[Closed] Nirvana - Grunge Content

Maybe it's cool to knock Nevermind these days, but the impact it had at the time was huge. It brought this new grunge thing to a mass audience and kicked the somewhat stale rock scene of the early 90s up the arse. I still remember the first time I saw the SMTS video, blew my mind.

But is Nevermind worth listening to over BadMotorFinger or Dirt?

it's worth listening to

An album that opens with smells, then In Bloom, and then Come as you are, is definately worth listening to

I've got Mad Season on at the moment, can't beat a bit of Layne Staley's voice.

I'll give Nevermind a listen then.

I've got Mad Season on at the moment,

"wake up" is a fantastic song, shame they're all dead smack heads

Just to make you feel old, I was born in the same year it was released 😆

come as you are, is direct rip off from killing joke's eighties. Nirvana were being sued until someone deepthroated a 12 bore

There was an interesting episode of the culture show I think called No Nirvana which had some great bands featured. Pearl Jam did a version of Alive that I think has never been bettered, its just a cracking version with some stunning guitar work. I had it on VHS but alas it's vanished!

Tazzy, i just Spotified that track!

Oh MY GOSH!!!!

that's so blatant

funnily enough dave grohl played drums with killing joke post nirvana as well

just listening to in utero now. Absolutley amazing. As they all are...

*goes off to re-tune guitar to drop D...*

Love Alice in Chains and Soundgarden, but was never a Nirvana fan.

Just listening to In Bloom now. It's a canny tune like.

I rather liked this album as well

I'll get me coat 😳

[i]come as you are, is direct rip off from killing joke's eighties[/i]

which in turn was allegedly heavily based on Life Goes On from The Damned's Strawberries album...

make your own minds up...

nothing wrong with hole.

Exactly.

I'm always keen to find new stuff.

If you like Dinosaur Jr, I just got J. Mascis new album - loved the first couple of listens. Hope it keeps growing.
Also check out Sebadoh, and Lou Barlow's more recent solo album.

Other bands in the Grunge/punk/rock area worth a listen are L7, Swervedriver, Paw, Big Black, Shellac, Gas Huffer, Fugazi and Therapy?

FFS this is like reliving my life in the years I was not being a raver 😯
Never rated Nirvana fairly obvious he would do something like he did I thought at the time no big surprise though sad obviously. Not the best of the time but not shite either.
Mud honey christ years since I have heard their name let alone their stuff.

None better.

Nirvana were close for me - live and recorded.

Sebadoh - the steel HT of grunge?

Never really rated Nirvana, I bought SLTS as a cd single in Virgin on Sunset, in '93, just to have it, really, but much preferred Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Faith No More, Screaming Trees. Honestly don't know about Chris Cornell trying to sound like Plant, you could say the same about Mike Patton, the fact is they're all white guys with big voices fronting loud bands. I like Zeppelin, and I've seen them, and all the others I mentioned; I think the best singers are Patton and Mark Lanegan.
Once saw some lad at a gig with a tee with Cobain's pic on, and a caption that said;
“Kurt Cobain's dead? Nevermind.” nearly peed myself laughing.

I managed to ignore Nirvana right the way through the whole [i]Nevermind[/i] phase. Then I joined one of those awful CD clubs where you got the first six CDs free and they rape you for ever after.

All they had was the best of this, that and the other crap band, songs for driving, rock anthems and the like. But they did have [i]Bleach[/i].

I'll never forget the first listen - hot, sunny Summer's day (rare in Aberdeen). My parents had made me varnish the window frames in my room so the windows were wide open, the sounds of a suburban Summer drifting up to my teenaged ears.

Bam! Lovebuzz came on and it really was an epiphany - stopped painting, picked up the guitar and learned the whole album from start to finish in the space of a day. Got crapped on by my folks when they came home and found me unable to stand up, having spent eight hours straight kneeling in front of my amp, the windows unvarnished and a motley crew of small children under the window, some cheering, others shouting swear words.

Bliss.

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I was always int the crustier side though. BTTP, Citizen Fish/Culture Shock, Senser, RDF, Blyth Power etc so grunge probably not aimed at me.

and this, which brings back a lot of memories:

And as for Nirvana, it's like the Beatles:
Saying you don't like them is just a cry for help - everyone loves them really. 😀
'Unplugged' is the best album for me.

But is Nevermind worth listening to over BadMotorFinger or Dirt?

2 of my most favourite albums! .... Mmmmm going to stick rusty cage on loud tomorrow morning!

for old crustie types on here

one of the only decent things to come form stoke

Last week Nirvana came on in my car (I think it was In the Pines from Unplugged), as it was playing I drove past a church with a sign outside saying "Come As You Are". Cool, I thought.
Tried to explain it to my boy, but he didn't really get it.

"Come as you are" sounds like "Eighties"?
Someone taking a riff from one song and basing another song on it? Blimey! I bet that's never happened before in the history of rock music!
(eg. in case someone doesn't get the sarcasm)

Mr Soul is better than Satisfaction though. 🙂

Come as You Are is better than Eighties 🙂

Liked the music, they (Kurt) was terrible on 2 of the 3 times I saw them. First he was smacked up, second was drunk, third was late and only did three songs.

I was younger then, so I was less irate. These days if you pay to see a band I want somet for my money. Being able to say I saw them three times to 'grommets with kurt t-shirts born post 1990' is all I can add. Fast forward to seeing the Foo fighters at the first t in the park, huge improvement in performance 😉

Still like nevermind... where's my docs and long hair gone?

Foo Fighters? *Spit*

Didn't say I liked the FF, *spit* offered back 😉 was just a comparison

Fairymuff 🙂

I'm never really sure why Incesticide is overlooked. My favourite Nirvana album by far. This is just fantastic

Good to see Swervedriver mentioned above. A closely related band Skyscraper are also too often overlooked

....that's Aneurysm above if anyone wants to embed it properly for me. Why can't I get it to work?

In an Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel is one of my favourite albums. It's super good.

Another Incesticide fan here, probably my most listened to Nirvana album.

I too remember the 1st listen to Bleach. Parents out. Secretly using Dad's stereo. Playing About a Girl about 57 times. Complaints from neighbours when folks got home.

Foos' 1st album is great, however every album since has sounded exactly the same as each other. I like the White Limo track from the new one though.

Love Soundgarden and Pearl Jam, never got into Alice in Chains though.

Nice to see a mention of the shockingly overlooked Therapy?. Without getting into a High Fidelity list situation, they'd be in my top 5 bands.

EDIT: For whippersnapper

Incesticide - probably because it's a compilation.

[i]A closely related band Skyscraper are also too often overlooked[/i] They were good. (Previously called Milk too) I've got most of their stuff.
They played to about 20 people in my local venue and the bassist walked off because of the apathy of the crowd, most of whom were sitting on the floor. The singer asked for someone to take over, but just as I stepped on stage the bassist re-appeared. Bugger!

A compilation yes, but not in the typical sense. As in most of the tracks aren't on their other albums.

thanks for the video Verses, what am I doing wrong?

....it was an official compilation, not like the many bootleg Nirvana compilations. Still, some of them have some amazing tracks as well, D7 being one of them (i'd link that too if I had any skills)

I just copied the address from the browser's address bar when watching the video normally on YouTube.

I think you'd tried to be [i]too[/i] clever by grabbing an embedded address from somewhere.

bleach is excellent.

much more excellent than the rest.

but you need nevermind in your cd collection to keep the old student indy kids happy at parties. its so lame.