Apr 21, 2006 12:55 PM
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(Updated May 19, 2006 11:51 AM)
Disclaimer: This review includes a lot about Nirvana's band history. It must be understood that any mistakes (If any) was not done on purpose. It is not the intention of the author to make someone look in bad light.
What Nirvana Means To Me
About 5 years ago I was introduced to a new genre of music I had never heard before.. I used to hear Pink Floyd, Doors and other such bands..I had always thought Hard Rock was not my cup of tea.. Then I listened to a band which played music with a blend of punk and alternative rock that the mainstream media of the time referred to as grunge. Yes this band was named Nirvana.I had later got introduced to Death & Glam Metal through Iron Maiden (Number Of The Beast).Thats a different story altogether..So lets not stray away..
Anyway when I first heard Nirvana (the song was named ''Smells Like Teen Spirit'') it felt like I was taken to a different world.. Thus started my journey with Hard rock, an offstream music..Then I heard more of their songs and got acquainted with the band's history and stuff..I enjoyed their music, I grieved over the death of the artists, and then enjoyed their music a bit more, then I grieved a lot...For a brief period of time I thought whats the use of listening to some band which is not going to make no songs no more.. Then when I heard the album ''In Utero'' (after a long time), their third album, I realised it was only the band members who were dead not the band's music....
For those who have no clue of what I am saying
Nirvana was formed in the year 1985 and released their first mainstream album in the year 1989..The album was named Bleach(Not that great a start but there are good pieces of music in it)..Nirvana is still considered as one of the greatest ''grunge'' bands that had been formed Eventhough these guys don't play no music no more...
The band members were :
Vocals Kurt Cobain
Bass Krist Novoselic
Drums Aaron Burckhard - 1987–1988
Dale Crover - 1987–1988, 1990
Dave Foster - 1988
Chad Channing - 1988–1990
Dan Peters - 1990
Dave Grohl - 1990–1994
Guitar Pat Smear - 1993 to 1994 Jason Everman - 1989
Death Of The Kurt Cobain
Now you guys must have realised why I've been saying that the band plays ''no music no more''.As a band .Kurt Cobain, was the first member to die.. Although it legally recognised that Cobain committed suicide some say that he was murdered..In the years following Nirvana's disbanding, both of its surviving members have remained active musically.Nirvana's brief run ended with the death of Cobain in 1994, but the band's popularity expanded in the years that followed.
After disbanding both of its surviving members have remained active musically. Dave Grohl started a band named Foo Fighters in the year 1995.And Krist Novoselic formed a band named Sweet 75.. More recently, Novoselic has become a political activist, founding the political action committee JAMPAC to push musicians' rights.
These guys have released 7 albums in all(excluding the Box Sets)..
All album great ones..
The albums in chronological order are:
Before Cobain(BC)
Bleach(1989), Nevermind(1991), Insecticide(1992), In Utero(1993),
After Death(AD)
MTV Unplugged in New York(1994), From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah(1996) and Nirvana(2002)
The Album
The album Nevermind was released in the year 1991.You can figure out the band members at that time from above.
Track Listing :(My Favourites are in Italics
1. ''Smells Like Teen Spirit''
2. ''In Bloom''
3. ''Come as You Are''
- ''Breed''
5. ''Lithium''
6. ''Polly''
''Territorial Pissings''
''Drain You''
''Lounge Act''
10. ''Stay Away''
- ''On a Plain''
12. ''Something in the Way''
- ''Endless, Nameless''
Make sure you listen to these songs..The rest are also pretty good.. But the songs that I've mentioned are definitive Nirvana of their time
So play these songs and blow your speakers away by listening to one of the greatest grunge band ever..
Warning: Never I repeat Never listen to it while driving. You are bound to loose your concentration..
