Cobain always came up with really interesting melodies. It made a new generation realize that a few guys with basic instruments and little to no professional help, could take over the musical world. That band made me want to learn guitar. Kurt was getting so good; I wish he were still around.
It's weird. I was just 30 when grunge hit, so didn't really "get it" and it passed me by. Then corona hit, I was working at home, and re-discovered all that I'd missed with grunge the first time around. I'm STILL discovering "new" artists from that era. But I discovered "Something in the Way" and became _obsessed_ with that song. The lyrics are...strange, to say the least, but it's such a dreamy, emo-y, heart wrenching song! Once it gets under your skin, it never leaves. Love it so much!
So if you were 3o when grunge started in the very early 1990's, this would put you in your early 60s now. I was 21 in 1991, when grunge more or less got started for real. Grunge existed before 1991. 1991 was just the release of nevermind. Before the official big label release, nirvana was touring and playing live, so the scene existed for at least one year before that. Alice in Chains' Facelift was release a full year before nevermind. This is the start of grunge for me. But, once again, grunge existed before that as alice in chains was a working band prior to facelift being released. I supposed we could all settle on 1989 being the start of grunge. I cant pin point or put my finger on the end or death of grunge but i can say that by the middle 1990's it was pretty much dead. This is the year my favorite band released their selft titled album. Garbage. There is not a huge list of bands that could be called grunge in my opinion. There is a small subset of groups from seattle, most of which are unknown, that actually made it big. Soundgarden was the first to get signed if i remember correctly. Even though candlebox released aroud the same time i still consider them imposters just as i consider creed imposters as they came way late to the party and tried to capitalize on the grunge sound. I like some musicof both those bands but i do not consider them grunge in any way, shape or form. Wikipedia pretty much got it right with their list of bands. I am going through a similar phase in life as you. After grunge died in, lets say, 1995, i stopped caring about music more and more. Byt the time i left california and moved to the UK in 2004, new music was pretty much dead to me. I stopped listening to the radio. I stopped caring about new music. I would hear a song here and there by means of being exposed to them through girlriends, friends or the radio. But discovery of new music for myself i did not make. Around that same time, in 2004, Garbage went on an extended hiatus. I thought this is it for them. Its over. So i cared even less for music. During corona i decided to pick my guitar back up. It had been a piece of furniture since 2006 at that point. Then taylor hawkins died and ive been a drummer ever since. Since i became a drummer i am playinf catchup with the music that i missed. I hold the wrong opinion that only my generation could make music, i suppose every generation thinks this way. The auto-tuned and made by committee talent show bands of the early 2000's are over now so any new music is now being made the old way. Whcih is cool. Music should not come from a talent show where producers throw together bands and eliminate members of bands for the sake of ratings. Music has, for me, come full circle and its the internet that is allowing people to reach others. I ran into a BBC news article the other day about a girl who sang a song and it went viral. Have a look. Its got a cool hook. And every damn song needs a hook. This one has it. Its a four on the floor disco drum beat. Yeah its pop. All that term means that it beame popular. By that definition even nirvana was pop as it was popular. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qnZ5sMeeONI.html I discovered billie eilish and some american rapper named Logic who sang an anti-sucide help song last year. Catching up with music is cool. Young people can make music but it has to come from within.
Nevermind is a timeless master piece. I remember hearing Lithium, In Bloom and Come as You Are for the first time on a little Sony boom box twenty three years ago and being blown away. Those boom box rehearsals for Nevermind are just brilliant audio. One song from a rehersal was filmed and is an easter egg on the Nirvana With the Lights Out DVD.
@@stephenkane2464 It's how it was done back then. My friend was in a band, they never went anywhere, had a small local following but it never materialized. Before they recorded their first (and only) "real" sounding album/songs it was boombox recordings. Figure out the best place to place the radio; which direction to angle it, the height, wimnthr amps this way, the runs that way and stuff a pillow in the kickdrum. Whatever it took to even out as much as possible. They still always sounded like boombox recordings but you could get better and worse from them. This was back in the 90's also. You really had to work hard for the shitty things you had back then. Haha.
Nobody gives producer Butch Vig enough credit. The band wrote and played great songs. But Butch brought that sonic sound of Nevermind that we all love. And he pushed them to play better during recording.
