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Tuesday, April 06, 2004

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You must have had your head under a rock this week to escape the 10th anniversary of the career defining death of rock's most over-rated martyr. BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | Nirvana fans mark Cobain's death

Don't get me wrong, I liked Nirvana, Bleach was fun if very uneven and Sliver was a great single. Live they were fab as well, but, after the initial releases it was pretty much down hill all the way. Nevermind never inspired other than the (derivative) singles and off the back of that In Utero never even inspired me to pick it up.

The real travesty of Cobain is if he hadn't have taken his life, I don't think anyone would have given a fuck about Nirvana today. At the time those of us who were in to our grunge and indie thought Nirvana second-rate, more precisely, a second-rate Mudhoney. Well, me and Nursey, to be honest, but that's enough for me to know we were right.

He was truly the first of the deluded rockers of the modern age - without whom we wouldn't have those loveable hordes of deluded teenagers you see everywhere in their look-alike alternative uniforms. You know the ones, roam in big gangs in the shopping centre, listening to their corporate nu-metal CDs on iPods, waiting for mummy to pick them up from town in the new people carrier - all of them unique tortured flowers.

The signs were there mind, the pretentious and expensive videos, the MTV specials, the advertising campaigns and the catwalk adoption of the style. All the time, the masses were being sucked in to see Kurt's cribbing of styles, riffs and postures from a number of more talented artists around him as new and original.

Sheesh... Downhill all the way from here, who am I to fly in the face of such adoration. Quick, pass me that Superfuzzbigmuff album, I want some truly good grunge before I hear any more on how much of a god Mr C is.

Posted by Dio Bach at 15:07  

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