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Nirvana- Pearls Before Swine (lemmy.world)

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I feel like Rat tested me too. Sigh.

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[-] Frog@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 month ago

My younger cousin brought her friend to a family party. The friend was wearing a Kurt Cobain shirt, probably from Urban Outfitters. She said it's her favorite band along with Panic! at the Disco.

I'm glad his music is popular with the younger generation and I hope it keeps on going.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

My daughter wears Kinks and Ramones shirts and she does listen to the Kinks and the Ramones. She likes 70s music more than modern music. I can't blame her.

[-] Frog@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

I was watching this comedian on Instagram that showed a study that all modern music is sounding the same. That's probably why. Your daughter has good ears for music.

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 12 points 1 month ago

Maybe all modern pop music, but there's still a lot of good stuff out there. King Gizzard and Shpongle immediately jump to mind as being pretty unique.

I'm looking forward to the day when pop music becomes so heavily manufactured that the music industry ends up killing itself by boring it's consumers to tears. I'd be willing to bet that if the music industry collapsed then we'd have a year or two without any major releases, and then we'd suddenly have a tidal wave of some of the most unique music anyone's heard in a long time.

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 4 points 1 month ago

Every now and then I turn it on again but it's plain to see that the radio still sucks

BUT, Pop music right now is all vibe no hook. Even if you dislike the vibe it's still heading in an interesting direction.

[-] Boozilla@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Check out Rick Beato on YouTube (if you haven't already).

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

Alternatively: don't

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Pat Finnerty on YouTube is pretty fun too

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think the younger generation may appreciate Daniel Johnston too. He was a super weird and awkward guy. He was also Kurt’s favorite songwriter, and biggest inspiration. The Late Great Daniel Johnston is a solid compilation of his work, and there’s a documentary about his life called The Devil and Daniel Johnston.

Also, fuck Courtney Love.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I remember the sort-of joke when Kurt Cobain died was, "why couldn't it have been Courtney?"

[-] PrimeMinisterKeyes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

The late Jim Shepard would have been my recommendation, bit I might be biased.

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[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 16 points 1 month ago

if Back to the future was made today Marty would go back to 1994 and play smells like teen spirit at the high school dance

... actually wasn't Kurt already dead? quick who was big in 97? Limp Bizkit?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Marty invents Insane Clown Posse at the prom?

[-] The_v@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Foo Fighters, Green Day, Weezer,

Damn it!!!... Fuck you..

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He didn't play music of the era at the dance. He would go back to 1994 and play something from today. But music hasn't really evolved since then, so nobody would be shocked. He'd end up doing some dance number while lip-syncing a studio written pop song.

Edit: ah you're talking about when he first starts playing Chuck Berry with the band. I was thinking about the end of the performance when he slips into playing heavy metal and freaks everyone out.

[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He could go up there and do some Skrillex Scary Monsters & Nice Sprites or Eminem Godzilla. I'm certain everyone in 94 would be like, "Wtf was that‽"

[-] Rubisco@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

Mazzy Star - Fade Into You for the Earth Angel, 'they have to kiss' track.
Radiohead - Paranoid Android for the track that "really cooks" and goes off the rails.

It's a trip reading through these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_in_music

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_in_music

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[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago

Man, I remember being sad when Freddie Mercury died.

Hell, as young as I was, I remember my mom crying her eyes out when John Lennon died.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

A friend of mine was such a big Queen fan that she had to take the day off school when Freddie Mercury died.

[-] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

I remember Freddie too. He hit me much harder then Cobain three years later. Freddie's death I got from the paper, but for Cobain I was watching MTV's Most Wanted with Ray Cokes, which was aired live, and he read a piece of news that a dead person was found at Kurt Cobain's house but that nothing was confirmed.

[-] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 10 points 1 month ago

"oldies" these days are Avril Lavigne, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Gorillaz. Or as I like to call them: music from the early century.

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 8 points 1 month ago

or as I like to call it Classical Music

[-] lunarul@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I felt old when I started hearing Limp Bizkit and Blink-182 on my local classic rock station.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I think this is one of the first generations where kids, in general, listen to softer pop music compared to their parents.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Because there's more money in it, and everything is all about money now.

[-] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I always was about the money. Nirvana even named one of their songs Radio Friendly Unit Shifter.

If all the kids wanted to listen to death metal, there would be death metal on the radio.

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I remember thinking that I wasn't happy everyone was comparing him to Jimmy Hendrix, Jim Morrison, and Janis Joplin, saying he joined the 27 club. The fact that he killed himself felt like an exclusionary detail.

[-] bamfic@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

The others did too, just not intentionally, at least as far as we know.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't think I even got into Nirvana until after he died. I didn't really start getting into music until high school when I was able to buy CDs (or pirate shit) and listen to the radio stations I wanted and not what my mom wanted to. Prior to high school, I only knew Garth Brooks and fuckin' Raffi songs 😩

Then again, I very much remember seeing his MTV Unplugged set. I just can't remember if it was live at the time or just a rerun.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

It's my understanding that most people really develop their musical tastes in their teenage years.

[-] cerement@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago

Rocky Horror was before my time.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago

Wow, "where were you when Lennon died" too old to make a comic about being old, eh?

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

where were you when Engelbert Humperdinck died

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Where were you when Rudy Valee died?

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ooo, I actually remember this one. Not the death, but the year and month. I was in wine country, drinking my wine.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I actually didn't realize until I looked it up just now that he died in 1986. I was thinking more like 1956.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

That's where I was with Humperdinck until I looked him up too

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Damn reality ruining the joke.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

What if you were more of an R.E.M. guy than a Nirvana guy?

[-] bitwaba@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Then go back to sleep

[-] RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

I remember when Michael Jackson died. Can I be old now too?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

No! Get back to class!

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I remember when James Earl Jones died. Did I do this right? It doesn't work, I don't feel much older now.

[-] Vince@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I was pretty young so I didn't get it, I remember asking my brother what they're going to do now, who's gonna be the singer?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Imagine if he said, "the drummer, but he's going to start a different band."

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Fuck… guess I’m old too. Not sure when that happened.

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