Nirvana appreciation
So with the 20th anniversary of Nevermind there is a fair bit of talk about grunge etc. Nirvana played a big role in shaping my early and current musical taste.
What amazing music have people discovered as a direct or indirect influence of Nirvana?
For me there are a few obvious ones such as Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr and Mudhoney but indirectly my appreciation of heavier music can be traced back to Nirvana so bands like ATDI, Mclusky, Smashing Pumpkins and QOTSA. Good times.
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Teenage Fanclub and Dinosaur Jr.
After reading a big piece about its influences in kerrang magazine about 3 years ago or something like that. I was already into a lot of grungey rock type stuff before I got into Nirvana (when I was about 13). I pretty much discovered Nirvana through Foo Fighters, which I'm sure is the wrong way round compared to most people.
Which is why
the question asked in the first post isn't about Nirvana themselves at all
Little bit of column A, little bit of column B
This isn't about the music of Nirvana
or bands that were/are influenced by Nirvana. It is about what listening to the band did to your tastes as an individual.
Of course there are parallels
with who Nirvana influenced/were influenced by and who people have discovered after the band laid the groundwork for them. I want to know if YOU are into any music that you think you wouldn't have a taste for had you not been a Nirvana fan. NOT your favourite In Utero song or your favourite 'grunge' artist from the period.
It sounds ridiculous
But thinking about it a certain way, my entire musical development hinged on buying Nevermind on a whim when I was 13. Being an impressionable and bookwormy teenager, I pretty much delved into every non-obscure grunge band as a result of getting that record. A lot of it I'd never listen to anymore - Pearl Jam being a case in point - but I've found my appreciation of bands like Screaming Trees and The Afghan Whigs have probably increased over the last ten years, if anything. Dino Jr, Sebadoh, Pixies, Soundgarden, and stuff like R.E.M., Sabbath, Neil Young, even fucking William Burroughs (and as a result Bukowski, who I ended up writing my fucking dissertation on)...I owe all that directly to Nirvana and the propagation of the grunge craze, even if I got there ten years too late. And when I was old enough to realise how gross and morbid the whole thing had gotten, Nevermind had still shown me how great music can be, and I was and still am a fervent music enthusiast.
Likelihood is, despite only being 4 at the time of its release and rarely listening to it now, I would not be the person I am today without Nevermind, musically or otherwise. I know it's been talked about to death, but still, that's what music fans do right?
Amen broheim
I was 14 when Nevermind came out and despite clueing onto it slightly early thru a friends' older bro (Bleach, Tad, Steve Jesse Bernstein etc) it still galvanised my juices, showed me that music COULD tick that elemental box in me that rose up howling through my blood and my hormones. Likewise I'm not interested in hearing it these days - tried recently and was morbidly underwhelmed - but the predilection it uncovered in me for true music has likely informed my tastes ever since. I'd never try listening to Flying Lotus, Comets on Fire, The Stooges, Deathgrips or Will Oldham unless Nevermind had unlocked the door for me.
You wrote a dissertation on fucking?
Sounds like some fun coursework sessions
Surprisingly no
All they really offered were shame, fear, and a grave sense of inadequacy.
I must learn to be more careful in my use of expletives...
this is exactly what I mean.
anyone who caught the Nirvana bug early probably doesn't listen to them much anymore due to overkill and likewise with associated acts but for me it has undoubtedly shaped my taste for both heavy guitars and simple pop melody whether simultaneously or not. It is far reaching. I'm sure I wouldn't like This Heat or even Neutral Milk Hotel if it weren't for Nirvana.
It's hard to say
cos I loved them when I was younger, then tossed them away for a couple of years before remembering that they're fucking awesome. So I can't quite work out if they have anything to do with my liking of slightly heavier stuff. But they're probably one of the main reasons I started listening to the Pixies, so yeah that's good.
that bit of drain you where he screams after the instrumental bit in the middle is the best
IMO
i saw the boredoms open for nirvana.
i had never heard of the boredoms.
thank you, nirvana.
that sounds amazing!
it was
in utero tour nov93. meat puppets supported as well (naturally).
kurt was all smiles. i remember being surprised by how well he looked and how amazingly tight (not to mention LOUD) the band was. they sounded incredible that night and 5 months later he was gone.
I have got into
Loads of bands through Nirvana as a young lad. He did a good job of promoting his influences to be fair.
Never really clicked with me for some reason
or at least no more than many other bands I was into at the time and looking back now I'm still not entirely sure I 'get it' in the way that everyone else seems to.
So for me personally I'm not sure that Nirvana were that directly influencial, although undoubtedly they would have influenced other artists I got into.
But I really respect they way they championed their heroes and influences, I know a fair few people who got into Bowie, Pixies, R.E.M, Melvins, etc as a result which was pretty cool
As far as making really underground music populaur...
No other record since has really come close to matching it. I hate to use phrases like "Gateway bands" but as other have said they really were such great champions of bands and musicians that came from the same background as themselves. Wasn't Daniel Johnstone signed to Geffen because Cobain wore one his t-shirts regularly?
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