WORST BOX SET EVAR
Nirvana, it's been about 18 years we've had together, but it's time we faced facts. You are a band that released 4 studio albums (all of which are on my ipod) and that's exactly 3.5 too many. You put out a box set (also on said ipod) that has caused me to press the skip button on my ipod at least daily (for some reason it likes to cue tracks from that abomination up). But the fact of the matter is that, well, while you wrote maybe 5 really good songs, you also wrote about 95 really shitty ones. Like really really shitty ones. Worse than songs I wrote. I know Kurt Cobain is supposed to be a 'voice of a generation' or something, but let's face it, the emperor has no clothes. It is with a heavy heart that I have to delete your catalog from my main ipod. Welcome to my shitlist - from this, you shall not leave.
Comments (4)
Your random, out of nowhere bitching about Nirvana is pretty funny! :D
I haven't been ape-shit about these guys in a very long time either but once in a blue moon or so I'll listen to an album or song of theirs. Sounds like all you really need is the self titled 'Nirvana' greatest hits album. It's got everything you'd probably ever care to hear. But yeah, the fact of the matter is, is that you have to have at least some Nirvana in your arsenal (to not be considered a total gay-wod)so get the self titled album.
Posted by Ryan | December 11, 2008 9:38 PM
Posted on December 11, 2008 21:38
Yeah I remember the ape-shit days. Even still...I bought that box set the day it came out thinking they'd have some unreleased material similiar to You Know You're Right. In the end it's a bunch of really shitty boombox demos. And lets not even discuss that there were MAYBE 2-3 songs that are t3h awesome on Incesticide and 2-3 on Utero.
even still...they pissed me off today because that fucking POS box set kept getting cued and I finally said fuck it. One for all and all for one at this point.
If they want to put out those Peel sessions and the rest of the original material, i could be persuaded otherwise, but they don't seem to be taking the hint in that camp.
Posted by Dave McAnally | December 12, 2008 12:12 AM
Posted on December 12, 2008 00:12
I know what you mean about that box set (well. the one I'm thinking of anyway is called 'Sliver'. I used to have that too and I also deleted it. Why the hell would I want to listen to a bunch of shitty basement recordings? Especially when I hardly ever listen to their properly recorded material.
Do you ever just shuffle the musical genres on your iPod? That seems to help eliminate such a random mix of songs...
Posted by Ryan | December 12, 2008 9:19 AM
Posted on December 12, 2008 09:19
Ah, Nirvana. I've struggled with this same problem for years.
I was in my freshman year of junior college when I first heard Nevermind. A friend of mine named Heather Kramer, who was much more savy then I at the time about music, recommended we listen to this new band she just heard. It was of course a life changing moment for me. I had always been into The Cure and Depeche Mode and such, and was just starting to really understand underground music as a whole. I was just dipping my toes in the lake that was Ministry and the likes. Those were great days...
Anywho, Nirvana hit me hard the first time I heard them and I really dug them for awhile, then 1995 happened and it was over for me. A couple of weeks ago I through on Nevermind on the iPod and decided to listen to it in one entire glorious setting and I realized. I don't really like them all that much any more. Other stuff came a long that was more important to me.
As far as Cobain as a voice of a generation. He never spoke to me, never. Not only that but his legacy is nothing compared to that of other voices of generations...
Posted by Microwaved | December 12, 2008 10:56 AM
Posted on December 12, 2008 10:56