This is really more of a popular nedia thread and I'm not sure if a Nirvana thread exists already.
I don't think there are many people who don't know Nirvana. Even the most annoying chavviest pop thing has listened to Smells like teen Spirit at some point Personally I think their great though grunge isn't one of my favourite genres. All Apologies is my favoutire Nirvana song at the moment.
They are awesome! I never really paid much mind to Grunge until Nevermind, "Come As You Are" is my favorite song of theirs, "Smells Like Teen Spirit", "In Bloom", "Lithium", and "All Apologies are great too!
When looking at Nirvana and judging whether they're a legend, you have to look at the time period and the music which was popular at the time. Kurt Cobain and the other band members broke free from the hair-band, leather-wearing countertenor culture that the late 80's had established, and brought in an era of gravelly-voiced, hard rhythms. Their music, which was definitely a different from the norm, managed to break that barrier, and establish a whole new genre and numerous trends along with it.
Sound Garden, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains; all influenced by Nirvana.
Not to mention that people started paying $60 for flannel shirts, popularized by Cobain, who was merely sporting the poor Washingtonian look at the time.
To meter the influence, you also have to look past Cobain's death. When Cobain died, so did rock. Pop stars and boy bands like The Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys grew more popular; grunge and rock died with Cobain.
Yes, it did. When Britney Spears and NSYNC took hold, rock lost it's overriding popularity. It's been picking up with a wave of alternative rock bands that started earlier in this decade, although pop music and R&B still reign.
Impact, certainly; but nothing even close to a 'legend'.
That's like saying The Beatles aren't legendary. Nirvana, like The Beatles, found huge success, almost overnight. Of course there were rough spots for Nirvana, to the point where Cobain was nearly starving in Seattle, but with the release of the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" music video, the band's popularity skyrocketed.
Never before, besides from The Beatles, has one band completely changed the face of music for years to come. There was almost no transition from the hair bands on the late 80's to the grunge era, and Nirvana single-handedly brought on that change.
And as I stated before, it wasn't just music that changed, it was styles, and even people's world views.
Yes, it did. When Britney Spears and NSYNC took hold, rock lost it's overriding popularity. It's been picking up with a wave of alternative rock bands that started earlier in this decade, although pop music and R&B still reign.
I think that it's still there, just not as popular. And it's not only alternative bands that are making it popular again, but also the real rock bands. It didn't really die, just faded away for a few years.
It didn't really die, just faded away for a few years.
I think that it's still there, just not as popular.
That's essentially what "dying" in the music industry means. Between 1996 and 2000, pop songs dominated the Top 40 song charts in the United States, as well as minimal rap, and lots of R&B.
A lot of newer bands, such as Hinder, still have an overall grunge sound, but actually find themselves making it to the top of the charts.
Rock & Roll doesn't just mean whatever Rock band is doing well in the popular music charts. It's a huge genre with uncountable numbers of bands all over the world. That's like saying 'electronic music died when prodigy fell off the charts'.
As for comparing Nirvana to the Beatles? Not even close. He didn't enjoy the popularity abroad that they had. Hey, I mean if you enjoy the music, that's great, but don't go saying 'it changed the world' just because he blew his brains out with a shotgun.
