Nirvana - Classic or Dud?

Naah...

:O

anyone heard 'to markos III' ?

Or are you just happy?

Can I just say again how much I love 'Rainbow Chaser'? Thanks.

Yeah, I can't believe that some people think a band with three women in could write music.

What does that have to do with anything? Let it be known that I'm a fan of Le Tigre and that dog.

been a while since I played "Bleach" and I probably love it even more now than I did then (which was a lot).

"Blew" through "School" is a pretty solid run. altho the lyrics to Floyd the Barber are still hella wtf.

not sure if this is 'hm!' or 'ugh!'

probably "ugh!"

Krist is a Trump supporter?

Nirvana's Krist Novoselic praised Donald Trump for his "strong and direct" law and order speech: "He knocked it out of the park" https://t.co/boeyqahlvO pic.twitter.com/xy8ID2xCeO

— Consequence of Sound (@consequence) June 2, 2020

At first I thought he was being sarcastic, but ... doesn't seem so. And then when he was called out he apparently deleted his accounts.

I went to some thing on campus once where krist, jello biafra and Julia butterfly hill were giving speeches. Krist started whining about graffiti and property owners’ rights and everybody started booing him it was great.

heart-shaped DOX

Come As You MAGA

Scentless The Apprentice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yFcgh6ez8A

lmao brimstead that rules

no idea his brain was broke

Lots of people in that early 90s MTV milieu have been full-on libertarian for years. It's disconcerting.

As someone else posted, who would have guessed a guy from Nirvana would one day be a Trump supporter but arch nemesis Axl Rose would apparently be a righteously outspoken critic?

did kurt loder convert them all?
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Ha, yes I think he converted Kennedy. And it seems like all of my favorite bands from the time had at least one (Krist, Corgan, etc.).

Novoselic has been known to be a right-libertarian for a while, hasn't he? In the 90s, I'm not sure I ever associated the bassist from Nirvana with any ideological stance but, yeah, "One in a Million" did lead me to expect less from Rose.

I do believe Axl has actually worked on himself!

It's been a weird evolution for Novoselic. He was originally going to run as a Democrat when he talked about running for Lieutenant Governor back in 2004 and he publicly supported Obama's first election, but then he shifted more into Libertarian ideals around the same time and I guess is now a full-blown Trumper.

He donated to Ron Paul in 2008

beginning of this thread is hilarious

The Krist news reminded me that I want to strenuously avoid hearing King Buzzo's opinions on current events (Thomas Sowell is his 'favorite philosopher').

he thinks very deeply

I do believe Axl has actually worked on himself!

Have there been any articles exploring Axl’s political “development”? It fascinates me. I have a few theories of what’s behind it, based on the little I do know about him, but wonder if someone has talked to people who know him, etc.?

ah good ole Uncle Thomas Sowell. i'm just glad he's retired and isn't chiming in right now. my dad has to look elsewhere for his bullshit opinions.

i guess he's on twitter, but my dad is not. and he's not in his newspaper every damn week. anyway. carry on with the krist dragging!

I always thought Axl was kind of inchoate in his anger. Despite the racist/sexist stuff, I'm not sure he was necessarily either of those things, just profoundly ignorant in the literal sense. I do feel there was some sort of a switch from angry to reclusive/eccentric to somewhat seemingly at peace. Chalk it up to therapy?

As much as I do enjoy seeing Axl outspoken for good causes now, I have to wonder just how many folks holding him up as a woke paragon right now recall (or even know about) the stories of the awful shit the band did to women back when.

I'm guessing in about 3-4 months, someone will link to that Medium article about Hell House on Twitter and he'll be canceled again.

Not that I'm anti personal growth here, but considering Twitter's fascination with digging up old news to drag and cancel people for, I'm surprised it hasn't hit him yet.

I didn't think many young ppl necessarily knew or cared about him. I figured his tweets were mainly of interest to ppl like me, who grew up with Axl and G'n'R as a cultural force.

Even Chinese Democracy is 12 years old at this point, and no one gave a shit about that. Anyone that cares at all about anything Axl has to say, or for that matter even knows who he is, is doing so based on the band's 1987-1993 heyday/notoriety, which in turn could be why anything that comes from him currently that runs counter to that reputation strikes such a conspicuous chord.

I taught "Sweet Child o' Mine" last night to a 12yo who wanted to learn it.

Interestingly enough, my own guitar teacher has cited GNR as a band that for a couple of years every student brought to him, but which no one asks him about anymore. I guess Sweet Child has been covered a lot, though.

I actually didn't realize it was this big with young women: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sweet+child+o+mine+cover

So Novoselic apparently describes himself as an 'anarcho-capitalist socialist moderate I-don’t know'. That's a long-winded way of saying 'Trumpster'.

I own a copy of Of Grunge and Government, which IIRC was pub'd thru/via Danny Goldberg, who of course is a great lefty. Actually read it. There was a time when N was talking Grange/rural politics, and new voting systems. But somewhere along the line he got so alienated from the 2-party system that he went into wacko libertarian land. Freshman year contrarianism. Buzz is the same way, sadly.

https://www.seattlepi.com/ae/books/article/Novoselic-s-political-beat-goes-on-in-the-cause-1154315.php

I'm not saying anything excuses anything Axl did or wrote in the day, but I think viewing him as a victim of sexual and physical abuse is part of the story

^That actually does factor (in part) into my "theorizing."

I didn't know Novoselic had gone in that direction, but I guess we got a hint of it in the tongue-in-cheek remarks made at the beginning of this clip (I guess the higher taxation he now faced really DID bother him that much):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7ZvG7pemuM

I was p much assuming buzz was similar

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