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Originally Posted by BastardofYoung
That is nice. Explain this with words now and not an emoticon.
What i said is true, they helped give them exposure to a whole generation who may not of known who they were. Daniel more than VU, VU was more known. But for kids who did not know them at that time, they were the ones who opened the door to those bands. A 12 year old who never heard of VU (they were not even played on radio here) like me, that is how I heard of them. I heard Nirvana's cover of VU and went out and bought the album. That is how kids of that time were exposed to them.
Here radio didn't play stuff like that, music video TV didn't... so how else were you to know of these artists unless you happened to know that music geek who could tell you to check them out? Through the bands you listened to.
It may sound funny to you, but to be there at that time and be a youth at that time, especially in small cities that only played top 40, that was the only way.
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It's funny because you think that by covering one of V.U.'s, Nirvana gave them more popularity and attention. We're talking about the band who created so many genres and has had influence over so many others. A band that is FAR more important than Nirvana. What gave V.U. more attention was the popularity of Lou Reed's solo work and other bands' constant citations as them being a musical influence (Sonic Youth, Pavement, and many others).
If you want to make any argument involving V.U. and Nirvana, then we could argue that without V.U. then there would be no Nirvana.