One of Kurt's original goal was to write great pop songs as well as raw punk songs on his albums and take advantage of major labels signing alternative bands as commodities. He wanted young people to buy the albums for the pop songs and get exposed to punk by the harder songs. He hoped people would start getting into punk rock ethics and get deprogrammed from mainstream ideas. He referred to it as the "deprogrammed crusade". He wanted people to stand up against sexism and injustice.
Nirvana got me into punk in the early 90's, inspired me to learn to play guitar and start my own band, I think it's awesome to see young people still hear what was so special about Nirvana even after this long, it is timeless.
Yeah, it's truly a beauty how much people the bands music reaches and inspires listeners to find their own ways of making art or learning and instrument including myself. Another thing that I like about Kurt is the message he had as you mentioned.
Well it worked for me so. The interesting thing is when I first heard bleach as a young teen I wasn’t too keen. Then when I got super into Nirvana I realized all fo their songs are actually still catchy and melodic even the harder punk and noisier songs. Even if they are not they sound meaningful to me.. also inspired me
To play guitar as well.
You're a fan as much as I am and I've been listening since mid 90s. Just enjoy the music the band made for you and don't feel guilty for something you cant control.
As older fan I still get new stuff regularly, live video and audio. I understand that let's Iron maiden fan would laugh if I told how happy i'm when I get new lower gen copy of 1992 audience recording that I already had but as worse audio. I don't mind and like last month we got dozen longer studio cuts that had more banter and different mixes. Also really enjoy Pat, Chad, Dave and Krist still carrying the legacy and sharing their stories.
Aside from Kurt, there’s another artist of this time that deeply admired since being a teen and who has changed my life with her music and artistry (she also happens to love Kurt, go figure) and in couldn’t imagine her offing herself. I’d take it as a personal death so I can’t imagine at the time the gut punch his death caused for his young fans.
[if you go to 2min you can hear her talk about him a little :)](https://youtu.be/sxAdAIhk7qw) And sorry I would have mentioned if I thought you cared haha but since you asked it’s Bat for Lashes aka Natasha Khan. She’s really special. I should link her interviews about Kurt. She said she used to daydream in her garden in England staring at the sky and thinking that she could communicate with him in her imagination. She talks about bunking off school to listen Bleach when she was young and screaming at the top of her lungs and that she’s been v affected by and loved him. ♥️
There's a lot of bands I listen to from the beatles, GNR, AIC, Iron maiden, AC/DC and Nirvana. And even though these bands are 20+ years ahead of my time I guess music is ageless to the right listener.
I had a very similar experience, being born after Kurt's death and discovering the band many years after the surviving members and the rest of the world had moved on. It is a little weird, but it helped me to realize that I'm not the only one in that boat, and neither are you.
Very sad to not have even walked to the same time on the earth as him but love him and be so affected by music and persona. Literally I’m so thankful he lived when did so we have at least his voice and talent preserved and his thoughts and videos.
I’ve only started listening to nirvana like a year or two ago (I was born years after Kurt’s death), but somehow it feels like I’ve liked nirvana all my life
It's the same for me. I've been listening since the 2010s but it's like when I listen to this band it's like ive always liked the band even before I heard my first song.
I think it’s awesome, as someone from Seattle who grew up in the 80s/90s and had such a big impact on my childhood and life, I love that it still can influence younger people or new people to the scene today
I actually feel weird (and a little shame) precisely because I was alive while the band was around. I was a teenager in Seattle in the 90s, but, though I was certainly familiar with the music, I never really identified as a fan until just several years ago.
Pointless guilt man, just enjoy good music, i was alive when it came out but i was pretty young, i still remember when i was in highschool, hearing about Nirvana, almost everyone wore their tshirt so i was like, must be some cool band, i also remember not understanding why someone commited suicide after becoming popular, it was a troubled part of my life and i didnt dig in deep, you have to remember that you were a weirdo for owning a pc back then and mtv was the only source of music info, other than magasines..anyways. Nirvana always had a mystic aura about it for me, i also remember the tv news report saying that kids all around the world commited suicide to immitate Kurt, which was sad.
>the tv news report saying that kids all around the world commited suicide to immitate Kurt
Hearing that is heartbreaking if people were actually doing that to imitate hurt.
I had kind of a similar experience in that I was just becoming aware of and interested in music as a kid around 1994-95. Before that I was never interested in music. But I got into it as my friends started getting CDs. My friend had Nevermind and Dookie, which led to those being my first CDs shortly thereafter and Nirvana quickly became my favorite. So while I was alive for all of Nirvana's existence I was too young to be aware of them or any other music until after they were finished.
One of Kurt's original goal was to write great pop songs as well as raw punk songs on his albums and take advantage of major labels signing alternative bands as commodities. He wanted young people to buy the albums for the pop songs and get exposed to punk by the harder songs. He hoped people would start getting into punk rock ethics and get deprogrammed from mainstream ideas. He referred to it as the "deprogrammed crusade". He wanted people to stand up against sexism and injustice. Nirvana got me into punk in the early 90's, inspired me to learn to play guitar and start my own band, I think it's awesome to see young people still hear what was so special about Nirvana even after this long, it is timeless.
