Originally Posted by lucifer_sam (Post 675426)

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8. Second-gen Nirvana fans

Kurt Cobain is such a weathered punching bag. Immortalized upon his death in 1994, we’ve had scarce precious moments since that day devoid of some sort of slavish obsession with his music. Whether it comes from people lamenting the latest succession to the Twenty-Seven Club or the idiots from VH1 Storytellers, in some form or another Kurt and his band Nirvana have been shoved down public throats in gross detail for about fifteen years. For me, it was a bit of a different story.

Like most other people my age, I really couldn’t give less of a damn when Kurt Cobain died. I’m sure my day was spent just like every other happy five-year-old. Nirvana remained on the radio in solid repeat for a good ten years afterwards (and they might be there still, I don’t know), so I was fairly acquainted with their music. Well into my teens I began to see people – people my age – pay homage to the dead celebrity with butchered covers of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” rank throughout talent shows and garage band performances.

I didn’t understand.

Maybe it was their neediness for a hero, but these kids my age were stepping back ten years or so and latching onto a man who ironically disdained the commercial pap smear that music had become. Whatever their reason, there seemed to be an upshot of idiots that incarnated the fucks brigade incorporated as “the last great rock band”. Since when did heroin abuse and an uncompromising obsession with Neil Young constitute a musical genius?

It didn’t stop there. Fast forward five years or so, I’m in my early twenties now. My first few bands are all projects of my friends and somehow I’m still subject to overexposed morons who grew up on a solid diet of bullshit and Nevermind. Even today, I’m constantly reminded of the conversation I had in seventh grade with a fat fuck on the school bus exalting the virtues of some washed-up grunge band that long outlived their welcome. He said he cried the day that Kurt Cobain died.

Yeah, I would have too if I would have known what blind, toady cunts his death would conceive.

Originally Posted by boo boo (Post 675691)

You have a point, Nirvana fanboys can be very annoying.

But I think obsessive Nirvana haters are significantly worse, especially when it comes to metalheads.

Originally Posted by Janszoon (Post 675632)

Ah, so Westlife and Take That are br00tal metal then? I thought they were teeny-pop.

Originally Posted by lightStevOo (Post 676076)

i hate the jonas brothers they suck ass

Originally Posted by lightStevOo (Post 676076)

i hate the jonas brothers they suck ass

Originally Posted by crash_override (Post 675721)

Agreed. People who refuse to recognize that Nirvana did anything productive for rockmusic are much more annoying than the people who think they re-invented it.

Originally Posted by Neapolitan (Post 676093)

What did Nirvana do for Rock? Nothing!

Originally Posted by music_phantom13 (Post 676105)

Absolutely true. What did Nirvana do? Brought it to mainstream popularity more than any of those bands you named (I'm pretty sure... I wasn't alive... and excluding Metallica).

Originally Posted by dac (Post 676107)

I don't think any one band "saved" rock and roll, but I think Nirvana was a pretty f'n big part of what came out of the 90s and got us out of hair metal.

Originally Posted by lucifer_sam (Post 675426)

8. Second-gen Nirvana fans

Originally Posted by lucifer_sam (Post 676109)

Faith No More and RHCP more than effectively killed that genre.

unfortunately spawning a legion of copycat, hilariously poor funk metal acts in their wake. but you can't hold that against them.

Originally Posted by Janszoon (Post 673632)

Not sure if I agree with the part about him being underrated because I feel like he gets a lot of praise but otherwise I'm with you. I'm not trying to say all Phish fans are like what I described at all but rather that there's this demographic of people out there who basically only listen to bands like Phish, Widespread Panic and String Cheese Incident and those people are annoying as hell.

Originally Posted by Sonace (Post 676111)

What's with this forum and the Nirvana hate? I've grown to accept it but dang is it hard to find somebody who is a big fan of them but also open to other areas of music.

It's either hatred or ass-licking fandom :(

And the picture is a little offensive.. I'm not saying that because I'm some sort of "worshipper" of Kurt Cobain, but mocking anybody's death is just plain distastful to me.

Originally Posted by Sonace (Post 676117)

Exactly why he did.

Originally Posted by dac (Post 676129)

Bah-Dum-Ts

Originally Posted by Sonace (Post 676130)

HA I actually just deleted that post for fear of insane Radiohead fans.

Originally Posted by dac (Post 676107)

I don't think any one band "saved" rock and roll, but I think Nirvana was a pretty f'n big part of what came out of the 90s and got us out of hair metal.

Originally Posted by boo boo (Post 676206)

But then again, my favorite Nirvana stuff is from these rare bootlegs that nobody else has, it features a 40 minute prog metal epic, which has one of the most jaw dropping neo classical shred solos you'll ever hear.

Originally Posted by Janszoon (Post 676212)

Who knew Krist Novoselic could blow like that?

Originally Posted by dac (Post 676213)

Adidass.

Originally Posted by IWP (Post 676431)

There was a time when both rock and metal were both fun to listen and party to, and then Nirvana came along. =(

Originally Posted by boo boo (Post 676206)

Unfortunately, they also deserve credit for bringing us Creed and Nickelback.

Originally Posted by Sonace (Post 676434)

If you are referring to crap like Poison, Bon Jovi and Motley Crue, which has absolutely no artistic merit whatsoever.

Originally Posted by lucifer_sam (Post 676128)

i don't hate them. i find their music dull and their fans infuriating (especially the younger, more impressionable ones), hence the spot on the list.

Originally Posted by Bulldog (Post 676442)

Same here. They were coming out of the walls when I was at school, especially when they published Cobain's diaries and released that gigantic box set of rarities.

Regarding the music, I think Nirvana did a few great songs (I'll always have a soft spot for Heart-Shaped Box and Sliver), but I've never really been swayed into getting an album of theirs, and I doubt I ever will be.

Originally Posted by Sonace (Post 676434)

If you are referring to crap like Poison, Bon Jovi and Motley Crue, which has absolutely no artistic merit whatsoever.

Originally Posted by lucifer_sam (Post 676500)

if we were strictly going on band literature then Anthony Kiedis' autobiography would be enough to put his fans at number one. fucking shithead.

Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger (Post 676501)

There's more artistic merit in Motley Crue's first album than there is in Green Day's entire discography.

Originally Posted by boo boo (Post 676206)

It's funny how some people label me as both a Nirvana fanboy and a prog fan who only values music for the technical skill involved.

Interesting how that works.

But then again, my favorite Nirvana stuff is from these rare bootlegs that nobody else has, it features a 40 minute prog metal epic, which has one of the most jaw dropping neo classical shred solos you'll ever hear.

Originally Posted by TechnicLePanther (Post 1867377)

OP failed to deliver 8 years ago. :(

Originally Posted by Justthefacts (Post 1867837)

The people who listen to The War On Drugs are the worst music fans.

Originally Posted by Justthefacts (Post 1867837)

The people who listen to The War On Drugs are the worst music fans.

Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1867844)

but you people are wont to do so.