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| From | Pamalu2@aol.com |
| Subject | Re: Kurt Cobain |
| Date | Tue, 06 Apr 2004 01:40:40 -0400 |
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In a message dated 4/6/2004 1:00:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time, audities-owner@smoe.org writes:
> For whatever reason, Nirvana's music spoke to people,
> and they made a difference, and they'll be remembered
> with strong emotion (as proven in this post, I hope).
> And in a pretty disposable age, that's saying
> something.
>
> R.I.P. Kurt Cobain. I miss you.
>
> --Shawn
Yeah. While there are as many popsters on this board who will claim that Nirvana had nothing to offer as there are those who LOVED them (I'm among the latter), there's no denying that Kurt Cobain and his crew were certainly what commercial radio needed in the early 90s - a swift jumpstart amidst the sea of mediocrity that was then dominating the airwaves. In my mind I tend to compare them with the Beatles, although in actuality can ANYONE ever begin to come close to the creative viability the Beatles possessed in their heyday? Nirvana wasn't around long enough to begin to rival the Beatles' output, and their sound was too raw to really be considered in the same league. Yet that is exactly why I liked them.
I was as devastated as anyone when Kurt Cobain died. Even though I wasn't a Generation X-er, I could identify with his music. But I agree: let's not deify the man. I still enjoy Nirvana's music more than just about anything else that came out of that time period, but I don't consider Cobain a god or saint or anything else. It's just sad that someone who supposedly had so much to offer would end it all that way. Sad...and pointless.
pamalu2@aol.com
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