Worst Nirvana Song

Might've been interesting to hear a fully realized band arrangement of "opinion" but the acoustic solo version is kinda whatever.

"Beans" posing as a standalone Nirvana song on the boxed set never made much sense to me. Imagining it as part of a weirdo Cobain bedroom cassette alongside "Clean Up Before She Comes" and "Polly" gives it some much needed context IMO.

Yeah, "Opinion" is just juvenile in the worst way. Also, this is funny:

Last time I listened to Bleach one of the songs really stuck out as especially forecasting Puddle of Mudd style post-grunge radio dreck and I think it may have been this one.

because, around '96-'97, a cover of "School" by a forgotten "post-grunge radio dreck" band called Another Society got a lot of play on the local "Active Rock" station in the Boston area. Actually, based on their one other song that got some play on the same station, I'd say the band straddled the nebulous border between post-grunge and nu-metal. Nobody ever really talks about Nirvana's influence on nu-metal, but I think everyone knows it's there. Attitudinally is obvious enough - Kurt's frank self-loathing and disaffection with the testosterone pumped up and minus his saving wit - but I mean musically too, and deriving from "Bleach" especially. I'll bet Korn and Staind stole a ton of ideas from that record.

"In Bloom"

(no, I'm not kidding)

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, June 15, 2005 5:03 PM (8 years ago)

Good job, 2005 me. I was just about to chime in with that again.

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, March 23, 2014 1:15 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Good job, 2014 me. I was just about to chime in with that again.

god i wish jack endino got the chance to remix the tracks he recorded on incesticide. "beeswax" is such a killer song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0IC1uQjHMY

New Wave Polly is the worst by leagues

New Wave Polly is awful but my hipster opinion is that "smells like teen spirit" is the one that actually ruined the band by becoming bigger than them. It became such an anthem that it made Nirvana "the most important band of their generation" effectively putting so much pressure on them that it ended up destroying them.

On the other hand: if it weren't for the success of that song we wouldn't have the intense trainwreck of In Utero that is amazing at capturing that self destruction and frustration of having everyone dissecting your every move and expecting another "smells like teen spirit pt 2".

Going off topic but it reminds me of Radiohead and Creep. Nirvana retaliated with "Rape Me" (a blatant copy in the intro riff and a fuck you in live performances of people expecting them to play the song). Radiohead expressed their frustration with "My Iron Lung" and OKC.

Both In Utero and OKC wouldn't exist without that pressure.