Nirvana

[Togetherly]

I absolutely love Nirvana and Kurt Cobain. Nirvana is my favourite band of all time, but I hear a lot of Christians saying things like Kurt sold his soul to the devil and such. But anyway, does anyone else have an opinion (good or bad) on Nirvana?

 

[Moises]

I looooooooooove nirvana. It sucks though that kurt had his problems with physical pain and drugs. If he didn't have those things he'd still be alive today making some wonderful music.

 

[PaxThroughX]

I absolutely love Nirvana and Kurt Cobain. Nirvana is my favourite band of all time, but I hear a lot of Christians saying things like Kurt sold his soul to the devil and such. But anyway, does anyone else have an opinion (good or bad) on Nirvana?

My fav grudge band of all time!!! ANd heres how I view it. So what if he died of drug over-dose plus suicide. If their were "talented" musicans of christians your talking about they would admire kurt's talents and the contribute he made to music.

 

[SQLservant]

If there was never a Nirvana, I would have been happy.

This is, of course, based on musical taste and not theology, as I love hair metal, and blame them for its decline. Is it justified? I don't know. Is it real? I don't know. But I do know that they exemplify everything I hate about today's rock music.


...But I did like the Smells Like Teen Spirit/Never Gonna Give You Up remix I saw on Youtube. DJ Morgoth, I think, was the artist's name.

 

[Thunder Peel]

I've never been a fan. I've tried to get into them and just can't see what all the fuss is about.

I can appreciate what they accomplished; that doesn't mean I think all the praise and hype surrounding them is justified. It seems people are really fascinated with them because of the problems that Kurt had and the tragedy that unfolded. It seems to have built up a certain mythology about the group that makes them seem more important than they really were. Just my two cents.

 

[PaxThroughX]

I've never been a fan. I've tried to get into them and just can't see what all the fuss is about.

I can appreciate what they accomplished; that doesn't mean I think all the praise and hype surrounding them is justified. It seems people are really fascinated with them because of the problems that Kurt had and the tragedy that unfolded. It seems to have built up a certain mythology about the group that makes them seem more important than they really were. Just my two cents.

I think its just peoples taste in music, atleast speaking for myself. I also love metal, but alot of people love to bash on it. So I think it has more to deal with just peoples music likes. They are however beening re-recongized which I think is [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse]. People know who the band is all the sudden makes me want to go to the mainstream stations and hire a hitman or something.

 

[PaxThroughX]

If there was never a Nirvana, I would have been happy.

This is, of course, based on musical taste and not theology, as I love hair metal, and blame them for its decline. Is it justified? I don't know. Is it real? I don't know. But I do know that they exemplify everything I hate about today's rock music.


...But I did like the Smells Like Teen Spirit/Never Gonna Give You Up remix I saw on Youtube. DJ Morgoth, I think, was the artist's name.

What do you think of todays metal? Do you think it makes the "old metalheads" ashamed of this genreations metalheads? jc?

I have to agree, todays rock music sucks rlly bad. Of course the underground seems to be the way to go now a days

 

[Christophercbm]

...But I did like the Smells Like Teen Spirit/Never Gonna Give You Up remix I saw on Youtube. DJ Morgoth, I think, was the artist's name.

I looked that up on youtube and cant believe how well those two songs blended lol.

I dont listen to much secular music anymore, but when I was a teenager I was real big into Nirvana, but hearing it now, the lyrics seem childish and dont make any sense half the time.

 

[SQLservant]

What do you think of todays metal? Do you think it makes the "old metalheads" ashamed of this genreations metalheads? jc?

I have to agree, todays rock music sucks rlly bad. Of course the underground seems to be the way to go now a days

I confess, I don't know many self-proclaimed metalheads, and I'm not that old myself, so I can't answer very well on that!

 

[PaxThroughX]

I confess, I don't know many self-proclaimed metalheads, and I'm not that old myself, so I can't answer very well on that!

Your right, excactly my point, it seems to b a hated genre amoung the common

 

[BRERDO]

My life changed when I first saw the Smells Like Teen Spirit video on a monitor in a Montgomery Ward department store.

A couple years ago I was able to get to Settle for work and had some time and took a side trip to Aberdeen and I got to see all of the Nirvana hotspots. Kurt's first home, his first apartment, Krist's house, his mother's salon where they first started practicing, the music store where Kurt's uncle bought him his first guitar and of course Young Street bridge where Kurt lived when he was homeless. It has become a shrine to him and they have installed a monument there to him.

It was a great trip and it kind of let me go full circle with my connection to the band. Completely fantastic visit to the city.

 

[BRERDO]

Here I will share a few of my photos: (forgive me)

1210 E. First St. -- Kurt's childhood home.

404 N. Michigan St -- Kurt's first apartment. He moved in here shortly after his 18th birthday.

1120 Fairfield St. -- Krist Novoselic's childhood home

107 S. M St. -- Krist's mom's salon. Nirvana started practicing in the one-story room on the left.

408 W. First St. -- After living homeless under the Young Street Bridge, Kurt was found and invited to stay in this garage to get back on his feet.

1000 1/2 E. Second St. -- Kurt bought this house in his 19th year and lived there until Nirvana became Nirvana.

