Nirvana
Nirvana was a band in the early nineties, that, according to some sources, created music. It consisted of Kurt Cobain (guitar, vocals, heroin), Krist Novoselic (bass, being a giant) and Dave Grohl (drums, impressive teeth).
Just The Facts
- You like at least one Nirvana song.
- Your parents don't.
- The name "Nirvana" came from Kurt's desire for a "beautiful or nice or pretty name," rather than "a mean, raunchy punk name" (And no, that wasn't a joke.)
The Creation of Nirvana
Nirvana was created by Kurt Cobain and Krist (not to be confused with Christ, whom archaeologists are fairly certain was never a bassist) Novoselic in the Washington town of Aberdeen in 1987. The original recording lineup included Chad Channing on drums, whom we assume was kicked out due to sharing a first name with the future drummer for the Red Hot Chili Peppers (This is unconfirmed.) After the album "Bleach" Chad was replaced with the aforementioned Dave Grohl, and the band began its descent into fame and utter madness.
Cobain, melting.
Fame
Chances are that if you exist and have any semblance of ears on you presumably human skull, you have heard "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and probably several other Nirvana songs. There are few bands more famous, and if you don't know who they are I'm not sure you can read yet.
With smashable guitar!
Utter Madness
Cobain eventually realized that, being a creator of grunge, he must contain at least 300 times as much angst as anyone else. For fun he threw in a bit of insanity as well. As such, he was fond of trying to kill himself, overdosing, dismembering baby dolls, drawing comics about intestines and threatening to destroy Nirvana. He married Courtney Love, the singer of Hole and the most hated rock wife since Yoko Ono, and had a child he named Frances Bean (Naming a child after a flatulence-inducing vegetable is a known sign of psychological trauma.)
Left: Insane. Right: Angsty.
In 1994 Cobain nearly killed himself with prescription drugs and alcohol. He was then sent to a rehabilitation center which he promptly escaped from (there weren't safety precautions in those days; the nineties were a more innocent time.) He somehow managed to board a flight to Seattle without being apprehended, and a week later he was found dead from a shotgun wound to the head. It remains a mystery whether or not the wound was self-inflicted, so it's up to those in the comments section to argue relentlessly about how you just know that Courtney did it.
The face of a killer.
What Nirvana Members Are Doing Today
After the death of Cobain, Krist Novoselic decided to kick grunge in the face by writing a book, becoming a politician and going bald.
The "failed" member...
Dave Grohl continued in a career of being awesome, forming Foo Fighters and various side projects and continuing to maintain his very prominant teeth.
Grohl has been known to eat entire microphones on stage.
SCENTLESS APPRENTICE MOTHERFUCKERS
ReplyWell, there is a Johnny Christ, who's the bassist for Avenged Sevenfold.
ReplyChrist as a bassist? Hook up the time machine!
ReplyNirvana... good band.. but not as life changing as others claim it is
Replyyo nirvana is da bomb
ReplyNirvana is my favorite band.
ReplyThis is brilliant.
Nirvana is one of my favorite bands. And Kurt did NOT kill himself... it was unfinished buisiness with Tupac. who now resides in Cuba, sharing an apartment with Elvis...
Replyi was never a big nirvana fan
ReplyI'm sorry.
Nirvana certainly didn't invent music. What they did do was put music together in a way that made me (and no doubt many others) sit up and listen for the first time.
ReplyNirvana is over rated.
ReplyAnd would you be so kind as to tell us who is under rated?
In his opinion, Nelly.
Hahahaha....... Nirvana..... the only album I like from them now is Bleach (that's basically Melvins rip off, but still good) and the more WTF songs from In Utero. Not ALL their songs are angsty, y'know.they have some quite happy songs in Bleach.
ReplyPeople should stop hating Kurt Cobain. He was just one troubled junkie, like Layne Staley. The media overhyped him like they overhype those who die young, and now he's got a bad rep because the emo/hipsterdom took him as an idol ... that's not exactly his fault....
about Krist,he/she forgot to mention: ''hitting himself in the head with his own bass in an EPIC fail of a 'cool gimmick' ''
Foo Fighters, on the other hand, is SO lame, like all the other post-grunge bands.
have you actually listened to Bleach? Not one happy song on there.
I’ve heard a lot good bands say Nirvana was one of their main influences, including SOAD. Blues was there long before for example Jimi Hendrix, but he made it his own. Just like Nirvana did with grunge. Curt Cobain was one of the last remaining rock gods! Fact!
Reply Hide All See All 7 RepliesHow can you say Cobain was one of the last remaining rock gods?
When the other WAYYYYY better rock gods like Van Halen, Iron Maiden, Metallica, ACDC, Sammy Hagar, Rush, Slash ....etc Are still very much alive and can still rock harder than Cobain
did you really just say that slash was a rock god? do you listen to music? the only good thing to come from Guns and Roses was their cover of Knocking on Heaven's Door.
