Nirvana

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(08-30-2015, 09:51 AM)Donnyho Wrote: I have to agree with this, on a basic level. Nirvana (even though they're a good band, not saying they aren't) wrote pop songs. "Nevermind" is one of the best pop albums of all time. And "pop" isn't a dirty word. Cobain took punk and underground 80's rock, ran it through a pop filter and came out with classic songs. I mean, 'Smells Like Teen Spirit" is pretty much (musically) Boston's 'More Than a Feeling':




Also, Kurt Cobain was much better looking than his influences. Here's the Pixies sometime in the late 80's/early 90's. Lead singer Frank Black is in front:


I don't think teenage girls are going to hang his picture on their walls.

Nirvana was the perfect band for the industry to run through the machine. There's nothing wrong with it, but I think that their influence was much more culturally as a whole than musically.

I can buy that.  I'm not even a huge Nirvana fan, I just remember when they came out it was huge.  Now that being said.  Like most artist, it was their less famous work that I was a fan of.

Anyway I was just youtubing around when I came across the paramount concert that I posted.