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From: "Seaman, Dave" <seamand@upmc.edu>
>Who was better - Cobain's Nirvana or Simon Simopath's Nirvana?

I gotta go with Cobain's: other than "Rainbow Chaser," which *is* an 
absolute stone classic of UK psych-pop, the first Nirvana just don't 
much do it for me.  They're one of those bands where you can kind of 
tell why they never broke through commercially: they just weren't good 
enough.

S