Nirvana reissue debut album, but where’s the new material?
Nirvana may be one of the laziest bands I’ve ever heard. Releasing a bunch of material between 1989 and 1994, they then started falling back on easy releases. Live acoustic shows, a singles collection, a box of rarities, a live set at Reading have all appeared in the years since. I’m sure it’s great for fans, but it seems to be taking the piss a bit to put out this same stuff over and again. You’d think after fifteen years they’d finally have that fabled fifth album ready, but it doesn’t seem to be anywhere in sight. Guns N’ Roses will put out another album before these guys at this rate.
Continuing to dredge out old material, we have a reissue of the band’s debut album, Bleach, which is somehow twenty years old at this point. It’s never done a great deal for me if I’m honest, but nor has much of Nirvana’s output. I think that maybe I’m a couple of years too young to fully “get” the band. It’s the same reason the Pixies are largely lost on me. Don’t get me wrong, I like both bands, but they’ll never be held in the same regard as Weezer or Pavement and the such. All that said, I do like About A Girl, mostly because I was won over my the MTV Unplugged version of it, but the original is pretty damn good too.
This is not funny.
Well it made me chuckle out loud! Then again I preferred Pixies & Husker Du over Nirvana.
I sniggered.
Weezer? I don’t think you’re kidding there, are you? Cos you mention Pavement in the same breath. Pavement I can understand; they’re awesome… but WEEZER?!?!? Over Pixies and Nirvana?!?!?
Few albums were finer than those first two Weezer records. It’s all been shit since then, but those two are defining albums of the 90s to me.
you do know that Kurt is dead, right? Right?