EPTNirvana Nevermind [20th anniversary] - Page 3
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oldgregg
New Zealand1176 Posts
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Defacer
Canada5052 Posts
On September 25 2011 01:38 Ninja [X] wrote: Nirvana Nevermind is 20 years old today, September 24!!!  Where were you when Nevermind was released? This is an awkward confession, but I was merely a year and weeks old when this was released. I was lucky to have an awesome father who lived through the period of alternative rock. I grew up with a certain disdain for my generation's music, and my father would always tell me that "in his days, music rocked!". So one day, when I was about 13 years old, I gave it a try. MIND = BLOWN! I mean it was in my father's playlist whenever he worked, but that was the first time I really paid attention to it. Man Kurt Cobain is a music god. I did some research and indeed daddy was right, Cobain/Nirvana is one of the greatest things to happen to music. Bless his soul. I can't say much about the zeitgeist of Nirvana as it is was beyond my generation, but this much I can say, the lyrics is beautiful! It really cuts to the generational anxiety (as I can still see in my dad, especially when he goes in his existential grunge mode sometimes at age 46 now lol). the music is restrained, almost structured, yet at the same time always manages to explode at the right moments. The ebb and tide in "All Apologies" summarizes Nirvana's musical corpus - angry yet contained, violent yet deliberate. It reverberates through "Lithium", "The Man Who Sold the World" (this song! The intro solo still gives me goosebumps occasionally), "Heart Shaped Box", "Smells Like Teen Spirit", and others. Truly, Nirvana was a once in forever event! Where were you when it happened? Are you part of this grunge rock generation? ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Here are excerpts of this event across the internet: 'Nevermind,' 20 Years Later: 20 Reasons Why Nirvana Is Still Awesome http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/09/24/nevermind-20-years-later-20-reasons-why-nirvana-is-still-awesome/ 20 Years of Nevermind (in videos) http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2094454_2094447_2094413,00.html First Listen: Morello, Malkmus, More on Nirvana's 'Nevermind' http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/first-listen-morello-malkmus-more-on-nirvanas-nevermind-20110923 I was 14 I think when this broke. Fuck I'm old. | ||
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RowdierBob
Australia13295 Posts
Best song from the album imo: | ||
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popzags
Poland604 Posts
![[image loading]](http://troll.me/images/sad-frog/1990-was-20-years-ago-thumb.jpg) For everyone who loves Nirvana; there is a decent band Unwound that slightly follows apparently dead grunge trend. Commendable release: 'Leaves Turn Inside You'. A song for a proof: + Show Spoiler [Unwound - Summer Freeze] + | ||
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Dali.
New Zealand689 Posts
I wish I listened to more Nirvana. | ||
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bgx
Poland6595 Posts
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askTeivospy
1525 Posts
truly amazing timeless lyrics. especially when cobain goes into repeating what he says 50 times in a row on several occasions. visionary | ||
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Nizaris
Belgium2230 Posts
Shit i miss the days man, was around 10y old or so when it came out. Cobain was my idol until i was 15, my all room was plastered with cobain's face haha. Time to put on the earbuds at work and listen to a little Nirvana. Yes i have 3 albums of Nirvana on my phone  Shit never gets old. | ||
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pi_rate_pir_ate
United States179 Posts
On September 25 2011 08:07 Wrongspeedy wrote: .......... Honestly your post doesn't dignify a response. Nirvana was a band devoted to producing an epic live show, and they happened to play a type of music called "Rock". Thus the term Rock Band. Your really trying to say Megadeath is a rock band and Nirvana isn't................ Megadeath was formed in 1983 which happens to be only 6 years before Nirvana's first album. Kirk Hammet didn't even join Metallica until 1983. What is your point again? Kurt would be the same age as those guys right now if he were alive. Your post makes my head want to explode, and not in the Jack Black good way. It would have been better to not try to respond, but my head also wanted to explode. | ||
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Omnipresent
United States871 Posts
On September 26 2011 17:52 Nizaris wrote: Thx for making me feel really old. Shit i miss the days man, was around 10y old or so when it came out. Cobain was my idol until i was 15, my all room was plastered with cobain's face haha. Time to put on the earbuds at work and listen to a little Nirvana. Yes i have 3 albums of Nirvana on my phone Shit never gets old.Nevermind's 20th Anniversary or: How old do you feel today? | ||
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MasterFischer
Denmark836 Posts
But I started listening to nirvana even at the age of 8-9 years old... I remember everything... my brother taught me everything i know about rock music and nirvana, he was the one who got me into liking rock in the first place... today i play the guitar myself, and listen mostly to rock music.. Nirvana was and still is the core of what music means to me. Freedom. Expression of self. Art. Simplicity. Doesn't matter how Kurt lived his life, or how troubled nirvanas past was.. what matters was and IS the fucking music, nothing else. And the music stays fresh now as it did 20 years ago.. THAT'S A TESTIMENT to GRANDEUR if I ever saw one. Timeless music is what makes it great and relateable. Kurt had a perfect ear for rhythms, simplicity of what goes great together. ALL nirvana songs are earhangers, virtually every single one, and you can't help feel to sing along with them and identify with them.. THAT'S MUSIC TALENT YOU CAN'T BUY kids.... that's art.. And let's not even start deconstructing his talents of writing lyrical ART. To this day, I have yet to read any other artist that come even close to the brilliance of kurt's writing, even IF they are just mostly garbage and garbble thrown together from poems and what not.. they still FIT together, and that's the beauty.. they connotate meaning... Each nirvana song can be interpreted the way YOU want, the way it makes YOU feel, and that is pure brilliance on their part, especially kurts. I love you Kurt, Dave and Krist, And I miss you guys... <3 | ||
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OrchidThief
Denmark2298 Posts
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iba001
Australia156 Posts
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Nizaris
Belgium2230 Posts
On September 26 2011 18:08 OrchidThief wrote: Was seven years old when it was released, didn't hear it until much later though. It's such an amazing album. Cover is brilliant, I mean a baby fresh out the womb and already being greedy, few album covers ever get near that kind of statement. the cover is more then that. It's borderline "Anti semitic" since the baby is circumcised, and well that usually means he's a jew. A Jew baby going after money ? sounds pretty stereotypical. I don't think it was very well seen when it came out. pretty epic in my eyes still. | ||
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Filter
Canada620 Posts
Here's my take, Nirvana's going to be the last band to come from nowhere and blowup like that and change so many peoples lives almost overnight. It's impossible for music this good to stay this low now and it's also impossible for music this good to have that much success. There's no such thing as a great record anymore, it's all about the singles not the entire work. When he died the music industry died, there's the odd trickle of great music now but for the most part it's all over. | ||
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MasterFischer
Denmark836 Posts
Just fucking listen to this version of "On A Plain" hauntingly beautiful.... God.. | ||
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PepperoniPiZZa
Sierra Leone1660 Posts
My fav song is them coverering the man who sold the world On a plain is also amazing. | ||
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MasterFischer
Denmark836 Posts
This is from In Utero (Which rivals Nevermind in brilliance) They should really release this concert, MTV LIVE AND LOUD. It's perfect. And a perfect contrast to the unplugged in new york one. | ||
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MasterFischer
Denmark836 Posts
Another fucking EPIC performance, from the same concert. Heart-shaped box is such a beautiful song. | ||
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Phtes
United States370 Posts
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