1- A desperate attempt to seem cool by holding an opinion that is contrary to everyone elses.

2- Written by someone who does not have a broad knowledge of music.

To be able to blog about music you have to actually listen to it, pay attention to it’s current trends and understand that those trends arose from what came before.

There is simply no way that you can justify the claim that ‘nirvana were not influential’. Liking their music is a different matter, that’s subjective. I for instance love this band and always will, for many reasons. You may not, but simply ignoring facts is ignorant.

For a band like Nirvana to sell so many records, attain the success that they did and have an affect on society/other artists is incredible. Nothing like it had happened before. Their success flipped the music industry norms around and changed almost everything about the business of music.

I would go so far as to say that if Nirvana (And all of the bands that moulded and formed them and their scene/environment) (Sonic Youth, Mudhoney, Soundgarden, Melvins, etc etc etc) had not happened then 80% of the bands making rock music today would not exist. Their influence and the influence of the other bands of that time shaped music and the business of music then, and it shapes it now.

Just like Led Zepplin, or Sabbath, or The Beatles. (And countless others) Nirvana took everyone by surprise and they DID change things.

Subjective opinions aside you cannot deny that, and it’s stupid to try.

Lastly, your writing is awful. I can’t believe people read this blog when you write so terribly. Your command of english and grammar is fucking shocking.

Later poes….

TOTALLY AGREE – plus the Replacements did it better in the 80’s.

because if not, this article is horrendous and the author should leave the internet never to return.

You know genius lyrics when you hear it, anyone could have come up wtih the easy chord structures, but the lyrics are a punch to the soul, a shot of life, and make you want to start something new.

These sounds were going through kurts head in 1989, and only now do we listen to that stuff.

Also back then people didn’t listen to anything but hair metal and country. Nirvana won the battle because they changed music radio. While you probably wouldnt have heard of eminem or your favorite punk bands now if it wasn’t for nirvana.

Living spirit of Nirvana is still in Flipper, that aging art-punk band Novoselic played in for awhile. Closest I could find…Foo Fighters concert is nice but ain’t the same….

Flipper’ll be on warped tour, so go say hi and get drunk with them and they will teach your altmind how it used to be, what it still ‘could’ be. They kick ‘ironically authentic’ music’s ass – after all these years, their priority is still pissing people off but ‘expressing’ themselves.

Nirvana’s body died, and their friends were bands like Flipper, they made an effort to host part of the spirit and keep it safe so it didn’t get neglected and die like a sad brown child.

But it’s been fifteen years and now the host bodies are starting to get tired, some are starting to die. Go see them NOW before it fades away.