When Nirvana came out I was just beginning to transition out of a very sheltered church every Sunday country music loving family. I remember seeing the Nevermind album in a bin outside a music store in the mall and laughing at the absurdity of it. At the time I was rebelling at the weird sounds and antics of country music but I was also rebelling against Grunge music from the thought of it being to popular and trendy among the social outcasts of my own peers that I did not yet identify with. I had started to listen to our local oldies station and was really into the Beach Boys Pet Sounds album when I heard that Kurt had died. Immediately after his passing Mtv would play unplugged quite regularly and thats when I found my appreciation for Nirvana. I became one of there biggest fans which led into other bands like Stone Temple Pilots, Shamshing Pumpkins, Cranberries, Weezer and then later into bands like Radiohead, Pink Floyd, The Pixies, and the Flaming LIps. All my musical taste has been shaped and guided by this one band.

Bonus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huxyo8IhrQc

I really wasn't a fan of Nirvana when they came out. I was heavily into metal (Iron Maiden, Metallica, Sepultura, Slayer, etc) and Nirvana just sounded like a boring watered down version to me.

It wasn't until much later that I realised I was looking at it from the wrong direction. Nirvana were a pop band who used heavy guitars, and that was kinda cool.

I don't believe we will ever see another band with their influence again. Mainstream music today is much more fragmented, so even if someone came along and radically altered hip-hop, for example, the influence would be felt far less in other genres.

I think part of the problem is that there is nothing like an MTV/radio that can push a specific music video or style of music anymore - everyone finds their own stuff, and only the super watered down main stream actually gets pushed out to people. The internet fragments us.

There should be a sift just for music videos; that'd be sweet.

Almost enough to restore ones faith in humanity a little. And then they say how they like it even though it's old music... I guess I should just go find an old folks home already and start yelling at the teenagers.

12/31/93... the show I decided not to go to...
.."I'll see them next time they come to town."
regret

Smiled for the "attack on titan" reference.

-scheherazade

I was well into Sub Pop and all the artists in the genre at the time, bought every piece of vinyl they ever put out.

I was fortunate enough to get to see Nirvana play live, and still have the tshirt to this day, hung in a garment bag in a storage facility in Los Angeles.

"He's so attractive. That's creepy, cos he's dead." Hahahahahaha

IMO, the best quote from that video: "They sound the same when they're live!"
That might be my main critique about any band. If they cant sound as good live, as they do on studio tracks, I have no respect for them. There are too many studio produced artists who suck when they perform live.

It hurts me just reading that. Have an internet hug.

thank you... it's not really something that seems to get better with time.

Chalk this up to Steve Albini.

His engineering and producing for Nirvana was strictly about capturing the live performance. You can read a letter he wrote to them here:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/danmartin/this-letter-steve-albini-wrote-to-nirvana-is-just-incredible