How do you rate the band Nirvana?
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stupid dogbot
Haughty and Superior
Clearly.
That's why no one has been be buying Guitar Hero type games these last couple of years...
As for Nirvana, not a fan, never was. Boring songs, ordinary music, dull, dull lyrics and silly mumbling singing. Give me the Screaming Trees, Mudhoney or Dinosaur Jr. any day.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Never heard of them. Any good?
mauvais
on reddit or something
Well, how do YOU rate them then?
SpookyFrank
Don't swallow the cap
Soundgarden were utterly shit. That bloke's voice is so overblown and fake it makes my teeth hurt.
e2a: ...and he managed to turn Rage Against the Machine into a tenth-rate Led Zeppelin tribute band. That's some pretty specialist cuntery right there.
southside
Banned
Clearly.
That's why no one has been be buying Guitar Hero type games these last couple of years...
As for Nirvana, not a fan, never was. Boring songs, ordinary music, dull, dull lyrics and silly mumbling singing. Give me the Screaming Trees, Mudhoney or Dinosaur Jr. any day.
Guitar hero is harder than playing a real guitar.
I have spoken to people who have told me they play guitar and later find out it's guitar hero they play WTF.
stupid dogbot
Haughty and Superior
Fuck Guitar Hero, quite frankly. 
skyscraper101
0891 50 50 50
Both together, and sold separately as DVD and CD. It should have been releasse years ago imo. One of the defining performances of the Nineties. I remember recording it off the radio in 92 and wearing the tape out listening to it so much, such was my love of Nirvana back then.
I always thought Smashing Pumpkins were dire in comparison.
Andy the Don
Wise men say only fools..
What no "vastly overrated" option..?
g force
Affects Shatner's Basoon
Pumpkins had maybe 3-4 decent songs - really only 2 - Today and 1979. Soundgarden however had none. In fairness they got lumped into the Grunge thing when they were no more than a slightly alt rock band that happened to be from Seattle.
Nirvana, for the record, were ace - both as a band in their own right as a gateway to people who then got into their influences. They were never as good as the Pixies or Dinosaur Jr in my eyes but their best moments are truly outstanding.
Silva
This went well.
I can't be really objective about them for one reason: their fans. The tosspots who liked it only because it was well noisy (like Weird Al said) back in the early 90s, and the kids who were born by that time and now think they were some sort of completely underground act, completely different from any current MTV act, and their girly fans always were well-rounded persons who wouldn't scribble Cobain's name inside an heart in their schoolbooks or even like them because they were "cute". I was in middle school back then, but somehow, they know it better than me 
Anyway. Looking at their output, I can't say more than they were an ok band, and there were loads of alt. rock US bands that were miles better than them (Pixies, for instance).
Anyway. Looking at their output, I can't say more than they were an ok band, and there were loads of alt. rock US bands that were miles better than them (Pixies, for instance).
Disjecta Membra
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ouchmonkey
Singe Gainsbourg
3 - cherub rock was good too, and I hate The Smashing Pumpkins so that's generous of me. yer right about Soundgarden though, very much like Nickelback, only apparently 'cool', in my book. His voice isn't as grating as Eddie Vedder's though and Cobain was a big fan by all accounts
BassJunkie
Clams on the half shell, and roller skates.
I agree with all of this.
They got me into Sonic Youth, who before I might never have heard of
For a lot of people who were about 15/16 at the time, Nirvana opened the door to 'alternative' rock. Before that I thought it only meant whiney stuff like the Smiths.
For a lot of people who were about 15/16 at the time, Nirvana opened the door to 'alternative' rock. Before that I thought it only meant whiney stuff like the Smiths.
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
Exactly this ^^
kained&able
Here for the football.
For me its 13/14(i think) and rock was guns n roses, areosmith and bon jovi etc.
Good work lithium.
dave
Good work lithium.
dave
Yeah, before Nirvana, I thought there was only a choice between whiney indie and cock rock. I think a lot of slightly older posters already knew about stuff like Pixies, Sonic Youth etc but for a lot of people who had been in their mid teens at the time, Nirvana opened the door. Jesus Lizard, Babes in Toyland, Mudhoney, the Youth, the Pixes, Dinosaur Jr, Screaming Trees, Pavement, Nirvana got me into the lot
The ultimate tragedy for me is that Kurt Cobain never made his proposed album with Michael Stipe.
Listening to Unplugged, and listening to Stipe's collaboration with Kristin Hersh, Your ghost, that could have been an absolute cracker.
Listening to Unplugged, and listening to Stipe's collaboration with Kristin Hersh, Your ghost, that could have been an absolute cracker.
stupid dogbot
Haughty and Superior
Yeah, before Nirvana, I thought there was only a choice between whiney indie and cock rock. I think a lot of slightly older posters already knew about stuff like Pixies, Sonic Youth etc but for a lot of people who had been in their mid teens at the time, Nirvana opened the door. Jesus Lizard, Babes in Toyland, Mudhoney, the Youth, the Pixes, Dinosaur Jr, Screaming Trees, Pavement, Nirvana got me into the lot
Sad really, that amongst that list, they're the ones that'll be remembered best.
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