Kurt Cobain died 20 years ago today

ceadaoin. · 05-04-2014 02:46AM #1

I still find it hard to grasp that the 90s was 20 years ago! I was a bit obsessed with him and nirvana as a teenager but only got into them a year or so after he died so I don't remember his death at all. Strangely I do remember watching the news about Ayrton Senna dying which was the same year. I remember a few years later a friend of my mams saying he still had his ticket for the nirvana gig in Ireland that they never got to play. Wonder if he still has it

Anyone here majorly upset when he died?

jacksie66 · 05-04-2014 02:49AM

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Tokyo · 05-04-2014 02:50AM

I was pretty mind blown....

ballsymchugh · 05-04-2014 02:51AM

i find it hard to accept that there are grown adults who were born after italia 90.

fergiesfolly · 05-04-2014 02:56AM

His death seemed almost inevitable.
The spiral downwards was as public as it was heartbreaking.
He left a huge legacy. Hope the joy he bought millions was of some, if not enough comfort to him.

Jonny Blaze · 05-04-2014 02:59AM

Yeah I remember being shocked pretty badly alright. Loved them at the time.

Wonder what he would have made of the music industry today...

05-04-2014 03:02AM

It wasn't until a couple of years later that I really copped it tbh.

20 years though. Bloody hell.

rockbeast · 05-04-2014 03:09AM

This

and Heart-Shaped Box were their best songs IMO

donegal__road · 05-04-2014 03:09AM

Nirvana played in Sir Henrys of Cork in 1991 before they sky-rocketed. They were playing support to Sonic Youth.

This article was in today's Irish Examiner to commemorate Kurt Cobain on his anniversary.

That stroll on a sunny day in Cork obviously left its mark on the 22-year-old Grohl. In 2011, he told journalist Ed Power: “My mother has Irish ancestry. That was my first time in Ireland. I remember waking up in the morning, walking around Cork. I ran back to my hotel room and called my mother — ‘Mom, all the women look like you’!”

Meanwhile, Cobain had also been moved by his own time on Leeside. Some researchers say his ancestors were Cobanes from Co Antrim, but the singer himself reckoned his people were Coburns from the south. He told the Observer in 1993: “They came from County Cork, which is a really weird coincidence, because when we toured Ireland we played in Cork and the entire day I walked around in a daze. I’d never felt more spiritual in my life. It was the weirdest feeling and I have a friend who was with me who could testify to this. I was almost in tears the whole day. Since that tour, which was about two years ago, I’ve had a sense that I was from Ireland.”

There is also a 45 minute Youtube link of them playing Sir Henrys in that article.

orangesoda · 05-04-2014 03:10AM

I hate Nirvana
I'm sure Besty McD loves them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFAbDV3mcrI

ceadaoin. · 05-04-2014 03:12AM

Jonny Blaze wrote: »

Yeah I remember being shocked pretty badly alright. Loved them at the time.

Wonder what he would have made of the music industry today...

Well he seemed pretty disillusioned with the industry even back then. Apparently Courtney Love is planning a musical based on his life and featuring nirvana songs. I thought it might be an April fools joke but I don't think it is. That is definitely something that he wouldn't have wanted I'm sure

poundapunnet · 05-04-2014 03:12AM

I was five but I actually remember it because my parents played that Unplugged album constantly in the aftermath. I didn't understand what had happened or anything, but I did understand that I was mighty sick of that album.

Serves them right that ten years later I was blasting Bleach from behind my slammed bedroom door a couple times a week

AllGunsBlazing · 05-04-2014 03:19AM

Biggest mistake he ever made was marrying that woman. He went from being considered as one of the brightest prospects in music for a generation to being one half of the rock star/junkie couple from hell.

Its largely forgotten now but they were considered to be a bit of a sick joke by the end of '92.

Augmerson · 05-04-2014 03:22AM

AllGunsBlazing wrote: »

Biggest mistake he ever made was marrying that woman. He went from being considered as one of the brightest prospects in music for a generation to being one half of the rock star/junkie couple from hell.

Its largely forgotten now but they were considered to be a bit of a sick joke by the end of '92.

There are some who believe yer wan had him killed.

rockbeast · 05-04-2014 03:22AM

ceadaoin. wrote: »

Well he seemed pretty disillusioned with the industry even back then. Apparently Courtney Love is planning a musical based on his life and featuring nirvana songs. I thought it might be an April fools joke but I don't think it is. That is definitely something that he wouldn't have wanted I'm sure

Aw, bet he'd have loved that:o

Cnut

...her, not you...