Most importantly: SOAD a good band??? wtf
Even more importantly: Iron Maiden is a rock god? Lolno. The only good thing on that band is the guitarist.
True... Iron Maiden aren't rock gods.... they are METAL gods.
SOAD are f*****g legends (except now that Tankian did did the piece of s**t Elect the Dead and Imperfect Harmonies)
The earlier stuff was better, stuff like System of a Down (the album) and Steal this Album!
Cobain did pay dues to the blues; I may not like Nirvana very much, but Cobain was known to have browsed the history of blues and studied it. Besides, no matter what metal likes to believe, it is a part of the the "rock umbrella". I'd be more interested in metal if it didn't needlessly divide itself into hundreds of subgenres.
This article seems less on being funny than being factual, except it fails at that too.
ReplyAlso, grunge was around about half a decade before Nirvana and Novoselic played with Flipper for a while.
Agreed
Sonic Youth FTW
Nirvana: "Formerly known as "Worst Band of All Time"*. Still known as "Most Overrated Band of All Time". *After years of effort, System Of A Down finally wrestled this title away from Nirvana's iron grip.
Reply Hide All See All 10 RepliesI'm no massive SOAD fan, but I can definitely think of several bands worse than them. Panic at the disco, fall out boy, every emo band ever. I still think Kiss is way overrated. Hailed as rock legends for writing stupidly repetitive songs all about roughly the same or interconnected subjects.
At least KISS is entertaining, if derivative, riff rock. SOAD writes about the exact same subject constantly (fuck America, man, f**k the system, capitalism is evil), and KISS does so without being as pretentious, annoying, or just God-fucking-awful as SOAD.
Theres nothing wrong with a band singing about something political, instead of the thoughtless muck that dribbles from kiss' talentless mouth. SOAD forever! Also how can anyone say that Nirvana is the worst band of all time in a universe that contains Motley crue?
KISS were s****y and repetative but they at least were entertaining. Nirvana were s****y, repetative and Cobain thought he was a profound lyricist. Dave Grohl is awesome though.
Guys, calm down.
Their not the Jonas Brothers, remember that.
KISS isn't entertaining. THEY SUCK. Cobain didn't think he was a deep lyricist- the fans do. His lyrics aren't pretentious at all, they are about suicide, drugs, stuff that happened to him. Nirvana was good in their first and last album, and far more enjoyable than KISS and less repetitive- but of course, you have to like Noise Rock. And people overrates Nirvana because what came after them was unbearably shitty: Emo, punk-pop, nu metal, Britney Spears, deathcore, metalcore, post grunge, s****y ''indie'' bands.....
Foo Fighters suck, like all the post grunge bands. Grohl, go back to the drumset.
There is WAY worse than Motley Crue: Poison (the Brett Michaels one), Dokken, Warrant, The Great Kat, Cinderella, all the Nu 'Metal' shit.... oh and of course, all the popular ''-core'' bands: Avenged Sevenfold, Bullet for my Valentine, Atreyu, Bring me the Horizon, Suicide Silence, all the faggy emo bands like Tokio Hotel and My Chemical Romance, etc etc etc. All very, very, very s****y bands. IMO, Waking the Cadaver is the worst band ever.
More music needs to be riff-based. Riffs are awesome.
There is no bad music, only music you dont like.
oh wait, the guy who said that was the drummer for SOAD so you probs wont listen.
Sunny day real estate = only good emo band in existance.
No. SOAD Sucks, their songs are the same no matter what, deal with it.
Few would argue with you on the statement regarding how awesome the Foo Fighters are :P
ReplyThey're okay, but they're not THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST THE BEST
Except half the population of Earth.
(not to be confused with Christ, whom archaeologists are fairly certain was never a bassist)
ReplyThat makes me lol every time I come back to this article.
When you can turn the entire music world on its head... maybe we'll take your pretentious, elitist opinion more seriously.
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesSonic Youth is awesome.
Nirvana was decent but vastly overrated.
Also, they were boring.
Stop crying.
If sonic youth were awesome then how come i never heard of them?
Because you're a terrible person
pretentious, s****y article. too bad, I'd have enjoyed a good read on this subject
Replyhave you heard the song "northern star" by hole? she didn't kill him, she misses him. why is it so hard to believe that a famously depressed guy killed himself? same thing is going on with elliott smith.
ReplyWell, it WAS a shotgun, which probably would be difficult to fire at yourself. She probably killed him. Or maybe not. Honestly, I think I just hate Courtney Love.
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesIt wasn't a shotgun, he would have had to use his toe, but his shoes were on. And yeah, I agree: everyone hates Courtney :)
Two of my cousins shot themselves in the face with shotguns, so shut the f**k up, because it can easily happen.
Majin, I'm not sure if I should thumbs up or thumbs down that comment. So I did both :P