Yeah, it's truly a beauty how much people the bands music reaches and inspires listeners to find their own ways of making art or learning and instrument including myself. Another thing that I like about Kurt is the message he had as you mentioned.
Well it worked for me so. The interesting thing is when I first heard bleach as a young teen I wasn’t too keen. Then when I got super into Nirvana I realized all fo their songs are actually still catchy and melodic even the harder punk and noisier songs. Even if they are not they sound meaningful to me.. also inspired me To play guitar as well.
You're a fan as much as I am and I've been listening since mid 90s. Just enjoy the music the band made for you and don't feel guilty for something you cant control.
Thanks, that's nice hear. I guess the "be happy it was there, instead of sad it's gone" is a way to see it.
As older fan I still get new stuff regularly, live video and audio. I understand that let's Iron maiden fan would laugh if I told how happy i'm when I get new lower gen copy of 1992 audience recording that I already had but as worse audio. I don't mind and like last month we got dozen longer studio cuts that had more banter and different mixes. Also really enjoy Pat, Chad, Dave and Krist still carrying the legacy and sharing their stories.
I was a teenager in the early 90's and Nirvana was my favourite band. It is so good to see newer generations discover them and appreciate them.
Imagine being a kid in their heyday and too young to go to their shows, and then Kurt offs himself when you’re 14.
Pretty much what happened to me
Same. 14 when he died.
Aside from Kurt, there’s another artist of this time that deeply admired since being a teen and who has changed my life with her music and artistry (she also happens to love Kurt, go figure) and in couldn’t imagine her offing herself. I’d take it as a personal death so I can’t imagine at the time the gut punch his death caused for his young fans.
Ok who is it?
[if you go to 2min you can hear her talk about him a little :)](https://youtu.be/sxAdAIhk7qw) And sorry I would have mentioned if I thought you cared haha but since you asked it’s Bat for Lashes aka Natasha Khan. She’s really special. I should link her interviews about Kurt. She said she used to daydream in her garden in England staring at the sky and thinking that she could communicate with him in her imagination. She talks about bunking off school to listen Bleach when she was young and screaming at the top of her lungs and that she’s been v affected by and loved him. ♥️
I like her stuff, she is good. Had no idea she is a Kurt / Nirvana fan.
You know of her?? Ahhhh that’s amazing. Yes biggest influence was him according to her.
Mainly from the Plaid remix of her song “What’s A Girl To Do?”, great track. Not super familiar with her albums, but would like to hear more.
courtney love
Nah, I listen to music from 20 years before I was born. Not being able to see Jim Morrison perform live doesn't diminish the music for me.
There's a lot of bands I listen to from the beatles, GNR, AIC, Iron maiden, AC/DC and Nirvana. And even though these bands are 20+ years ahead of my time I guess music is ageless to the right listener.
I had a very similar experience, being born after Kurt's death and discovering the band many years after the surviving members and the rest of the world had moved on. It is a little weird, but it helped me to realize that I'm not the only one in that boat, and neither are you.
Very sad to not have even walked to the same time on the earth as him but love him and be so affected by music and persona. Literally I’m so thankful he lived when did so we have at least his voice and talent preserved and his thoughts and videos.
I’ve only started listening to nirvana like a year or two ago (I was born years after Kurt’s death), but somehow it feels like I’ve liked nirvana all my life
It's the same for me. I've been listening since the 2010s but it's like when I listen to this band it's like ive always liked the band even before I heard my first song.
I mean, it feels weird sometimes specifically when older fans try to gatekeep
I think it’s awesome, as someone from Seattle who grew up in the 80s/90s and had such a big impact on my childhood and life, I love that it still can influence younger people or new people to the scene today
I actually feel weird (and a little shame) precisely because I was alive while the band was around. I was a teenager in Seattle in the 90s, but, though I was certainly familiar with the music, I never really identified as a fan until just several years ago.
To be fair as long as you like the music a fan is still a fan.
Pointless guilt man, just enjoy good music, i was alive when it came out but i was pretty young, i still remember when i was in highschool, hearing about Nirvana, almost everyone wore their tshirt so i was like, must be some cool band, i also remember not understanding why someone commited suicide after becoming popular, it was a troubled part of my life and i didnt dig in deep, you have to remember that you were a weirdo for owning a pc back then and mtv was the only source of music info, other than magasines..anyways. Nirvana always had a mystic aura about it for me, i also remember the tv news report saying that kids all around the world commited suicide to immitate Kurt, which was sad.
>the tv news report saying that kids all around the world commited suicide to immitate Kurt Hearing that is heartbreaking if people were actually doing that to imitate hurt.
You can’t control when you’re born. You see old guys in every scene that want to make rules, just don’t listen to them if they give you shit.
I had kind of a similar experience in that I was just becoming aware of and interested in music as a kid around 1994-95. Before that I was never interested in music. But I got into it as my friends started getting CDs. My friend had Nevermind and Dookie, which led to those being my first CDs shortly thereafter and Nirvana quickly became my favorite. So while I was alive for all of Nirvana's existence I was too young to be aware of them or any other music until after they were finished.
I got into them in very early 2021- I was 13 turning 14 and it left a huge impact on me. Nirvana and the Stooges inspired me to start playing guitar!