Sneer

please, nirvana would be nowhere near as big or talked about today if it wasnt for Kurts suicide, morbid, but true. his death has immortalized a band that made one decent record and a couple of mediocre records. One good album does not compare to at least 4 great albums. And plus, without the pixies, sonic youth, melvins or mudhoney, there'd be no nirvana and no marketable term known as "grunge". Kurt and co. merely made a movement mainstream, much like the strokes did with the garage rock scene, and i guarantee if casablancas popped his cloggs everybody would be ho-ha'ing over the greatness of a band, like nirvana, who made one very good album and 2 average at best.

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The first paragraph has partial truth to it, everything else is pure bullsh*t, Nevermind and In Utero were BOTH very good albums, as was the unplugged album.

Nirvana were already pretty much the most popular band in the world when Cobain died, with Pearl Jam still very popular today, so I'm sure Nirvana would be as well, even if not as much as they were before Cobain died.


No sh*t, whats your goddamn point?... That having influences is bad?

And Raine, The Foo Fighters barely even had an impact, you can argue for quality, but as far as I'm concerned in overall greatness, Nevermind is a top 50 album.

But Colour and the Shape is probably in the top 1000 I'm sure.

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Sneer

What the hell are you on about about? in Utero is a mediocre at best album that literally lived off and depended on the success of nevermind to sell copies. Seriously, i thought you spoke out of your arse before, but this is another level. I've always found the unp[lugged overrated, what makes it great? kurt showing emotion with an acoustic? WOW, listen to a nick drake album, oh wait, you find him sh*t... my point with the influences was the guy i was making a point to argued nirvana were the first band to start the movement - i was merely pointing out the fact there were bands before nirvana doing the same (and better) thing. Read things more carefully maybe?

AND pearl jam... popular today? you ****ing joking? they were a flop at reading and their comeback was perhaps the biggest let down ever. Nirvana would be nowhere near as big as they were today without kurts death and you know it, you said pretty much the same thing by saying my first 'paragraph' (no paragraphs) had an element of truth to it.

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How big are they now anyway? It seems like they just have a niche amongst those who still give two sh*ts about grunge or think that the use of the term "alternative" hasn't been warped so much as to have lost all meaning. As far as I know this is a fairly small group.

boo boo

Of course, In Utero was just a cash in on the Nevermind sound, this is why they had Steve Albini produce the album and make it as striped down as possible and why it dosen't sound a thing like Nevermind, they were following a formula, it's oh so obvious.

Of course I am, just look at how big of a flop their recent s/t was, it entered the UK charts at #5 and the US charts at #2, selling 1,577,025 units worldwide and was ranked 90th biggest selling album of 06 by Billboard... What a bunch of f*cking hasbeens.

Oh yeah, because you know EXACTLY what I am thinking.

What a goddamn stupid generalization, "people only like Nirvana because hes dead", what a BRILLANT conclusion in trying to understand why someone would have a opinion different from your own, people who like Nirvana are clearly in denial of the fact they suck and they only care about them because Cobain died, duh.

And the only reason Blind Melon are so popular now is because of Shannon Hoons overdose.... Oh wait.

Nirvana were huge when Cobain died, and his death merely elevated their popularity into infinity, if they continued making albums as good as Nevermind and In Utero they would still be popular today, only not as much.

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