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Now you hold on a second. Cobain's musical contribution is absolutely not relevant. What exactly are we observing? The tenth anniversary of Cobain's death. That's what the bloody article you posted is about. NOT his music.

Don't even. The article is not in the slightest bit about Cobain's death. It is written to commorate the 10th anniversary of his death. It is about his life and how his music has come to be appreciated since then.

Your conscience may be bothering you because you rudely disturbed and then attacked a recent widow, and gave the rest of us NYers a bad name, but I can assure you that the nature and the details of Cobain's death are not mentioned in the article. Even in passing. You are projecting your own disapproval of the band's music. Again.

Got that? I didn't think so.

I remember the first time I heard "Smells Like.." on the radio. It was in between MC Hammer and some hair band crap. I thought it was alright. I never really got into the whole Nirvana thing, because as I got more into music I realised that mainstream music in the 90s totally sucked, and that there were so many badass bands from the late 60's to the mid 80s who wrote and performed stuff that would have made Nirvana sound like the overhyped crap that it is in comparison.

The more I think about Nirvana, the more I am convinced that Dave Grohl was the real brains of the operation from behind the drums. What is Krist Novoselic doing nowadays? Krist who? Exactly.

Dave Grohl playing with Queens Of The Stone Age, June 2002

Since you are obviously too stupid to read your own article, allow me to point out how full of crap you are:

Spin magazine was the first by my observation to put the very dead Kurt Cobain on its April cover to mark the tenth anniversary of his suicide, on 05 April 1994 (his body was found on 08 April). Though he’s nearly twenty-five in this picture, he looks all of seventeen and decidedly sober, one of those rarities. It’s hard to say how often Cobain was photographed sober, but since his death very few publications have thought to publish a decent photo of the man, for fear of not portraying him as a tragic figure.

But at least we have tragic texts. “Kurt Cobain was many things while he was alive – punk, pop star, hero, victim, junkie, feminist, geek avenger, wiseass. But ten years after his death, he’s something else entirely. He’s a ghost [emphasis original] …. [The] bitter finality of Cobain’s end became an indelible part of his story …. No other chapter in pop music history has so much darkness at its center. And no other artist still haunts us in such a powerful, subliminal way.” And so forth.

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You are projecting your own disapproval of the band's music. Again.

Horsehockey. I am not talking about Kurt Cobain's music because quite frankly I could care less about his music. I am talking about Kurt Cobain, the man who committed suicide. And I have made that position quite clear from the word go.

Your conscience may be bothering you because you rudely disturbed and then attacked a recent widow,

Now that's just flat Barbra Streisand. I did not attack anyone's widow. Surely you have better things to do than to be intellectually dishonest and slander people.