NR Essentials #4: Nirvana - MTV Unplugged In New York - Page 5

jon boy · 09.18.2008, 07:42 PM

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

noisereductions · 09.18.2008, 07:43 PM

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.

gmku · 09.18.2008, 07:47 PM

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.

radarmaker · 09.18.2008, 07:55 PM

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.

gmku · 09.18.2008, 07:56 PM

I listened to Nevermind a bunch last winter.

Cantankerous · 09.18.2008, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by radarmaker

As much as I love them, and that they impacted my life in a way very few bands ever have or could do again,

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

gmku · 09.18.2008, 08:00 PM

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

Cantankerous · 09.18.2008, 08:03 PM

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.

noisereductions · 09.18.2008, 08:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Cantankerous

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

samesies.

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

EMMAh · 09.18.2008, 08:10 PM

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

gmku · 09.18.2008, 08:12 PM

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.

demonrail666 · 09.18.2008, 08:16 PM

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

gmku · 09.18.2008, 08:17 PM

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

demonrail666 · 09.18.2008, 08:42 PM

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.

punkaspoo · 09.18.2008, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by gmku

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.

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

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Originally Posted by Cantankerous

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

yup, same here.

gmku · 09.18.2008, 08:55 PM

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

gmku · 09.18.2008, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by punkaspoo

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

yup, same here.

Um, what did I do to you exactly?

radarmaker · 09.18.2008, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by demonrail666

But there you go. Just a case of the right song at exactly the right time i suppose.

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.

punkaspoo · 09.18.2008, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by gmku

Um, what did I do to you exactly?

Reminded us that you were there and we weren't

The time you discovered Nirvana in 89, I was shitting my pants and eating dirt.

Dead-Air · 09.18.2008, 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by EMMAh

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

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

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gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	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. __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	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. __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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demonrail666 invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 18,510	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.
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gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	Yeah, true. I also think Sonic Youth might have seemed a bit too art scene smug for a wider audience. Nirvana was grittier. __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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