The BBC, Kurt Cobain and you

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In that you have to read this and desperately try and stifle your giggles.

Ten years on, no small town shopping centre seems complete without its moody teenagers spilling out on their skateboards in baggy black Nirvana sweatshirts.

The ongoing love affair with Cobain's records has inspired countless youngsters to take up the guitar and form bands, and his spirit still looms large over the alternative rock scene.

It there in the nu-metal sheen of Nickelback and Limp Bizkit, and in Franz Ferdinand's measured post-punk savvy.

Fruxing wankfol.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 April 2004 04:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I KNEW THIS WOULD BE NED.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 5 April 2004 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

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― dada, Monday, 5 April 2004 04:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I never realized there's a big 8-legged bug inside the penis. Kind of makes sense, though.

― spittle (spittle), Monday, 5 April 2004 05:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn, that is one lucky diagram

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Monday, 5 April 2004 05:17 (twenty-one years ago)

i dunno Ned, if you replace "Ten years on" with "Ten years ago" and "seems" with "seemed" I would happily buy what the writer says in your quote. is Chris Heard a Brit? maybe this is a British v US experience = different kind of thing

heh, for the "true" American perspective, look no further than the comments section below the article:
In my eyes Kurt Cobain was like the Jesus Christ of rock. You would see everyone listening to the same old glam rock over and over again with nothing ever changing. Kurt broke that chain of repetition. It's sad he isn't with us anymore, but in a way there's a strange beauty to it.

right.

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 5 April 2004 10:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Franz Ferdinand should take a contract out on that writer.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 5 April 2004 10:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Kurt Cobain was like the Jesus Christ of rock

..he died to save us from Hair Metal.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 5 April 2004 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I just picked up Martin Roach's book about Dr.Martens, and he clumsily suggests at one point that Kurt Cobain single-handedly inspired love for Chuck Taylors (HELLO, THE RAMONES YOU TEPID, BALDY DUNG-HEAP!)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 5 April 2004 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Obviously these kids are too young to remember the 80s SST, Black Flag, Husker Du etc

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 5 April 2004 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Search/Destroy - SST & Homestead

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 5 April 2004 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Kurt would've hated all this.
Martin Temperton, London, England

I'd say that just about covers it.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Monday, 5 April 2004 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Interesting dangling modifier here:

Aged nine, his mechanic father Donald and mother Wendy divorced, and Kurt went to live with his father in a trailer park.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 5 April 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Barry Bruner OTM.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 5 April 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

At that time techo seemed to be everywhere and it was easy to make this kind of music in your bedroom using cheap second-hand electronic instuments. The guitar and guitar bands seemed like a thing of the past until Nirvana came along and breathed the life back into rock music. Their album Nevermind is one that all kids of today should listen to!
Subassa, London, UK

...So then everyone starts recording rock music in their bedroom using cheap second-hand guitars and drums...

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 5 April 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

A bit of an overstatement but there's some truth to that sentiment, albeit perhaps better found a few years ago.

― dean! (deangulberry), Monday, 5 April 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

It's funny, I was down in Mexico last year for a vacation (Puerto Vallarta), and we were lucky enough to be there for the Day of the Dead, where people put up shrines in public places to various deceasd family members, famous people from Mexican history, etc....Some kids had made a shrine to Kurt Cobain...they had some sheet music of Nirvana, a pair of Chuck Taylors, a bottle of Budweiser, a pack of Marlboro reds, and various pictures of Kurt + Nirvana with incense burning...they looked pretty young, prob. 15-16 years old...it was right by a shrine to Che Guevara....I took a picture but it didn't turn out (was nighttime and a cheap disposable camera)....

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 5 April 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i live in a small town in england and yes, i quite often see the hoodies described, and when i was fourteen i almost bought one

nickelback certainly sound nu-grunge, sorta thing, and i dunno, staind, etc

― tom west (thomp), Monday, 5 April 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"inspired countless youngsters to take up the guitar" - i knew a half dozen (technically was one but haha 'inspired')

"his spirit still looms large" - well, why not? the NME/Maker idea of MASSIVE BANDS as it happened in britpop is quite possibly impossible in some fashion, without grunge, which is to say, without nirvana, none of the guys i knew had any other records, except the guy with the pearl jam record he rarely listened to

― tom west (thomp), Monday, 5 April 2004 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

(although i'm not actually old enough to remember treatment of e.g. The Smiths)

― tom west (thomp), Monday, 5 April 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

question: what actually is the current english 'alternative rock scene'? ATP seemed to have been mostly imported from far off and exotic countries like japan and new york and east london

― tom west (thomp), Monday, 5 April 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

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