Josh writes:

<<Yeah, I know there are the usual Cobain adherents on this list.  Never got 
it, never will.  Bought Nevermind when it came out, sort of liked one song,
mostly couldn't abide the thing.  Bought the Teenage Fanclub album
Bandwagonesque at the very same time (first exposure to each).  Now that one
made the trip to the record store worthwhile.  What impact did he have on
popular music, outside of stealing the "hey, this song is really really
soft-- no wait, now its really really LOUD" shtick from the Pixies?  Which,
if I hadn't heard it on that album, would have been unmistakable a few
months later on Siamese Dream.

Don't answer, Michael.  Its a rhetorical question.  I know he has his
adherents.  I just want to voice the opposing POV; I'm not being
argumentative.  Its like those top-50 lists; there is no right or wrong.

By the way, in my book, the Talking Heads and Remain in Light had more
impact on music than Cobain, Run-DMC, and the Sex Pistols combined.  Can
anyone really listen to the Sex Pistols album in this day and age all the
way through, with no sense of irony, and not wince?

These are opinions, not facts.  Yours may vary.>>


I agree with you Josh, I just never saw what other people see in Kurt Cobain. 
Dave Grohl proved himself to be a much better songwriter in my eyes...he's 
the shining light of that band. I can't stand it when people put Cobain next to 
Lennon, as if they're equal in musical accomplishments. Not even close. Of 
course, this is just my opinion, but what I saw and heard from the guy was pretty 
average. The word overrated comes to mind. Now the '60s band Nirvana from the 
UK, they were good!

Rick G.


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