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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
Love is a stupid skank, but i don't see the big deal with the picture. Nirvana has to be the most over rated band of all time. anyone who would get upset at that picture for it's content is too uptight
the only thing that bugs me about that photo is that i've seen her ugly face another time
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I was a huge Nirvana fan, and still am although I don't listen to them regularly anymore.
I admit, they were really nothing special musically, but you have to look at the music industry when they came out and compare it relatively. The rock world was dominated by hair/glam rock, and was probably dying. Although the musicians were talented, the art was missing, and the music was pre-fabricated by corporate guys in suits and ties. Then came Nirvana with their minimalistic approach. Maybe I am thinking too romantically about this, but I truely believe that by bridging the gap from underground and independent rock to the mainstream, they quite possibly saved the genre - or at least improved it greatly. There is hardly a popular hard rock, garage rock, grunge, or metal band since Nirvana that cannot declare some of their success is the result of that door being openned.
But I can agree that musically, there were many before and after them that were better. I can't even imagine the kind of demi-god status an artist like Jack White would have acheived if he was around in the late 80's and early 90's.
Even the Beatles, who are unarguably the most infamous rock group ever, are musically inferior to other less popular groups... but it is really more about timing. In both instances, there was a generation looking to find itself.
