[ConservativeStatement]

Smells Like Green Spirit.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Kurt was Generation X's John Lennon.

[dfwgator]

Kurt Cobain, most overrated rock star ever.

[Cicero]

Put down that bong and back away from the table slowly.

[doesnt suffer fools gladly]

I'm guessing his widow Courtney Love and his daughter get all this dough?

[KoRn]

I recall going to a party celebrating his death.

[himno hero]

I wonder how they compare once "normalized" for population
and purchasing power of the dollar.

perhaps then there might be a more accurate comparison as to who is the king

[IncPen]

He may be popular but it's nothing to lose your head over

[bigbob]

Come As You Are....even if you're dead.

[gorush]

Boy, I'm getting old...this seems as ridiculous as when Time or Newsweek (or both) did front pages on Bruce Springsteen back in the '70's.

[MitchellC]

Nirvana was one of several bands, the others being Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains, that forced a change for the better on the pop music industry, away from the over-produced trash of the late 70s thru early 90s.

It's no coincidence that all four of those bands were great live acts - love or hate them and their style, they weren't frauds, at least not in the sense of most of the popular acts before them and after them. There hasn't been a single group since that heyday that's half as good as any of those four bands, and there probably won't be for a long time, just as there hadn't been for almost decades before them.

[GOP Poet]

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[blondee123]

Easy to explain, more lefty stoners than ever before!

[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!

[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.

[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.

[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.

[pissant]

Nirvana stunk.

[KevinB]

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