I’m not all that big a fan of alternative (at least, the surly kind) but I confess to having a soft spot for Nirvana. My vote goes to “Mr. Moustache.” I especially like the line “Yes, I eat cow I am not proud.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnmjGc3kXm0
I also really like the main guitar riff. Sounds good through my old Jazzmaster.
You would be referring to Smells Like Teen Spirit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg
Or possibly Drain You:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfgbV1ZB0Ds
LIVE Version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6Nxm_3xaIk
Can’t really go wrong with any of their stuff though. Kurt Cobain was way ahead of his time.
“Drain You” I love. “Smells Like…” is becoming the “Stairway to Heaven” or “Enter Sandman” of this era. Just been played a bit too much is all.
Come As You Are - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vabnZ9-ex7o
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heart shaped box, Rape me get my vote(s)
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Lithium
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USZzH1L6nKU
Blew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97KwmvleRok
Breed
All great songs (all the above cited by the posters, including yours). Dave Grohl sometimes doesn’t get the credit he should for what he does with the beat in a Nirvana song. That half-open hi-hat figure he plays in “Mr. Moustache” (with very loose and open drums, too) is a masterpiece. And he could really, really hit a drum head when he needed to, to accent something Cobain was doing with those simple little riffs he’d make up.
Nirvana was the Lady Gaga of my generation. I found them tedious, dull, uninspired and impossibly golf course goth, “BOOHOO I AM RICH AND FAMOUS! BOOHOO I DON"T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT WHERE I AM GOING TO BE SLEEPING IN A FEW DAYS! WAHHH!!!” That being said I tolerate In Bloom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbgKEjNBHqM and would like to thank Kirk for stepping aside and allowing Dave Grohlto show the world what rock genius is.
Their best song was the one Cobain wrote about gun safety.
“Their best song was the one Cobain wrote about gun safety.”
Nice! Mental high five!
Nirvana was the Lady Gaga of my generation.
Credibility…
…falling…falling…falling…
“I like to mumble.
I am from Seattle.
Something in the way um garble garble umm.
Did you see that I wear flannel? Did I mention Seattle?
Something something garble moble woble.
Ummm Ummm.
I am so rich cry for me. In Seattle. Wearing Flannel. Garble Garble hum hum mmm mmm.
I am famous it is not my fault some one made me do it.
My music is painful to the ears and misguided people love it because of a lack of knowledge but they wear flannel and dream of Seattle.
She something moves gargle garble gargle wable woble.”
Man the worship of Nirvana makes me wish there was a hell.
Easy, this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUIdjLiQQvc&feature=related
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Worship?
I love the Butthole Surfers. I don’t worship them. The only person in the music industry I worship is Elvis Presley.
Go light, this is a Tibbs hot button issue.
I didn’t mean you but I knew a lot of people I lost respect for when Kirk died. The waves of grief where ridiculous. When Rolling Stones declared he the voice of my generation that shit rag was more dead to me more then ever before.
I didn’t mean you but I knew a lot of people I lost respect for when Kirk died. The waves of grief where ridiculous. When Rolling Stones declared he the voice of my generation that shit rag was more dead to me more then ever before.
You have broken my heart Tibbs.
Whatever song they played last was the best, b/c it meant they were done poisoning the air waves. Listening to that was like watching poop return up into the butt hole. An old school predecessor to the hack we have now, Nickelback.
I really like Nirvana. Simply too hard to pick.
“You have broken my heart Tibbs.”
Here is some real quiet/loud rock for you. Record sells does not always equal good music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DszMp8mGGQ8&feature=related
Why, you may ask, am I bringing up The Pixies? For one they are fucking amazing beyond incredible. If they asked me to take up arms against the US I would. Gods must be worshiped and if they aren’t gods I don’t know who is. Well I bring them up because Kurt was a below average high school janitor who thought the world owed him happiness. He started “rocking” until he realized that he blew mighty goats. Now through some great stroke of luck he heard The Pixies and thought to himself, “If I rip The Pixies and wear flannel I might be famous. I will be rich and popular and then blame everyone else for what I will do to myself.” So he listened to The Pixies a lot and made Bleach. After Bleach cause my intestines to bleed from the lameness of of it all he regrouped and found his ticket. He ripped The Pixies even harder…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg. This spoke volumes to depressed and tasteless teens all over the world. This beget Pearl Jam and the world fucking ended for a very very very long time.
So you see little kiddies your love for Nirvana is not your fault. They contact the part of the mind that wants to turn itself off. Nirvana makes you brain say, “Well there is something to this but instead of reaching truly great rock I will stick with this to save energy.” It’s a survival mechanism.