| I sort of want to keep this topic serious just because I think Nirvana deserves more respect than mainstream gossip dictates. Essentially, they are underrated because they are so overrated. Keeping in that light, if your a casual fan who knows a few hits this probably isn't the topic for you. I guess it doesn't really matter though, the band really emphasized not taking their work so seriously and deciding for yourself what parts of their music(songs, or albums) mattered to you personally. My whole point is to just keep the focus on the topic and not jump off to random themes of dialogue. My favorite collective work of Nirvana's would have to be the "With the lights out" box set released by DGC(Interscope, Geffen records) originally in 2001. I got into Nirvana after leaving middle school when one of my friends sent me the mp3 file for "Help me I'm hungry". I listened to the music first time around and was literally BLOWN OFF MY FEET AND ON TO MY ASS. The slow fast slow rhythmn changes, the daunting, confusing, and albeit meaningful lyrics, and the underlying tension in the tone of the song opened my bleak mind to the "true" world of Nirvana. Of course I knew who they were, I'd heard some of their stuff and it was considered "cool" so I had Nevermind on my Ipod, normal stuff. But when I heard this song, I knew I'd been an idiot all my life, I'd been shut out to a whole, real message. I went out and bought the box set and listened to every song on there over the course of a year, just soaking in the different melodies and lyrics. While most of the live, raw, and in your face playbacks were both insightful and mood changing, I found that the striped down acoustic sets were the real treasures. Songs like "They hung him on a cross", "Old Age", and "Marigold" revealed the fear, romanticism, and humor found in Kurt Cobain's lyrics. It just clicked to me, I related to most of it because I could draw certain experiences from songs that hadn't even happened to me yet, but were essentially being told to me by this music. Art is when exaggerations of experience make others realize what their future experiences can and might hold. NIrvana is art, and I will always appreciate what they have done for my life. If anyone is interested in learning more about Nirvana's art, I suggest reading "Nirvana" by Everett True. |
| i posted something bigger but wasent happy with it so i deleted it. but anyways, in utero the best as far as im concerned and one of my all time favorite albums. kurts vocals are amazing, hes easily one of the best singers in the genre. the instrumentation is really as good as it gets too, on point in every way, and a step up from nevermind i think. |
blockhead said: hes easily one of the best singers in the genre. i should mention, i can say this so easily because 90% of singers in metal/heavy rock/alt rock or any of their sub genres are awful. i just listened to nirvana again though, and kurts voice isnt really that great, its his technique that makes him a great vocalist. |
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