I like you already. But you'd probably get a better response from members if you didn't try and impose your opinion on them so much, gentle goading tends to work better:) Just think of them as cattle!

I've said the same thing on here myself on at least two occasions.

The problem is, that there's not too many people on the forum to actually remember Nirvana when they first came out. I thought they were amazing when I first saw them and I still think they're amazing today, when I actually do listen to them.

As usual you have no idea what you're talking about.

If anybody looked at the bulk of your posts, they'd say much the same thing.

I was in high school when Nevermind came out. I liked it at the time, though it certainly wasn't my favorite album. Then Nirvana became so overhyped and ubiquitous that I got really tired of hearing them and hearing about them. Unfortunately, I feel like they've been kind of ruined for me, through no fault of their own. I just feel like I've been so over saturated with them over the past two decades that it's hard for me to sit down and listen to their albums and enjoy them on their own terms anymore. Though, now that I'm talking about it, I have to admit I kind of feel like listening to them. Maybe I will.

You don't understand! They cannot be overrated! They. Are. Nirvana!

-making sure you know, I'm wiggums

Not so much overrated when compared to being so over played through the years.

Nevermind is practically a greatest hits, you couldn't sit through that?

Does this include Soundgarden or Alice in Chains? The first one seems closer to Metal but I know they're often associated. I'd say the same for the latter but they have an even closer association.

Of course you are defending the nonsense of Ghost Jam's comments. You know as well as I do that not everyone cares for Nirvana. I simply stating the obvious. Not everyone cares for Nirvana. I mean I know Ghost Jam loves nirvana. Obviously yes I like Franco and Pepe Kalle but my name makes that obvious. You should know that I like those two since that is my name here. DUH. But I understand that not everyone is going to like Franco and Pepe Kalle. I respect that. But Ghost Jam is mad that not everyone like Nirvana. That is all what I am stating. Ghost Jam knows that he is being a *******.

Totally true. I've always felt like the word 'grunge' is kind of embarrassing. It was made up well after I loved Nirvana, anyway. And I hated that Nirvana was suddenly associated with the likes of Pearl Jam and Stone Temple Pilots. I don't think it had much to do with adults trying to understand the music though. The word just kind of happened. I guess because the bands appeared...grungy?

One interesting thing that happened back then is that old people noticed these "grunge" bands because they were suddenly so popular, and saying that they were the return of "real rock music" because they were disgusted by music that was popular through the eighties. For instance, my friend's dad asked to borrow my Screaming Trees tape (Sweet Oblivion, their 6th album) because he said it was the best new music he'd heard since the seventies.

I'm not sure what you mean about testicles but I've gotta disagree with you on the lyricism. I do think Cobain wrote pretty cool lyrics but documentary evidence has shown us that he wrote most of them just to fit into the song structures that were written beforehand. They were usually an afterthought and generally don't mean much.

This post makes the most sense to me. I got the 'Nevermind' tape for Xmas of 1991 and I don't think it left my car's tape deck until March. That time was as close as I ever got to worship. I think In Utero is a better album but I was never sad that there would be no more Nirvana albums after the suicide. Their existing music was plenty.

One more thing...

mr dave has brought up an interesting point - Nirvana was a real phenomenon back in the Nevermind days. Cobain was famously distraught that kids who would have hated him in high school were filling up stadiums to see his band. It was this way for a lot of fans too.

I have a distinct teenage memory of standing in line at a mall record store, waiting to buy 'Crippled Children Suck' by the Meatmen. The line was super long and the store was full of Nirvana posters and ads. I noticed that a lot of jocks (for lack of a better term) were lining up to buy Nevermind. It was just weird.

But it's not like these people were just buying the album because it was a cool thing to do (although most of them had probably become hooked on Smells Like Teen Spirit because MTV played the video 3 times each hour) but they actually liked the music. In fact a lot of kids who bought Nevermind were certainly deriding slouchy ugly kids who had fucked up hair and wore thrift store clothes at school. I was sure that I would soon see Nevermind filling up the used bins but it didn't. Everybody seemed to genuinely like the band.

For a brief time, it really was like some Beatles or Elvis type of shit.

Does it matter were they really that great?

I remember my brother telling me how he found a favorite band. After I heard them I was like nevermind. I guess part of my problem of not hailing Nirvana as the greatest band ever is that I heard a lot of music before hearing them. Not that I am an expert in any way.

I completely agree. I liked Nirvana as a kid, but their music gets hard on the ears. High schoolers basically got ahold of the name and turned it into just another fad.