The Nirvana /Courtney Love Connection

[Zephyr]

Lately I have had developed a strong interest in Nirvana/Kurt Cobain, with them being inducted into the R & R Hall of Fame and the anniversary of his death. I was searching the internet and found Mac was a fan of Nirvana and rekindled his relationship with Will to form Electrafixion based on them.

I did buy In Utero around the time it came out in 1993 but only listened a couple of times dismissing them as "too rough/raw" I didn't see their masterpiece as I was 100% Bunnymen fan and they didn't have any resemblence but I have changed my mind with age. They did in fact make a huge contribution to music at this time and influenced music since Kurt's untimely death. Their songs and the bands musical ability I underestimated.

Also Courtney Love was either a groupie or hanger on in their early days according to the Crocodiles anniversary release booklet and even found a live recording of her covering "Do It Clean" on Youtube.. Saying they were "The Greatest British Band Ever"

So I feel happy that Mac and Nirvana /Courtney have some mutual affection/appreciation. If Mac says their cool, then I am OK with that!

I have made a Nirvana/Kurt Cobain tribute page

Sorry if this may have been discussed before but I make "no apologies" (pun intended)

[Mr. Brian]

I was into the Seattle music like Nirvana, Mudhoney, Screaming Trees (man I hate the word grunge) in the early and 90s and as a long time Bunnymen fan, I really didn't want to hear Mac and Will try to sound like that. Based on what happened I don't think the world wanted to hear a UK grunge band either.

[black francis]

I don't trust anyone who likes WAYGTDWYL as much as Mr. Brian does.

[Mr. Brian]

I don't trust anyone who likes WAYGTDWYL as much as Mr. Brian does.

I can feel stars shooting through my heart like rain...

[black francis]

Jesus...........

[fat cherry]

I was into the Seattle music like Nirvana, Mudhoney, Screaming Trees (man I hate the word grunge) in the early and 90s and as a long time Bunnymen fan, I really didn't want to hear Mac and Will try to sound like that. Based on what happened I don't think the world wanted to hear a UK grunge band either.

File under 'i'm no expert' if you like (chortle) but the production on Burned all came across as a bit weedy to be 'grunge'. Are you going to tell me thats not the definition now? Like 'punk' is an attitude not a sound?. The way the press reports it the UK wasn't really all that ready to hear any grunge from anywhere never mind homegrown (though that might go against the 'kurt is god' mantra of the NME, so who knows), hence the rise of britpop - or at least british bands saw this as some kind of challenge to rise to.
In the Uncut article 'bunnymen talk about all their albums (apart from the ones they dont like or had other singers on)', they don't even mention the music, its all about mac and will getting together again. Though Will says it was great working with Mark Stent 'lots of great guitar sounds and moving mics about' or something. It was when they were doing a set of mostly bunnymen songs and ignoring the new album (hey!!) mac was persuaded to recall the bunnymen name. For myself I thought the zephyr EP was great but the album a bit of a let down.

I'm having a bit of a period of delving into stuff I took no notice of twenty or so years ago (and beyond) so I might try a bit of that. Screaming trees? hmmm.

[Mr. Brian]

I was into the Seattle music like Nirvana, Mudhoney, Screaming Trees (man I hate the word grunge) in the early and 90s and as a long time Bunnymen fan, I really didn't want to hear Mac and Will try to sound like that. Based on what happened I don't think the world wanted to hear a UK grunge band either.

File under 'i'm no expert' if you like (chortle) but the production on Burned all came across as a bit weedy to be 'grunge'. Are you going to tell me thats not the definition now? Like 'punk' is an attitude not a sound?.

Personally I just hate the term or label "grunge" to describe that music but I guess that's what we got stuck with.

[black francis]

All this talk got me listening to Electrafixion today and Sister Pain, Time Bomb and Whose Been Sleeping In My Head are en fuego!

[fat cherry]

courtney quotes:

http://www.nme.com/photos/courtney-love ... 336754/1/1

Number 5 made me chuckle - though don't read too much into that.

[Mr. Brian]

this is a good place to mention that the song Malibu by Hole is frickin awesome

[fat cherry]

that whole album's pretty good, a bit schizo in places and then theres stuff like that. haven't listened to it for ages though.

[Dom]

Ian talks a bit about Courtney here: http://nardwuar.com/vs/ian_mcculloch/profile.shtml

[fat cherry]

http://www.nme.com/news/courtney-love/80347

mostly about that pumpkins bloke but:

Elsewhere in the interview, Courtney Love also admitted that most of her stage moves were stolen from Echo & The Bunnymen's Ian McCulloch. Explaining that she used to go and watch the band rehearse, Love then said, "Everything, I stole every move from that guy. Between [REM's Michael] Stipe and McCulloch, I've stolen every move they make."

[bluegrace]

There will be a tv programme on Swedish public tv about Kurt and Courtney this week. I will be watching it even though it's from 1998.

[Voodoo Billy]

There will be a tv programme on Swedish public tv about Kurt and Courtney this week. I will be watching it even though it's from 1998.

That's very modern of you, most of us are still stuck in 1984.