What's Yea Forums's opinion on Kurt's songwriting?
It’s the only good thing about him.
Genius
This
Lyrically, sort of sexually perverted and focused on sickness and distress, but that's just a description of grunge in general. I guess you could equally ask what I think of Frank Black's lyricism, since he was clearly a big inspiration
Look at the lyrics off Surfer Rosa or Come on Pilgrim and then the lyrics off Incesticide or In Utero. Huge crossover minus the spanish shit
He was a pretty great songwriter, even if he did lift a lot of stuff wholesale from other bands. Was able to push the boundaries a pop a lot and evolve with each album. He deserves the praise, but not for the songs which usually get it.
I think his lyrics are often pretty cringe but there's some gold here and there. I like the actual songs/melodies he makes, musically he was pretty good, even if it was simple stuff.
Bad cause he can't play the flute.
Pretty fucking good. Can’t think of a bad nirvana song honestly.
WITH THE LIGHTS OUT
I don't like Frances Farmer. It's boring and repetitive.
Incredibly amateurish but catchy
Spoiler alert
Yeah like a stomache infection
genius foreshadowing on his part
Was he a gun nut?
Tourettes
Really good but it can be a bit hit or miss. There's no Nirvana record that I didn't massively enjoy the first time I listened to it but now that I'm very familiar with them they all have fairly large no go zones of tracks that I would skip.
I think this has a lot to do with the simplicity of them. I mean do you really need to hear 'Polly' more than once?
I think the simplicity and the inherent catchiness of his music makes the replayibility factor very high to me
Not bad imo
Not that bad. Obviously they’re not perfect. It’s filler.
New wave Polly
Even in his youth (hormoaning version)
Aero zeppelin
Hairspray queen
A lot of songs from the with the lights out box set
A lot of his songs are purely mediocre, there are few standout songs that compare to other great bands at the time
Everything I’ve listened to from them I’ve enjoyed on some level. I’m not a hardcore fan albeit so I don’t know all of their shit.
Never listened to insecticide? I listed three songs from that one
I've always been more into the PJ/Alice/Soundgarden side of the scene, but I certainly enjoy singing along to Nirvana lyrics. I feel like they're meant to be consumed differently, if that makes any sense. Like the words are less important than the choral performance.
I’ll check it out
For every good song there's a bad one
Really? For me it's like a 10:3 ratio.
its pretty terrible nowadays
I like Aero Zeppelin and Hairspray Queen. Two of the best tracks on that record.
I think Nirvana is a great band but a pretty overrated one at that.
He wrote pretty good songs, but it's a bit overrated. I don't even think he would have liked to be remembered as some sort of rock God. The older I get, the more immature he seems to me. The more I think he was just a stupid kid rather than someone I admire in any way.
Also, there are bands from the 90s I listen to all the time, and Nirvana isn't one of them.
better looking than Frank Blank
Cobain estate should be paying him
I like all the good love songs
right here OP
I'm not sure when but eventually he started loving guns. He owned 3 or 4 guns before the police confiscated them after Cobain was arrested for domestic assault
He could write really good riffy Hard Rock/Grunge as well as great Power Pop/Alternative. His chord progressions were generally simple but he always had great vocal melodies to go over them.
even nirvana fans know to listen the pixies if you want to hear nirvana
very unrespectable schtik.
pop jingle rock star pretending to be both above and deeper than literally that
This. You are listening to music wrong if you like Nirvana but don't listen to the Pixies.
>I mean do you really need to hear 'Polly' more than once?
My favorite Nirvana song, actually.