Nirvana -both spiritually and musically-

[JDL]

Have you found Nirvana?(not the band) If so, how have you? Nirvana was a cool band. Do you like them? If so, whats your favorite album and song by them? If not, then name a band you do like in that genre. If you dont like that genre(grunge/hard rock) then ignore this post. JDL, peace out to all my homies in the fizzy forum

[KenElevenShadows]

I love Nirvana (the band). I got into them a little bit after Bleach came out on SubPop. I was lucky. I saw them in Rhino Records performing, and was amazed by their songwriting, dynamics, charisma, and everything else. Really good. In a related genre, I also like The Melvins. I saw them at The Covered Wagon in SF in 1990, and they were unbelievably heavy and sludgy-slow. Slabs of sound. I literally looked around to try and figure out where all that sound was coming from. It couldn't be coming from only three people, could it? How can three people create such slabs of sound? My gosh.....a profound influence on Nirvana, and I was lucky to catch them in their creative prime. I saw them two times later in the mid-90s in LA, but it was never quite the same. ---- I have not reached Nirvana yet. I think I do not have the inner calm or mental acuity and discipline to be able to achieve it in this lifetime, and feel too tormented by the past (bad childhood, perhaps a not-so-good previous life?). However, by trying to be a decent person, I feel I can get a little closer in this lifetime. When I do reach Nirvana, I think that I would like to come back as a bodhisattva and help others to find the path to Enlightenment.

[Matt.Hepworth]

I also usually dig Nirvana - in fact I used to be bordering on obsessive. I have nearly 70 CD's an Vinyl. Luckily, my brother got me into them when Bleach was released. My favorite album has to be Incesticide (if we can count that), otherwise In Utero. Favorite song is a tie: Drain You and Sappy (Verse Chorus Verse). Audio Nirvana, no. Although I've been reasonably close for a few moments performing during one of those rare shows where the song is really controlling you and the crowd is singing your song. Doesn't happen often for me, but it's unreal - maybe it's just too real.

[Cowbell]

Hey Matt, 4 more posts and your a Platinum Member!

[BNC]

I love Nirvana (the band). I can't pick one favorite song, too many good ones. I wish they were still around :( Came close to musical N a few times, but you can't really tell you've peaked unitl its over... ;) :D

[Matt.Hepworth]

[quote]Originally posted by CowbellAllen: [b]Hey Matt, 4 more posts and your a Platinum Member![/b][/quote]Yeah, my first platinum record!

[Jedi]

Nirvana is one of my favorites. Favorite album-Insecticide because to me it's some real gritty Nirvana. Then again, I might appreciate Insecticide, because I wore Nevermind in the ground. Favorite Song-That's just too damn hard, way too many.

[Mr. Negativity]

wow sir jedi. nice quote. my entire life in so few words. never was a huge fan of nirvana when I was young and trying to play like steve vai. just found them all over again this past year. what a great voice. so many harmonics at once. well, have you ever heard of a band called Muscadine. they aren't around anymore but they were amazing. very sluge. great songs and lyrics. they were on sire records. you may be able to find a copy of their record somewhere. you wouldn't be disapointed. try mp3.com as far as nirvana. i found that when I was still a youngster. but I lost it and now i am trying to get back. when was the last time you went out to the woods alone? or watched an episode of the wheel of fortune? getting closer everyday.

[G. Ratte]

Haven't found Nirvana (not the band), that'd be swell though. I liked Nirvana (the band). Got Bleach when it came out, it was quite the buzz record and we were all over SubPop's jock back then. At the time I liked Mudhoney more though ("Touch Me I'm Sick", "Here Comes Sickness"-dopest lyrics ever). Husker Du(late) and Dinosaur Jr. had pretty much the same sound and I was waaay into them already. My little grungey band played "Mr. Mustache" from Bleach. I probably listened to that record more than the others on purpose, maybe 'cuz I ended up at the college radio station and had to play them all the freakin' time anyways. By the time Pearl Jam came around, the whole sound was a drag though and uncool. Then you had all the Pearl Jam-wannabe bands, and it became even more uncool. Do you remember when JC Penny's was selling flannel shirts with no sleeves? And you'd see crummy frat bands howling like damn Eddie Vedder. That was a dark time.

[Magpel]

I like Nirvana. I think Cobain was a naturally gifted melodist. The messianic thing makes me nervous wherever it happens, but I honestly don't believe that Kurt wished it upon himself. Modest success would have served him better. I think his lyrcis are pretty cool--a naturally verbal and smart guy jigsawing some words he can live with into the melodies, but the melodies are the dominant thing. Oddly, of all the Seattle bands of that era, my favorite was the least "grunge" of the bunch: The Posies. Soundgarden had something going on too. As for spiritual Nirvana, sorry. Not even close yet.