Originally posted by: tcsenter
You won't get much love on this forum for Kurt Cobain or Nirvana...most of the peeps on this board were not even in puberty when Nirvana was going strong. The have no clue of the impact that Nirvana made on Rock-n-Roll. Nirvana is/was one my all time favorite bands.
Huh?? If anything, you'll find the following generalizations to be much more likely:
- Nirvana's bread and butter fans tended to be much younger than Cobain (not many 25 year olds running around carrying the burdens of "teen angst" to which Nirvana so effectively appealed)
- Nirvana critics tend to be around Cobain's age and older (Cobain was born in 1967)
- AT is well represented by the prime Nirvana age group (12~17 years old at Nirvana's peak)
- Nirvana continued to hold enormous appeal among this age group until Cobain's death in 1994
The reason why many of Nirvana's detractors tend to be Cobain's age or older is that we were listening to the 70s and 80s punk and grunge bands whose music Cobain unceremoniously ripped-off then allowed himself to be credited for without objection, many of whom were from the same Northeast (e.g. Seattle) music scene, which everyone knows was the epicenter of grunge (and punk) years before Nirvana was formed.
And so when Cobain proceeded to criticize other bands in the same genre, as though they were supposed to get permission from Cobain to play grunge, we were able to see Cobain for the junkie fraud that he was. The younger folks couldn't know this because they hadn't heard of grunge before Nirvana, enabling them to believe that Nirvana was some 'innovative' band who 'revolutionized' rock and roll.
Nirvana could be credited for making grunge popular, but 'innovative' or 'revolutionary' they were not.