Kurt Cobain kept it real

[ExodusNirvana]

 

[panopticon]

Bolded probably true. Not bolded part is some star would add on for attention.

Nobody'll ever know why he killed himself, but it was probably a mixture of drug addiction, undiagnosed mental illness, a shytty childhood, marrying a crazy courtney love, and the fact that all the music he loved growing up had been co-opted by the commercial music industry.

His suicide note was all about regret over becoming some social pariah, or gen-x spokesman, so if anything, knowing that rock was about to die would be a giant relief to him, because he hated everything about the "rock" scene.

The craziest shyt that nobody talks about is how Pac, Biggie, and Cobain (three biggest musical icons of the 90s) all died in that decade. They should've been the leading figures in music for the next decade or so, instead there was a giant vacuum that got filled up by babypop boy/girl groups - and so music overall the last 20 or so years has become more childish and less mature, exacerbating the death of genuine artistry and leaving us with a buncha rainbow dreadlocked, cookie cutter, creatively bankrupted so-called "musicians".

 

[panopticon]

Shyt is photoshopped, but still

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

I read somewhere that Kurt said one of his proudest moments as a musician was when he saw some black kids buying buying his album

Kurt was one of those PNW liberals...where it sometimes feel they go overboard...

I knew an older white dude named barry in seattle who worked at a shelter and when trump got elected he was heated af...said he was embarassed to be white

Is he somebody i as a black man should listen to? Out side of r&b and rap my nusic catalogue is non existent

I mean I feel you should listen to them just to see what the hype is about for yourself...

As far as from that time period I do think you should check out Alice in Chains...they wrote more deeper songs, had a more metal influence.

However as a black man you need to catch up on the black blues guys who had them white boys from britain acting like groupies first



^^Biggest influence on Stevie Ray Vaughan( who most consider one of the biggest blue guys ever)...when you listen to SRV you're pretty much listening to Albert King's licks.



Buddy Guy...he was doing alot of that wild playing and stuff years before Jimi was known for it. Buddy's playing had a big influence on Clapton,Beck..alot of those british guys. Hell the Cream song 'Strange Brew' is Clapton tryna imitate Buddy's playing.

 

[Patrick Kane]

One of the best documentaries I've ever seen on a musician. It's very personal and sheds light on some of the demons that Kurt faced throughout his. The pacing of it mixed with the cut scenes and audio tapes and journals really makes for a beautiful documentary. Recommend brehs who haven't seen it to check it

 

[bourgeoisie tall freak]

Word this quote seems a little strange in the light of this song. But I guess he was only bigging up his brother.

I mean. . He says ledbelly is his favorite then goes to singing.....Idk what else you would reasonably deduct from that...I mean reasonable thoughts...not coli smiley meme thoughts

 

[BoBurnz]

We definitely miss legit rock music with a soul too. All modern rock is basically just the 80's hair metal about girls and doing a shytload of drugs just in drop-D without any of the self awareness or artistry bands like Soundgarden and Nirvana had. Which is why the genre has completely died from contemporary radio play and the only rock acts generating numbers are fukking ancient.

I fukks with that 90's sound heavy, these cats had art brought on by their pain and shyt was co-opted with the quickness. They learned quick how contemporary and modern hip-hop artists feel.

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

He wasn't in it for money.

the only reason why he even signed to a major was because the group he stanned (Sonic Youth) signed to DGC as well. The group went into Nevermind thinking if they sold 250K (which was light back then), they woulda been fine with that.

To date that record has sold 30 mil worldwide. That shyt overwhelmed him. To be labeled a spokesman for a generation is mind boggling. How many people in the world have that sort of pull? On top of that, he had some physical ailment with his stomach that nobody could figure out, so part of his drug dependency was him self-medicating something nobody could fix.

Yea..

most of those Nevermind lyrics were half assed written,some just minutes before they got into the studio..and here you have people propping him up as some new generation John Lennon.

