The most important person in the grunge revolution, and basically in saving real rock music, was allegedly murdered by people associated with his wife. [video=youtube;GHRA4jqeCaQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N7uGI_cqik[/video] EDIT - because it pasted the wrong video. LOL I was wondering about the Obama stuff.
No Cobain thread is complete without the requisite conspiracy theory link. http://www.cobaincase.com/
Courtney Love is a bat shit crazy bitch so I wouldn't be surprised if she did have him killed. That chick is seriously off her rocker.... no pun intended.
Now, I can believe that Michelle Obama had a posse that took out Curt Cobain. And I can certainly believe that the people of the Côte d'Ivoire were complicit, as they are both French-sounding and probably muslim. But that looks like a mother-fucking INCANDESCENT BULB in that lamp in the background! Where the FUCK are the fluorescents? UNBELIEVABLE.
Oh ronan, you were but a wee lad when grunge was popular, so I can't expect you to appreciate the gravity of this topic. Sent from my DROIDX using Tapatalk
You crazy fuckers over there were raised on the music of the Spice Girls and Robbie Williams, with some Paul Oakenfold raving thrown in for good measure..
Yeah, nevermind Radiohead, Oasis, The Prodigy, The Verve, Stereophonics, Chemical Brothers, or Fat Boy Slim...
Nirvana was great, but the Stone Roses were better. And let's not forget Teenage Fanclub, a group that Cobain at one point proclaimed the best band in the world. The UK did just fine musically.
Cobain's greatest influence, as he admitted to being a "rip-off" of, were the Pixies. Spice Girls, Robbie Williams, and Simon Cowell. Thanks for nothing, UK.
The Pixies were also a band he loved. As were Shonen Knife and Sonic Youth. The point is, the UK indie/alternative scene was as strong, if not more so. Their mainstream was as bad as the US'.
I'm not saying there aren't good UK bands, but in terms of worldwide impact on the direction of music, the US bands have always been the influence. The two major exceptions, IMO, are the Beatles, and they had to come to the US in order to grow from their I Wanna Hold Your Hand bubblegum days, and Black Sabbath, who took what the Beatles and Cream were doing, and made it heavy and dark. Some people may argue Led Zeppelin, The Who, or even The Rolling Stones, but in terms of influence, they were basically just great rock and roll bands, and didn't do much in terms of leaving a last impact on evolution of music (unless playing really, really loud, like The Who, counts).