Foo fighters blow but he should get credit for best album ever made vs maybe 10 and back in black and stone temple pilots album. Maybe he did them all.
Nirvana had practiced as a band for 6 months prior to coming to Smart Studio's to record nevermind with butch. He is the one that said this. By the time they were there, they were tight as a band and only needed small amounts of direction. The songs were already there.
I was born in '93. It's wild finding this band and this era of music so many decades later. I'm pacing myself listening to all of Nirvana's recorded music because I know I'll run out eventually, but damn. I would give anything to have been part of this scene when it was new!
I remember the first time I watched the smells video. I was on my grandma's floor watching MTV. I was only 9 and thought this is different and a defining moment. I immediately felt something changing and it was bigger than the song.
@@midnightsunrocks We are always told to look at our band mates. Now i know one of the reasons why. Ive been drumming for 6 months. Since the day taylor hawkins died. But i am fucking hooked like you would not believe. I put in more than just a few hours into the kit every day. “I’d just watch Kurt’s foot get closer to the distortion pedal” This comment also triggered me since it gave me a hint as to when i can reasonably expect to hit a crash or do a fill to start the next 8.
I'll never forget the day back in 91 that I was driving to work and Smells like teen spirit came on the radio. I was fixated on that song. I'm instantly hooked. All of these thoughts were running through my head as I cranked it up. I'm thinking OMG who is this ? This sound is amazing ! And I have to go buy this Albumn ! Come as you are is another fave of mine on that albumn. Nirvana broke the mold after Nevermind. There will never be another band or sound like they had, ever. I wore that cassette tape out playing it in my car lol. Today I have the CD in my collection. 😁
Same thing happened to me the first time I heard Nirvana, but it was many year later. I was in a record store back before malls stopped being a thing, and Come As You Are was playing, and for whatever reason, they played In Bloom and then Smells Like Teen Spirit. But hearing Come As You are, I couldn't figure out what I was listening to. It sounded very classic, like the Stones, but it had a modern rock edge. And then those other two songs, and I immediately stopped what I was doing and looked for Nevermind and bought that. _To this day_ you can play Nirvana on rock radio and it sounds modern. But it also sounds classic at the same time. It's such a strange dichotomy. Anyway, shortly after that I started buying everything related to Nirvana, started searching on RU-vid and such, and that was it.
Kurt had that Musical Dynamic Sound in his Head that was so kool to hear. He was gifted with what was kool to listen too. When Dave came on Board as the new Drummer it was like Pete Best being replaced by Ringo(Beatles) their Music really changed at that Time. Tough Decision for Kurt to make I'm sure yet,he knew it was right.
Yesterday I went to London ,took the Michael Azerad book with me,next to the station tthere was a pub with a sign Come as you are. II thought maybe they will give me a free drink because of tthe book I have with me about Niirvana.. with the same title. I had no time to test, but it was kind of funny.
When I looked at the click photo for this video I thought Dave Grohl must be short. On the contrary it's just that Butch Vig and Krist Noveselic are so damn tall. Dave is a respectable 6'0". Who knew Butch Vig was 6'3"?
I saw smashing punkins, pearl Jam everclear, system of the dowm in a a old gay bar. Like Blue Oyster in Police academy movies in Milwaukee. Unicorn was huge. I met Butch therr and Eso2. Dude. I habe stories
@@bettywatkins28 Why are the gay bars always called this? There was a Blue Oyster club in Santa Cruz, california as wel. I am pretty sure it was a gay. I did not want to go there
It's odd to me to know that they made the video for SLTS, but had no clue they were getting big. You don't go a film a music video for MTV for no reason.
Getting tired of these same stories about making Nevermind. If I have to hear the lithium click track story one more time…. Would be nice if the guys could dig up some fresh content about their time making the album.
It's sad that Dave and Krist have to ACT, publicly, like Kurt killed himself..... These guys aren't stupid, obviously they've looked into this whole Tom grant murder theory...... and only a great fool would still believe Kurt killed himself after digging into all the evidence against suicide. But, they have to maintain a working relationship with Courtney Love, so they have to at least act like she didn't do anything. They don't want Courtney to fire them
All circumstantial evidence at the end of the day. Nice to think he didn’t kill himself, but come on: depressed, family history of suicide, drug abuser, stress of enormous fame.
