The World's Greatest Bowie Cover...

[BrianH]

Unbelievable!

http://robmanuel.blogspot.com/2004/10/kran...sing-bowie.html

[simmo]

I have no sound, but I am now extremely traumatised.

[BrianH]

In this instance I'd advice you strongly not to get sound...

[PDJ]

Oh dear God. I heard a good cover recently of "Life on Mars" by Neil Hannon and Yann Tierson. The Krankies though????

[fudge]

Nirvana's cover of The Man Who Sold The World is awesome.

[PDJ]

It's pretty decent, yes.

[Colin Phillips]

I was and am really impressed by the whole of the "Nirvana Unplugged" album.

Colin

[PDJ]

It was an intriguing glimpse into the psyche of a tortured man. Kurt Cobain was thinking of an acoustic album for the next Nirvana album.

[Colin Phillips]

Paul,

The album was bought for my youngest daughter, who was at that time into Heavy Metal, you know Kerrang, Headbangers Ball and such-like.
To me, it was totally inaccessible, but I wasin the room when she started playing the unplugged album and I was hooked, for the first time I was able to realise what the man was about. Excellent wordsmith and not a bad musician.

Colin

[the golden drifter]

The most over-rated band in the history of music would be a more apt description of Nirvana.
I'd say Kurt popped himself in embarrassment at his status at that time compared to some of the more infinitely talented, and original, bands on the Seattle grunge scene.

[Ardross]

I have sound and have just booked myself into The Priory - telling them to send the bill to Brian for failing to post a health warning

Jeannette Krankie turned up in Dinnerladies a few years back as a baglady friend of Julie Walters' character

[Ian Davies]

Originally posted by the golden drifter@Oct 16 2004, 11:10 PM
The most over-rated band in the history of music would be a more apt description of Nirvana.
I'd say Kurt popped himself in embarrassment at his status at that time compared to some of the more infinitely talented, and original, bands on the Seattle grunge scene.

Maybe I'm just getting old, but I thought Nirvana were one of the last bands to produce what I'd regard as a unique and innovative sound.

Maybe other bands were technically superior, but Nirvana had the knack of producing a few memorable tracks, IMO.

[PDJ]

I agree with Ian. There were some brilliant bands around in the early 90s, quite a few on the SubPop label; Buffalo Tom, Smashing Pumpkins, Pavement, Babes in Toyland, The Breeders, Belly, Sonic Youth, Mudhoney, Husker Du, Sugar and many others. Nirvana were just about the best of them with Pavement (try Slanted and Enchanted for their masterpiece) but I always had a soft spot for the talent and songwriting abilities of Buffalo Tom, the American equivalent of Teenage Fanclub, album after album of cracking songs.

I would not class the Pixies as part of this movement as they came slightly before and really inspired the whole thing. If you can listen to Doolittle and not end up humming about half of the tracks afterwards then I reckon you need a new set of eardrums.

[an capall]

I stopped listening to new music after Nirvana. They were superb. Smells Like..is the anthem of a generation.

[fudge]

Nirvana's music is and always will be awesome as is the Smashing Pumpkins and in my opinion Kurt Cobain and Billy Corgan are two of the best songwriters ever.

[trudij]

I'd only just recovered from seeing this on room 101.......


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