i like most of nirvana's records in utero and incesticide probably being my favourites.

Yeah, I mean in total honesty, there isn't a Nirvana album that I don't love. They're all great in my opinion and I'll listen to them all often enough.

They were freaking great. I got into them in 89 when I saw a poster in Salt Lake City for a Melvins show. Opening was Nirvana. I'd just bought a Melvins LP and I asked the store owner who Nirvana was. He said, "One of those hair bands from Seattle. The kids are all into the Melvins though."

I think then I picked up a copy of the Bleach LP, fell in love with the cover, and nothing was ever the same.

As much as I love them, and that they impacted my life in a way very few bands ever have or could do again, it must be close to 10 years since I listened to a Nirvana album start to finish.

I listened to Nevermind a bunch last winter.

i would never have started listening to good music if it weren't for nirvana.

Ha, ha. I'm quoting you on that!

why is that funny? i started listening to nirvana and it just branched out from there. i would surely have punched you by now if this were face to face.

samesies.

They're not my FAVORITE band, but they might be the MOST IMPORTANT band to me.

Yup, Nirvana seems to be the gateway band around these parts. For most people anyways...

I credit Sonic Youth for that. Got into them much before Nirvana. And I often wonder why Goo didn't do for Sonic Youth--and for alternative music--what Nevermind did a year later.

Was Smells Like ... getting a lot of TV slots in the US prior to it going mega?

Yeah. MTV played the hell out of it almost from the start.

Yeah, I've heard the video played a major part in its success. Musically i think it could've just as easily been Freak Scene or even Touch Me I'm Sick - which I actually think are for better songs than Smells Like ... But there you go. Just a case of the right song at exactly the right time i suppose.

Go home you old man. I hate when you guys do that to us youngsters.


yup, same here.

Yeah, true. I also think Sonic Youth might have seemed a bit too art scene smug for a wider audience. Nirvana was grittier.

Um, what did I do to you exactly?

And the right singer. Even if Freak Scene had been released a couple of years later as the whole wave broke, J Mascis would never have been on as many magazine covers and bedroom walls as Kurt.

Reminded us that you were there and we weren't :p The time you discovered Nirvana in 89, I was shitting my pants and eating dirt.

Yeah, except for those of us who'd been into Sonic Youth for 3-4 years already when we first saw Nirvana in 1988...

I was in the same place. But there was something about coming across that Bleach album. It sounded so distilled and so angry. At the time though, I would never have thought Nirvana would become the phenomenon that they would. I was expecting that of Sonic Youth--I really thought with Daydream Nation they'd go really big.

But Nevermind is just magical, in my opinion. I really think it's probably the best sounding rock album ever recorded (that is from an engineering/mixing etc point of view) and the songs are fascinating.

And I think for many kids Nirvana just seemed easier to identify with than Sonic Youth. Not every kid was going to be in love with that art scene vibe SY had going, but they could all identify with that every-kid grunge look and attitude.

Nirvana weren't my gateway band... I never had a gateway band. Maybe Boredoms since they have so many other amazing connected bands...

For a gateway album, I have to go all the back to my purchase of the Beatles' white album in 1968. That album woke me up to the idea that rock albums could be serious works of art, and ever since I paid attention to what albums critics regarded as "serious" albums.

sonic youth were too cool for that.

True. Genuine cool never has been all that marketable.

Well, aren't you special.

I didnt intend for this thread to cause so much in-fighting for my sonic brethren.

I dunno, do you find something special about my statement? If so, that's awesome.

everything about goo was cool except for the music. it has three, maybe four decent tunes, then some of the shittiest songs i've ever heard by this band.. i wish it was as good as nevermind, and i'm not even a fan of that album either.

o shit


hey Noiseredux , you made me unearth my old Nirvana Lps.
Good band!!!
These tunes rock hard
he he

greedex, I'm awesome! haha.

And by the way dudes. I think atsonicpark is special. I mean, if you dnt think it's special that a guy who's only 3 fee tall can jump over a school bus from a standing-still position, then I don't know what special is.

just wanted to say that aneurysm is one of their best tracks, that one always got me hooked (again)

i still love nirvana.

that's one of my favourites.

Come on over, have a fit...

I love it too.

I cant say exactly why, but the whole song got so much drive, there only existing a few recordings (bootlegs) of it that are just good and not excellent. I think one of it is on the muddy bank...should relisten

YEAH!

you're like a broken record.

and a paedo.

you're my favourite.

hahaha