No. Both bands are great, but Nirvana was a little bit better, IMO, as Kurt was a better songwriter.
I did see one of the documentaries, I forgot the name, maybe it was “Back to Black”. That album is fantastic and one of my favorites from the past 20 years.
Disagree wholeheartedly. Half nirvana’s hits were covers and all kurt really did was whine in his lyrics. Also kurt was notorious for stealing guitar riffs ‘Come as you are’ is ‘Eighties’ by Killing Joke, ‘SLTS’ is ‘Godzilla’ by Blue Oyster Cult, ‘All Apologies’ is ‘The Waiting’ by Tom petty…. Just to name a few of many.
KC was pure genius and able to tap into the mood/psyche of the time. On paper, was DG a better "musician"? Based on all their work.....maybe. However, since KC died so young, he was never able to mature and evolve like DG did. As such, it's hard to compare the two.
Listen to the vocals of both songs
Or I play a little music for fun and can hear obvious correlations, then when I play the songs I see how similar they are. There's more examples of Kurt plagerizing music. "Polly" is an exact acoustic copy of "On the Streets" by the 4 Skins, the Guitar riff for "Breed" is a complete ripoff of the baseline from "Potential Suicide" by the Wipers, "About a Girl" was a ripoff of a Flaming Lips song that I'm blanking on the name of but I'm sure you can look up on google, that's just off the top of my head. I don't know that any are more egregious than "Come as you are" to "Eighties". Those are as similar as Vanilla Ice sampling David Bowie.
Melodies... It's subtle but it's there. Focus on the main Hook where Kurt screams "Married! Buried! Yea Yea yea Yea" and Compare that to the hook of "The Waiting" where Petty sings "The Waaaaiiiiting is the Hardest Part!", you'll hear it. It's not as egregious as the others I'll admit however it's definitely there.
hmmm but yet you overlooked the first two songs I listed prior to All Apologies? Weird that you had to skip over those to make your way to "All Apologies" and selected only that one being it was the only "vocal" ripoff I listed. The others the Guitar riffs are just pure plagerism, plain and simple. It's an Artist stealing others art. I also don't believe you don't know Blue Oyster Cult.
lol, I've played guitar for 20 years... Tell me how "Come as you are" is not a total and complete ripoff of "Eighties" by Killing Joke. It's literally the exact same chord progression with 1 note changed. "Polly" the EXACT same chord progression as "On the Steets" by the 4 Skins. No need to be close minded, it's perfectly clear with one listen!
Hot take. Foo fighters are meh.
I don't dislike foo fighters by any stretch...I just don't love or revere them like some do.
I saw them open for the Stones at Giants stadium years back. My wife loves some of their stuff.
Never said they weren’t important. Heck I believe The Sonics are one of the single most important rock bands of all time, more so than Aerosmith. Popularity is only a factor in a bands ‘greatness’. I also don’t believe foo fighters are ‘more important’ to music than nirvana, never said that. Just that they are a better band with better music.
Same chord progressions yes, same notes, no. It’s alarming how many of their songs they ripped off.
He doesn't know what he is saying. He's looking on Twitter right now on how to respond to you.
Oh no, I’m saying the exact same notes… verbatim. Same key, same chord progression, same exact notes.
Lol, don’t have twitter. Though it’s amusing how much it upsets you that someone call out nirvana…. Hate to break this to you, but this has been a known thing for years, in fact Dave Grohl actually took steps to ‘pay back’ killing joke in 2003 long after Kurt died because he flat out knew they stole the guitar riff for one of their biggest singles ever.
Someone above (RUGuitarMan?) mentioned one of Rick B's videos on the declining interest in jazz
Really glad you posted this. I've been complaining about music today (Rap, Hip Hop and whatever popular is calling itself) as a return to the 50's.
Lol, invite me to your tailgate. I’ll show up with my acoustic, play both for you and laugh at how similar they are over a beer with you. Heck if you wanna learn we can get the intro down to both in about 20 min. It’s not just the intro man, it’s the main riff throughout both songs…. We can go over Polly and the 4 skins after which are in fact, the exact same👍
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt
This is the kind of post that is so annoying. It's not a "fact" that either band is better - this is music and it's subjective, meaning it's an opinion, not a fact that one band is better than the other. Same thing about the music being "incomparable." To me and many others (meaning it's our opinion), Nirvana's better songs are much more "musical" than those of the FF's, especially when Nirvana is so creative going from fast to slow and back again, which adds so much tension and anticipation to those songs (and yes, Kurt has cited how good the Pixies were at this, but it doesn't mean he "stole" from them). You're obviously entitled to your opinions, but please stop calling them facts.
