I always had a soft spot for Nirvana, though sometimes I'm not sure why. I thought some of the lyrical imagery was fantastic though. My friend Debbie Richardson (Debbie Puff from the infamous Suckdog/Costes Lost Kittens Opera tour) said the day Cobain died, the sky got bluer.
I always had a soft spot for Nirvana, though sometimes I'm not sure why. I thought some of the lyrical imagery was fantastic though. My friend Debbie Richardson (Debbie Puff from the infamous Suckdog/Costes Lost Kittens Opera tour) said the day Cobain died, the sky got bluer.
I actually matured into them. I was into some punk/alt rock stuff around then, but Nirvana and even Pavement were the bands that pushed open the floodgates. Pop, metal, punk, new wave written with a depth that owed as much to John Lennon or Leonard Cohen as Johnny Rotten, yet it always seemed so grave and too serious (even though a song like Heart Shaped Box has a perversely funny undercurrent, or Smells Like Teenage Spirit, an damn catchy song about a passionless generation). They're an easy target but for all the wrong reasons. In an age when you wanted to rock in a new way, you'd tried getting into Sonic Youth but all that noise was scary, and the Cure seemed, like...gay, Nirvana made the squalls and sensitive angstisms quite accessible. The same kids today who dog them (yet love metalcore and other crappy hard core/nu metal derivitives) have never even heard of the Jesus Lizard, prolly the most important "punk/metal" underground group from america circa 1992. Bastards.
I actually matured into them. I was into some punk/alt rock stuff around then, but Nirvana and even Pavement were the bands that pushed open the floodgates. Pop, metal, punk, new wave written with a depth that owed as much to John Lennon or Leonard Cohen as Johnny Rotten, yet it always seemed so grave and too serious (even though a song like Heart Shaped Box has a perversely funny undercurrent, or Smells Like Teenage Spirit, an damn catchy song about a passionless generation). They're an easy target but for all the wrong reasons. In an age when you wanted to rock in a new way, you'd tried getting into Sonic Youth but all that noise was scary, and the Cure seemed, like...gay, Nirvana made the squalls and sensitive angstisms quite accessible. The same kids today who dog them (yet love metalcore and other crappy hard core/nu metal derivitives) have never even heard of the Jesus Lizard, prolly the most important "punk/metal" underground group from america circa 1992. Bastards.
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