I got in some hot water recently forsuggesting that The Beatles were overrated.
As one of my readers put it, "Saying the Beatles are over-rated is like Michael Jordan was an average basketball player. Please. Keep listening to Quiet Riot and Poison I guess."
Well, Chris, I'm not particularly fond of Quiet Riot and Poison either, but more to the point, I stand by what I said.
The only other musical act I can think of that rivals the Beatles in terms of being overrated is Nirvana, and today just so happens to be Kurt Cobain's birthday, so what better time to roast the late grunge star than today?
I was born in November 1992, so I was only a year and a half old when Cobain met his tragic end at the age of 27, but my whole life I had been told what a mythical creature Kurt Cobain was.
I heard all about how Nirvana was the most influential band of the 90s and how Cobain was a "genius" and the "voice of a generation," and I have to say, after listening to large parts of Nirvana's catalog throughout my life, I remain wholly unimpressed.
Let me first meet all the Nirvana fanatics halfway: I like some Nirvana songs.
The first side ofNevermindis quite enjoyable and a great rock album, and I also think there are parts ofIn Uterothat are solid, but other than that, it's hard to find much else to come away impressed with.
Everything off of their first album,Bleach,is either uninteligible garbage or two chords accompanied by screaming, and everything after that is good at best, so to say he is a "genius" feels like a reach.
Maybe it's the mythos of Kurt Cobain that I just can't stand, because he gets propped up as this misunderstood guitar visionary but, by all accounts, he was a horrendous guitar player who almost scoffed at the idea of skill and technique, saying they "got in the way of originality."
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