Thread 127021116

Let's settle this once and for all. Was Nirvana famous and popular in the early 90s? Or was it Kurt's suicide that launched the band to fame and fortune?

Nirvana is an obscure indie band that no one has ever heard of.

>>127021116 (OP)
I think these threads are made by some assblasted metal guy who wants to create an overexposure effect and make /mu/ averse to Nirvana

Quite clear what you're going for

>>127021127
They were before Kurt offed himself yeah

>>127021116 (OP)
The only thing anyone remembers about Kurt is that sizzling summer night way back in 1992 with several black gentlemen in a Seattle alley

>>127021116 (OP)
I can't find the screencap, but someone once did the math on this. The tl;dr version is that Nirvana WERE "famous and popular in the early 90s", but NOWHERE NEAR as much as after Cobain's suicide. The band had only ONE multiplatinum album at the time (which had sold only about half of what Pearl Jam's debut did) and had really only produced ONE singles chart hit (which didn't even crack the top 5). In Utero had sold less than half of Stone Temple Pilot's debut album. They fell off HARD in 1993 and were on their way to being remembered as one hit wonders. Again, simple sales numbers and chart positioning conform this. There's nothing to "settle".

>>127021155
>>127021157
See the post above this one.

>>127021116 (OP)
Smells like Teen Spirit
Lithium
Come As You Are
In Bloom
All videos on heavy rotation on MTV. Which was the most mainstream outlet for pop music at the time.

>>127021185
>conform this

CONFIRM this

>>127021195
>Lithium

Old guy here. I was watching MTV regularly at the time and I have still NEVER seen the video for Lithium. I did not even know it had a video. So calling bullshit on this part at least. You're also overestimating how much IB and CAYA got played. You're 100% right about SLTS though. That got played so much that people got sick of it lol.

They were absolutely huge from late '91 until In Utero came out and received a lukewarm reception. Pop culture used to move so fast back in the day and by the time he blew his brains out everybody was moving onto the next big thing. His death definitely enhanced his legacy and helped stretched the grunge era for a few more years.

>>127021238
The Lithium video if iirc was mostly live footage so yeah that would make the video forgettable.

>>127021116 (OP)
>Was Nirvana famous and popular in the early 90s?
bigger than Jesus

>>127021299
It only gets more haunting each time I see it.

>>127021299
>>127021363
these pics are interchangeable

if anything the real one is actually gayer

>>127021238
>Old guy here. I was watching MTV regularly at the time and I have still NEVER seen the video for Lithium. I did not even know it had a video. So calling bullshit on this part at least. You're also overestimating how much IB and CAYA got played. You're 100% right about SLTS though. That got played so much that people got sick of it lol.
old fag here too..remember seeing it, but it wasn't played nearly as much as the others. pretty low concept concert footage.
>>127021238
>You're also overestimating how much IB
In Bloom played all the time...enough i remember me and my buddys trashing Weezer's Buddy Holly video for being a big rip off

>>127021419
The Nirvana piggies aren't gonna like this

>>127021116 (OP)
Kurt withdrew from the public and press sometime around autumn 1992. No one is really sure why

>>127022797
Uhhhh....

>>127022797
Probably because of those bullshit articles.

That and Courtney got real Domestic violence-y after the kid was born.

>>127022871
I'm afraid some events from the summer caused him to retreat

>>127022920
It's better for you if you quit lying.

>>127022926
You're seething

>>127022943
I'm not.
I've a deadpan face.

>>127021238
another fellow old guy here (42) and i call BS, watching MTV was my life when i was between the ages of 8-13 in the early to 90s and I saw the Lithium video all the time. That, Come As You Are, In Bloom and Teen Spirit were constantly on MTV. At the time I didn't really realize they were considered anymore popular than the other alternative bands at the time they always played (Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Alice In Chains, etc) the only difference I remember was more kids in my elementary school knew who Nirvana was but not always those other bands.

>>127021420
>>127024443
as a kid I always remembered confusing the Lithium video and the Pearl Jam Evenflow video, didnt help that they came out around the same time and were both always on MTV around that time in the early 90s. they both looked like videos made up of random concert footage

>>127021116 (OP)
Grunge was force-fed by record companies just like they did with rap later.
MTV played a lot of it but normies listened to Bon Jovi and Bryan Adams instead.
A few years after Kurt offed himself, MTV changed into a reality TV channel.

>>127021183
>>127021299
>>127021369
>>127022797
I’m I the only one who WASN’T raped by a pack of niggers in the summer of ‘92? Thank God it was just my uncle molesting me back then

>>127021116 (OP)
Yeah, I'm a Gen Xer and they were huge. They changed music, but it didn't last long. The whole grunge movement lasted till the mid 90s. Only a few years, then rap and nu metal took over

> "No Nirvana" refers to a special edition of the BBC2 program "The Late Show", which featured live performances by alternative rock bands. It aired in 1992 and was distinct from the popular band Nirvana. The show was intended to showcase bands defining the alternative rock scene at the time.
>"No Nirvana" was a themed episode of the BBC's "The Late Show". The show focused on live studio performances of alternative rock bands. The bands featured were those that were shaping the alternative rock landscape. The title "No Nirvana" was likely chosen to emphasize that the show was not about Nirvana, despite the band's popularity at the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOrd1jNyXwY

>>127024757
'fraid so

>>127021185
This? >>127027004

>>127021195
>Which was the most mainstream outlet for pop music at the time
Why do zoomers think they can lie and people will fall for it? The fucking RADIO was the mainstream outlet. Only rich fags had cable in the early 90s, which was the only way to watch MTV. Fucking zoomers man.

>>127027055
This, barley anyone watched MTV in the 90s

>>127021420
>Weezer's Buddy Holly video
Found this fucker on the Windows 95 cd-rom and was obsessed with that song. Wasn't until years later i came across the cd and was very underwhelmed. Still love Buddy Holly tho, but aside from Hash Pipe and that, i don't find their songs catchy at all.

Seriously, whenever I was searching other bands in YT the only videos I was being recommended to about Nirvana was Kurt's suicide news and interviews about his suicide. Not even a mv or a live performance of his songs. Strange, isn't it?

Kurt Cobain was the OG pic related. IYKYK.

>>127021116 (OP)
Kek

>>127021116 (OP)
1991-1992 alternative
1. Pearl Jam
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers
3. Faith No More
4. Nirvana