re: #707 WindUpBird

People will still consider Warhol hugely important in a hundred years, and they’ll still consider Cobain important in a hundred years. Warhol is the artist who commented on pop icons, who himself became a pop icon. The “pop icon-ness” is the very reason he is important. And Cobain is arguably respected more now by music critics than he was when he was alive.

You should probably be thanking Cobain (and Novoselic, and Grohl) for helping remove bad over-produced glam-metal from the scene in the early 1990s, and replacing it with bands who were interested in honest song-writing over cliche and image.

By the way, Nirvana’s drummer is now in a band with John Paul Jones from Led Zeppelin. Maybe he knows something you don’t? Maybe you shouldn’t be so hostile to music that didn’t come out in the 60’s?

Seriously, if they are talking about Cobain for anything it will be because he offed himself, not because he was a 3 chord “wonder.” and yes, I know something about popular music. I made a living at rock, pop and country for 12 years, was even in a nationally recognized band in 1982 for 6 months. So, I have some chops to make this comment.