TOTAL NIRVANA

Post by **Lord Mhoram** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 7:20 pm

Yeah, you know you love them. In Utero has got to be one of the best rock albums ever. Nevermind's not half bad either.

I have the privelege of owning a live Nirvana CD, and they rock even more then.

Favorite songs: Come As You Are, Milk It, Dumb, Been A Son, School

Post by **[Syl]** » Tue Oct 07, 2003 8:39 pm

Heart-shaped Box, All Apologies

Post by **Worm of Despite** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 1:02 am

The acoustic version of Pennyroyal Tea is my favorite. Or their cover of the Meat Puppet's "Lake of Fire". Love Kurt's vocals on that one.

I'd say he's my third favorite lyricist with John Lennon second and Roger Waters first.

Post by **Forestal** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 3:59 pm

dont get me started....

my faves:

Marigold, Love Buzz, Drain You, Plateau (cover i know), Sliver, All Apologies, Lithium and Lounge Act... the list goes on!

but i have to say, i hate milk it... it really gets up my nose...

and i really wish nirvana could have done a cover of soundgarden's Black Hole Sun... that would ahve fitted kurt like a glove... r.i.p

Post by **Worm of Despite** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 4:28 pm

Forestal wrote:and i really wish nirvana could have done a cover of soundgarden's Black Hole Sun... that would ahve fitted kurt like a glove... r.i.p

Amen!

This may sound crazy, but I'd like to take some songs like Black Hole Sun, Kashmir, and maybe some Pink Floyd stuff and go back and time and give it to the Beatles, heh. I'd just like to hear their versions of it. I think that'd rock.

Post by **Forestal** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 6:00 pm

most deffinatly, i can just imagine jimi hendrix blurring out a version of "Coz I Got High" lol... imagine the solo!! lol...

Post by **Lord Mhoram** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 7:19 pm

Milk It happens to be my favorite Nirvana song of all time! Look on the bright side-suicide; lost eyesight, i'm on your side; angel left wing, right wing, broken wing; lack of iron and or sleeping

Post by **Forestal** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 8:08 pm

the version i have i cant understand a word he's singing... obviously one of his more heroin'd up gigs...

i'm sure if i could understand the words i'd love it LM

Post by **Lord Mhoram** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 10:45 pm

Yeah it is very hard to understand what Cobain's saying in that one. But if you look at the lyrics in the In Utero booklet you begin to understand what he's saying.

Post by **Nav** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 9:29 am

I've always liked their version of The Man Who Sold the World. It's even better than Cilla Black's effort.

Post by **Forestal** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 4:15 pm

the electric version of The Man Who WOld The World is so much better than the acoustic version...

enough said

and as for reading the lyrics... i dont like doing that... it kinda takes something outta the song for me... call me weird if you want

Post by **Hellfire** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 3:57 pm

I liked Incesticide the best. Kiss Kiss Molly's Lips....... There's alot of stange fun songs on that one.

Post by **Forestal** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 8:45 pm

love mollys lips

... very pop-punk, but i still like it

Post by **Worm of Despite** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 9:01 pm

Changed my mind about my favorite Nirvana song. It's now Lithium!

Post by **Lord Mhoram** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 9:02 pm

I've been addicted to Bleach lately. What great stuff. Floyd the Barber, About a Girl, Love Buzz, etc., etc.

Post by **Theo** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 11:07 am

I didn't particularly like Nirvana back when it happened (I thought they were horribly overrated, which I still think they were back then), but some of their stuff has grown on me in later years. They did some pretty good pop songs, and I liked the Unplugged record - generally, I think they were better at doing acoustic pop tunes than noisy hard rock. (I love noisy hard rock, but there's a million bands that do it better than Nirvana. :p )

And generally, some (most?) of my favourites of "their" songs are in fact covers. I love "Molly's Lips" (just the same two chords all through the song - brilliant!

), "Son of a Gun", "Jesus Doesn't Want Me For a Sunbeam" and "Where Did You Sleep Last Night".

Theo

Post by **Forestal** » Wed Oct 22, 2003 5:51 pm

(who cares if its only 2 chords? it still sounds great

)

Post by **Theo** » Wed Oct 22, 2003 8:01 pm

Forestal wrote:(who cares if its only 2 chords? it still sounds great )

I said "brilliant", didn't I?

Post by **Lord Mhoram** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 8:56 pm

Sorry, Theo, but Nirvana really wasn't a pop band. They were good at pop songs, yeah, but it was the real hard stuff that kicked ass and that is what they will be remembered for. In Utero is a masterpiece--now that is the hard album, not counting Bleach.

Post by **Theo** » Fri Oct 24, 2003 7:29 am

"Really"? This stuff is subjective, I only stated my personal opinion. And I stand by it: to my ears most of Nirvana's "hard stuff" sounds a bit generic, often forced and sometimes even boring. Their pop songs generally had more character. IMO. (On the other hand, even at their dullest, Nirvana were generally more fun than most other so-called "grunge" bands.)

Joy is in the ears that hear, and all that.

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