Nirvana - Genius or Overrated?

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Nirvana - Genius or Overrated?

Postby Manders » Wed Feb 27, 2013 3:56 pm

No poll, let's just discuss it!

Personally, I like Nirvana, but I do not think they are as great as some people do.

I much prefer Smashing Pumpkins, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden to them.

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Postby Shalako » Wed Feb 27, 2013 4:10 pm

Their Best song is a David Bowie Cover.

That really sums it up for me.
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Postby Yannaria » Wed Feb 27, 2013 4:19 pm

I like Nirvanna
I don't think they're a genius band but I like them

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Postby Captain Murphy » Wed Feb 27, 2013 6:36 pm

What Kurt did to the music world is in one of the top 3 biggest impacts regardless, I have 300 Nirvana songs in my library and they are amazing.

Seen pumpkins and soundgarden live, while I agree SP can play their instruments better, lyrically Nirvana was amazing.

The MTV live acoustic show they did is their best stuff ever though.
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Postby Shalako » Wed Feb 27, 2013 6:46 pm

Not even close to the Top 3 Impact on Music.

Where is Grunge Today?
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Postby Shalako » Wed Feb 27, 2013 6:48 pm

Dead just like him.
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Postby Pendulum » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:22 pm

Not even close to the Top 3 Impact on Music.

Where is Grunge Today?
I mean you know that's not how progress works, right?
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Postby Pendulum » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:29 pm

Too morbid to talk about the 27 Club?
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Postby Shalako » Wed Feb 27, 2013 7:33 pm

Too Soon.
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Postby Captain Murphy » Thu Feb 28, 2013 2:42 am

That's exactly my point shalako. He made grunge big and then it died off with him, because he was the best. Nobody has gotten close to a genre creation/destruction like Kurt did.
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Postby Captain Murphy » Thu Feb 28, 2013 2:43 am

Too morbid to talk about the 27 Club?
Hendrix and Janis Joplin were also amazing
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Postby Mcdonalds » Thu Feb 28, 2013 5:59 am

I like them, even if all he/Nirvana did was take what the Pixies/Dinosaur Jr. were doing and present it in a mainstream, digestible fashion.

not genius, but definitely grunge's defining band.

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Postby Tom Servo » Thu Feb 28, 2013 11:24 pm

I don't think of grunge as a genre as much as I think of it as a label based on how the bands looked. It was really just a mostly regional explosion of good alternative rock bands. And I wouldn't really say that Nirvana is over rated as much as I would say that it's not surprising the grunge band most influenced by pop music became the most popular.

I don't think they've one of the top 3 biggest impacts on music. On the 90s? Of course. 2000s? Yeah. But overall? Off the top of my head I think of the first polyphonic compositions, churches starting to accept the use of tritones, and the invention of the six string guitar.
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Postby Tom Servo » Fri Mar 01, 2013 12:31 am

The MTV live acoustic show they did is their best stuff ever though.
That show/album is awesome. For me it's a tossup between unplugged and in utero
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Postby Manders » Sat Mar 02, 2013 2:20 am

The MTV live acoustic show they did is their best stuff ever though.
I couldn't agree with you more. It is, by far, my favorite Nirvana album.
Dead just like him.
Oh, so it was killed by Courtney Love, too?
That's exactly my point shalako. He made grunge big and then it died off with him, because he was the best. Nobody has gotten close to a genre creation/destruction like
Kurt did.
This is true, but I don't think anyone's ever really tried. I think most of the bands that formed since then sought to be seen separately from Nirvana.
Too morbid to talk about the 27 Club?
Hendrix and Janis Joplin were also amazing
Jim Morrison.
'Nuff said.
I don't think of grunge as a genre as much as I think of it as a label based on how the bands looked. It was really just a mostly regional explosion of good alternative
rock bands. And I wouldn't really say that Nirvana is over rated as much as I would say that it's not surprising the grunge band most influenced by pop music became the most popular.

I don't think they've one of the top 3 biggest impacts on music. On the 90s? Of course. 2000s? Yeah. But overall? Off the top of my head I think of the first polyphonic compositions, churches starting to accept the use of tritones, and the invention of the six string guitar.
Yeah, I wouldn't even say The Beatles were one of the top 3 biggest impacts on music, and they made a much bigger impact than Nirvana.
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Postby Captain Murphy » Sat Mar 02, 2013 6:03 am

lol hendrix and Joplin are better than the doors, but I do love them
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Postby Manders » Sat Mar 02, 2013 10:19 pm

lol hendrix and Joplin are better than the doors, but I do love them
Gonna have to agree to disagree, but good thing we both love them all. :D
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Postby Kaitscralt » Sun Mar 03, 2013 3:04 am

Just a good band for their time, nothing special. If he had lived they'd have been quickly obsoleted.
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Postby whitelies » Tue Oct 14, 2014 3:13 pm

great band that brought together a generation. I wouldn't call it musical genius. not even close. charismatic maybe

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Heresy, smite the heretic

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Postby Mcdonalds » Tue Nov 18, 2014 6:06 am

Led Zeppelin is okay at best

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I like Nirvana :) But I prefer Led zeppelin or The Beatles.

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