Today I discovered a really phenomenal music group called Nirvana. Wow, people, that’s really good music.
Of course, 30 minutes later I discovered that the lead singer died a bizillion years ago. And got very sad. I had already started planning to go to a concert.
Please, don’t laugh. I have a weird relationship with music.
I used to listen to Nirvana in the 90s a lot 🙂
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Have you heard of other up and comers like the Beatles or Bob Dylan?
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I know the Beatles! But that’s kind of it.
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No, I’m not laughing. What pop music was popular in Ukraine then?
You’ve discovered the poet laureate of Gen X angst. :p
I was too young to go to any of their concerts when the lead singer was still alive or really to get into their music. Still, if I were to make a soundtrack of my adolescent depression, there’d be at least one Nirvana song. I was much more of a Bjork and NIN fan though.
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“What pop music was popular in Ukraine then?”
– In English, you mean? I have absolutely no idea.
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Anon– Why do you think that not many people like both NIN and Bjork when they were young?
Clarissa — NIN’s lead singer co-wrote the soundtrack for Gone Girl. If you want listen to some oldies Post Modern Jukebox is consistently good.
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Well it’s probably a function of where you grew up, but in my part of the US no one had even heard of Bjork. NIN was only listened to by the goth kids. Everyone else my age listened to country music and Top-40 pop.
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I’m quite curious about your relationship with music. I think you’ve previously mentioned both not enjoying music and enjoying opera, so I’m slightly confused.
Also, what did you enjoy about Nirvana?
Shakti, Anon, the intersection of Bjork and NIN fans is certainly not a set with a single member 😉
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I don’t want to sound like a broken record 🙂 but my mother forced me to learn to play music for 7 years. I hated the process, it was a source of constant humiliation or failure. So after that I couldn’t listen to music at all. Sounds of music would make me want to get hugely drunk. Finally, this has started to clear up after undergoing psychoanalysis. But I’m taking it slowly. 🙂
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I don’t want to sound like a broken record either, but your mother is terrible.
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It’s ok, it really helps to hear the confirmation. 🙂 We were never allowed to have the hobbies we wanted. My sister actually wanted to learn the piano but wasn’t allowed to because the piano was reserved for me. She also wasn’t allowed to play chess and had to go to tournaments in secret. Seriously, who doesn’t want their kid to play chess? So weird.
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Narcissists who aren’t interested in chess, it seems. Weird as fuck.
My parents (especially my dad) were heavily pushing classical music. They both wanted me to take music lessons but couldn’t agree on the instrument so at least I was spared that pressure, but to this day I can only listen to the few bits of classical music I strongly associate with stuff other than my parents. As for the rest of my tastes, a passion for music combined with Serious Consequences if one’s kids dare express their genuine emotions is how one raises goths or metalheads.
Kinda off-topic: I’m seeing an Ukrainian metal band live tomorrow. They’re called Jinjer and if you’re interested in trying out some new stuff you can listen to their latest album here https://soundcloud.com/jinjermetal/sets/cloud-factory-album
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Hurt Cobain went made due to exposure to dental amalgams during his wage journey.
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Just for Clarissa:
http://unsanesafe.blogspot.com/2014/11/for-clarissa.html
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Thank you! We totally need to try it.
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I still love Nirvana. It’s great music. Glad you found it. 🙂
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Teens React to Nirvana Apparently it holds up over time. 🙂
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Hmmm, I don’t think we should call it “music” (Grunge was an anti-music movement), but this is very entertaining and high-quality artistic creation.
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“Seriously, who doesn’t want their kid to play chess? So weird”
It seems that she was monitoring what you were each interested in so she could keep you away from it and stuck in something else….
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Only you, Clarissa.
I grew up listening to punk, post-punk, some new wave, and classical music. That was when only grunge music was popular in my high school. So my knowledge of Nirvana is “Here we are now entertain us,” and that is pretty much it.
I was a solitary teen.
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Just sent you an email to hotmail address.
Post-punk? I still have no idea what punk is and there is already a post? I’m hopelessly behind.
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Punk, post-punk, And a post-punk revival in the 2000s. The kind of music that you heard while at you know where. In the first years at least.
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