Monument installed near the Young Street Bridge in honor of Kurt, which is now known as Riverfront Park:

Something was written under the bridge, among the scratched notes, blasts of paint and unreadable memories, that really, finally spelled out what the message and music and words of Kurt and Nirvana meant to me...

 

[Thunder Peel]

I got to see his guitar and some random items at the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame a couple months back. Even though I'm not a fan, it was neat to see all of it in person.

 

[PaxThroughX]

Here I will share a few of my photos: (forgive me)

1210 E. First St. -- Kurt's childhood home.

404 N. Michigan St -- Kurt's first apartment. He moved in here shortly after his 18th birthday.

1120 Fairfield St. -- Krist Novoselic's childhood home

107 S. M St. -- Krist's mom's salon. Nirvana started practicing in the one-story room on the left.

408 W. First St. -- After living homeless under the Young Street Bridge, Kurt was found and invited to stay in this garage to get back on his feet.

1000 1/2 E. Second St. -- Kurt bought this house in his 19th year and lived there until Nirvana became Nirvana.

Monument installed near the Young Street Bridge in honor of Kurt, which is now known as Riverfront Park:

Something was written under the bridge, among the scratched notes, blasts of paint and unreadable memories, that really, finally spelled out what the message and music and words of Kurt and Nirvana meant to me...

wow thats awesome!

 

[Togetherly]

My life changed when I first saw the Smells Like Teen Spirit video on a monitor in a Montgomery Ward department store.

A couple years ago I was able to get to Settle for work and had some time and took a side trip to Aberdeen and I got to see all of the Nirvana hotspots. Kurt's first home, his first apartment, Krist's house, his mother's salon where they first started practicing, the music store where Kurt's uncle bought him his first guitar and of course Young Street bridge where Kurt lived when he was homeless. It has become a shrine to him and they have installed a monument there to him.

It was a great trip and it kind of let me go full circle with my connection to the band. Completely fantastic visit to the city.

Amazing! In 2004, on the 10th anniversary of Kurt's death I went all the way to Seattle from England to be at the vigil outside his last house. Was really sad.

 

[BRERDO]

I was hoping to make that trip, myself. I was doing schoolwork when Kurt Loder came onto MTV and broke the news back in the day. That will forever be my "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" moment. That is cool you got to make the trip. I bet it was an incredible scene. I remember watching the coverage.

 

[ILWJ]

Read this article and you'll be blown away. I used to listen to Nirvana several years ago and so I know it's hard to digest.

Kurt Cobain: Satan Worshipper!

 

[seashale76]

Nirvana helped define my teen angst. I don't think some people realize just how defining bands like Nirvana were. I honestly don't see any modern comparisons to what the music scene was back then. Or, perhaps I'm just looking at everything through the lens of nostalgia.

Granted, I was always a much bigger fan of Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, and Ministry, but Nirvana always had a special place on all the mix tapes I made. The 90s had some seriously awesome music.

This was always my favorite Nirvana song:
Nirvana - Lithium - YouTube

 

[BRERDO]

My favorite is Drain You...

"One baby to another said I'm lucky to have met you."

Great opening line.

Read this article and you'll be blown away. I used to listen to Nirvana several years ago and so I know it's hard to digest.

Kurt Cobain: Satan Worshipper!

I think I have read that before.. While it has a lot of points that are validated nicely with reference points, a lot is left out or misinterpreted. It doesn't matter to me if he was who he was. He was not pretending to be anyone other than himself. To me that was one of the appealing things I could relate to. You need to remember what was going on back then in pop culture and what influenced kids and the slowing aging Generation X. Of course he was into some questionable personal things but who am I to tell anyone what they do is right or wrong. I can form my own opinion and try and guide them but inevitably it is up to that person to change their own ways. That is the free will of man that God has instilled upon us. I, personally, have never been able to relate to a figure more than what his message brought to me and my generation. The things he wrote and feelings of abandonment and the life of disarray he lived was something I knew and the mental issues and personal struggles he had let me believe... Hey, you know what? I get it now. This is who I am and I can work with this.

We have priests molesting kids, a well received and popular televangelist using donations to fund diamond mining in Africa, felons being put into prison for embezzlement on their ministries only to get out and reopen their ministry and people still donate like nothing happened. This world is not perfect and neither was Kurt Cobain and neither am I.

 

[Mr Mojo Risen]

@ILWJ

Looked, if your not saved, your controlled by something else. you can draw from it what you will. these pastors who write these articles who scare you away from rock music has no biblical basis for it whatsoever. We read books from authors who are not saved, watch ball games from people who are not saved, etc. Nothing says in Scripture that rock music is bad. All music is neutral in my opinion. What your heart is worshiping is what is important to God. BTW, I listen to rock(grunge mostly) and gospel, traditional and ccm.

Psalm 150:1 Praise the Lord!
Praise God in his sanctuary;
praise him in his mighty heaven!
2 Praise him for his mighty works;
praise his unequaled greatness!
3 Praise him with a blast of the ram’s horn;
praise him with the lyre and harp!
4 Praise him with the tambourine and dancing;
praise him with strings and flutes!
5 Praise him with a clash of cymbals;
praise him with loud clanging cymbals.
6 Let everything that breathes sing praises to the Lord!
Praise the Lord!

Brerdo, Drain you is my fav Nirvana song too!