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pearljammer on 20 September 2010
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disolitude said:

Backstreet boys and britney spears have left their mark on the music industry as well...leaving a mark has nothing to do with tallent or musical ability these days.

True. That statement alone doesn't really stand. However, Nirvana are respected among most of their peers and their predecessors. I don't believe that that is any more of a qualifier, but it seems like an important distinction. I don't think Spears would recieve the same sort off respect of a great pop artist a decade before her - like Prince.

I get what you are saying and my statement was a generalization...but I really don't see the brilliance in Nirvana.  Lyrically I have a hard time listening to it as Kirk seems obsessed with mockery of the fame status and self infliced depression which can not appeal to any grown man. If I was a teenager, I guess I could get how life sucks but I grew up in eastern Europe and couldn't afford to feel sorry for myself...

You not seeing the brilliance in Nirvana is perfectly normal; I certainly don't either. From your perspective, his words are completely unrelatable and his music, boring.

I've also played guitar for over 10 years and I can not understand the musical relevance of Nirvana in rock music(not media). Compared to something like Cowboys from Hell by pantera which came out a year earlier, or the black album by metallica...I mean, is there really an argument that Kirk could compete with those bands on the musical level?

I don't think anyone really contests that either someone like Cobain or Neil Young are nearly on a comparative technical level of guitar play as someone like Kirk Hammett. What people are attracted to are the melodies and how it may respond to the lyrics, other instruments, the mood, etc. Some guitarists are phenominal at it - for me, namely Neil Young.

I wouldn't have an issue with Nirvana if they just came out and co-existed with everyone on the music scene, after all it was honest music...But the effect it had on the media as well as the complete retardness of Kirk and his ways of burrying other bands/forms or hard rock...make me actually dislike them and the whole grunge movement.