17 years ago today...

Penfailed

RIP Kurt Cobain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg

nobby grande

Always kind of dismissed Nirvana as not quite as good as people made out, and less innovative than say the Pixies or early R.E.M. However i have since revised this attitude, They really were excellent and just commercial sounding enough to change everything that came after.
Great musicianship which was only really proved to me following the unplugged session. Great band, sorely missed,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDnIjMNtN9g - one of my favourites.

lordgoat

9 years ago yesterday Arthur Russel died, a much bigger loss imo but hey who is he right?

frag420

Right!!

Lemsiper

lordgoat wrote: »

9 years ago yesterday Arthur Russel died, a much bigger loss imo but hey who is he right?

Ya, yesterday :rolleyes:

I was watching Red Dwarf when I found out

RIP Kurt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oBHEvYAJnY

Nolanger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sD1X7Gp75A

Washington Irving

lordgoat wrote: »

9 years ago yesterday Arthur Russel died, a much bigger loss imo but hey who is he right?

19 years yesterday actually

lordgoat

Saul-Goode9 wrote: »

19 years yesterday actually

Silly lordg forgot the 1!!!

Denalihighway

RIP Kurt

cliche yes...but that music made me pick up a guitar and skip the basics to bar chords so I could rattle out Smells Like Teen Spirit.

It was most certainly the first music that 'moved' me as such emotionally. I remember summer holidays locking myself away in my dad's car and playing a copied cassette of Nevermind over and over. Drain You and Territorial Pissings were ones I particularly looked forward to/fast-forwarded to.

Catchy tunes with dark, dark overtones. A frightfully potent combination. It wasn't like it was groundbreaking or retro either, just brilliant.

pappyodaniel

I remember mitching a day off school after I found out. We stole some alcohol from our respective parents liquor cabinets and lit a big fire up in the woods.

Teen angst and all that.

nobby grande

lordgoat wrote: »

9 years ago yesterday Arthur Russel died, a much bigger loss imo but hey who is he right?

Wow, that's pretty presumptious, even for a moderator. Well aware who Arthur russel is thank you. However this thread was started about Kurt Cobain.

Android 666

nobby grande wrote: »

Wow, that's pretty presumptious, even for a moderator. Well aware who Arthur russel is thank you. However this thread was started about Kurt Cobain.

He said it was in his opinion, nothing presumptuous about that.

And its Arthur Russell with two l's people.

Everybody should read Heavier than Heaven. Helps you appreciate how much of a dipsh¡t the guy was. Great music and all but Jeez Louise what an arsehole.

thebigcheese22

Don't forget Layne Staley, who died on the same day 9 years ago - a far better musician, singer and songwriter. RIP Layne

lordgoat

nobby grande wrote: »

Wow, that's pretty presumptious, even for a moderator. Well aware who Arthur russel is thank you. However this thread was started about Kurt Cobain.

I did not presume anything, i merely mentioned it in passing as there's always a fuss made of KC's death. Also I have no idea what me being a moderator has to do with anything, most of my posts in here are as a user.

But anyways back to the Kurt Cobain remembering...

Android 666

thebigcheese22 wrote: »

Don't forget Layne Staley, who died on the same day 9 years ago - a far better musician, singer and songwriter. RIP Layne

No he wasn't on any of those counts. Jerry Cantrell was the driving force in that band and let's face it beside writing some self pitying lyrics for a couple of songs the only thing your man Layne seemed to be good at was being a dump truck for heroin.

And while Kurt Cobain was just as self pitying at least he knew how to write a good melody or two.

homerun_homer

pappyodaniel wrote: »

I remember mitching a day off school after I found out. We stole some alcohol from our respective parents liquor cabinets and lit a big fire up in the woods.

Teen angst and all that.

It was announced on a Friday night though.

Oh_Noes

homerun_homer wrote: »

It was announced on Friday night though.

I remember it was announced on the Late Late and my dad shouted upstairs at me.

Over-rated as a singer/songwriter really but still a really talented guy.

delly

Poor old Kurt, I still have the tickets to the gig he was meant to be playing at the time of his death. I remember the day heading into town to get them and thankfully succeeded thanks to the Sound Celler on Nassau St. Good times.

nobby grande

lordgoat wrote: »

I did not presume anything, i merely mentioned it in passing as there's always a fuss made of KC's death. Also I have no idea what me being a moderator has to do with anything, most of my posts in here are as a user.

But anyways back to the Kurt Cobain remembering...

There is always a fuss made, because Kurt Cobain quite obviously made a huge impression on his generation. Now don't get me wrong, i haven't listened to a nirvana album since the 90's but i can see why people appreciate his music.
As far as popping up in a thread dedicated to a fairly commercial indie icon and name checking an avant garde experimental musician and asking, yeh but "who is he right?", this implies you know Arthur Russell is and i don't, the "imo" came before that comment.
I also appreciate that maybe you didn't mean to come across as presumptious, but you did so that's how i took it. As far as the relevance to being a moderator, you obviously aren't that pushed on good old Kurt, so why interject with a non-relevant post on an unrelated matter?

pappyodaniel

homerun_homer wrote: »

It was announced on a Friday night though.

Well I didn't hear about it until Sunday then.