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

[uptoolate]

Now that would have been a great show. Only time I saw KISS was on the Animalize tour. W.A.S.P. was their opener. At one point in W.A.S.P.' song 'Love Machine', bass player/singer Blackie Lawless was trying to get a crowd 'answer back' going. At this point in the song only he and the drummer are playing. Then Lawless through up his hands to get the crowd to clap in rythym. Somehow we still heard the bass being played. Laughed my tail off for days.

KISS put on one heck of a show. Wish I had seen them back in the early days. I enjoyed the first three albums more. They were less 'commercial' back then.

[ConservativeStatement]

Nugent was a blast in so many ways. The other time I saw KISS was two summers ago with Poison opening; it was an entertaining show. I never saw WASP live. I did Exodus perform the "Toxic Waltz" live, that was a hoot.

[pissant]

Nirvana stunk.

[Keltik]

Kurt was Generation X's John Lennon.
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"Kurt Cobain -- the spokesman for a generation with nothing to say." -- P.J. O'Rourke

[VU4G10]

Rap makes you wanna kill people

Grunge makes you wanna KILL YOURSELF

and it sucks..

[zipper]

Nirvana's "Nevermind" is probably the best album of the 90's. Notice all the other albums were released before "Nevermind".

I don't agree much with the politics of Rolling Stone, and I won't buy their magazine, but they do know a lot about music.

I'm still looking for the, uh -- who was that again? the "Food Fighters" :)


Nirvana's The Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time

1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles

2. Pet Sounds, The Beach Boys

3. Revolver, The Beatles

4. Highway 61 Revisited, Bob Dylan

5. Rubber Soul, The Beatles

6. What's Going On, Marvin Gaye

7. Exile on Main Street, The Rolling Stones

8. London Calling, The Clash

9. Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan

10. The Beatles ("The White Album"), The Beatles

11. The Sun Sessions, Elvis Presley

12. Kind of Blue, Miles Davis

13. Velvet Underground and Nico, The Velvet Underground

14. Abbey Road, The Beatles

15. Are You Experienced?, The Jimi Hendrix Experience

16. Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan

17. Nevermind, Nirvana

Total album sales: 7,918,000

Peak chart position: 1

"...Cobain was a pop lover at heart -- and a Beatlemaniac: Nevermind co-producer Butch Vig remembers hearing Cobain play John Lennon's "Julia" at sessions."

[LexBaird]

...but it doesn't prove that those bands were anything less than brilliant or revolutionary.

They weren't, unless by revolutionary you mean coming around again on the cycle. Cacophony, pseudo-deep lyrics and incoherent vocalizations are just another pendulum swing that each generation thinks it has discovered.

Oooh, let's shock the Establishment, man. We'll call it jazz/beat/psychedelic/acid/punk/deathmetal/grunge/gangsta.

[MitchellC]

I'm not completely disagreeing with you. Those bands largely rearranged what great bands before them had done, as had those bands, going back. By brilliant I meant they were great songwriters, and by revolutionary I meant they forced a sharp change. If you hate it, then oh well.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

couldn't agree more.

A total sellout and their music was pop fluff by the time they made it big. He killed himself because he became everything his image was supposed to be against.

He and that talentless wife were completely overated. I was living here in Seattle when the whole grunge thing went down. Quickly turned into a total joke.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Absolutely. AIC and Soundgarden were the ones worth a damn.

Mother Love Bone was a 100 times better band that Pearl Jam.

The only thing Nirvana did what was worth anything was the Bleach album.

[zipper]

The biggest shocker of all is still Elvis.

[KevinB]

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[ryan71]

I find all their music dark and depressing.

Cobain is successful because the media thinks it's glamorous to kill yourself.

[dfwgator]

Nirvana's 'Nevermind' was the musical equivalent of the 1980 election

Actually I compare it to "Get The Knack" in the middle of the disco-era. Suddenly all the disco people started to wear sneakers and thin ties.

[ChildOfThe60s]

One time shot because of that sale.

Let's see how he's doing 35 years from now........

[streetpreacher]

I never heard any of their stuff after the black album.

[himno hero]

and there were less people on the planet, a planet on which he had far, far greater penetration.

better get a womans comment on that!

and then those 1962 Elvis dollars probably bought twice as much as a Cobain dollar (let alone 1962 panties were 15 times larger than a string)

and yes there is the longevity factor.
like Nixon elvis was always out surfing that crest.... for OVER thirty years. Nixon had what 53(?) years as a rocker?

No way that he competes with the King

[dfwgator]

"Let me tell you something. We need a two and a half hour movie about the Doors? Folks, no we don't. I can sum it up for you in five seconds, ok. 'I'm drunk. I'm nobody. I'm drunk. I'm famous. I'm drunk. I'm f'ing dead.' There's the whole movie, ok!? 'Big Fat Dead Guy in a Bath Tub', there's your title for you." - Dennis Leary

[himno hero]

really not relevant... it says something, but its not that meaningful. Sure it compares 2006 dollars and activity for 2006. Its also misleading

NEWS FLASH!!!!! Elvis has been dead for 30 years.

Its kinda like comparing a model t ford to a horse. sure they were both transportation but a lot happens in 30 years.

Elvis' lifetime earnings?? Elvis's market penetration?? Elvis residuals?? Elvis's lifetimes earnings equated to 2006 dollars? His estate earnings? residuals? His future? I know - flippin @ Wendys.

I am sure once one looks at theses other factors,,,,,, the King will still be the King and characters like Cobain might be contenders, weak ones.

[napscoordinator]

Don't like good music...went to a "horrible" school...yieks. We are completely opposite. lol. Well except for the most important thing politics.