Kurt Cobain died exactly 30 years ago!

No.

Mark Jacobs's "grunge" collection at Perry Ellis ruined all of this.

And yet Courtney Love walks among us!

I was 3, my mom was a huge fan, I remember her actually crying when she heard the news.

I didn't really are. I was 14 and there was a kid at my school who based his whole look on Kurt. I remember him throwing a fit about it and our local dj Dr Doug being interviewed on the news to explain why this so deeply affected the kids.

I was only in elementary school at the time. A few kids in my class were big Cobain/Nirvana fans. I didn't run with that crowd.

angry deranged white boys that wanted to be just like Kurt added an unnecessary intensity to my high school experience 00-04. they were like depressed poorly-dressed baboons with long grungy white boy hair, and they never shut the fuck up. i never remember seeing them in a classroom, only climbing the hallways or shitting on the cafeteria floor.

Didn't know who he was until after he died. Fame and money don't insulate you from pain.

Anyone who writes a song named "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is OK in my book!

I love it when people mistake it for "Smells Like Team Spirit". Tells me all I need to know.

No. He was as irritating as all the hair metal dudes but way more pretentious and too cool for school.

He was a genius. There will never be another one like him. He spoke to us and to our pain and to our angst.

Not really. My ‘group’ was into him, but I always thought he was a bit of a whiner.

He was a bit of a cunt in a sense that he hated the band's success, but blamed everyone but himself for it.

Another one dead at 27.

Nirvana is good but I think their massive rise has more to do with Kurt's good looks than the music being really any better than other grunge acts.

I was glad because other grunké bands were better

I became a fan after he died.

I was 14 when he died.

My older brother was/is a huge fan and was devastated.

Call me shallow, but I cried because I thought he was really cute/hot.

I hung his pictures on my wall.

He definitely was a bedroom fantasy.

I wish I was like you

Easily amused

Find my nest of salt

Everything's my fault

I'll take all the blame

Aqua sea foam shame

Sunburn, freezer burn

Chokin' on the ashes of her enemy

Not a Nirvana fan per se but I did love (still do) their Unplugged. I was sad when he died though. I remember the dj playing "All apologies" after announcing it and that was pretty haunting.

I was 9 when he died. My sister was a junior in high school and my two older brothers were in college. They were fans and were devastated.

When I was in college around 2003-2007, one of my instructors talked about living in Seattle at the time of Cobain's suicide and attending the memorial at the Space Needle.

R11, metal bands acted serious, but I think the metal bands knew metal bands were a joke, deep down. It was the pro-wrestling of music.

Kurt acted like everything was a joke (everything was done ironically) but deep down I think Kurt thought he was a serious artist.

I remember it like it was yesterday. It's one of my earliest, crispest memories because it was the first time I pondered mortality. I was 6 and was just going to the balcony past the TV where the evening news was on, with scenes of his mourning fans in America. I recall freezing mid-step and thinking that this was going to happen to me one day. Some cold, but also profoundly liberating feeling shot through my body in that moment.

Smells like long-dead teen spirit.

His eyes were so blue that day.

"Fun" read.

[quote]I didn’t really are.

Oh dear!

Yes and it wasnt very surpising when it happened.

From r27's link:

"I have a contact at the funeral home where Kurt was taken. He snuck my wife in to view his body.

First off, the weapon used was a 20 gauge, not a 12 gauge shotgun. This is important, because a 20 is considerably less powerful than a 12. Second, he was NOT all fucked up. There was some distortion to the top of his head, but by and large his head, and especially his face, were in good shape.

My wife paid her respects, clipped a lock of hair, and that was that. She also brought home an empty Marlboro box that Courtney discarded during her viewing. You might also be interested to know that while she (Courtney) was with the body, she shoved his hand up her skirt…"

Courtney is/was a mess!

I happened to be at a Media Play the afternoon into evening that the news broke. The store was blaring Nirvana, as expected, but every comment I heard was along the lines of "what an asshole" Cobain was for choosing suicide. Nirvana and grunge weren't my scene, but I, at least, felt some compassion for the guy.

171 Lake Washington Boulevard East Seattle Wa.

Is it the house hidden behind all the vegetation or the once across the street?

the one ^

Courtney had it torn down.

Oh, thanks for the info. r35!

Frances Bean is in her second marriage (to Tony Hawk's son) and claims to be completely clean.

If true, good for her!

RIP Kurt. I loved Nirvana and Hole. Oh, how I miss simpler times.

Never forget!

Madonna: No, please!

When you eclipse Madonna's need of attention with your own you know you have a problem.

Yes, I was a fan. It was kind of shocking. I played their music really loud for about 10 days. I’m sure it drove my neighbours crazy.

And the following week, Hole released Live Through This on the 12th of April 1994. I felt so bad for Courtney. In the days after, she was like the Jackie Kennedy of grunge.

It's still kind of amazing that one band with one album and one song changed the course of the music industry in only a matter of months. That will likely never happen again.

It seems incredible that 30 years have already passed. It seems more like 20 to me.

[quote]It's still kind of amazing that one band with one album and one song changed the course of the music industry in only a matter of months. That will likely never happen again.

Beyoncé is about to do the same thing!

