Kurt Cobain, Still Dead.
Kurt Cobain was a musician who (by his own admission) could only just manage to play the guitar and sing at the same time, who was emotionally unequipped to deal with fame and stardom, and who therefore paid the ultimate price by killing himself, alone, using a shotgun.
I wouldn’t normally mention the anniversary of the death of a rock star, but, Mat, who sits next to me in University happens to run a Nirvana website. It’s something he set up when he was a kid and wanted to play on the web, and because he’s not changed it over the last 9 years (bar the odd kick to keep it standards compliant) it’s become a bit of a famous resource for Nirvana fans everywhere.
Nirvana have two apparent faces – their breakthrough album, Nevermind, has enough noise and anger to satisfy the most ardent mosh; whilst their last studio album, In Utero, with it’s more melodic tracks, showed that when Cobain wrote honestly, his vocal phrasing and composition somehow stripped his soul naked and left him vulnerable, something which gets picked up on by post-Nirvana fans. Since Cobain’s death, their music appears to get adopted by those with an angst surplus; those yearning to show their individuality, but still not fully comforable with (or perhaps capable of) the kind of exposing self expression that Cobain managed.
It won’t change your life, but if you have five minutes to kill I recommend perusing the guestbook to witness the over emotional, under poetic and badly phrased ramblings of kids who were too young to listen to Nirvana when Kurt jellified his brain with a single shotgun cartridge. It’s kinda sweet, and if you were young and dug Nirvana first time around you may see something of yourself.
Yep, you’re right…he’s still dead! But I was old enough to have gotten into Nirvana when Kurt was alive and grunge was all the rage. And even if these kids weren’t, don’t be a prong by saying that they cannot be genuinely touched by a movement of the past. You’re doing the exact same thing adults did to you when you were these kids’ age.
BTW: Kurt was an egomaniac who intentionally lied to journalists in order to show a favorable opinion of himself–he WANTED fame and recognition. Most, if not ALL the feelings and love I ever HAD for the man were all based on lies. He was a cold-hearted, wicked individual who wanted to die. I’m sure he regrets his choices in life…
Read it again. I don’t say they’re not genuinely touched: the semi-punctuated outpourings, the flash feuds and the declarations of eternal solidarity and love for a dead man are more than proof of that. Cobain’s got a small army of juveniles prostrating themselves at his altar years after he was cremated, which is intreguing, hence the above article.
kurt cobin was the sex! end of!
hes dead now get over it!
he killed himself!
he was the first emo!
QED.
i love kurt and i will he was the best and you are a liar
you are not ashamed at all????he is dead could you please
leave him f@@@@ alone.whatever he was you are so *******
with him.what do you want from him?just let him rest
and pray for him…..KURT WE LOVE YOU AND WE WANT YOU
BACK.with love from greece…I WILL NEVER FORGET YOU,I
CAN’T BELIEVE WHAT THEY DID TO YOU…GOD I WANNA KILL HER…
Hello Amy, when commenting, don’t censor your own expletives: it’s quite difficult to work out exactly what you were trying to say (use the expletives if you feel you have to). Could you be a bit less vague? Where’s the lie? Ashamed? About what?
Hi Everyone
Tomorrow Tuesday 20th Feb would have been Kurts 40th Birthday! Hes been gone from this world for 13 years now.
Theres not a day goes by without a thought for Kurt.
I hope evryone who loved him and still does, lights a candle and remembers what a kind, beautiful and talented person he was. He is someone i looked up to and was inspired by and am still deeply sadend when i think of how lonely and tormented he felt. I hope he is in a better place now..i’m sure he would have been a great father..Rest in peace Kurt..We love you xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Everyone,
The last time i wrote on here was for Kurts Birthday back in febuary. Tomorrow is April 5th..the anniversary of Kurts passing..another year has slipped by..just wanted to say i will be thinking of him and hope Kurt Cobain fans will be too.
Love Peace and Respect
jo
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Who is Kurt Cobain?
When he died in 1994 I was young but not too young to remember him. I was just too sheltered and didn’t listen to anything but classical music and oldies, haha.Oh and by the way he didn’t kill himself all of the FACTS point to murder and if you (and I’m directing this to the collective you, but more importantly to anyone who actually believes he shot himself) have any commensense whatsoever you can put two and two together and realize that.
Kurt Cobain reminds me of Princess Diana. Two people who died whilst being famous and wealthy who have spawned a whole generation of self-pitying emos whining about how they are a unique snowflake that no one understands. For that reason, I wish they were both still alive.
kurt cobain for me hes alive icant see him but he is in my heart everyday i pray for him i hope he is fine there
if everyone of you still remember him
and remember him forever he will be great
so kurt cabain i love you we love and noone
can change our love to you
you are the best and you still the best
cause you made us alive
screw all the people with discrimitive comments, you are the reason why people kill themselves. are you so blind-sighted that you cant see this SHIT ?!? Why look down on someone who enjoys listening to a certain type of music ? or making a certain type of music ? everyone cant listen to ac/dc or 50 cent or led or MCR (my chemical romance) or beethoven. simple minded self-righteous loathing individuals who need to put other people down, for teir own benefit are the real posers. slaves to the mainstream, and pranking on anyone with any form of other tribute. Get a life.. and if you dont like kurt.. or care about him.. why go around looking for sites made for him ???
I got shoes had too walk many miles in old shoes,to get them + got me 2 cool blue socks, still you said you would get me boots whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaats up ????? { girl talk } just mean, forgot your candle sticks !!!! now just you the world + hocky sticks 2 wows, you come along way baby !!!! you sin full little girl left KURT in the back of a car.!!!!!! + and now no miss Love to save us + now where does that take you My girl looked like Kurt..in.1991 kiss her every night like they say WHO WAS KURT buzy kissing + U
hi everyone, interesting to hear everyones opinions on here!. Although i was fairly young and naive about music when kurt was hitting the big time, i believe its still possible for people of my generation, (I’m 22) To realize and appreciate how great cobain actualy was. And yes its possible to say his fame and legacy has only been sustained for soo long because of the dramatic way he passed on, though i think if he was still with us today (Probably banged up in a mental assylum as an effect of too much heroin and acid) The real musicians and music lovers the world over would still understand the invaluable contribution to music he made. Not only was it his music that impacted the lives of so many people but what he stood for, his post hardcore, out of the box dress sense and obvious relation to 70′s f*ck the system lifestyle previosly only reputably seen by the sex pistols. He set a whole generation (and many more to come) free from the conventional stylings of traditional america. anyone, i mean anyone wether white, black, young, old, girl, boy or whatever else can never truly say kurt cobain has never influenced something about them in one way or another, maybe music, clothing style, attitude, etc..
I think kurt has been one of the greatest contributers to human existence and say F*ck you to anyone that believes otherwise!
It was a shame that Curt died. When it happened I was distrott,. In fact at that time I was heavilly into using “H” at that time, but I did’nt,man. I knew it was the miserable state I was in, thinking I could never get clean or did I really want to. Man, only if he gave himself a chance , at least for his little girl. Man, to think that he left her with Courtney, was really selfish. I look back & think it was such a short time ago & what it would be like musically if he was still alive. The music we have today really sucks, man. Thank god for green Day. Curt would have been my age now , it still I don,t know, Man we lost a trure hamanist, 7 artist