KungPao · 05-04-2014 03:22AM

for the death

for the music. 6 years older now than Kurt was when he died, still in awe of his stuff.

A raw, scruffy genius, the likes we'll probably never see again.

ceadaoin. · 05-04-2014 03:32AM

rockbeast wrote: »

Aw, bet he'd have loved that:o

Cnut

...her, not you...

Yes, she is a nasty piece of work.

KungPao · 05-04-2014 03:32AM

rockbeast wrote: »

This

and Heart-Shaped Box were their best songs IMO

Great tunes. How about Scentless Apprentice? Dave Grohl tune with Kurt providing the polish. Amazing stuff!

Sir Osis of Liver. · 05-04-2014 03:41AM

Watched a documentary where Courtneys father said she did it.

Great singer,junkie scum.

rockbeast · 05-04-2014 03:43AM

KungPao wrote: »

Great tunes. How about Scentless Apprentice? Dave Grohl tune with Kurt providing the polish. Amazing stuff!

Scentless Apprentice:)

What was the name of the book the song was based on?

I'm 34 now and memories of 14 at The Grove(teenage Rock/Metal disco) from 1994 are flashing back at me!:eek:

ceadaoin. · 05-04-2014 03:45AM

rockbeast wrote: »

Scentless Apprentice:)

What was the name of the book the song was based on?

I'm 34 now and memories of 14 at The Grove(teenage Rock/Metal disco) from 1994 are flashing back at me!:eek:

Perfume by Patrick Suskind is the book

rockbeast · 05-04-2014 03:48AM

ceadaoin. wrote: »

Perfume by Patrick Suskind is the book

Yes - Perfume!

Now excuse me whilst I listen to some Grant Lee Buffalo on youtube - my favourite band around that time...

20 years ago? feck

TeddyTedson · 05-04-2014 04:36AM

Kurt will be a musician that I imagine will be remembered after we're all gone. What ever word people want to put behind time, there's no denying he had brilliance inside of him. I regularly listen to Nirvana and while it really shouldn't have musically worked it just did.

RIP

Festy · 05-04-2014 05:01AM

Rosy Posy · 05-04-2014 05:02AM

I remember being the only 'rocker' in a class full of ravers, I still have the oversized ex army combats and the faded and (artfully) torn nirvana smiley face tshirt that I bought in Asha tucked away somewhere. Wore them with scuffed docs, too many metal chains and studs and never brushed my hair. Came home from rollerblading around the central bank to get the news from my mam. Went into my room, played Bleach so that the windows rattled and cried and cried. I get that Courtney was a wagon but I loved Hole back in the day. Rarely listen to it now though though nirvana have stood the test of time even though my musical tastes have changed/broadened dramatically. I have sung 'unplugged' nirvana songs to my kids in their cradles...they probably think they're lullabies!

old_aussie · 05-04-2014 05:06AM

Jeez, that went quick.

I would have said 10 years ago if someone asked me.

They say time goes quicker as you get older.

Badly Drunk Boy · 05-04-2014 06:31AM

donegal__road wrote: »

Nirvana played in Sir Henrys of Cork in 1991 before they sky-rocketed. They were playing support to Sonic Youth.

This article was in today's Irish Examiner to commemorate Kurt Cobain on his anniversary.

There is also a 45 minute Youtube link of them playing Sir Henrys in that article.

I saw them in the Top Hat in Dun Laoghaire the following day (August 21st 1991). Both them and Sonic Youth were great that night. The tickets cost £8. On the way up from Kildare, as we were passing through Templeogue (I think), everything went green as we crashed into the side of a double-decker bus...

--LOS-- · 05-04-2014 07:17AM

well considering I was only 6 at the time I don't remember hearing about his death or anything, I did get into nirvana after that though, read some cobain biographies, still listen the odd time, doesn't get old.

Menas · 05-04-2014 07:24AM

They were due to play dublin on the night he died.

The best entry in the 27 club if you ask me.

Musical genius.
Very cool fella.

But he was troubled, sick and an addict. His life can't have been much fun that last month and he was not able to get the help he needed.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer · 05-04-2014 08:27AM

I was a month shy of my third birthday at the time so it obviously didn't affect me. I loved Nirvana as a teenager though, still give them the odd listen.

Merkin · 05-04-2014 08:39AM

I was absolutely gutted at the time, where on earth has twenty years gone?!:eek:

Kurt Cobain died 20 years ago today

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