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You are probably too young too understand. I'm gonna write now, and it's probably not going to make sense, but I really can't structure this without taking 4 weeks..
Reasons why Nirvana probably are still the best band ever;
I remember the first time I heard a Nirvana song, over at a friend's house, I was a teenager, you know how that goes, rebellious, generally angry at something, pissed off with the world, yet still pretty much innocent with that wonder you have when you are young. He put on a single 7" he had, by a band I'd never heard of called Nirvana the song was Sliver. We turned the stereo up and sat down to have a listen. It starts with that stupidly simple bassline from Novaselic then Kurt's voice comes in quietly, singing about how his parent's have taken gone out and taken him to his grandparents then BLAM in comes this massive distorted guitar, it doesn't come in, in time he just whacks it on and right at that point we started jumping around and didn't stop for the rest of the afternoon. That pretty much sums up the greatest thing about Nirvana, that they could reach through anything you had going on, through the worries about THAT girl, through the worries about schoolwork, through the fact that your parents had grounded you, they ignored all that, because their music let you in on a secret that at that age it seemed that no one else knew. None of it mattered, it wasn't important, and never would be, all that was important was your body bouncing around out of control because this band knew exactly what you were feeling, they knew exactly what it felt like to be stuck somewhere terrible with people you don't really like doing things you don't want to do. Nirvana filled, for me, a musical gulf that I didn't even know existed, let alone wanted filling. The highlight of my life musically was being at Reading in 92 to see Nirvana. Cobain came on stage dressed in a hospital gown and pushed in a wheelchair, it ended with 15 minutes of howling feedback, Cobain with a broken leg after jumping into Grohl's drumkit, and Novaselic's bass broken in half.
Nowadays if I put Nirvana on, they make me want to drive around 40 MPH over the speed limit, they make me want to drink to much and swear, they are pure rock and roll.
yep good words.