Kurt Cobain Leaps Over Elvis to Top Forbes List of Top-Earning Dead Celebrities

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,224682,00.html ^ | October 24, 2006

[ableLight]

Hahhhh, yeeaaahhhh,
Hey, wait, I got a new complaint, forever in debt to your priceless advice...

I wish I was like you, easily amused. If I'm that nasty song, everything is my fault. I'll take all the blame, I proceed from shame. Sunburn, freezer burn, choking on the ashes of a runaway.

Great music, bad heroin addict!

[mamelukesabre]

I was thinking the same thing. There's no way he compares to the king. It just isn't possible. Curt wasn't around long enough to be that big. Although I never went to a Nirvana concert. But I just can't believe he could measure up. There's probably only an age group that spans 6 years that went nuts over Nirvana. Elvis drove them nuts for 15 years and an intense fan base whose ages spanned maybe 35 years.

[MitchellC]

I don't know what you're referring to as "underproduced." There were actually a slew of bands that could play and write, that didn't need studio gimmickery to get by. I think that's to their credit.

As for boy bands etc., backlashes happen. The bands I'm talking about had all (except for one) been long broken up by that point and yet the industry was still riding on their coattails - I guess this left a huge unexploited gap for 9-12 year old girls, but it doesn't prove that those bands were anything less than brilliant or revolutionary.

[A CA Guy]

Smells like his wife's drug habit could be well financed still.

[mysterio]

Nirvana was the end of hair band madness and stagnation. I was 16 when I got my first Nirvana album. It was fabulous.

I think I'm just going to skip over all of the posts on this thread that surely say how lousy everybody thought he was. Probably lots of posts about how whatever music they like is so much more meaningful than his. Well, I probably like that music, too. Have fun kicking a corpse, and get back to me when you start a musical movement and make a 16 year old kid decide that music will be his passion for life.

[MitchellC]

I've never cared for them that much. Had they never put out an album, I don't think it would have had much effect on the music industry - and I could say the same for other 'grunge' bands that I do really like, such as Screaming Trees.

[MitchellC]

And Elvis would've been even bigger if he hadn't wasted all those years making cheesy movies.

[uptoolate]

Nirvana changed rock music...

"Rock" is a pretty broad term. Aerosmith changed "Pop", Metallica changed "Metal", and Nirvana changed "Garage Band" music to "Glorified Garage Band" music.

[MitchellC]

Nirvana was the end of hair band madness and stagnation. I was 16 when I got my first Nirvana album. It was fabulous.

Nirvana's 'Nevermind' was the musical equivalent of the 1980 election. Which makes Motley Crue the equivalent of Jimmy Carter.

[ConservativeStatement]

There are plenty of supporters.

[uptoolate]

"Have fun kicking a corpse"

Hey! No one has said one word about OZZY.

[mysterio]

Thanks, I didn't mean for it to seem I was directing that at you.

[ConservativeStatement]

Not taken that way, no need to apologize. Remember, Republicans are the real party of diverse thought. :-)

[MAD-AS-HELL]

Kurt is spinning in his grave. This is exactly what he didn't want. But Courtney was and is always about money and fame. Why he got involved with that piece of shiite, trailer trash skank is beyond me.

I honestly think Courtney and Kurt's best friend (who got Kurt the rifle he supposedly used to off himself) had something to do with his death.

May Courtney the Kunte rot in hell.

[uptoolate]

Love the Nugent pic and caption in your profile. Did you take the pic yourself?

[MAD-AS-HELL]

ACtually, the real Nirvana..the grunge..never made it to the recording studio when they signed with Geffen. Bleach was a great album....them and Mudhoney were defining Northwest Grunge. I have played songs from Bleach to so called Nirvana fans and they had no idea it was Nirvana. RAdio killed the music star.

[ConservativeStatement]

No, I didn't and thanks. I found it most likely through a Yahoo or Google search. One of my favorite concerts was Nugent/KISS.

[MitchellC]

There's truth to that. The term 'grunge' is actually kind of broad now - seeing as Nirvana, AIC, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden really don't sound all that much alike aside from being relatively heavy - whereas before 'Nevermind,' the term was used in a way that wouldn't have fit some of the bands it was used for afterwards. Some people still insist that AIC isn't "grunge," etc. etc.

I once played the song 'About a Girl' (not the Unplugged one, the one that "most people don't own") for my brother and he thought it was some high school band doing a bad cover. Then again, Dave Grohl did make a big difference.

[Blind Eye Jones]

One thing about Nirvana : they stopped all the taping, sweeping, racking and other assorted guitar pyrotechnics that guitarists use to spend years cultivating. Three chord songs became the norm again.

Oddly, Curt had things in common with Jimi Hendrix: both from Seattle, played left-handed guitar, fronted a three piece band, died at the age of 27 -- partially from drugs -- and both defined a big chunk of the musical scene.

[Blind Eye Jones]

Oh, and both keep releasing material and make more money dead than alive.