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[Diablos]

Seriously. How many people here have heard of Mother Love Bone? And why isn't Sublime as popular as Nirvana?

Nirvana's success predated Cobain's death, and was certainly not due to it.

You completely missed my point.

 

[NLB2]

Seriously. How many people here have heard of Mother Love Bone? And why isn't Sublime as popular as Nirvana?

Nirvana's success predated Cobain's death, and was certainly not due to it.

Never heard of Mother Love Bone, but Sublime sucks even more than Nirvana.

 

[Diablos]

And why isn't Sublime as popular as Nirvana?

Lyrics like "Lord knows I'm weak, won't somebody get me off of this reef" might have something to do with it.

 

[Rorschach]

I didn't say they were a small unappreciated band before Kurt killed himself; everyone knows Nirvana was huge, karasu. What I'm saying is that to this day, they still wouldn't be getting so much praise if they were still around. In fact, I'm almost certain that Nirvana would have either a. called it quits or b. went in a direction that was not very pleasing to fans (that doesn't imply the music would suck, but I'm just sayin' - alt. rock kids were spoiled). When Kurt killed himself, what people thought of him and the band in 1994 stayed with them, even to this day. If he didn't kill himself and made some bad songwriting decisions, completely sold out or the band just ended, then you can bet Nirvana would not be all the rage when people bring up 90's grunge/alt. rock.

It's better to burn out, than to fade away.

If Billy Corgan, Eddie Vedder, Chris Cornell or Layne Staley shot themselves in the face a year or two after Kurt, you can bet they would always be mentioned with Nirvana when it came to 90's rock bands.

Oh, PLEASE. You think those bands aren't as loved or mentioned? Check out this fucking thread. Everyone has their own fave 90s band and of course they will mention them in conversations about 90s rock. People still hold these artists up on a pedestal.

People seem to get off on dead rock stars representing what was so great about a specific time period of music, and I find it very strange.

Like...Layne Staley and Bradley Nowell are over Eddie Vedder and Billy Corgan. :rolleyes

Sure, he ushered it in, he started the craze.

I don't really think he did "usher it in," but don't you think that people who start something always get recognition for it?

But there were other people who were much better songwriters and a lot more unique that did a much better job of representing that. And grunge is the most pretentious word in the book - it's nothing more than the 90's punk movement, so it's not like Kurt Cobain truly invented that.

I don't think Kurt invented "grunge" or the word "grunge." And yeah, there were much better writers around at the time, but I do think Nirvana were "unique."

 

[fallout]

Thanks to the little benefit concert, I dug out a couple old CDs and gave a listen. The music is just so much more tragic now that he's gone.

Someone made mention of the "Greatest Hits CD" being kind of lame. If I remember correctly, it was thrown together because the band was actually still under contract when the condition of Layne really started to slide and was completely unable to do any recording. I tried looking for a transcript of this Ongoing History of New Music episode that had to deal with AiC and mostly the horrific and prolongated end that Layne went through.

For those who don't know, The Ongoing History of New Music is a show that's on EDGE 102 in TO. It's done by Alan Cross and I find it to be about the only thing worth listening to on the station. Although, that's kind of a detriment to how good the show actually is, it's well researched and very informative.