Highlowsel:  "suspicious of given the way Dave Grohl's career subsequent did a proverbial moon shot" - Grohl wrote quite a few songs with Nirvana, which later went on two of his albums, self titled and the colour and the shape.  Grohl was very apprehensive to share his music with Kurt.  If anything, one could say that Kurt ended so others could succeed.  Maybe he felt he was holding everyone else back by being the way he was.  Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but to imply Grohl had anything to do with Kurt's death is silly. 

Highlowsel:  "suspicious of given the way Dave Grohl's career subsequent did a proverbial moon shot" - Grohl wrote quite a few songs with Nirvana, which later went on two of his albums, self titled and the colour and the shape.  Grohl was very apprehensive to share his music with Kurt.  If anything, one could say that Kurt ended so others could succeed.  Maybe he felt he was holding everyone else back by being the way he was.  Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but to imply Grohl had anything to do with Kurt's death is silly. 

Rdo:  Hmmmm...."....he didn't seem to be an addict.":  You're kidding me, right?  All indications from people who knew him were that he was a heroin addict and prone to depression.  Cobain's cousin, a nurse, claimed Cobain was diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder as a child, and bipolar disorder as an adult. You combine the latter aspect (bipolar) with his heroin addiction PLUS depression (and depression in and of itself is no joke to anyone who's experienced it) and he must have been veritable metabolic time-bomb waiting to go off.  Then you take that, combine it with his family history....one of suicide,mental illness and alcoholism; with two male relatives having committed suicide with guns...and you get what you got.  The man was unstable, despite his purported artistry, which I've always been suspicious of given the way Dave Grohl's career subsequent did a proverbial moon shot.  In any case I do agree he took himself out of the game waaay too soon.  When young it's seldom realized that life is a marathon and not a sprint....

So it goes.

Highlow
American Net'Zen

Cobain's death has always been somewhat of a puzzle for me.  He was not murdered, there is no doubt about that.  He committed suicide, But why?  In his suicide note he quoted Neil Young - "Better to burn out than to fade away."  Neil Young contacted Cobain's wife, Courtney Love, right after and expressed his dismay at how his lyrics had been misconstrued in such a tragic way.  Cobain was at the height of his creative powers, and although he abused drugs, he did not seem to be an addict.  I do not think drugs had anything to do with his death.  I do not think it was a cheap ploy at posthumous fame. Kurt had a very peculiar interest in fame, like all bohemian artists.  He hated fame on the one hand, but he strived for it on the other.   It seems completely implausible that his motive was fame.  Then, there is depression.  There is no evidence he was depressed.  He was moody, and was prone to bouts of anti-social behavior, where he wanted to be away from the crowd.  I don't see anything unusual in that for anyone normal, much less a genius artist.   My theory leads me to what Sartre called "angst".  You can read about this in his Being and Nothingness, probably the greatest philosophical work ever.  I think Kurt was so overwhelmed by the possibilities before him that it became too much.  Think of Munch's painting "The Scream".  I just think he stood at the summit of incredible possibilities and it was just too weird to handle.

Most overrated, overplayed band in music history?

Interesting comment.  I'm an old geezer.  Nirvana is waaaay out of my personal musical mainstream.  But even in my geezerhood it's obvious that Nirvana was something special and "Teen Spirit" is a seminal piece.  Oh yeah, and that Pearl Jam are soft core imitators of the real deal that was Nirvana.

Interesting comment.  I'm an old geezer.  Nirvana is waaaay out of my personal musical mainstream.  But even in my geezerhood it's obvious that Nirvana was something special and "Teen Spirit" is a seminal piece.  Oh yeah, and that Pearl Jam are soft core imitators of the real deal that was Nirvana.

.most overrated band of the century.....solid 3 from a pearl jam-fan....

Wow, I never went to parties like that when I was younger!

Do we really need this song? Or am I missing something..