I'm addicted to Nirvana's "With The Lights Out" box set.

[SmileyBoy]

My mother got it for me for Christmas. She's the best.

I swear, Cobain was a fucking musical GENIUS. He was doing this shit when he was 19, fer chrissakes. The song I'm listening to now, called Mrs. Butterworth, was performed just a week after his 20th birthday in 1987. It's amazing listening to Disc One and hearing all the stuff they played when they were known as "Fecal Matter" back in 1986-87. It still seems weird that at one time, Kurt, Chris and Aaron Burckhard (their first drummer) were just three snot-nosed stoners living in a hick town in southwestern Washington playing a few gigs to make some cash. Their first gig was a house party in Raymond, Washington in 1986. They were just three losers playing for a bunch of other losers. Imagine if you told one of the guys at the party that these guys rocking on stage will become a world-famous band in five years. They'd never believe you.

Anyway, I gotta get back to listening to it. It kicks so much ASS.:headbang:

[graywarrior]

1. I miss Cobain.

[SmileyBoy]

8. I do too.

:(

[Jamastiene]

2. What kills me is that geography kept me from being able to be

there or anywhere big during the 90's when I had a band. I don't care what anybodys says, I loved Kurt Cobain and damn this town I live in for being a backasswards redneck town with no opportunities.

[SmileyBoy]

4. What kills me is that I was just a little too young to truly enjoy them.

I'm 23, so I was just a kid back then. I was 11 and a half when Kurt killed himself. I had actually discovered Nirvana the previous fall when I bought an In Utreo cassette tape. I felt really sad the day he killed himself, but I wasn't crying over it. But then this pushed me to start really following the band by the time I was 12 and 13, even though they were no more. When I was 13 or 14 in junior high school, I loved them the most. This was back in 1995-96. I fell away from them throughout my high school and college years recently, but this CD set has really renewed my interest for them.

[Jamastiene]

10. I was torn up pretty bad when he killed himself.

I still remember that I had just gotten home from work when I found out. It was late that night at 7:00 p.m. when I found out. I sure am glad now though, that there are more Kurt fans here on DU. Where I live, I'm the only one who likes him. I live in a red state. I don't know if you have read many interviews or heard much of what Kurt had to say, but he railed against the whole redneck thing too. He once said that if someone was racist, sexist, or homophobic, he didn't want them in his audience, because he was against that stuff. He was great, IMHO.

[Gregorian]

3. I'm still discovering them.

You have to remember that the Germs were also amazing. It all melts into one. Or sometimes it seems.


When I was 19, I was part of a group of incredibly creative guys. It's amazing to listen to the tapes. Youth and enthusiasm, and a bit of alcohol can add up to awesome results. And death.

[SmileyBoy]

5. Ah yes, Pat Smear's band.

He should've stayed with the Foo Fighters.

There was a lot of good stuff coming from Seattle, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Boston et al. in those days.

[Blue-Jay]

6. I think people toss about the term "genius" too liberally.

He was good, but a "genius"?

nah.

[SmileyBoy]

7. I think he was.

It's a lot better than any other band I've been listening to in the past 12-13 years, with the possible exception of System Of A Down.

[Jamastiene]

11. For many of us, he was.

To some, music was just fine at the end of the eighties. To the rest of us, we were beyond tire of it and plotting our best to get something new into the mainstream. Listening to punk in the 80's (or even now where I live) got you laughed at. He was genius if for no other reason getting rid of Axl Rose from the spotlight. I credit Kurt Cobain for that stroke of genius. Who would have thought anyone could have brought something new and good to music back then? Trust me, for many of us, he was GENIUS. Love live Kurt Cobain's music and his lyrics and his views.

[graywarrior]

9. The more I listen, the more I hear the genius of Cobain

Multi-layered genius.