I was 11 and my older sister was absolutely distraught! She was in tears all day after my mom told her "that singer from the band you like killed himself...". Tactful!

Why didn't he leave us a hot son?

Do better!

I preferred Alice in Chains and Layne Staley.

Alice in chains married that torn girl an disappeared.

Hanson had the best long blonde hair!

Alice in Chains were a lame corporate metal band, with cringy angsty teenager lyrics. They had nothing to do with underground scene or punk rock.

Family values

Selfish fucker.

I was in my late 20s - so young enough to like Nirvana but old enough to immediately start doing an “impression” of Courtney based on the “Sid & Nancy” movie — croaking “Kuuuuuurt, Kuuuuurrrrrttt!! Please, I’d shoot myself too.”

Hated his music but he sure was pretty.

Frances has his eyes.

He was an outspoken friend of the gays when that was unheard of for a guy in his position. I think it was the second album that had the liner note "If you hate gay people, fuck off. Don't listen to our music and don't come to our shows."

Nirvana played a benefit for "No on 9," which was an anti-gay state proposition, and when they were on SNL he and Krist made a big deal of kissing on the lips to piss off his jock audience.

Then there was the music video for "In Bloom" where they dressed in drag.

^

I'll add that as a gay guy who wasn't into house music and circuit parties and such, this was truly refreshing at a time when many straight rock stars were perfectly comfortable referring to "fags" and such.

I was at a work conference in Newport Beach, CA that week, and I experienced a minor earthquake which caused the chandelier overhead to shake. That spooked me. The only entertainment I had was in the hotel room, and the only channel was MTV, which played 'Heart Shape Box' over and over and over again. That video was unsettling. I hadn't paid much attention to NIrvana.

Overrated junkie.

HI COURTNEY!

Everyone in my frat house held a wake. Meaning the girls came over and we drank all day in Kurt's memory.

Loved Kurt. Hate Courtney

I was not one of his FANS!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes! I was and still am a fan. I love Eddie Vedder and Chris Cornell, too. I love all the music from that time. Alice in Chains, Bush. But, yes, I was a fan of Nirvana. So many memories around that time that were good.

He looks great in OP pic.

He was beautiful!

R16 he doesn't look that good. What other grunge acts music is memorable?

It's like saying people made Che Guevara shirts because he was cute. They're relatable figures.

What did he see in that awful Courtney Love?

No, I wasn’t really into grunge in the 90s.

They should all do what he did. On stage, with a katana.

You can both fuck right off with your base, faux profundity r70.

God!

I was 25 when he died, not exactly a fan fan, but the news of his suicide hit me hard. The kind of thing where you remember exactly where you were the moment you heard he died.

He was undeniably very talented, and I wish he'd stuck things out.

R71 who the fuck would think that's profound? Oh I'm sorry yeah he was a real legend. Whatever you think. Whatever you say.

R67 = blind. "What other grunge acts music is memorable?" Half of the bands that were called grunge by the media. Even though they had little to do with one another

I’m a fan, though not a diehard. I actually prefer Courtney/Hole’s music (controversial, I know). Kurt was a bit ahead of his time. I find it disgusting that there is now a subset of gen Z TikTokers claiming he was a trans woman.

R67 he’s still a major sex symbol to straight women. Melvins, Tad, Soundgarden, Tool, Pearl Jam, Mudhoney, etc.

Axl had some weird beef with Kurt.

Kurt was Axl 2.0

R77 Before a pedant gets to me for naming Tool - they started out as a so-called heavy grunge act with the Opiate EP and Undertow. I'd even argue that there's a tangential relationship between some of the heavier alt rock bands like Smashing Pumpkins and Jane's Addiction and the grunge scene. In the sense that it was also rejection of the commercial trends and polished sounds of rock in the late 1980s returning to a rawer and more sincere sensibility. Tad and Melvins invented grunge (both worshipped by Kurt, iirc Kurt would stay at Buzz's place a lot during his days as a teenage runaway with dreams of being just like Melvins) but they were fronted by butt fugly obese men so they never had commercial success. Fun fact about Melvins - their original bassist was the daughter of Shirley Temple, who ran off from home to join the music underground and shoot heroin. King Buzzo broke up with her and she was kicked out of the band because her heroin addiction was out of control. Shirley took her back in and she got clean. Linked photo is of Kurt hanging out with Tad Doyle, frontman of Tad.

Melvins (formed in the late 1980s) playing at UCLA in 1993 with Shirley Temple's daughter on bass. I was wrong, the original bassist of Melvins went on to form Mudhoney and was replaced by Lori Black (Temple) in 1989. She was Buzzo's girlfriend before picking up the bass.

No.

Wow - Shirley Temple's daughter was a grunge musician?

R42, Maybe you need to "Meet the Beatles."

r83 yes and quite an iconic figure for the underground heads

Shirley Temple's Daughter is a great name for a band!

R79 He was s complete opposite of Axl Rose

White trash rock stars

Kurt was veritable small town "white trash" by most standards. Courtney came from an upper-middle-class hippie family and chose the gutter punk path herself. She was a lot more worldly and experienced in most all things that Kurt was not.

I was 10 when he died. I remember a bunch of teenagers were really bummed out. I started listening to Hole a few yeasts later. Nirvana were good but I’ve never been too passionate about their music.