Also he came to resent some of the newer fans coming to their shows..them punk guys be cynical and hate mainstream shyt..

After Kurt’s death, people started reading clues into the lyrics on In Utero, when in fact some of the songs were written over a long period of time and moods, going back to before Nevermind. What did you hear in those songs, before or after his passing?
I never interpreted any of his songs. Kurt never did. He was cagey about his lyrics. You could read into them anything you want. I get these stories from people: “Man, when I was in recovery, I was listening to Nirvana every day, and it helped me get through.” That’s great. I’m not going to tell you what the music means.

Kurt – I would call him the Windmill. I told him that. I’d go, “Did you hear what you just said? You contradicted what you said a minute ago.” He’d laugh at himself, because he knew it. He would be like that. He wanted to be a rock star – and he hated it.-KRIST

It was often hard to tell if he was just playing with words – the puns and combinations – in a lyric.
Kurt said that he never liked literal things. He liked cryptic things. He would cut out pictures of meat from grocery-store fliers, then paste these orchids on them. What does it mean? What is he trying to say? And all this stuff on [In Utero] about the body – there was something about anatomy. He really liked that. You look at his art – there are these people, and they’re all weird, like mutants. And dolls – creepy dolls.-KRIST

 

[Eastside Get The Money]

Kurt was one of those PNW liberals...where it sometimes feel they go overboard...

I knew an older white dude named barry in seattle who worked at a shelter and when trump got elected he was heated af...said he was embarassed to.

Fam I live in Seattle now. We have equity lunches every quarter where we just go hard on white people

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Yea..

most of those Nevermind lyrics were half assed written,some just minutes before they got into the studio..and here you have people propping him up as some new generation John Lennon.

Also he came to resent some of the newer fans coming to their shows..them punk guys be cynical and hate mainstream shyt..

Yeah Kurt was clowning in his lyrics...hell Milk It is so incomprehensible he actually corpses while he yells the hook and they left it in

 

[FunkDoc1112]

 

[panopticon]

However as a black man you need to catch up on the black blues guys who had them white boys from britain acting like groupies first



^^Biggest influence on Stevie Ray Vaughan( who most consider one of the biggest blue guys ever)...when you listen to SRV you're pretty much listening to Albert King's licks.

Albert King

Stax in general

Dap+Rep

 

[Cave Savage]

I remember reading Kurt had NWA on repeat on his tour bus all day

That's odd because they were literally the most misogynistic rap group in existence in 1991. Efil4 couldn't even be released in today's environment.

Kurt was one of those PNW liberals...where it sometimes feel they go overboard...

I knew an older white dude named barry in seattle who worked at a shelter and when trump got elected he was heated af...said he was embarassed to be white


I mean I feel you should listen to them just to see what the hype is about for yourself...

As far as from that time period I do think you should check out Alice in Chains...they wrote more deeper songs, had a more metal influence.

However as a black man you need to catch up on the black blues guys who had them white boys from britain acting like groupies first



^^Biggest influence on Stevie Ray Vaughan( who most consider one of the biggest blue guys ever)...when you listen to SRV you're pretty much listening to Albert King's licks.



Buddy Guy...he was doing alot of that wild playing and stuff years before Jimi was known for it. Buddy's playing had a big influence on Clapton,Beck..alot of those british guys. Hell the Cream song 'Strange Brew' is Clapton tryna imitate Buddy's playing.

I would say that Alice in Chains are a metal band, a song like Them Bones would definitely be thought of of as metal song if they didn't emerge out of early 90s Seattle.

 

[Cave Savage]

Kurt had a song called "I Hate Myself and Want to Die". Ironically it wasn't even that dark for Nirvana standards.

 

[FunkDoc1112]

Kurt had a song called "I Hate Myself and Want to Die". Ironically it wasn't even that dark for Nirvana standards.

Yeah that was sarcasm playing up his image. it was even the original title for In Utero. Kurt was actually a funny dude.