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Originally Posted by Crowquill
Okay, for everyone I edited the poll a bit to include (I think?) all of nirvanas hits, at least the ones I recalled then added an other option. Cause the original poll was pretty bad.
Okay, I never said the fact nirvana popularizing grunge made them special, but they still changed mainstream music. Which is something you seem to keep dodging and ignoring, they did revolutionize mainstream music and popularize grunge, its not like you those two things contradicit eachother. I never said they revolutionized grunge or anything, your going off about stuff I never said.
As for them being not so talented, Grohl was pretty talented, great drummer & his work with the foo fighters. Novoselic wasn't an awful bassist or anything. Cobain was a slightly below average songwriter, he wasn't horrible and he had his moments. I personally love his unplugged stuff, and so what if his guitaring isn't some complex technical guitar wanking? I learned to play guitar because of stuff like nirvana and the ramones. Simplicity doesn't mean its bad.
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I don't particularly care for Grohl. Novoselic's bassline in "Come As You Are" doesn't really alure me, although I still have to say I think that was his best instrumental showcase in Nirvana. Kurt Cobain was so constantly and overpoweringly depressive with his vocals and atmosphere it causes them to be be very repetitive. Plus, he was so over-influenced by his idol bands there is no sincerity in his playing- it's just him trying to become his idols. He tries to base his songwriting styles on such artists as Pixies and The Beatles, and it results it lowers the degree of originality for Nirvana very greatly.