but thats the truth
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like haunted pointed out I don't listen to nothing besides rap but I rarely almost indefinitely don't listen to rock even though I like Smell Like Teen Spirit (Which I hate to admit) it's one of those few rock songs that move me but when your singing from the bottom of your heart from the pit of your stomach to reach an audience you will reach wide variety of audience with a strong meaning that people could relate to if he was you or something injust you want everybody to know(thats what Pac Did) that is whats wrong about this generation of rap its about greed, gain, and lust(well almost all the rap songs) but getting back to the point the truth is that Nirvana did start a new generation of rock and he did sing his heart out about his feelings put into writting trust me those feeling are real hard to write, I could tell all this from one song Teen Spirit and its the only song I know from Nirvana I didn't even knew he killed himself until a friend told me last year, I give Nirvana proops because he sang from his heart and put it into words

 

[Salar]

So lemme ask you.. do you think Elvis Presley was great? What about the Rolling Stones? The Beatles? Frank Sinatra? What about great song writers like Bob Dylan? Elvis Costello? John Lennon?

yes
i listen to all of those artists just today (except elvis costello), but i'm sure i'll listen to at least one of his songs by the end of the day... i love my ipod

I wonder if anyone actually knows what smells like teen spirit is about, everyone plays it yet nobody knows what it's about and don't understand the irony of that song and why Nirvana themselves ended up hating the song. In their concerts later on they would play the intro and then either just fuck up the song entirely (sing it like a chior boy) or they'd just stop and say... "yeah we're not going to do that one today"

 

[-=ArtofWar=-]

yeah about killin each other and everyone else

 

[Saint33]

To think Nirvanas great, ud hav to like grunge. The only two reasons ther as big as they r, r that they started the whole grunge thing, and ofcourse Kurt Cobain killin himself. Personlly I think Nirvana's alrite, but wen we talk about Seatle bands, i think Pearl jam's better. Neways The_One, u seem pretty moved by Nirvana, which i kinda find weird since ur a VIP member on 2pacboard. I don no how u can be on this site and not hav a Pac CD in ur car lol jk. Neways does ne one else find tha a lil strange

 

[Salar]

the only reason i'm a VIP member is because i wanted to help Ruk out. I think this is a good means of communications for people to connect and hold intelligent conversation (though there are only few people i can hold intelligent conversations with). I like pac, i listen to pac, but rap and hiphop isn't the only thing i listen to unlike most members on the board.

Back to Nirvana
Artofwar, smells like teen spirit was not about killing each other at all. Whoever gave you that idea was crazy. Smells like teen spirit is about the apathy of the new generation and how they follow like sheep. Hence making the song so so ironic, becuase the song itself became what it was trying to open up your eyes to, thus everyone became blind to the message. Hence the reason for Nirvana themselves ending up hating their own song.

Nirvana didn't start the whole grunge thing, the grunge thing was started by the Melvins (who were also from seatlle). Nirvana just made it worldwide. And don't get me started on Pearl Jam, i really really really don't like them. I put them next to Guns N Roses, and my main reason for my dislike towards Pearl Jam is because people compare them to Nirvana. It shits me. If anything bands like the Melvins or Meat Puppets or even maybe vaseline are similiar to nirvana, pearl jam was no where near as deep and way too commercial.

 

[Casey]

Good to see your thread, The_One... i happen to also be a big nirvana fan... you wrote some good shit in this thread, keep educating! Kurt was one of the lyrical geniuses of our time...