When talking about the grunge movement, it gets more than a little bit complicated talking about the relationship between Nirvana and Pearl Jam. They were both among the greatest rock and roll bands of their time, but whenever Cobain talked about them in interviews, you would have sworn that he was one of their biggest […]
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Grunge was a decidedly American phenomenon. It captured the harsh life in Seattle that many of its progenitors were facing. The genre itself is one born from massacres, miserable weather, and being washed up on an influx of drugs. As punk waned when the 1980s arrived, it was time for something new to reflect the […]
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There’s practically nothing that Kurt Cobain and Axl Rose ever saw eye-to-eye on. Both of them certainly loved the rock and roll music that they played every single time they performed live, but each of them was coming from a completely different angle whenever they put their emotions down on record. Cobain was the one […]
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Kurt Cobain never claimed to have the most pop-friendly record collection in the world. He had a lot of great pieces in his back catalogue that he would pull from when writing Nirvana’s greatest tunes, but he was far more accustomed to making mixtapes of bands that no one would have ever heard of. Not […]
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It’s impossible for anyone to think along the lines of The Beatles. As much as some people like the idea of trying to find that one group of guys that sound like they could take over the world, it’s not something that anyone could have ever dreamed up in a lab when talking about the […]
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At the height of the 1980s hair metal movement, Kurt Cobain seemed like the last person to dethrone the poodle-haired legends. This was the kind of guy that seemed way too cool for school whenever he even tried to enjoy bands like Van Halen, and yet as soon as he arrived on MTV, decked out […]
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While he may have only graced the planet for a tragically short amount of time, it’s evident that, despite having been gone for over 30 years that the impression Kurt Cobain left behind on rock music is still being felt to this day. Despite grunge having emerged from Seattle and its surrounding cities in the […]
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It’s hard to really gauge the kind of legacy that Kurt Cobain wanted to leave behind in Nirvana. He may have been proud to have touched a nerve whenever he worked on his records, but no one would have looked at someone that openly resented how his own records sounded and say that he was […]
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Kurt Cobain was never coy about his influences. In fact, the Nirvana frontman would often ascribe his finest moments to the inspirational heroes of music’s underground and pop heights. Their ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ breakthrough was downplayed as merely “ripping off” Pixies’ quiet-loud verse-chorus songcraft, ‘About a Girl’ was said to have been penned after […]
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When a band ceases activity prematurely, regardless of the reason why, if there’s enough of a fanbase around them, they’ll begin to create their own mythologies of what could have been had they been able to continue. One of the greatest examples of this is Nirvana, who were forced to separate after the loss of […]
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