jillamanda
04-04-04, 05:18 PM
It's ten years today since Kurt Cobain died (well, it is here in Oz). Did his life and subsequent death have any impact on you?
It did for me. My son was a big Nirvana fan at the time and had been trying to get me to listen to them. We were in the car one day and he put a tape of 'Unplugged in New York' on. I listened to the whole album and the last track came on - 'Where did you sleep last night'..... and all of a sudden I was singing along to it. He looked at me and asked how I knew the words. It's a cover (of a cover) of a song Long John Baldry did in the early 70s, that just happens to be one of my all time favourite tracks. So, from that moment on I was hooked on Nirvana and now have every CD they released, and quite often listen to them. Some days I just have to hear that blood curdling scream at the start of 'From the muddy banks of the Wishkah'. Nirvana opened my eyes about new music.
Whatever you thought of them, they were a turning point in contemporary music, like the Beatles and Elvis Presley were before them, and Kurt's death touched alot of people, in lots of different ways. The generation gap at that time was vast. Kurt's presence would have been felt in alot of families.
R.I.P. Kurt....
I heard someone say on the radio not long ago that the fact that Kurt was dead and Courtney was still alive proved the world was an unfair place...;)
It did for me. My son was a big Nirvana fan at the time and had been trying to get me to listen to them. We were in the car one day and he put a tape of 'Unplugged in New York' on. I listened to the whole album and the last track came on - 'Where did you sleep last night'..... and all of a sudden I was singing along to it. He looked at me and asked how I knew the words. It's a cover (of a cover) of a song Long John Baldry did in the early 70s, that just happens to be one of my all time favourite tracks. So, from that moment on I was hooked on Nirvana and now have every CD they released, and quite often listen to them. Some days I just have to hear that blood curdling scream at the start of 'From the muddy banks of the Wishkah'. Nirvana opened my eyes about new music.
Whatever you thought of them, they were a turning point in contemporary music, like the Beatles and Elvis Presley were before them, and Kurt's death touched alot of people, in lots of different ways. The generation gap at that time was vast. Kurt's presence would have been felt in alot of families.
R.I.P. Kurt....
I heard someone say on the radio not long ago that the fact that Kurt was dead and Courtney was still alive proved the world was an unfair place...;)