Nirvana C/D

"YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOME RRROCK AND ROLL, OR YOU WANNA GO HOME!?"

doing a new song seems like a smart idea -- I mean, by and large most musicians would rather play something new than a song they played a hundred times, also lots of emotion with a reunion minus kurt makes it just weird to have a guest singer on a 'beloved' track...and the way they all play together automatically sounds like nirvana by default because that's the muscle they're using...it was a great tribute, in my opinion. And it still left that space where Cobain was relatively untouched.

idk, all I know is it felt p rockin to me

and complemented the rocked out kinda singing/playing that Macca has done in the past vis Helter etc.

i dug it

the end.

lol why did those portugese ppl go to the nickelback concert if they hated them?

They were probably the opener for someone else.

i guess that must be the case. they seem like too popular a band to be the opener, but maybe that video was from a long time ago.

festival

Why would anyone name their band "Nickleback"?

lol why did those portugese ppl go to the nickelback concert if they hated them?

― sadkdsajkldaskjdsajklasdkl (Pat Finn), Thursday, December 13, 2012 2:47 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://i.imgur.com/cu3Sq.png

And now, Avis Rent-A-Car is proud to present the second best band in America. Will you welcome Garfunkel, Messina, Oates, and Lisa singing their number two hit, "Born to Runner-up!"
[Audience boos]

should we poll which is the better lead singer of Nirvana

I'm sure Dead Kurt genuinely appreciates the absurdity of being replaced with a Beatle playing electric slide ukelele, but the song was shitty old man Casino-circuit bar band dreck. The whole point of Nirvana was to ridicule any and all bands that sang songs with lyrics like "whoaaaa yeah mama, set me free, come on now!"

But whatever, it was the perfect Nirvana reunion for Pearl Jam fans, and at the very least it annoyed Courtney, which is always a good thing.

Oh yeah also the hurricane relief thing. That's good, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPUQRQMDEm0

del griffith otm

The whole point of Nirvana was to ridicule any and all bands that sang songs with lyrics like "whoaaaa yeah mama, set me free, come on now!"

Disagree that this was the whole point of Nirvana.

yeah that's a little absurd

it was definitely part of them tho

The whole point of Nirvana was to ridicule any and all bands that sang songs with lyrics like "whoaaaa yeah mama, set me free, come on now!"

That explains why Kurt was such an unabashed Led Zeppelin fan, and had Meet The Beatles! and Get The Knack in his top 50 albums list.

but the song was shitty old man Casino-circuit bar band dreck

Yeah, lyrically, completely disagree musically.

the song was shitty old man Casino-circuit bar band dreck.
― del griffith, Thursday, December 13, 2012 8:28 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no it was way noisier and messier than that kind of music ever is

I'm mystified at the idea of a band having a "point."

should we poll which is the better lead singer of Nirvana

― too many encores (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, December 13, 2012 3:17 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/78313608/The+Point+Harry+Nilsson.png

the new song was fine imo but honestly it would've been more fun if they'd rocked out "Helter Skelter" together instead of doing a "HS" knockoff a few minutes after Paul and his band ran through the original

the song was shitty old man Casino-circuit bar band dreck.
― del griffith, Thursday, December 13, 2012 8:28 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no it was way noisier and messier than that kind of music ever is

― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, December 13, 2012 3:47 PM (2 minutes ago)

Exactly, if you swapped out the lyrics for something abstract or darker and swapped out the players for people you may think are "cooler" and changed nothing else about how it sounded I'd be surprised if anyone here still had a problem with it.

That explains why Kurt was such an unabashed Led Zeppelin fan, and had Meet The Beatles! and Get The Knack in his top 50 albums list.

― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Thursday, December 13, 2012 8:42 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^

i kinda dug the mccartney/nirvana jam

Yeah I was expecting them to help out on Helter Skelter.

I have a feeling people who didn't like it were prepared not to before it started.

there weren't enough Kaoscillators hanging from gold chains, these guys are clearly behind the times

still really impressed by the Helter Skelter/Blackbird/I've Got A Feeling/Let Me Roll It setlist picks, though, Paul secretly has good taste in his own shit

for the Quincy Jones tribute at the HOF I hope Trey Songz joins him for a rousing "The Girl is Mine."

Paul secretly has good taste in his own shit

^^^

was a pretty interesting set

Kanye was so boring

I'm just glad we didn't have to do Hey Jude for the millionth time

that new "Nirvana" song sounds has a Led Zep vibe, which Nircana never had. and it's good.

there really was a part of me that wanted to see old Macca go out there and tear through "Scentless Apprentice"

that new "Nirvana" song sounds has a Led Zep vibe, which Nircana never had. and it's good.

― nostormo, Thursday, December 13, 2012 2:02 PM (9 minutes ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwYzzN1AIqw

Grohl is like Bonham without the jazz

yeah he's pretty great

lol

Man, people have some weird ideas about and conceptions of Nirvana, that's for sure. I don't really think the dude who covered a song whose lyrics were "Up, up, up and down/turn, turn, turn around/round, round, round about and over again" would really be that put out by "whoaaaa yeah mama, set me free, come on now," let alone make it "the whole point" of his band.

if there was any point, it was 'i listen to all these different types of music, how about I combine all the things I like about them into songs'

yknow, like bands do

dudes wanted to rock imo

Man, people have some weird ideas about and conceptions of Nirvana, that's for sure. I don't really think the dude who covered a song whose lyrics were "Up, up, up and down/turn, turn, turn around/round, round, round about and over again" would really be that put out by "whoaaaa yeah mama, set me free, come on now," let alone make it "the whole point" of his band.

it seems to me that his love for the Vaselines had to do with honesty, sincerity, and authenticity, which I suppose the chest-beating machismo inherent in "whoaaaa yeah mama, set me free, come on now" is at least theoretically antithetical to.

what if you sincerely, honestly wanted that mama to set you free?

what if that mama was a children's television show host?

moms can do pretty amazing things when you plead, iirc

there was a rolling stone interview where kurt said he found mccartney embarrassing, so maybe nirvana was the ultimate expression of being embarrassed by mccartney. he also had a recipe for pear soup in a grunge cookbook.

I love Macca but he is def embarassing